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Public ED Dread: You Decide; You Have Options

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You Decide; You Have Options. Parents, it is up to you to decide what you want for your children's future. And, luckily, you have many options based on what describes you better:. Some people do not care, and that is okay. Just don't ever vote to spend more money on something you don't care about. Don't vote down school choice, vouchers, or tax credits. Don't go complain to the school about your son's teacher either. It hurts my head thinking about this. A religious education is most important. If you wa...

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Public ED Dread: Public Ed Dread is Homeschooling!

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July 4, 2014. Public Ed Dread is Homeschooling! Our first year of homeschooling went surprisingly well. It turns out he isn’t the Montessori type at all (he got such a wonderful foundation at the classical Montessori school he was at). He loves quiet, few distractions, and workbooks! No What is learned from colleges is what the colleges want you to know. Often, what is learned in those places is the wrong thing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Search Public Ed Dread. Public Ed Primer - Start Here.

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Public ED Dread: Rehashing the Math Wars in an Understandable Way, Again

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August 7, 2014. Rehashing the Math Wars in an Understandable Way, Again. The Math Wars never seem to go away. Those who created the idea that children learn better by not being taught recycle and repackage it, year after year. Read this article by Elizabeth Green. That started the latest dust-up. In a nutshell, she asserts what fuzzy math supporters have always asserted: fuzzy math is good and will raise our test scores if only. Then read the Tom Loveless. Lastly, read this article by Barry Garelick.

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Public ED Dread: Parents as School Consumers

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December 3, 2014. Parents as School Consumers. Look into Rick Hess' review of new book exploring the consumerism of the parents of DC's Opportunity Scholarship program in Edweek. There is very little research being done into what parents care about when they do have educational options for their children since choices are so hard to come by within public education. Here's a bit from the article:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Search Public Ed Dread. Public Ed Primer - Start Here. Race to the Top.

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Public ED Dread: The origins of whole language, see-and-say, look-say, whole word movement in public education

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January 16, 2010. The origins of whole language, see-and-say, look-say, whole word movement in public education. There has been much talk of the recent reading wars of the 1980s and 1990s. The wars were started over the whole language approach vs. the phonics approach. The list of contributors included nearly all the movers and shakers of educational pedagogy during that time period. Reading the Cyclopedia of Education provides the frame from which most of what our education system is based on today.

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Public ED Dread: Whole language remnant – sight words

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January 6, 2010. Whole language remnant – sight words. The verdict is in on whole language, as an approach to teach reading, it fails on many levels. Whole language has been found to be detrimental to students most in need of explicit instruction: at-risk, special education, low-income students. However, if we look back, we can see that at least one element of whole language, an important element, has remained constant in our public schools - sight words. Current research suggests that systematic and exp...

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Public ED Dread: Why the Dread?

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Dreadsuch a word. However bold the word seems, it does convey the feeling one gets when approaching the pile of assumptions, aspirations, and contradictions that is the American public education system. There are many things wrong with public education like low test scores, too rigid of a focus on assessments, too much homework, not enough individualization, achievement gaps, powerful influences, money issues, and too many cooks. The Premise of Public Education. How Things are Taught. Free meals in school.

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Public ED Dread: 06/2014 - 07/2014

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June 15, 2014. How would America look without public schools? Some find it unimaginable to think of life without public schools. What would we do? How would people learn? Would America still be civilized? Are we civilized now? Does it even matter? Someone from Mises.org ,. Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., thought enough about it to give us a starting point. In the article here. The roadblocks and the hypothetical public school-free future was briefly outlined:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Public ED Dread: 01/2015 - 02/2015

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January 6, 2015. Common Core is just another public ed money machine. A recent article highlighted how many people are making money off of the Common Core reforms. In a free market, they would. But we all have to buy Common Core, whether we like it or not, and we have no ability to demand proof that it works before the sale. These sweetheart deals are only going one way, and it’s not ours. Untold sums of money have been made through the development, sale, training, manipulatives, and remediation (don't f...

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Public ED Dread: The failings of AP

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September 24, 2014. The failings of AP. The controversy over the new AP American-history framework has been hard to cut through. Who do you believe, how much is hype, and how much is real bias that we need to expose? Finally, we've got two good sources: Rich Hess and Chester Finn in Getting Our History Right. Out at National Review. Here's a brief paragraph as to why AP the framework will always be a powder keg:. This little part explains a lot more:. Previous instruction in the subject. In other wor...