Here’s a round-up of education advocates’ response to Paterson’s budget veto. (Gotham Gazette)
One teacher says her “last goodbyes” to this year’s crop of students. (Miss Brave Teaches NYC)
While the teacher who goes by “Mildly Melancholy” is leaving the classroom forever. (Mildly Melancholy)
The rubber rooms: just like “The Breakfast Club” but with teachers and less group bonding? (Daily Intel)
A “charter-curious” district school teacher offers her take on “The Lottery.” (Charter Curious)
Listen to Bill Gates’ full, unedited speech at a national charter schools conference. (WBEZ)
Gates told charter leaders he thinks they are starting a “revolution.” (Seattle P-I)
Gates also wishes “the world had one [education] agenda…embraced by teachers.” (District Dossier)
If desirable school districts outside of D.C. test more, then maybe the city should too. (Class Struggle)
Pogue
Who cares what Bill Gates thinks. He invented some software for computers and made a lot of money. Does money now count for educational expertise? I’d rather hear what Linda Darling-Hammond has to say about education. Enough of Bill Gates already. He rammed small schools down people’s throats then bailed. Now charters, then what next, online diplomas?
Invictus
Online diplomas using some proprietary Microsoft software that will “lock” a contract with hundreds of clueless districts across the US, in a pathetic attempt to play down the slowly and steady decline of Microsoft and its evil OS empire.
http://nyceducator.com NYC Educator
Frank Purdue heaps praise on chickens.
I noticed that…
Pogue & Invictus
Online diplomas are not so far fetched and mostly likely Gates will make another billion dollar selling his OS of Windows 8.0 Diplomas!
How many high schools are using the online credit recovery program Aventa or similar to it? It’s a mad rush to have seniors accumulate their credits the last few weeks of the school year. I saw seniors sitting in the main office (I’m in a small school), in the guidance office, and some in the computer room taking their online credit recovery classes without any supervision! Even though I complained that the students were cheating by googling the answers while online, administration ignored me and allowed the students to get their credits because the credit accumulation will make the school look great on the progress report.
Why isn’t someone looking at the pervasive use of online credit recovery where the credits are not earned if learning is nothing else but a series of multiple choices with plenty of googling. Students will guess and get the answer wrong and guess again and get the answer wrong again, eventually they do a search and finally get the correct answer. Now they passed the online test! There are students, no lies, accumulating 3 to 6 credits in one month of online work!
There’s something very unnatural when education is being replaced by these online system of a faux learning environment. In the real world when students go to college, the professors will see how inadequately unprepared these online-credit-recovery students are and they will eventually see that they are unable to compete with the other well-prepared students.
Chris
Yes, because Linda Darling-Hammond’s school in CA was soooo successful.
Pogue
Yes, and Gates’ small schools are also doing wonders for the college remedial classes business.
Pogue
Online High School…where your diploma is only a few clicks away.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ norm
One sidelight of the Gates/Klein alliance has been the disappearence of Apple computers from so many schools where Apples used to dominate. Some will argue cost but unless things have changed, the ability for teachers to manage the computers was easier with Apples.
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I dont understand why you people are so against BG! Many people, for example disaibled can really use online education. It is not very good if we consider public relations but still better online aducation than no education.
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