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Showing posts with label educational philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label educational philosophy. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2014

Passover, Pedagogy, and Liberation

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Consider subscribing to Ann Arbor Schools Musings by Email! (I know! I put that at the top! Radical, right? Initially, it was an accident,...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

W.E.B Du Bois: Of The Color Line, the Class Line, and a Boyhood in Western Massachusetts

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Photo by Ruth Kraut, 2010 To close out Black History Month,* I thought I'd share some thoughts I had about a visit I made a few sum...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Education Achievement Authority Discussion Tuesday

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The  Ann Arbor Education Association  is sponsoring a forum on Governor Snyder's failed experiment - the Education Achievement Authority...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Of Water Street Seed Bombing, Ypsi MIddle School, & the State of Michigan's Education

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Mark Maynard has organized a "seed bombing" of the Water Street property in Ypsilanti. For tomorrow--May Day! May Day of course ...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

What Is, and What Is Happening With, the "Education Achievement Authority?"

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Kudos to Michigan Radio for some excellent work on education in Michigan in general, and an excellent series on the Education Achievement Au...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Finding a New Superintendent: A Four-Legged Stool

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If you want to know what other people think we should look for in a new Superintendent, take a look at these survey results . I agree with 8...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Teachers: Paragon or Pariah?

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Friday, I got an email from my sister at one in the afternoon. "Lynn's kids were at that school. They are safe." One of my ...
Monday, December 10, 2012

The Education Bills Are Still in Committee: Keep the Pressure On!

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Yes, there are the Right to Work protests tomorrow, Tuesday 12/11/12.  But meanwhile, from Steve Norton of Michigan Parents for Schools: ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Is It Time for AAPS to Raise Top Administrative Salaries?

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Tonight, the Ann Arbor school board is being asked to raise the salaries of three of the district's top administrators. The salaries t...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Time and Time Again

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Lately my son has been getting a lot of bar and bat mitzvah invitations. A bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah (bar mitzvah for a boy, bat mitzvah fo...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Gender Role Models in the Classroom (My Sister Writes...)

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My sister recently wrote this facebook message to her friends, and I'm reposting it with her permission, because it says so very much ab...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Satire!

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Commentary about teaching the top 10% the way some people recommend we teach the bottom 10% , from the Schools Matter blog . Satire. It puts...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Does 2+2=4? (This is not a math question)

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But Bogin added courses like antimanipulation, which was intended to give children tools to decipher commercial or political messages. He ...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

John Dewey: Great Philosopher. Great Teacher?

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If you spend any time at all in education school--which I did--you will surely end up reading something of John Dewey's. He was a great ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Good Teacher, Bad Teacher, Red Teacher, Blue Teacher

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I've become fascinated by the discussions around "bad teachers." Over and over, I read articles where teachers get their backs...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Great Stuff!

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Here are some things I heard about and liked over the past few weeks. You might like them too. Diane Ravitch was on Fresh Air with Terry G...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Progressive Education in the 1940s

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This is a really wonderful little clip about Progressive Education in the 1940s, and so many of the themes are still relevant today!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Open Classroom Conference This Weekend

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The conference starts Friday night, and goes all day Saturday. It's titled: Get Up, Stand Up; Democratic Education as a Right There...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Ask and Tell, Please

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I just noticed that tomorrow night, Thursday March 3d , there is a special forum Do Ask, Do Tell at the Neutral Zone, 310 E. Washington, A...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Betting (on the Superintendent Choice)

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My friend sent me an email, asking me to "handicap" the AAPS Superintendent interviews based only on their names and school distri...