[An original contribution to Hacking the Academy.]
The academy should hack itself to transform public education. Here’s how:
1. Stop complaining about public education.
Since Sputnik, American schools have been anxiety-driven to produce “college-ready” students. Standardized testing, A Nation at Risk, the No Child Left Behind act, the Race to the Top Initiative, and the upcoming Elementary [...]
Deven Black, who blogs at Education on the Plate and tweets as @spedteacher, very kindly mentioned me in a post on “10 + 1 [blogs] Not To Miss.” Deven noted that while we often disagree (perhaps especially on charters, with which we’ve had vastly different experiences), we share common beliefs about the need to see [...]
I have been thinking a lot about democratic education since starting work on the collaborative blog CoöpCatalyst. If you haven’t yet considered blogging or blogging with an audience of peers dedicated to improving teaching and learning for kids, I urge you to start.
The following represents my best thinking so far about growing democratic education within [...]
So, we’re about to hit our testing window. I don’t have a lot of innovative testing ideas to share, though our school is doing some awesome work to make students feel comfortable and cared for during their three-week ordeal. We’re also going to reinvent our daily schedule after the tests to delve school-wide into what [...]
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Posted 10 May 2010
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Tagged: Amy Silver, Democratic education, Grace Llewellyn, Guerilla Learning, Homeschooling, SOL, Standardized tests, Student edits, Teenage Liberation Handbook, Web 2.0, Wikipedia
