Associate Professor- School Counseling- National University Ca
Linda- also has my vote-Building teacher planning time into the school day is imperative.
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Average American student has no chance to have a better job anywhere including USA.
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Linda's focus on what actually constitutes high level work--thinking that builds capacity for cognitive complexity--is wonderful and necessary. Those of us in the transformation business can't talk...
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Wow - this is very eye-opening! I often run into this same dilemma with my current students. I often find myself thinking "You have already learned this! This should be so familiar!". She is very clear...
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To Tom King: It's good to know someone else is saying the same thing. I think Linda didn't make it as Sec of Ed because of her basketball skills. She should indeed be leading our educational agenda in...
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She had my vote from the very beginning and I was disappointed when she was not awarded the position as Sec. of Ed.
View ArticleShe May Have Been Blind to Some Things
I suspect that Finnish kids' success at inquiry learning depends heavily on background knowledge stemming from rote learning. Kids who KNOW a lot about a field can brainstorm juicy questions, sketch...
View Articlei love learning
I love learning math,reading,sience,social studies, and all kinds of learning steradegies roseayn dalere gr.2 7 years old
View ArticleInstead of racing through
Instead of racing through books to take the multiple choice test with 2 open-ended questions, I've often taken half to one whole marking period to read deeply and conduct assessment through writing...
View ArticleWalking on water; knowing where the stumps are
Bill Powell Retired Supt; 33 years in public ed; lives in Colorado mountains w/ family Posted on 3/08/2010 11:17am Walking on water; knowing where the stumps are Educators know the curriculum cannot be...
View ArticleWhy isn't Linda Darling-Hammond the Secretary of Education?
Quote:Why isn't Linda Darling-Hammond the Secretary of Education? Anyone? Anyone?We actually have an article which examined all of the potential candidates for Secretary of Education:...
View ArticleTighter Noose
Dr. Hammond's ending comments seem like a disconnect to beauty of her earlier discussion. If the re-work of NCLB produces a national curriculum companioned with a national test then we tighten the...
View ArticleMany Great Points
I was for Dr. Darling-Hammond from the beginning, and nothing Mr. Duncan has done or said has changed my opinion on that one. As to re-teaching math concepts over and over and over without...
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Interestingly,there is no mention of language, in this case foreign language (s) , and learning. Research has shown that learning a second,3rd and even fourth language adds to the ability to learn...
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Darling-Hammond is recounting surveys from prior to 2007. Since then, Minnesota and Massachusetts adopted the Singapore Math process. Here is a copy of the presentation from this year's symposium led...
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When are we going to align all of our 50 state standards to the PISA? This is the problem with the US, everyone wants local control when it comes to education, and we cannot agree on what students...
View ArticleThat's a good point.
That's a good point. Minnesota maintains a loose local control environment. Massachusetts exerts quite a bit of control. They both align math the same way, but Minnesota gives local schools quite a bit...
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I am very concerned that the newly released Common Core Standards include the NCLB focus on minute reading skills as foundational to reading. That part is way too specific to fit Linda's call for broad...
View Articleretired early childhood teacher, literacy specialist and teacher
Yes, I think she is talking about what might have been, not what really is happening. And I think her ideas did not fit with the Billionaire Boys Club mentality and the Business Round Table mentality...
View ArticleThe Cato Institute released a
The Cato Institute released a verbal blast directed toward the Common Standards a couple of days ago. I think that it bodes well for the Common Standards movement's utility. *grin*I think Hirsch's...
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