February 2012
50 posts
“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women...”
– Jean Piaget (via fuckyeahmiserablethings)
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If...”
– Judy Blume (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
Watchdepressingfacts:
Found at: http://rapguidetoevolution.co.uk/videos/ More specifically, the rap guide to Natural Selection.
“Whoever is lead to believe that species are mutable, will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction, for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed, be removed.” Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
So what-ch-you know about...
I want the Airwaves: Why feminists shouldn't enjoy... →
iwanttheairwaves:
I say the film mainly because I haven’t read the book. I believe that it doesn’t matter much as surely the themes of the book are the same as the film, anyway, I stray. Now, to the main point of this post.
I often see people, female or male, praise Fight Club because of its anti-capitalist…
Watchliberalsarecool:
Bill Moyers interviews social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
“Bill and moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt talk about the psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture, why we can’t trust our own opinions, and the demonizing of our adversaries.”
I recommend this video highly.
Watch
Written Out of History: The Untold Legacy of Native American Slavery
“The pre-African commerce in human beings in and from North America was gradually superseded by the importation of Africans, but full slavery and other forms of un-free labour were imposed on many North American indigenous peoples throughout the 19th century both in the northeast (Herndon and Sekatau 1997, 2005) and in the...
“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via golden-notebook)
“I hate my son’s homework. I hate the shallow worksheets and the confusing...”
– Abolishing Homework: Practical Thoughts
(via warriorsrise)
Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies... →
Now, in analyses of long-term data published in recent months, researchers are finding that while the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period.
“We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than...
this isn't happiness.: 10 Tips on Writing Well... →
nevver:
Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
…
“Chomsky talked of the two contrasting schools of thought on education — one of...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Social Uprooting: "Arriving at" decisions rather... →
solitaryforager:
The aim is not for ideas to be made by elected decision makers, who are highly fallible, corruptible, and untrained beyond a specific point of focus. The aim, in fact, under a more effective, efficient and parsimonious approach, is for decisions to be arrived at via the scientific method. It is…
Catching Mere Glimpses: IndoctriNation →
mereglimpses:
This is a good article giving more info on this documentary. I, for one, cannot wait to finally see the finished product. I bought the “Backstage Pass” to be a supporter and have access to some behind the scenes “extras”. The interviews have been fascinating as well as Mr. Gunn’s two other…
Education
anarchei:
Learning starts the day we are born, and does not end until we die. Education is the process of assisting that learning. The word comes from Latin for ‘to lead out’ and stands in contrast to ‘indoctrinate’ which means ‘to teach inward.’
The difference between them is fundamental. Leading out means helping a student discover things and ideas for themselves. Teaching inward means...
Apple Takes on Textbooks with iPad 2 →
Organizing My History: How the Mind Works →
oceanofmind:
Here are some thoughts I find worth remembering…
1. Think good and good follows. Think evil, and evil follows. You are what you think all day long.
2. Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, “I can’t afford…
23 Tools To Brainwash and Influence People Through... →
heartmindspirit:
1. The key to truly effective brainwashing is to work at people’s most fundamental awareness. Shape them at the neurological level so they develop the faculties to take your input and call it “thinking for myself.” Enable them to stop thinking.
2. Limit any and all faculties for self-awareness and self-sensing. Destroy instinct and intuition. Actively and endlessly encourage...
Oppress-Crackatron3000: What Is Intelligence,... →
noleshanghai:
By Isaac Asimov
What is intelligence, anyway?
When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.
(It…
Will: The State of American Education Today →
willrichardson:
Provocative essay by NYC librarian Joseph Grasso that captures the moment in ed in a nutshell. Would love to be able to hand this out at the exhibit floor at ISTE today, especially those making millions on test prep and a NCLB assessment garbage.
It is an easy truism that when simplistic…
Trigger Warning: Socialist Assassin Ponies:... →
anticapitalist:
Excerpted from Class Warfare, 1995, pp. 19-23, 27-31
DAVID BARSAMIAN: One of the heroes of the current right-wing revival… is Adam Smith. You’ve done some pretty impressive research on Smith that has excavated… a lot of information that’s not coming out. You’ve often quoted him describing…
World-Shaker: How Education Works In America (an... →
world-shaker:
Politicians who are unhappy with the political leanings of those who work in education (and those who happen to have a lot of it) find some way to cut funding for public schools and require more tests. This is done under the guise of “accountability.”
It’s at this point that local prisons start…
Oppress-Crackatron3000: sociology pdfs →
thisisimportantstuff:
Albert Camus - The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
B.F. Skinner - Walden Two
C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination
Emile Durkheim - Suicide
George Herbert Mead - Mind, Self, and Society: From the…
Letters To My Country: The Miseducation Of Adam... →
letterstomycountry:
There is an insidious Adam Smith quote flying around that’s been getting everyone in a tizzy.
Here is the quote again, for those who have not seen it:
A lot of folks, on both sides of the political spectrum, have been making some rather heady misinterpretations of what Smith meant when he…
Why Are Great Teachers Leaving the Classroom? →
infoneer-pulse:
Making it simpler to remove bad teachers from the classroom has been a hot topic in education reform, but policy-makers might want to shift gears and spend more time ensuring effective teachers stick around. According to a McKinsey study, 14 percent of teachers leave after one year, and 46 percent leave the profession before their fifth year. However, in nations with the highest...
Will: Why the Tests Don't Work →
willrichardson:
This is about as succinct an argument against standardized tests as I’ve come across yet. Written by William Wraga, a professor in the program in educational administration and policy at the College of Education, University of Georgia, it’s in response to the cheating scandal now rocking the…
a little lamb: 10 Free Tools for Parent... →
toseealambatschool:
Keeping parents up-to-date on what’s going on in the classroom can sometimes be difficult. Fortunately, there are many free tools on the web that can help teachers streamline the communication process and get parents the information they need. Here are 10 online tools that are free, helpful, and…
It is about relationships, stupid! « Cooperative... →
humanscaleschools:
Human Scale Education is education in which People matter and therefore relationships matter. It is an built on environments that supports and develops many different types of relationships, including the relationship between:
teacher and learner
learner and learner
learner and knowledge;
learner and the journey for personal growth
the personal and community;
learning...
The Atlantic: What People Don't Understand About... →
theatlantic:
bbo13 writes:
I am a teacher. And I could easily write volumes about the variety of things about teaching in general that many people (particularly parents and politicians) just don’t seem to understand. For example, those couple of “free” months many (though certainly not all) of us might…
Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers →
kateoplis:
As several recent studies highlight, the way most of us spend our mornings is exactly counter to the conditions that neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists tell us promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Take that hurried wake-up, for example. In a study published in the journal Thinking and Reasoning last year, researchers Mareike Wieth and Rose Zacks reported that imaginative...
SOUND MONEY: More on Education and Marketization →
logicallypositive:
Another fallacious belief which proponents of “public education” hold is that educaiton is solely relegated to school. I don’t deny that schooling is an important part of education: the proper role of a school, in my view, is to connect students with access to…
Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we... →
Finland has one other significant advantage over the United States. The child-poverty rate in Finland is under 4 percent. Here it is 22 percent and rising. It’s a well-known fact that family income is the most reliable predictor of academic performance. Finland has a strong social welfare system; we don’t. It is not a “Socialist” nation, by the way. It is egalitarian and capitalist.
I was asked...
feminist historian: American Revolution Reading... →
feministhistorian:
I’ve seen way to many post about how the Occupy Movement is exactly like the American Revolution. Our founders are rolling over in their grave. So I decided to put together a list of books I really like on the revolution. These are not all the books I like on the topic and are not all the books on…
Tai's Psychology Blog: Erikson's stages of... →
xxzulaxx:
1. Trust Versus Mistrust (Infants, Birth to 12-18 Months)
Psychosocial Crisis: Trust vs. Mistrust
Virtue: Hope
Is the world a safe place or is it full of unpredictable events and accidents waiting to happen?
Erikson claimed that in this stage the child will…
A Nation's Education Left Behind →
So what can we do? First, we should speak out when politicians say “there is no more money.” There is money to do what we want to do. There is money to fight wars in the Middle East. There is enough money to give big corporate cuts. There is enough money for 1% of this nation to live lives of splendor. Why is there not enough money to provide the basic public services that every child needs?
...
Tai's Psychology Blog: Emotional Intelligence →
xxzulaxx:
“All learning has an emotional base.” — Plato
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others…
DC Decoder: Fixing the American economy: Education →
dcdecoder:
How can America fix its economy?
The President asked, and the Jobs Council answered. President Obama convened the Council, a group of business CEOs lead by GE chief Jeffrey Immelt, to give recommendations for re-starting the US economy. They’ve just released their report.
Over the next…
Social Uprooting: What are some rad... →
solitaryforager:
bradicalmang:
I’m drawing blanks right now. Anything on anti-oppression, equality, cooperation, diversity, etc. Basically, fun ways to for them to soak in radical propaganda haha
Here are some the Movement came up with to educate kids about a Resource Based Economy / sustainable values….
