Comments for School Board News http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:43:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on TLN Site Visits Show Education Technology in Action by Russel http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2010/03/tln-site-visits-show-education-technology-in-action/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Russel Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:43:43 +0000 http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/?p=494#comment-177 Anyone interested in the site visit will also be interested in an upcoming webinar coming up focusing on emerging technologies in education - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/740238105.. It will cover a range of technologies that are promising to take education to a new level Anyone interested in the site visit will also be interested in an upcoming webinar coming up focusing on emerging technologies in

education – https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/740238105.. It will cover a range of technologies that are promising to take education to a new level

]]> Comment on Education Department to boost enforcement of civil rights laws by Education headlines: Draft common core standards released, school food recall process examined, and OCR to investigate LAUSD « School Board News http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2010/03/education-department-to-boost-enforcement-of-civil-rights-laws/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Education headlines: Draft common core standards released, school food recall process examined, and OCR to investigate LAUSD « School Board News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:48 +0000 http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/?p=505#comment-127 [...] invigorated office of civil rights, the Los Angeles Times reports (more background is available here)… The head of the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [...] [...] invigorated office of civil rights, the Los Angeles Times reports (more background is available here)… The head of the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [...]

]]> Comment on Urban Advocate: Schools use interventions, mentoring to help black male students by Leonard Goodman Isenberg http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2010/03/urban-advocate-schools-use-interventions-mentoring-to-help-black-male-students/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Leonard Goodman Isenberg Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:40:02 +0000 http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/?p=500#comment-112 We have about as much chance of fixing public education in this country with the mass firing of teachers and administrators in Rhode Island and elsewhere as we would if we threw a virgin into a volcano. This type of post hoc fallacy thinking would rather create a causal relationship between teachers and student failure, then look at the immutable structure of all public education reform over the last 100 years that fails to address the underlying student problems and deficits that are brought to the system. In listening to President Obama's endorsing of Rhode Island's simplistic pogrom-like solution to solve its public education problem, he fails to take into account that the town of Central Falls, like many of our educational failing communities in Los Angeles, was "one of the poorest districts in Rhode Island" long before the teachers did their level best to try and fix it. Following immutable and long failed policies of big city public education bureaucrats, like Education Secretary Arnie Duncan of Chicago that has his ear, seem to make it impossible to even pose the right question, let alone come up with reasonable and intelligent answers. Without addressing the underlying generational dysfunction -- mostly attributable to continuing endemic racism and/or poverty -- students cannot be given an honest remedial program given by qualified teachers that would pragmatically address their subjective deficits. Any decent teacher could tell Obama this, if he bothered to ask. I remember at the beginning of Obama's presidency that he was very concerned about keeping his Blackberry, because he didn't want to be isolated by the Oval Office and the relatively few people and opinions that any president really is exposed to in their working day. Although he got to keep his Blackberry, much to our dismay, it seems like he has lost his battle not to be marginalized in the discussion concerning rational public education reform. We have about as much chance of fixing public education in this country with the mass firing of teachers and administrators in Rhode Island and elsewhere as we would if we threw a virgin into a volcano. This type of post hoc fallacy thinking would rather create a causal relationship between teachers and student failure, then look at the immutable structure of all public education reform over the last 100 years that fails to address the underlying student problems and deficits that are brought to the system. In listening to President Obama’s endorsing of Rhode Island’s simplistic pogrom-like solution to solve its public education problem, he fails to take into account that the town of Central Falls, like many of our educational failing communities in Los Angeles, was “one of the poorest districts in Rhode Island” long before the teachers did their level best to try and fix it.

Following immutable and long failed policies of big city public education bureaucrats, like Education Secretary Arnie Duncan of Chicago that has his ear, seem to make it impossible to even pose the right question, let alone come up with reasonable and intelligent answers. Without addressing the underlying generational dysfunction — mostly attributable to continuing endemic racism and/or poverty — students cannot be given an honest remedial program given by qualified teachers that would pragmatically address their subjective deficits. Any decent teacher could tell Obama this, if he bothered to ask.

I remember at the beginning of Obama’s presidency that he was very concerned about keeping his Blackberry, because he didn’t want to be isolated by the Oval Office and the relatively few people and opinions that any president really is exposed to in their working day. Although he got to keep his Blackberry, much to our dismay, it seems like he has lost his battle not to be marginalized in the discussion concerning rational public education reform.

]]> Comment on Education headlines: Who will win the first RTTT grants? by SchoolGrants http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2010/03/education-headlines-who-will-win-the-first-rttt-grants/comment-page-1/#comment-106 SchoolGrants Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:43 +0000 http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/?p=481#comment-106 Whatever the outcome is it should be very exciting. Whatever the outcome is it should be very exciting.

]]> Comment on Helping School Boards Understand and Use Data by Brian Taylor http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2010/01/helping-school-boards-understand-and-use-data/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Brian Taylor Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:10:11 +0000 http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/?p=220#comment-3 "Embracing the Data Monster: Four ways boards can use data to drive decisions," was a useful cover feature on this topic in the Fall 2009 "California Schools" magazine, written by staff writer Kristi Garrett: http://www.csba.org/NewsAndMedia/Publications/CASchoolsMagazine/2009.aspx BTW, School Board News' News Conference Daily is great! “Embracing the Data Monster: Four ways boards can use data to drive decisions,” was a useful cover feature on this topic in the Fall 2009 “California Schools” magazine, written by staff writer Kristi Garrett: http://www.csba.org/NewsAndMedia/Publications/CASchoolsMagazine/2009.aspx

BTW, School Board News’ News Conference Daily is great!

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