Posted by Editors EdReform, EduBusiness, Educationalists, In The News, Policy, Research, Teaching Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Hi Nick. Take a seat. Thanks for coming. How’s the family? Reindeers doing well? I heard Rudolph was nursing a cold. Hope he’s okay. Now, look the reason we’re meeting today is to review this year’s performance and is part of the new performance appraisal system we have set up. All staff, the elves included, […]
Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Doug Lemov, EdReform, EduBusiness, Education Endowment Foundation, In The News, Management Consultants, Managerialism, Michael Barber, Policy, Research, Schools, Social Enterprise, Standards, Technology, Testing, Working Conditions Sunday, November 20th, 2016
In most cases (particularly when the work to be done is intricate in its nature) the “development of the science” is the most important of the four great elements of the new management. There are instances, however, in which the “scientific selection of the workman” counts for more than anything else. A case of this […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Exams, In The News, Policy, Schools, Teacher Training, Teaching Sunday, November 20th, 2016
“Once charismatic qualification has become an impersonal quality, which can be transmitted through various and at first purely magic means, it has begun its transformation from a personal gift that can be tested and proven but not transmitted and acquired, into a capacity that, in principle, can be taught and learned. Thus charismatic qualification can […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Educationalists, In The News, League Tables, Schools, Social Enterprise, Standards, Teacher Training, Testing Sunday, November 20th, 2016
A good showman is a person that has a sense or knack for an effective presentation of an animal. Showmanship is the one area of exhibiting beef cattle over which you have the most control. In showmanship, you are judged on your abilities to control and present your steer or heifer to bring out its […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Educationalists, In The News, John Locke, Research, Social Enterprise, Teaching Sunday, June 26th, 2016
“This being objected on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and an hindrance to knowledge. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let alone others prejudices and examine his own. No body is convinced of his by the accusation of another; he recriminates by the […]
Posted by Editors Chris Higgins, In The News, Teaching, Working Conditions Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
“The problem is well-documented, and there are no doubt many factors which make teaching a difficult activity to sustain for long.” “But it does often turn out that it is precisely the teachers we respect the most, those whose selfless dedication to making something happen for other people is an inspiration, who burn out the […]
Posted by Editors Daniel L. Duke, In The News, Teacher Bashing, Teacher Training, Teaching, Working Conditions Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
“It is my sincere belief that new teachers who are aware of the organizational and societal contexts in which they must work and who understand the nature of their clients are better able to withstand the induction period of teaching and eventually participate in the reconceptualization of the profession.” Daniel L. Duke. Teaching: The Imperiled […]
Posted by Editors Common Core, David Labaree, ED Hirsch, EdReform, In The News, John Dewey, Larry Cuban, Policy, Teaching Sunday, October 4th, 2015
“Opening with the foreboding words, “Failed Theories, Famished Minds,” Hirsch explains, “What chiefly prompts the writing of this book is our national slowness . . . to cast aside [the] faulty theories that have led to the total absence of a coherent, knowledge-based curriculum, but are nonetheless presented . . . as remedies for the […]
Posted by Editors In The News, Research, Teaching Sunday, June 28th, 2015
ORANGUTAN REHABILITATION Baby School Newly arrived infants and very young orangutans spend the day in a forested nursery where they are cared for 24/7 by their babysitters. Their health is carefully monitored as many of them have come to the center severely malnourished and they are extremely susceptible to illness due to having compromised immune […]
Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Big Data, EdReform, EduBusiness, Educationalists, Exams, In The News, OECD, PISA, Schools, Teaching, Technology, Testing, Waldorf Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Andreas Schleicher works out of the OECD in Paris, and is best known for the the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), “a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” According to a January 2010 presentation given to the Quality of Childhood Group […]