2008/5/23 Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Antoine van Gelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On 19 May 2008, at 19:21, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Are you serious? Are you really a Republican? No Child's Behind Left
is the worst disaster in education i
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:39:11PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Do remember that No Child Left Behind is actually working.
I don't pretend to be an expert, but certainly there are people who
dispute the effectiveness of NCLB.
http://nochildleft.com/
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Alex Belits
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eben Eliason wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I would be careful to portray "the low-achievers"
>> and "the brightest" as opposites. As I note below, I frequently find
>> that some of the brightest are also some of the low-ac
Eben Eliason wrote:
> For what it's worth, I would be careful to portray "the low-achievers"
> and "the brightest" as opposites. As I note below, I frequently find
> that some of the brightest are also some of the low-achievers, due to
> certain aspects of the educational system. This doesn't ch
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Antoine van Gelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 19 May 2008, at 19:21, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you serious? Are you really a Republican? No Child's Behind Left
>>> is the worst disaster in education in decades, as John Holt would have
>>> been the fir
On 19 May 2008, at 19:21, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> Are you serious? Are you really a Republican? No Child's Behind Left
>> is the worst disaster in education in decades, as John Holt would
>> have
>> been the first to point out if he had lived long enough. Who claims
>> that NCLB is raising skil
Walter Bender wrote:
> The week culminated with an open-house where each teacher
> presented a project they developed that integrated national curriculum
> goals into an XO activity.
I think, this illustrated another, probably less fundamental but
practically important point -- if a country has n
I did come to Peru (and plan on returning as well). I did participate
in seminars to introduce the Peruvian teachers to constructionism
within the context of Sugar and the national curriculum. I did not
find these seminars to be instructionist: they were very much hands-on
(the very first thing tha
Edward Cherlin wrote:
You can't expect every kid to spontaneously
generate the sum of human knowledge by playing with plastic blocks.
You don't have the slightest idea what Constructionism is, as this
demonstrates.
Edward: as far as I remenber you told the same some time ago: "do you
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