Sketching a course 3
Habits etc. Reading at multiple levels: for information, for a story, for perspective Evaluation at multiple levels: consistency/logic, newness, accuracy, relevance of questions Writing through multiple drafts Revision with an audience in mind Experiences Reading for wonder Writing as joyful Writing as intense Writing to sort through ideas and then present them
Organizational psychosis?
Yesterday’s New York Times article on ‘credit recovery’ puts the Bloomberg-Klein years in New York in perspective, as one Manhattan principal explains: I think that credit recovery and the related topic independent study is in lots of ways the dirty little secret of high schools. There’s very little oversight and there are very few standards. […]