Some hope that
current education reform efforts — raising standards, holding teachers accountability, creating more charter schools — could help persuade these parents to keep the faith with big cities.
One vision is that afterschool and summer learning programs should be aligned
with current education reform efforts — high - stakes testing, narrow accountability, and the Common Core State Standards that are directed at just two subjects.
Education Redesign: Building a New Model for All Date TBD $ 149 per person Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab, explore
why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a new education system.
«Because of Harvard's strong reputation and potent convening power and because of the excellent example we have here in Massachusetts, both with the achievements of and limitations of
current education reform work, this seems like an ideal place and time to do that work.»
90, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, highlight the shortcomings of
current education reform debates, noting that «almost all of the ideas currently on the mainstream table leave the basic structure of American schooling fundamentally unchanged.»
Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville at the Education Redesign Lab, the workshop explores
why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a «new engine» to drive better outcomes for all.
The success of
the current education reform movement hinges on the compliance of millions of children who sit for annual accountability tests designed to rank their performance, and on the acquiescence of their schools and teachers to this vast public - policy experiment.
Don't listen to
the current education reform rhetoric: There is more than one way to educate a child.
Richard Rothstein's American Prospect investigation into the details of Joel Klein's childhood (no, I'm not kidding here) is really not worth reading, but it unfortunately exemplifies two of the most toxic aspects of
the current education reform conversation (fwiw it also contains some interesting information about the history of post-war public housing in NYC):
The Badass Teachers Association (BATs) is a nationwide group of teachers who aggressively argue against the status quo in education — that is,
the current education reform agenda.
Parents really love their kids, and with
the current education reforms, more and more students are being beaten down.
This testing lies at the very heart of
current education reform efforts because it provides the fuel that the current education reform machine relies upon: data.
TREE opposes vouchers and a state charter school authorizer and has been active in the past two legislative sessions voicing concerns over these and other popular tenets of
the current education reform movement.
Widely read and admired especially by critics of
the current education reform movement, The Answer Sheet predominantly features opinion and commentary.
Are there democratically - controlled school choice alternatives to the private control that dominates
the current education reform conversation (charters and vouchers) that address the needs of students faced with unequal conditions?
I think this question gets at the heart with the issue I have with both extremes of
the current education reform landscape.
If
the current education reforms of the Obama administration prove unsatisfactory, there are new programs waiting in the wings.
But this ideological think tank is a disturbing example of all that is wrong with
the current education reform movement that has allowed people without experience or expertise as educators to perpetuate an education reform agenda through the weight of money, political influence, and media compliance.
The author then introduces readers to the players in
the current education reform world; those who are making American educational policy and those who are funding educational policy.