tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post6574297515809846802..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: Race To Transform America: "Race To The Top" Educational 'Reform' Program - UPDATE***Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-18273332553743679002010-03-07T19:46:56.748-06:002010-03-07T19:46:56.748-06:00Sal, that is the only way to do it - just say no!Sal, that is the only way to do it - just say no!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-34716901535401551902010-03-07T19:46:36.297-06:002010-03-07T19:46:36.297-06:00Susannah, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen t...Susannah, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that one yet. <br /><br />This part I think sums it up, and them, well with,<br /><br /><i>"The odyssey produced a 357-page treatise known among its hundreds of underground fans as Lemov’s Taxonomy. (The official title, attached to a book version being released in April, is “Teach Like a Champion: The 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College.”)</i>"<br /><br />Techniques, technology, class size, A/V eqpt... they are philosophically unable to grasp the idea that we are not pinballs or mechanisms to be nudged and bounced from one position to the next... we are human beings and we are not taught from without, but guided to learn from within. <br /><br />Techie geek that I am, I'd still trade away Bill Gates newest and most high tech tablet, for a single volume of Plutarch's morals.<br /><br /><br />Here's another link btw,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_1_how_i_joined.html" rel="nofollow">Joshua Kaplowitz, “How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million,”</a>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-801822779116326092010-03-07T11:37:03.511-06:002010-03-07T11:37:03.511-06:00Did you see this, Van? http://www.nytimes.com/201...Did you see this, Van? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html?pagewanted=1Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-69383498870154682012010-03-04T11:42:33.875-06:002010-03-04T11:42:33.875-06:00By the way, Van, your apple graphic made quite the...By the way, Van, your apple graphic made quite the impression on my two-year-old. Even my older ones were wishing they had a few of those to feed to their chickens. My 8yo took a half-eaten apple out to the coop this morning saying, "Sure wish this had a worm in it. Those chickens would think they hit the jackpot!"<br /><br />I made sure to tell them to beware shiny red apples offered up by the gov't. :)Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-83709717408813171902010-03-03T21:39:20.702-06:002010-03-03T21:39:20.702-06:00Hi, Sal! :)Hi, Sal! :)Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-79364858952143874482010-03-03T21:32:02.299-06:002010-03-03T21:32:02.299-06:00Replete with passive voice, isn't it?
The par...Replete with passive voice, isn't it?<br /><br />The parts I read talked about ensuring this and ensuring that, blah blah blah, as if it's the state's responsibility to ensure anything regarding a child's education! It's the parent's responsibility!<br /><br />Exactly how are they going to "ensure" that everybody graduates? Except by lowering any actual academic standards to non-existence? It's the parent's (and the student's, at that point) responsibility to see themselves through.<br /><br />But then, that goes back to the very assumptions behind public schooling. {Sigh.} There's just nowhere to turn without bumping into their statist goals. Except homeschooling...for as long as that's allowed under "federal standards." If allowed at all, it will be in name only. Just reading comments from average Joes out there on any article pertaining to homeschooling is enough to alarm the heck out of me.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-77581375843256946592010-03-03T07:22:38.278-06:002010-03-03T07:22:38.278-06:00Not us. No wonder Perry won easily yesterday.Not us. No wonder Perry won easily yesterday.Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.com