Class Struggle Archive: Trends
Why not junk teacher evaluations in favor of more preparation time?
Education consultant Ted Haynie made this provocative suggestion: "If we completely suspended the formal evaluation process for two years, the overall quality of classroom instruction would be greatly increased because the time could be spent actually discussing effective classroom practice in a collegial and more informal manner than what exists today."
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November 20, 2009; 5:30 AM ET |
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| Tags: Elena Silva, Furman Brown, Generation Schools, Jonathan Spear, Ted Haynie, Willis Hawley, teacher evaluation, teacher instructional time, teacher planning time, teacher preparation, teacher teams
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Bracey's last report--trashing our educational assumptions
I got to the last page of the last icon-shattering piece Gerald W. Bracey will ever write, and felt sad and empty. As usual, he had skewered--with great erudition and insight--some of my fondest beliefs about how to improve schools....
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Jay Mathews
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November 13, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Best book ever on how to prepare students for college
We have had blue ribbon commissions, congressional committees, corporate roundtables, university consortiums and dozens of non-profit organizations struggle with the central question of American education: How do we prepare students for success in college? The written output of these groups...
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Jay Mathews
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November 6, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Want your school to try Advanced Placement? Here's how.
I have written this weekly online column for almost a decade. From the beginning, one of its goals was to be ahead of every other media outlet in news and arguments about Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses and...
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Jay Mathews
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October 30, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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21st century skills: another disappointment
I am trying NOT to write off the 21st century skills movement as a sham, but its leaders don’t make it easy....
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Jay Mathews
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October 23, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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The Pros and Cons of Squelching Gifted Students
I have been writing about schools for a long time. It is difficult to surprise me. But some of the many people who wrote to me about my Oct. 5 column on Howard County’s reluctance to accelerate a gifted...
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October 16, 2009; 6:00 AM ET |
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