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Rethinking Schools: Calling for a Paradigm Shift, Nearly 20 Years and Counting

January 1, 2009
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Happy New Year! Yesterday I introduced readers of this Weblog to Bob Peterson, a teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who organized a team of educators to develop the website: Social Studies Resources.  Bob Peterson is a veteran teacher, who with a group of Milwaukee-area teachers envisioned education in their own classroom being improved, and through their work help shape reform in the public schools of the USA.  Their group, beginning 19 years ago, started with...

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A New Age for Science and Science Education?

November 19, 2008
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A New Age for Science and Science Education?

In earlier posts on this Weblog, I introduced readers to ScienceDebate2008, a citizen effort to engage the US presidential candidates in a real debate on science, technology and society.  The debates never happened, but each candidate (science advisors, I suppose) answered the 14 questions that ScienceDebate2008 participants generated.  If you haven’t read the questions and answers, I recommend you do.   After the election of Barack Obama, Shawn Otto, the leader of the Sciencedebate2008...

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Teaching Science as if your Classroom was a Community

September 4, 2008
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The community, as a concept, is where the action is not only when dealing with environmental, social and political issues, but is one of the most important ideas for us to incorporate into our approach to teaching.  A teacher, in a sense, is a community organizer who works with a group of students to teach ideas about science (or any other content area including mathematics, history, political science, art, music, or physical education). Teachers...

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Should High-Stakes (Science) Tests Be Eliminated?

August 30, 2008
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There is very little criticism in the science education literature about the science standards, and the use of high-stakes tests.  An issue I raise here is should the use of high-stakes tests not only in science, but other content areas be continued? I am being motivated to discuss this issue, as I did the decentralization of education (in the previous post) because of the US Presidential election “season” that is in full swing right...

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Atlanta Schools Should Be Emphasizing Science

November 21, 2006
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Yesterday I raised the question whether literacy in reading and math was necessary to teach and learn science. I was prompted by the statement made recently by the Atlanta Public School District’s superintendent that she was not concerned that science scores were low when the district needed to emphasize literacy, not science. And of course the reason for this is that literacy is what is tested on the No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB)...

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Part Deux: No Child Left Behind “Needs Improvement”

July 17, 2006
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There is a high school in a Georgia County (in the Metro-Atlanta area) that will remain nameless. I know about the school because I lived within two miles of it. I could be writing about any school in the State or the nation for that matter. Anyway, the school is considered one of the top academic schools in the State. It received an award from the state for having the highest percentage of students...

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No Child Left Behind “Needs Improvement”

July 15, 2006
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No Child Left Behind “Needs Improvement”

Into today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, the article “Long road to school sanctions” underscored the dilemma that this country is in with regard to the education of youth. Instead of educating youth, enormous resources have been and continue being spent of mandated testing, and then the holding of schools and districts hostage—before and after the results are reported. For example in the Atlanta area, where there are about 4 million+ citizens, 7 of the metro-Atlanta...

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