Anaheim, California Schools Took Step onto the Slippery Slope of Eugenics
Cypress and Kennedy high schools in the Anaheim, California school district recently color coded students based on test scores. Every student was given a color coded ID card and binder. Besides creating a visible method for students to ostracize one another it also allowed the school the ostracize the students by giving the good test takers discounts and made the poor testers use a separate lunch line.
This horrific practice was instated to create an incentive for students to improve their test Read more [...]
Why Mrs. Bush is Wrong About No Child Left Behind (bad analogies part 2)
In the article she says, “We would never go to a doctor and say, 'I'm sick, you can't try to diagnose me … you can't use any kind of test." The testing system does treat education system as sickly and makes the students work to diagnosis it. Mrs. Bush explains how the US education system is failing, saying that “poor kids... Read more [...]
Classroom Discipline, Some Teachers Should Learn Lessons Taught in 1947
I learned about this study in a child psychology class many years ago, it was a prerequisite for teachers, it is obviously an important study to learn from— yet it seems many teachers are unaware of how they are replicating this experiment in their own classrooms. But more importantly, the schools that teach teachers and the school that those teachers teach at need to support and educate teachers better. Read more [...]
Changes in Focus for Higher Education
and Admissions Sales Representatives also facilitate the student recruitment process through intensive interviewing that includes telemarketing, personal selling, and generating leads through corporate and community outreach. Higher education once meant becoming a better person and increasing your knowledge and understanding of the world, but today it has shifted to preparing its students for work. Read more [...]
Open-Source is Good for Students (Paris gets it)
CNet reports: The portable office will include the office software suite, an Internet browser, an e-mail client, an instant-messaging client, and audio and video player software, according to the Ile-de-France regional council. Once an aqua version is out there will be no compelling reason for vast majority of MS Office users to continue paying for buggy overpriced software. Read more [...]
An Inconvenient Truth for Public Education
I read recently about Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth getting banned in Federal Way schools (an area just outside of Seattle). Then why let a person who has been to school manage a school? Read more [...]
I think this is funny
It wasn't all that great anyway, it just announce a talk being given at Harvard with a $15 admission (I was trying to point towards issues of access to important dialogs, education, etc in America) class, classism, privilege Read more [...]
