Alfie Kohn and Diane Ravitch agree!
This week, the zeitgeist in education news is paying students for test scores, as in the Baltimore Sun article yesterday or the USA Today story, but so-called incentive programs have been in the news before and criticized before: See criticisms of Pizza Hut’s “Book It” program or Barry Schwartz’s column last July, which scored New […]
"Productivity Junta"
I’ve been an admirer of Cal Newport’s Study Hacks blog for a while, and today’s advice has a basis in research and a catchy phrase: Form a Productivity Junta.
How to mislead with charts
At the end of last year, I wrote a review of several Friedman Foundation reports that claimed voucher programs would increase graduation. You can read my full remarks from the link above, but let me focus on a graph that appeared in the South Carolina report: For the moment, let’s assume that the point estimates […]
Party trumps policy
Last night, Leo Casey hypothesized on Edwize that Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama was related to NCLB. Like Scott Elliott (a reporter with the Dayton Daily News), I’m skeptical. While George Miller and Ted Kennedy have both endorsed Obama and are major figures in NCLB politics, they are also stalwarts in the Democratic caucuses in each […]
Active listening can be too active
By Sherman Dorn on January 27, 2008
When reading Profgrrrrl‘s account of two admiring students’ comments, which left her in very different places afterwards, I had the same reaction as she did. Very briefly, one student projected a whole bunch of assumptions onto Profgrrrrl’s life, while the other didn’t. Projections are dangerous, especially when you’re doing it because you’re trying to reach […]
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