Schools Making Minorities into the Serfs of the Information Age
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on April 4, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org – “Education will only prepare people for life in a democracy when education itself is also democratic.” “Education will only prepare people for life in a democracy when education itself is also democratic.” – John Dewey, in 1916, Democracy and Education. “I think minorities are… are scared, you know, to jump into the (computer-science) […]
We’ll Never Achieve STEM Goals Without Computer Science
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on March 29, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org – “Everyone in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.” — Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Back in the day, the high-tech innovation that rocked my world was a self-correcting typewriter. Mere keystrokes replaced the black-ink ribbon with a white-out tape so I could […]
Computer Science Dazzles Students, Boosts Achievement
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on March 21, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org – Start teaching programming skills in middle school to get more kids hooked on computer science. For 11 years, Kelly Powers has had her dream job teaching computer science. But not without a big, illustrative glitch. Five years ago, the private girls school in Massachusetts where she was working decided to eliminate […]
Tech Teacher Wins New York City’s Startup Weekend Edu
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on March 14, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org — The story of a social-studies teacher’s meteoric rise through the EdTech world. Dawn Casey-Rowe (far left) and her team won Startup Weekend Edu with their business BetaMatch. Social studies teacher Dawn Casey-Rowe has a power plant’s energy packed into a petite frame. Her students at Davies vocational school come for the hands-on learning […]
Rhode Island, Raise Your Rock-Bottom Expectations
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on March 7, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org — Rhode Island sets ambitious academic goals, then dismantles them. Suddenly, in the wake of the state’s testing results, the Rhode Island General Assembly has whipped up legislation designed to quash any thought of the state having meaningful diplomas. How like them. Companion bills — H-5277 and S-177 — would eliminate the […]
Students Can Take More Responsibility for Success on State Tests
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on February 28, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org — Test scores go up when the results make a difference to the kids. Otherwise many won’t takes tests seriously. Until the year 2000 I adamantly opposed “high-stakes” state testing, where failure would cost a kid a diploma. Why penalize kids for what the schools failed to do? But that year, in […]
The Diverse Schools Dilemma
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on February 21, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org Michael Petrilli’s second son wasn’t even born when he was deep into researching where to send his boys to school. But you know how the zealotry of parenthood can change a man. He tells his personal story, peppered with much research, in a short, engaging new book The Diverse Schools Dilemma – A Parent’s […]
