[PLUGGED IN] Blog Watch
September's Bloggers
What education insiders are writing online.
"Many teachers are simply afraid of computers. These teachers long for days that no longer exist, days before modern technology. Students in these classes must ‘power down’ before they enter the classroom....
Technology will not support student learning if teachers don’t feel comfortable enough with computers to formally incorporate
them in learning activities."
THE SITE: The Current Events in Education
www.pass-ed.com/blogger.html
"A funny thing is happening with some anti-bureaucrats: They are bureaucratizing,building central offices that function like miniature school districts overseeing between four and 40 schools."
THE SITE: This Week In Education
www.thisweekineducation.com
"There are bonus programs masquerading as merit pay where entire faculties earn a bonus if various things happen to a school. That’s silly. It masks the people who aren’t pulling their weight and obscures those who are so great they should be receiving tens of thousands more!"
THE SITE: Edspresso
www.edspresso.com
"Art classes don’t improve students’ academic skills, conclude two researchers. Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland of Project Zero, an arts education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, argue ‘art education should be championed for its own sake, not because of a wishful sentiment that classes in painting, dance, and music improve pupils’ math and reading skills and standardized test scores,’ reports the New York Times."
THE SITE: Joanne Jacobs
www.joannejacobs.com
"Right now, NCLB is the best accountability measure students with disabilities have had since IDEA [the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act]. But it is certainly not the best measure they will ever have, at least I hope not."
THE SITE: The Quick and the Ed
www.quickanded.com
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