tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post6783320340469399980..comments2024-03-16T13:43:21.762-04:00Comments on Schools Matter: Full Interview with Former Charter Teacher at Brooklyn Ascend, Part IJames Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-13662833226787000042015-11-05T23:42:44.207-05:002015-11-05T23:42:44.207-05:00Indeed inspiring post this is. Indeed inspiring post this is. Gerald Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06243407480907587543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-52336809473101340602014-01-16T15:50:57.418-05:002014-01-16T15:50:57.418-05:00No question this is emotional abuse and educationa...No question this is emotional abuse and educational malpractice, particularly for the special needs students. It's a tragedy that the parents don't understand this. And this is what Arne Duncan thinks is the great future of American education? Sheila Ressegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03825902968436088673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-88528453561771197242014-01-16T14:07:15.584-05:002014-01-16T14:07:15.584-05:00IDEA is clearly being violated. The children are b...IDEA is clearly being violated. The children are being emotionally abused, and there is plenty of evidence that these teaching methods do NOT lead to higher level critical thinking skills. These schools need to be shuttered, asap.<br />teka21https://www.blogger.com/profile/01940482505192254008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-60694134920598904182014-01-16T07:20:16.068-05:002014-01-16T07:20:16.068-05:00If the question is, do these kinds of charter oper...If the question is, do these kinds of charter operations want to discover "best practices" for the education and well-being of the whole child, you know that answer. But, by now we understand this as simply breaking the spirit of the "unwashed" poor and unfavorably "dark" as a way to create successful submission to power hierarchies. Are we asking the Master to do a better job with the slaves? Or are we asking the slaves to rebel? Is there some other position?stormnemesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176778911355352751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-15201905001133066742014-01-15T18:39:59.268-05:002014-01-15T18:39:59.268-05:00" (The data analyst) took the mock ELA and th...<br />" (The data analyst) took the mock ELA and the mock math data and analyzed it, and came up with these certain concepts that the kids weren't doing well on. Some certain percentage hadn't done well on the main idea questions. Some certain percentage hadn't done well on making inferences in narrative procedure type passages. <br /><br />…. We had to use documents placed in front of us that said, "This percentage needs to work on this." Our school Director, … decided to take one of the second grade teachers and put her in charge of the third grade. We now had this supervisor, and it was her job to come up with these scripted lessons that we would then have to present to the kids."<br /><br />NOTE the assumption that if you want children to do better on "main ideas" and "making inferences" we should give them direct instruction on "main ideas" and "making inferences." I don't know of any satifsying evidence that shows this is true, but there is a great deal of evidence showing that enthusiastic pleasure readers do very well on these kinds of tests. <br /><br />If the charter schools knew this, would they turn to pleasure reading/literature/Book Whisperer approaches? <br />skrashenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02243115140886175946noreply@blogger.com