As usual, this "promising new approach" is just an ad for a small, untested charter school model.
We've been on this merry-go-round a million times. Charters often look effective at first but then break down when they try to scale up. Is it too much to ask for editors and researchers to know this?
We've been on this merry-go-round a million times. Charters often look effective at first but then break down when they try to scale up. Is it too much to ask for editors and researchers to know this?
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On a serious (and likely controversial) note, trying to meet students in the middle is a mistake.
Out two days a week to work for free and calling it school?
And now Indiana is proposing tanking a whole school district in Indianapolis (cause they hate self-governance of the 'lib' city and public schools)
https://bsky.app/profile/daedsider.bsky.social/post/3lerdphkra22v
I'll bet I can identify the school-loving 26% of the tenth graders pretty quick. They are either getting the high grades or excelling in sports. The rest are sad "losers".
Silver-bullet, top-down Bold New Ideas are never going to work. Effective approaches are slow, make significant investments and ask teachers what they need.
https://psmag.com/features/the-afterlife-of-big-ideas/
https://bsky.app/profile/ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social/post/3lere5yub3s26
It's good some schools can still benefit from it.
It's always all the things, all the time, happening together.
And what you need is professionals with access to a full range of tools.
It's always all the things.
and a good educator is one who legitimately cares about what happens to the students in her temporary stewardship.
No fix-all program, no top-down edict, no AI approximation, can ever replicate the power of an invested teacher. That's the secret sauce.
https://bsky.app/profile/jumbanho.bsky.social/post/3leredgbgdk2c
https://bsky.app/profile/covingtonedu.bsky.social/post/3l7b5xganqy2f
2) better food in cafeterias, multiple meals and snacks a day, 100% free to the children
3) push back start times for middle and high schoolers
Everything else depends on well-compensated/highly trained professionals being allowed to flex for the students they have
Students have to feel genuinely cared about, and they're savvy... which means that the education system actually has to genuinely care about them...
And that comes down to the culture and individuals on any given campus and running any given district.
https://zhaolearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/SideEffectsPublished.pdf
Also, charter schools are subject to different salary and personnel rules that public schools.
DAMN. good stuff.
And it’s always all lies. It never happens. Period.
(Yes, you are absolutely correct)
Life is so unfair.
They came not from the state or district rolling out some new program. They came when the teachers at a particular site collaborated on what their particular students needed and could implement changes.
And the officials in those positions rake in obscene compensation while the classroom teachers scrape to get by.
today it's getting screamed at by customers behind a counter at 1 of your 3 jobs that still don't cover rent or the "freedom" of the gig economy
but those jobs just aren't around like they were. Uncle rolled out of high school and into work. Others like my dad learned skilled trades in the military before joining GM.
Hates school and thinks it's boring.
Working with immigrant kids, some from countries at war, is watching kids begging to go to school and working hard, because they have seen in their parents' generation what the other option is
doesn't mean the education is great but the attitude is so different.
It's how principals become superintendent, and how superintendent become state commissioner.
Not great, Bob.