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Review
Questions for Course Readings (May be used as prompt for reflective
essay or take-home exam.)
_Glasser's
The Quality School--A Review Sheet
_Perricone's
Zen and the Art of
Public School Teaching--A Review Sheet
_Kohn's
The Schools our Children Deserve--A Review
Sheet
Minnesota's Promise
What are the elements of a truly "World Class" education system. This
website, developed for educators and policy-makers, looks at the state
of Minnesota schools and describes a framework for closing the
achievement gap and guiding future education policy decisions in
Minnesota. Children Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC) -- Educational Disparities Website. This site includes a link to a broad developmental and ecological model of family development called "Circles of Influence." First, Kill All the School Boards (A modest proposal based on a historical analysis of school governance in the U.S. Published January 2008.)_
Circles of Influence: Educational Disparities (ecological family development model adapted by U of M researchers, originally created by Bronfenbrenner) All Brains Are the Same Color (Does science point to herdity or environment in the IQ Debate? Published December 9, 2007.) Mind the (achievement) gap (Given that results for black and Latino students are improving, is the
achievement gap something we should be trying to solve at all? Isn't
there a danger of doing more harm than good? Russlynn Ali and Richard
Rothstein debate the achievement gap. Published November 26, 2007.) The Turnaround Challenge (Highlights
of a 2007 Mass Insight Education and Research Institute study, "The
Turnaround Challenge," which calls for state intervention to assist
schools and school districts to effect the kinds of change needed to
successfully educate a broader range of students.) Northern Lights: In remote Alaska, an innovative district ditches grade levels--and increases learning by Grace Rubenstein• How to: Get a whole community on board for school reform (a follow-up article on how they made these changes in Alaska's Chugach School District)
Together, apart: A dissection of diversity (editorial by LA Times writer Gregory Rodriguez, Aug. 2007) The
Learning Compact Redefined: A Call To Action by the Commission on the
Whole Child
(A 2007 report published by the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development that discusses widening the scope of
schools to include more than mere test-preparation.) Why We
Still Need Public Schools: Public Education for the Common Good (This 2007 report highlights the history
and importance of public education in the United States.) Still Left
Behind: What It Takes to Make a Student (New York
Times Magazine article by Paul Tough, November, 26, 2006)
Still
Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid (article by Jonathan Kozol, Harper's
Magazine,
Sept. 2005)
Getting
our Money's Worth in Public Education: Are
we buying our 'McStudent' lie? January 18, 2005
You
Can't Buy Your Way Out of a Bureaucracy: An OpEd Piece from the New York Times,
Dec. 3, 2004
No
denying the costs of efficiency: A Business Forum article from the
Sunday StarTribune,
April 11, 2004
One
aspect of No
Child Left Behind's school improvement measures is parodied in this
2003 Washington
Post
editorial
cartoon.
Learning
to Teach: Ms. Moffet's First Year--a
series of articles chronicling the first year of a new teach in New
York City elementary school.
We
need more teachers, nurses? We have to pay them more
money--an
editorial by economist Edward Lottterman, published in the St. Paul
Pioneer Press-Dispatch, Sunday, October 15, 2000.
National
Testing and Educational Reform: Are They Compatible?
Reinventing
Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational
Testing
What's
the DIF? Helping to Ensure Test Question Fairness
Standards
and Standards-Based Assessment
Developing
Educational Standards Web Site
Developing
Educational Standards: What's Happening in Minnesota?
_Minneapolis
Public Schools Curriculum Standards Web Site
The District's Curriculum Standards
The
Fall and Rise of Standards-Based Education
Designing
a Sustainable Standards-based Assessment System
Standards:
What Are They?
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What
No Schools Can Do
(New York Times Magazine article)
What
Should Children Learn?
(Atlantic Monthly article)
The
Near-Myth of Our Failing Schools
(Atlantic
Monthly article)
Building
Successful Partnerships
(a resource of the National PTA)
Go to www.pta.org, then look under "Programs Areas" and you will find a link to "Building Successful Partnerships." This the the national PTA's parent involvement initiative which promotes the National Standards for Parental Involvement Programs.
StarTribune
Online Series on Charter Schools (1996)
America's
Smallest School: The Family
The
Effect of Class Size on Achievement
Internet
Resources for Teachers (by Subject)
ETS's
Starting Points for Educators
Computers
& Classrooms: The Status of Technology in U.S.
Schools
Technology
in the Classroom: 10 Tips
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_Experiential
Learning Cycle Graphic
_Minnesota
Analysis of Beliefs in Education
(Educ. Philosophy Test from 1st class meeting)
_Types
of Power x Consequences for the Powerholder Graphic
Pace
and Lead: The Grammar of Rapport--An online reference for the concept
of "Pace and Lead" discussed in class
_A Theology of Education:
How does your theology effect your education? (Questions
discussed in class)
William Glasser's Web Site
(www.wglasser.com)
Alfie
Kohn's Web Site (www.AlfieKohn.org)
Alfie Kohn
References (In the speech Alfie Kohn
delivers in the C-SPAN video we watched in
class, he refers to two studies proporting to demonstrate his points
about testing and "tougher standards." Here are those citations and a
brief abstract of each study.) John
Perricone's Web Site (www.JohnPerricone.com)
_Principles
for Building a Learning Community Graphic
_Characteristics
of Excellent Teachers
_Japan's
Schools: Five Lessons
_Five
Guiding Principles of Constructivism
_EDC
490--School and Society Course Conceptual Grid
_Academic
Controversy Materials (on the topic: "testing")
-- Link
to David Johnson's Co-operation.org Website
_Conflict Analysis Matrix
(based on work by Deutsch et al.)
_Your Classroom: Simple
Ways to Create a Positive Learning Climate (A PDF document to
download)
Multicultural Experience Enhances Creativity: The When and How (PDF file of a 2008 American Psychologist
article by Leung et al. discussing the conditions in which
multicultural experience enhances personal creativity. This article
illustrates the format of an APA article that does not follow the traditional 5-part format.)
Sample Job Application Questions:
Some sample questions from the employment applications of the Eden
Prairie and South Washington Co. Public Schools. As you'll see, they
are based on the same philosophical reflection and beginning teacher
standards you see in the format of your portfolio.
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