tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post8536253529020208909..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: Educational FaddismClayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-49979740285397071682011-02-04T16:20:29.104-07:002011-02-04T16:20:29.104-07:00Also, I concluded a long time ago that the only wa...Also, I concluded a long time ago that the only way for children to succeed, is to be home-schooled. This is true even if you send them to private or public schools!<br /><br />As my oldest daughter has gone through kindergarten this year, I couldn't help but have this observation confirmed: it's amazing at what lengths the local school goes to try to convince parents to educate their children.Epsilon Givenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772806403046781521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-75430912026909768572011-02-04T16:18:16.901-07:002011-02-04T16:18:16.901-07:00When taking computer science classes as an undergr...When taking computer science classes as an undergraduate, I noticed an interesting trend: those computer classes that were done in traditional classrooms, where the students sat in desks, and the professor wrote on the chalkboard (and occasionally used a computer-screen projector) were far more productive than those classes where I was put in a computer room, and sat in front of a computer.<br /><br />It's much more easy to listen and take notes when you aren't distracted by e-mail and web-surfing!<br /><br />That, and to this day, I cannot imagine doing mathematics without pencil, paper and erasers.Epsilon Givenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772806403046781521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-14258315313796607082011-02-01T08:47:56.468-07:002011-02-01T08:47:56.468-07:00Elephant in the room?
I serve on a school board o...Elephant in the room?<br /><br />I serve on a school board overseeing an 11,000-student district. Two high schools: One serving an area with families toward the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, the other more stable. <br /><br />You can guess which high school - with identical funding and support - struggles. We all blame it on "poverty" even though the majority of students from the struggling school are not poor, per se. I pointed out to a fellow board member this week that the struggling school suffers from a parent shortage - they literally have fewer parents, in the homes and in the community as a whole. The educational outcomes are exactly what one would expect, given what we know about at-risk children. <br /><br />But we're careful to utter that only in whispers, as we search for the next program to close the "troubling disparity."CJinPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17724560605501170131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-52783825353639796862011-01-31T06:52:39.211-07:002011-01-31T06:52:39.211-07:00Nicely said. I teach at a rural school in Arkansa...Nicely said. I teach at a rural school in Arkansas, and I am seeing the same solutions that you mentioned being tossed about and the same three major problems keeping kids from being able to articulate a complete sentence, let alone a paragraph or an essay.Mark A. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17935630338843329689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-61871578282820449912011-01-30T07:43:11.093-07:002011-01-30T07:43:11.093-07:00The argument against consolidation is that the lar...The argument against consolidation is that the larger the school district, the harder it is for parents to influence it for the better. Of course, if the parents aren't interested....ThatWouldBeTellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16910231314995266781noreply@blogger.com