Silence on AT&T Aspire an “Ed in ’08” parallel?
Is it my imagination, or has there been a deafening silence in both news outlets and the blogosphere after the AT&T Foundation’s announcement Wednesday of a $100 Million Dropout Prevention Program? I wrote about the initiative Thursday, but given the lead-in publicity (the America’s Promise report with Ed Week about low graduation rates?), I expected […]
Sketching a course 5
Framing questions as stuff, habits, and experienceProbably the most powerful intellectual experience I had as an undergraduate… or rather the most powerful explicit design of a course I took in my major (history) … was a course on late medieval/early modern Europe taught by Susan Stuard. She structured the entire course around a single question: […]
Sketching a course 4
Stuff to expose students to Street-level bureaucracy/loosely-coupled systems Arguments over what the links between education and democracy are Habits etc. Grasping POV within nonfiction Experiences Staying with a the development of a complex idea through its nuances Multiple-resolution understanding: Seeing the flowers (details) and the landscape (10,000-foot view) at the same time
Think, then blog
I’m occasionally embarrassed when a typo appears in a blog entry, and I’m frequently learning from comments here, but I’m surprised at Mike Petrilli’s simplistic argument that “bad ideas flow from academia into our K-12 system … (… moral relativism, the decline of the core curriulum, dubious pedagogical approaches)” and that “one of public education’s […]
$100 million… how will it be used?
Looking at today’s New York Times story on AT&T Aspire, the $100 million effort to reduce dropping out. In reality, $100 million is a visible splash and not chump change, but it’s a small amount compared to all the money spent on high schools every year. That effort to get a visible splash to serve […]