tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post4853791121259394474..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: A TURN of the ScrewPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-3757905509429638952017-11-16T17:29:04.595-05:002017-11-16T17:29:04.595-05:00It certainly does sound like "...TURN is tryi...It certainly does sound like "...TURN is trying to synthesize every education reform idea that has surfaced in the last forty years, somehow folding them into one gooey mass." Yuck.<br /><br />With fairies and magic spaceships on top. Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-32052791477790932452017-11-15T21:01:11.157-05:002017-11-15T21:01:11.157-05:00A “learning centered” school that rejects the impo...A “learning centered” school that rejects the importance of knowledge?<br />Facillitators (not teachers)? <br />Guides on the side (not sages on stages)? <br />Critical, higher order thinking skills (without content)? <br />21st century gobbledygook?<br />Conflating the way highly trained professionals work on the job with <br />the best ways for children to acquire requisite knowledge and skills.<br /><br />Jeesh.<br /><br />Another go round of disproved and debunked pedagogies <br />promoted by . . . Egads – teachers! . . . and their unions!<br /><br /><br />And definitely not a game changer – because there are no large scale, policy related, game changers to be had.<br />The quest for the Holy Grail of education reform, the Great Game Changer is a fool’s errand.<br />Just look at the very long list of fools that have tried and failed:<br /><br />Gates<br />Duncan<br />Coleman<br />SWWNBN<br />Brown<br />Finn<br />Petrelli<br />Klein<br />Bush<br />Moskowitz<br />et. al.<br />NY Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292448959963091160noreply@blogger.com