A community portal about The philosophy of education with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The philosophy of education is the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. This can be within the...
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A community portal about The philosophy of education with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The philosophy of education is the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. This can be within the context of education as a societal institution or more broadly as the process of human existential growth, i.e. how it is that our understanding of the world is continually transformed.
Last week Anderson Cooper had this segment about Sex and Salvation. Perhaps it was sweeps week, and that is why they had to repeat it every day. It did have all the elements--primarily plenty of shots of bikini clad Girls Gone Wild on Spring Break in Florida. However, to give it legitimate journalistic value it also focused on some evangelical college students who went down there to tell the others not to fuck. I have to admit, I liked the Christian kids better than the others. They... Read Full Story
This is the time of the year when I always feel a little overwhelmed. QHST being annualized my relationships with my students are either on autopilot or reaching levels of unspeakable stress. Talk around school starts to focus on next year. Who will be teaching what? What schedule will we be using next year? Who will not be returning? How many new-hires will be joining us? Are we meeting the needs of all learners? Has the CTT model been working for teachers and students? What are we doing... Read Full Story
Below is a comment I received yesterday on a post that was written in May of 2007. We seem to be having a new discussion around our model of inclusion. Venting frustrations can be healthy, but more importantly offering solutions is really the only true way to overcome adversity. The comment reads: "As a CTT teacher, I absolutely feel this model is not working. It could work, in theory, but not the way things are set up now. Being forced to stand up in front of a class and embarrass... Read Full Story
Back in 1967 – the Observer newspaper in the UK organized an opportunity for children to write about on the subject: “The school that I’d like”. The results became a Penguin book edited by Edward Blishen. The collection of opinions provides a trenchant critique of school and school life. The students wrote with freshness, passion and insight and their words provide a sustained attack on the status quo as perceived by the children actually in the schools. One girl wrote in her essay: "I... Read Full Story
After reading the following article I began to ask myself what problem is this new DOE policy going to address? and what is the solution? If the change in policy is meant to help the HS system by filtering out reading an writing problems then I believe he is on to something. Freshmen classes would be more academically sound for the first year. I suspect however that sophomore reading and writing skills would be about the same. However if the change is being put in place to... Read Full Story
