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- התפתחות קורמוד: School Choice Movement Fissures (2024 Edition)התפתחות קורמוד: School Choice Movement Fissures (2024 Edition) Milton Friedman's vision was never popular. The idea of doing away with public school as a public good, a service provided to all citizens, funded and managed by some combination of federal, state and local government, and replacing it all with an unregulated free market of education services in which families had to find their own way with their own resources-- that was never going to be a winner. Replace a promise to provide every child with an education with a promise to just let everyone fend for themselves-- not a popular idea. Even school vouchers--Friedman's idea of a gateway to the future he really wanted to see--were never popular. So they needed allies. The first batch of allies--segregationists who wanted school choice so they could choose not to send White kids to school with Black kids-- were not terribly helpful from a policy standpoint. The big obstacle--people really like and believe in the idea of public schools. So the Reagan administration gave us A Nation At Risk, a manifesto masquerading as a research report that aimed to chip away at that public support for public schools. "Burn it all down" היה still a fringe notion, but the ... קרא עוד4 ימים לִפנֵי
- בריטניה: Roehampton partners with FutureLearn
The University of Roehampton and FutureLearn have announced a new strategic partnership for the delivery of online degrees. Roehampton’s partnership with online education giants FutureLearn will commence with a suite of nine post-graduate business programs from May 2024. In a statement, the university said that expanding across provisions, the partnership will enable students seeking online education to access Roehampton’s quality portfolio of future focused degrees. The partnership agreement was signed by Jean-Noël Ezingeard, vice-chancellor at the University of Roehampton and Jo Johnson, executive chairman at FutureLearn. “We are delighted to be working with FutureLearn to bring Roehampton’s degree program to wider audiences of learners seeking online study,” said Ezingeard, speaking at the signing. Our shared vision is to broaden online delivery across the university “At Roehampton we are committed to being a place where everyone can grow, and we look forward to supporting new learners to succeed on our programs.” “With its close ties to industry, the University of Roehampton has a rich history of opening up access to education and I’m excited FutureLearn can now support those efforts globally through our strategic long-term partnership,” said Johnson. “Beginning with nine online business degrees that have the student experience and employability at their core, our shared ... קרא עוד4 ימים לִפנֵי - Loudoun sheriff calls for school resource officers on elementary campusesLoudoun County’s sheriff is renewing a push to add school resource officers to its elementary schools. ... קרא עוד4 ימים לִפנֵי
- סינגפור & Thailand rise in THE Asia rankingsIndia has overtaken סין as the second-most represented country in the Times Higher Education Asia University rankings 2024, עם 91 universities compared with the neighbouring nation’s 86 מוסדות. Japan has maintained its top position with 119 אוניברסיטאות, תוך Mainland China takes five of top 10 positions, including first and second. Other countries the ranking compiler has highlighted are מלזיה, Singapore and Thailand, which THE says excelled in the 12th edition of the ranking. בנוסף, לאwo Indonesia universities have “jumped up a band”, Turkey has 75 universities ranked up from 61 last year. בסך הכל, 739 universities are ranked from 31 מדינות & regions – an increase of 70 on last year. במשך שני עשורים, THE has tracked the “impressive rise” of China in the global rankings, אבל “what we can clearly see now is that the rising tide in Asia is lifting all boats”, said Phil Baty, Times Higher Education’s chief global affairs officer. “Our data shows a strengthening across Asia” “While China’s leading universities now compete at the very top of the world rankings, our data shows a strengthening across Asia, where a healthy competition, more collaboration, more investment in research and university capacity and more internationalisation is driving up performance,” he said. India’s ... קרא עוד4 ימים לִפנֵי
- “We just have to get through the next month,” says UK HE leaderOnce the UK HE sector has ‘toughed it out’ through the MAC review announcement and net migration figures, it can start looking more concretely at the future, stakeholders said. Wendy Alexander, VP of international at the University of Dundee, warned delegates at the International Higher Education Forum in London that they were in for an uncomfortable month as key dates approach. “Some time between May 14 ומאי 23, you will see a pretty hostile announcement from the government,” she predicted, as leaders discussed the UK, Australia and Canada’s state of sector affairs. The announcement would concern the graduate route, which in Alexander’s thoughts, could go one of three ways: be axed completely, which she said was “unlikely”; reduce to six to 12 חודשים; or to cut the sector “by quality”, for example only Russell Group graduates being able to use it. She noted that the overcorrection on international students by the government has “already happened”, citing the dependent ban, as the first Home Office monthly statistics showed a 32,000 year-on-year drop in student dependents. עם זאת, she relented that the sector needed to come to terms with the fact the system hadn’t been perfect in the first place. “We really ... קרא עוד4 ימים לִפנֵי
- Janresseger: Education Philanthropists Respond When Challenged to Increase Investment in Projects for Racial Justice in Public SchoolsJanresseger: Education Philanthropists Respond When Challenged to Increase Investment in Projects for Racial Justice in Public Schools The Schott Foundation for Public Education recently released Justice Is the Foundation, a new report that lifts up the need for increasing philanthropic support for racial justice in American public education. Here is how the report begins: “Concentrations of wealth are both created by and reinforce the historic and present hierarchies of race, מין, and class. As many philanthropic leaders and advocates have stressed, what matters now is not just to recognize that extreme inequality, but to help resolve it through shifting power and resources from the few to the many… The Schott Foundation for Public Education worked with Candid, a center for nonprofit resources and tools… to critically examine K-12 education philanthropy’s grantmaking priorities. Our project, Justice is the Foundation, assesses the collective philanthropic impact of giving in the education sector through the lens of racial equity and racial justice. We believe that education philanthropy has an important and irreplaceable role to play in building a more just and equitable society: public schools touch 90% of students in the U.S….” In the new report, the Schott Foundation defines what ought to be the two primary purposes of ... קרא עוד5 ימים לִפנֵי
- Teaching Isn’t Rocket Science but It Is Surely Harder (Ryan Fuller)
Ryan Fuller describes his career as follows: “Throughout my career, I have sought meaningful work that made good use of my skills at organizations that aligned with my values and helped me grow. This pursuit has taken me from aerospace engineering to teaching to education leadership and now to data science. I completed a MicroMasters in Data Science to continue to pursue people-focused work using my analytical skills. My experiences have given me the innovative, אנליטיים, and communication skills necessary to be successful in a wide variety of data positions. I enjoy collaborating with others to develop innovative ways to use data that leads to better outcomes for people.” ב 2007, when I was 22, I took a position as an aerospace engineer working on the design of NASA’s next-generation spacecraft. It was my dream job. I had just received a degree in mechanical engineering, and the only career ambition I could articulate was to work on something space-related. On my first days of work, I was awestruck by the drawings ofApollo-like spacecraft structures, by the conversations about how the heat shield would deflect when the craft landed in water and how much g-force astronauts could withstand. I couldn’t ... קרא עוד5 ימים לִפנֵי - House Republicans look to intervene in D.C.’s response to GWU encampment‘We want to ensure that the Washington police is working with campus police to ensure the safety of Jewish students,’ said House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.). ... קרא עוד5 ימים לִפנֵי
- עיניים רדיקליות להון: Schools Are Using Research to Try to Improve Children’s Learning – But It’s Not Working (The Conversation)
עיניים רדיקליות להון: Schools Are Using Research to Try to Improve Children’s Learning – But It’s Not Working (The Conversation) [הערה: Follow links to research cited and note the recommended links after the republished article.] Sally Riordan, UCL Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research, UCL 2 אפריל 2024 Evidence is obviously a good thing. We take it for granted that evidence from research can help solve the post-lockdown crises in education – from how to keep teachers in the profession to how to improve behaviour in schools, get children back into school and protect the mental health of a generation. אבל my research and that of others shows that incorporating strategies that have evidence backing them into teaching doesn’t always yield the results we want. The Department for Education encourages school leadership teams to cite evidence from research studies when deciding how to spend school funding. Teachers are more frequently required to conduct their own research as part of their professional training than they were a decade ago. Independent consultancies have sprung up to support schools to bring evidence-based methods into their teaching. This push for evidence to back up teaching methods has become particularly strong in the past ten years. ... קרא עוד6 ימים לִפנֵי - “Relish the freedom you have and find the balance”: A Conversation with Jón Torfi Jónasson on Educational Change in Iceland (חלק 2)
In the second part of this two-part interview, Jón Torfi Jónasson draws from his work on educational change in Iceland and other parts of the world to discuss what kind of advice he gives to policymakers and educators. חלק 1 … המשך לקרוא ... קרא עוד6 ימים לִפנֵי - Police use pepper spray, arrest 13 at VCU pro-Palestinian protestPolice arrested 13 people connected to a pro-Palestinian protest at Virginia Commonwealth University on Monday as demonstrations at Virginia colleges continued. ... קרא עוד6 ימים לִפנֵי
- Teacher in a Strange Land: DIS-Information in Schools
Teacher in a Strange Land: DIS-Information in Schools You may have heard the story, a couple days back, about a Republican legislator in Michigan posting a photo of buses at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, claiming the buses were transporting “illegal invaders.” News stories politely suggested that he was erroneously referring to undocumented immigrants—after all, Representative Matt Maddock is still in the Michigan House—before confirming that the buses were, in reality, transporting four men’s basketball teams competing in this weekend’s Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Detroit. Was Maddock (whose wife, Meshawn, was recently Co-Chair of the beleaguered Michigan Republican party) simply misinformed? Doubtful that he was hanging around a major metropolitan airport (which is not, דרך אגב, אניn his district), watching planes and buses come and go, and simply, אתה יודע, got the wrong impression about a few dozen young men—tall ones– getting on buses. Nor has he apologized for what might have been a dangerous trigger, inviting local yahoos to saddle up and head for the airport. למעשה, he’s continued to post: “We know this is happening. 100,000’s of illegals are pouring into our country. We know it’s happening in Michigan. Our own governor is offering money to take them in! Since we can’t ... קרא עוד7 ימים לִפנֵי - Real Schools Need Books, Not Laptops or Cell Phones (James Traub)“James Traub is a journalist and scholar specializing in international affairs. He is a columnist and contributor to the website foreignpolicy.com. He worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker מ 1993 ל 1998 and as a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine from 1998 ל 2011. He has also written extensively about national politics, urban affairs, וחינוך. His books include What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present and Promise of Noble Idea; John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit; The Freedom Agenda, on the American policy of democracy promotion; and The Best Intentions, on the United Nations under Kofi Annan. He teaches classes on American foreign policy and on the history of liberalism at NYU Abu Dhabi and at NYU. He is a fellow of the Center on International Cooperation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.” This article appeared on April 18, 2024 A few weeks ago, I was sitting in an eleventh-grade history class at a high school in the suburbs west of Chicago. מר. DiTella was firing off questions about the civil rights movement and getting precious little in return, despite the fact that he had assigned a reading on the subject. When we spoke afterwards, ... קרא עוד1 שָׁבוּעַ לִפנֵי
- Virginia man convicted in crash that killed 2 Oakton High School teensUsman Shahid, 20, was convicted on two counts of manslaughter in the June 7, 2022, deaths of Ada Gabriela Martinez Nolasco and Leeyan Hanjia Yan. ... קרא עוד1 שָׁבוּעַ לִפנֵי
- Advice for Teachers, Policymakers, and DonorsWell over a decade ago, Larry Ferlazzo, a Sacramento (CA) high school English/social studies teacher and avid blogger, interviewed me asking what advice I have for teachers, קובעי מדיניות, and philanthropists. The advice I offered then came largely from my 14 years as a high school history teacher in Cleveland (OH) and Washington, זֶרֶם יָשָׁר. בתי ספר ציבוריים, seven years I spent as a district superintendent in Arlington (VA), 20 years of teaching, מחקר, and writing at Stanford University. מאז 2001, I have been an emeritus professor teaching occasional university seminars (עד 2013) while becoming a full-time writer and blogger. I have updated and expanded that earlier post. The advice I gave then to Larry Ferlazzo is, לדעתי, still apt for teachers, קובעי מדיניות, and donors in 2024. Larry Ferlazzo: If you were going to offer teachers three key pieces of advice that you think might help them to stay in the profession longer and be more effective educators, what would they be? 1. Re-pot yourself every few years. Teaching is both energizing and exhausting work. When teaching you spend the rich intellectual, פיזי, and emotional capital that you have accumulated over the years on your students. And because teaching over time is ... קרא עוד2 שבועות לִפנֵי
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