October 3, 2012 | Posted At: 04:35 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: (Who Cares What) Research Says , Five Best Blogs [Of The Day] , Teachers, Teaching, Unions , Technology Is Scary , The Business Of Education
Five Best Blogs: Online Charters Dinged For Quality & Cost
Up 30 pct since last year, online charters face quality & cost backlash ME NJ NC PA TN FL http://ow.ly/ebDyU @SSimonReuters
US Chamber and National PTA coalition urge Duncan to me more careful with NCLB waivers, notes SI&A Cabinet Report ow.ly/ec0o8
Reform-backed CT candidate wins recount primary thanks to late $$ from reform group http://Courant.com http://ow.ly/ebWhB
Wilingham & Ferlazzo debate whether online nastiness is a function of psychology or strategy (or, probably, both) http://ow.ly/ebEHA
When Curious Parents See Math Grades in Real Time - WSJ.com ow.ly/eco90
Teach Plus: Charter or District? Whatever Works ow.ly/ecb9h
How Teachers Can Avoid "SHOCKTOBER" NPR http://ow.ly/ebKWO @roxannaelden
The WSJ Story about math grades was ridiculously frustrating for me to read. The parents are insanely over-parenting and its being painted as somehow connected to the grade reporting system. Yes the grading system gives them the greater ability to be terrible helicopter parents, but it didn't make them that way and it's THEIR fault that they are behaving this way, not the systems.
My Mom has grade reporting on my brother (Freshman in HS) and she doesn't stalk him and get all hyper controlling about it. It's just another tool.
Posted by: Alexander Berger | October 03, 2012 at 16:52 PM
Re both the U.S. chamber and WSJ stories, each in a different way expressing the demands of information consumers on information providers: in this information age, with the glut of information potentially available and the incessant demands of the general public for accountability from managers and teachers, what are we doing as a civilization to prevent the resulting stress in education from byting little bits off us until we are driven into a new pouch of Dante's Inferno? Really, how can any of us be satisfied with such a system? And what ever happened to the simple joys of sharing a good book with a new generation of readers, which many of us found attractive so long ago, before the business community forced their computers and management information systems upon us in an effort to make sure that the inflow of money would be unending?
Posted by: Bruce | October 03, 2012 at 17:27 PM
It has a good is the quality of the final product, and Cheap refers to the total cost of designing.
Posted by: Allison T. George | October 17, 2012 at 02:27 AM