Universal Improvement of Schools http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/forums/9 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:09 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/forums/9 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Book List for Teachers ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5256/t/Book-List-for-Teachers.html
Here are mine:

For discipline
Lost at School by Ross W Greene
Discipline Without Stress by Marvin Marshall

Teaching techniques:
The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller
Creating the Multiage Classroom by Sandra J. Stone

http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5256 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:20:07 GMT <![CDATA[ Humorous Takes on School ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5255/t/Humorous-Takes-on-School.html feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5255 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:24:44 GMT <![CDATA[ Book: Ackoff/Greenberg: Turning Learning Rightside Up ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5252/t/Book-Ackoff-Greenberg-Turning-Learning-Rightside-Up.html Turning Learning Rightside Up
Putting Education Back on Track
Ackoff & Greenberg

This topic discusses the ideas advanced this new book written by a system dynamics prof and by the innovator who started the Sudbury Valley School, discussed in feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5252 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:54:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Video: The Cartel, Corruption in NJ Public Schools ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5238/t/Video-The-Cartel-Corruption-in-NJ-Public-Schools.html Thought this might be of interest to some folks...it's about NJ but it could apply in most states.

THE CARTEL: New Documentary Exposes Mass Corruption in New Jersey's Public Schools

Article from Reason Magazine

Clips... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ann) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5238 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:22:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Why Higher Math for Many? ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5233/t/Why-Higher-Math-for-Many-.html This topic discusses why should most children learn math beyond arithmatic.

This is similar to the discussion of Why should all children learn foreign language? Why should all children learn history? etc. and is closely associated with How do we decide what is taught? and What does "educated" mean to you?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5233 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:46:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Video: How Schools Stifle Creativity ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5228/t/Video-How-Schools-Stifle-Creativity.html How Schools Stifle Creativity ]]> feeds@yuku.com (captuhura) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5228 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:15:09 GMT <![CDATA[ Article: Value-added Teacher Evalulations ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5219/t/Article-Value-added-Teacher-Evalulations.html Value-added Teacher Evaluations ]]> feeds@yuku.com (captuhura) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5219 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:42:10 GMT <![CDATA[ Why Constructivist Teaching Does Not Work ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5218/t/Why-Constructivist-Teaching-Does-Not-Work.html http://d-edreckoning.blogspot.com/2006/10/this-is-your-brain.html

I thought this interesting. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (SgtAmi) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5218 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:19:46 GMT <![CDATA[ Alternative: Boston Area Independent Secondary Schools ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5214/t/Alternative-Boston-Area-Independent-Secondary-Schools.html (* Vivian and I are visiting all the atheistic independent middle schools we can find to get a sense of what is out there. I will write up notes and perceptions, all colored by my biases, of these schools. *)


We visited Beaver Country Day last week. Beaver Country Day strives to be a "progressive education" philosophy school. (See our topic on alternative education... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5214 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:12:24 GMT <![CDATA[ How much is technology a good reform idea? ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5208/t/How-much-is-technology-a-good-reform-idea-.html feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5208 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:21:25 GMT <![CDATA[ Video: Two Million Minutes (2MM) ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5206/t/Video-Two-Million-Minutes-2MM-.html - US
- centralized government control of education
- believing our schools are "just fine"
- believing we can help our children by just fitting into the current system
- challenging our best and brightest
- using education as a political battlefield for alternative cultural indoctrination
- using education as a "good jobs" program for political operatives
- ignoring the best and brightest... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5206 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:22:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Movement: Exodus Mandate ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5199/t/Movement-Exodus-Mandate.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGZLSVph3A
http://www.exodusmandate.org/

While their primary concern is that government schools actively undermine their faith and their values, inserting a belief in government in its place, they also argue that government schools... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5199 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:57:01 GMT <![CDATA[ Alernative: Quest To Learn ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5196/t/Alernative-Quest-To-Learn.html http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?STORY_ID=14350149

SINCE the beginning of mass education, schools have relied on what is known in educational circles as "chalk and talk"...the idea of a pedagogue leading his pupils...has rarely been... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5196 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:50:40 GMT <![CDATA[ Video: The 4th Purpose ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5179/t/Video-The-4th-Purpose.html this documentary gets finished. (Scroll down to see the promotional reel.) ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5179 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:45:19 GMT <![CDATA[ HR 3221: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5178/t/HR-3221-Student-Aid-and-Fiscal-Responsibility-Act.html
Like so many bills, it sounds good ("We're from the government and we're here to help"), but the bill would further erode parental responsibility and control of their own children, expand government bureaucratic control of children, and suck out even more money from parents and private companies to feed the ever... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5178 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:22:21 GMT <![CDATA[ Article: US Schools Fail to Serve best, Brightest students ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5172/t/Article-US-Schools-Fail-to-Serve-best-Brightest-students.html Can US Education Compete Internationally?
PBS Special - Where We Stand -- US Schools in 21st Century
Article: US Schools Failing to Serve Best and Brightest
Video: 2 Million... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (captuhura) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5172 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:27:12 GMT <![CDATA[ Great Overview of the problems with government control education ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5159/t/Great-Overview---problems--government-control-education.html
]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5159 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:15:31 GMT <![CDATA[ Book: Walberg: School Choice - The Findings ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5146/t/Book-Walberg-School-Choice-The-Findings.html School Choice - The Findings, has been sitting on my shelf for a while. It should not have. It is a cogent, well-researched, sound-design, well-written book. I read with a yellow highlighter. The book is largely highlighted, which argues the highlighter was already used by Walberg to take out the fluff.

I greatly look forward to an update from... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5146 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:41:07 GMT <![CDATA[ Book: Marzano: What Works in Schools ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5144/t/Book-Marzano-What-Works-in-Schools.html feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5144 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:30:16 GMT <![CDATA[ Teacher Training for High School ]]> http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5139/t/Teacher-Training-for-High-School.html Teacher Training

Interesting! What is part of teacher training for high school science? I would think you need a science degree to teach physics, chemistry, biology at the high school level.
]]> feeds@yuku.com (captuhura) http://afterschoolers.yuku.com/topic/5139 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:57:45 GMT