We've collected a whole bunch this week, campers. Let's get cracking.
I Don't Want To Be Liberal
Blue Cereal Education tells a story that seems really familiar. Raised to be conservative, inclined to be conservative, and yet, somehow, forced to be a liberal.
TN(Not)Ready-- What's Really Changed
Tennessee's testing fiasco and the effects of disorganized, change-your-mind accountability
Who's Raking in the Big Bucks in Charterworld
Just how rich are charter school leaders getting on the backs of a small number of students?
Will Competency Based Learning Rescue the Testocracy
Anthony Cody looks at how Competency Based baloney fits into the arc of reformster policy.
Robbing Public Schools to Pay Private Charters
Former lawmaker Paula Dockery takes on a proposed Florida bill intended to steal more public tax dollars to enrich private schools.
How Charters Get the Students They Want
This Stephanie Simon piece is from three years ago, but it's still essential reading. A vivid picture of just how charters can rig the admission process so that they get only the students they want while still looking as if they're open to all.
Seventh Grade Reflections on Stereotypes and Assumptions
Brief but poignant-- what seventh graders know about the assumptions they are painted with by others.
No, You Cannot Test My Child
Daniel Katz runs the table on arguments that his child should be tested, batting each one down. Perfect reading for anyone psyching themselves up to take the opt-out plunge.
A Light Moment in Senate Ed Committee-- and Some UNlight Reading
Claudia Swisher catches the OK ALEC crowd trying to deal with someone appropriating their terminology. And she adds an outstanding reading list about vouchers programs.
Showing posts with label Daniel Katz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Katz. Show all posts
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Sunday, November 29, 2015
ICYMI: Some Sunday Edureads
It will be a quickie this week-- I have both of my children home and a grandson's birthday party to attend!
Eva Moskowitz Cannot Help Herself
Daniel Katz provides one of the best overviews of Moskowitz's ongoing meltdown. A study in how privilege, money and power can make you blind to how you're behavior is playing in the real world.
How Twisted Early Childhood Education Has Become
Early childhood ed has arguably been more badly damaged by reformsters than any other segment of the education biz. Sometimes it helps to have someone take a step back, show how far off track we have gotten, and help you realize you're not crazy for thinking we're getting early childhood ed completely wrong at this point.
Competency Based Ed: The Culmination of the Common Core Agenda
A good collection of the many pieces and points of view springing up as CBE becomes the newest topic of the education debates.
Five Perspectives on Student Fragility
At Psychology Today, Peter Gray has been running a series about the increasing fragile nature of our students, including theories about the source. This latest installment is interesting because it includes the many, many reactions from various stakeholders in that discussion.
Are You Being Served?
Nobody combines humor and actual journalism better than Jennifer Berkshire at Edushyster. Here's a look at the facts of which students Boston charter schools are actually serving.
Eva Moskowitz Cannot Help Herself
Daniel Katz provides one of the best overviews of Moskowitz's ongoing meltdown. A study in how privilege, money and power can make you blind to how you're behavior is playing in the real world.
How Twisted Early Childhood Education Has Become
Early childhood ed has arguably been more badly damaged by reformsters than any other segment of the education biz. Sometimes it helps to have someone take a step back, show how far off track we have gotten, and help you realize you're not crazy for thinking we're getting early childhood ed completely wrong at this point.
Competency Based Ed: The Culmination of the Common Core Agenda
A good collection of the many pieces and points of view springing up as CBE becomes the newest topic of the education debates.
Five Perspectives on Student Fragility
At Psychology Today, Peter Gray has been running a series about the increasing fragile nature of our students, including theories about the source. This latest installment is interesting because it includes the many, many reactions from various stakeholders in that discussion.
Are You Being Served?
Nobody combines humor and actual journalism better than Jennifer Berkshire at Edushyster. Here's a look at the facts of which students Boston charter schools are actually serving.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Reading Not To Write
This is why I love the blogosphere. Ideas get bounced back and forth and become shiny and polished, like stones in a polishing drum.
A week or so ago, several of us picked up and responded to a David Coleman piece about how to teach reading the Common Core way with Nifty Questions. But the cherry on top of the sundae that was that conversation comes today from Daniel Katz. The post is entitled "On the twelfth day of Common Core, David Coleman gave to me..." and it is A) not a hilarious rewrite of the Twelve Days of Christmas and it is B) long but C) you should read it anyway.
Because, after all the many ways we have tried to explain and distill what's wrong and lacking and Less Than about Coleman's approach to reading, Katz brings us to the simplest, clearest explanation yet.
Coleman thinks the reason to read a work of literature is to prepare to write an English 101 paper about it.
There are a million useful ways to interact with literature. And I would not be an English teacher if I did not believe that there are many benefits to be derived from reading great literature even if you're not going to be an English teacher when you grow up and even if you are not going to be an English major and even if you are not going to go to college at all.
I believe the point of reading and wading into and wrestling with and experiencing literature is to become more fully human, to become (excuse the cheesy cliche) a better person. Coleman believes that the reason to read literature is to write a better term paper.
It's as clear a way as any to capture how Coleman's vision of language education is cramped and small and limited and meager. But you should click on over to Katz's blog and check it out. Because his piece, like many other pieces of writing in the world, is well worth reading even if you aren't going to have to write a paper about it.
A week or so ago, several of us picked up and responded to a David Coleman piece about how to teach reading the Common Core way with Nifty Questions. But the cherry on top of the sundae that was that conversation comes today from Daniel Katz. The post is entitled "On the twelfth day of Common Core, David Coleman gave to me..." and it is A) not a hilarious rewrite of the Twelve Days of Christmas and it is B) long but C) you should read it anyway.
Because, after all the many ways we have tried to explain and distill what's wrong and lacking and Less Than about Coleman's approach to reading, Katz brings us to the simplest, clearest explanation yet.
Coleman thinks the reason to read a work of literature is to prepare to write an English 101 paper about it.
There are a million useful ways to interact with literature. And I would not be an English teacher if I did not believe that there are many benefits to be derived from reading great literature even if you're not going to be an English teacher when you grow up and even if you are not going to be an English major and even if you are not going to go to college at all.
I believe the point of reading and wading into and wrestling with and experiencing literature is to become more fully human, to become (excuse the cheesy cliche) a better person. Coleman believes that the reason to read literature is to write a better term paper.
It's as clear a way as any to capture how Coleman's vision of language education is cramped and small and limited and meager. But you should click on over to Katz's blog and check it out. Because his piece, like many other pieces of writing in the world, is well worth reading even if you aren't going to have to write a paper about it.
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