shareShare this on:Much of the American educational system is about improving outcomes, often by focusing on results from some form of standardized test. If students are found to be underperforming on some measure, school improvement plans, smaller class sizes, financial funding, and all manner of[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wall Street Journal’
February 6th, 2011 - 2:50 pm § in Uncategorized
Escape to . . . Reality?
shareShare this on:A former colleague and friend, Mark Burkholz, had his son’s picture land in The Boston Globe in a feature article titled “Parents seek balance as screens’ allure grows,” an article about the seemingly ever-increasing amount of time that children and teenagers are spend[...]
January 29th, 2011 - 2:51 pm § in Uncategorized
Laptops: Yesterday’s Treasure; Today’s Trash
shareShare this on:Much of the recent emphasis in secondary and primary education, particularly beginning in the early 2000’s, has been on 1:1 laptop initiatives. Such initiatives seek to provide a single laptop to every student enrolled in some subdivision of a school: a grade, an entire sc[...]
