Into today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, the article "Long road to school sanctions" underscored the dilemma that this country is in with regard to the education of youth. Instead of educating youth, enormous resources have been and continue being spent of...
Have you ever given serious thought to the obsession this country has for state-wide and national testing. In previous posts I've discussed the dilemma that state departments of education have created in their outright commitment to testing the brains out of students...
In a recent issue of BusinessWeek magazine, an article appeared that is entitled Bill Gates Get Schooled. The article focuses on the struggle that Gates and educators working with funds from Gates Foundation experience as they try and reform high schools. The...
In an earlier post, which was critical of an editorial in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, I pointed out that reform in science education needs to focus on what is happening in urban high schools (or what is not happening). We are losing many of our...
I wrote in the last two posts I openned a discussion about the phenomenon of state-wide testing that determines whether students are retained or passed (out) on to the next grade. The results, as I pointed out in Georgia, are not exactly "world-class" although...
So says Georgia Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox, and Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue. We'll make the bar higher; make the curriculum tougher; and test them till the sun goes down. Not a quote, but that's their idea. According to Cox, "we could not wait any longer."...
