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Re: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic. The Challenge of Motivation.

jasonflom — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:09:11 -0000

Ha ha. Whoops. Missed that edit. Thanks for pointing it out. I think you are right that Marina meant astronomy. Cheers.

Re: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic. The Challenge of Motivation.

Satyapande — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:15:45 -0000

For example, a student who wants to be an astronaut when they grow up
will exert extra effort into their astrology class just because they’re
interested in the topic.Astrology ??? why should a student who is interested in becoming an astronaut be even considering reading horoscopes... May be the author possibly means astronomy....

Re: 10 Principles for the Future of Learning

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Re: Intrinsic Motivation and Autonomy

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Re: A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents

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Right on. I landed here because I'm having trouble communicating with my child's teacher. I think Jason was trying to be funny but I felt insulted. I prefer April's list.

Re: Emerging Trend: Collaborative Curve

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Collaboration methods, for example, are the use of formal and non-formal sharing tools whether online or in-person but predominantly online.

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Re: Repurposed Military Technology Solves Education Problems!

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Love it - very entertaining! I often review the North Carolina Surplus website to see if there are things we could utilize instead of buying new.

Re: Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon

Micah Sewell — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:15:17 -0000

Thanks for this Joe. I think it's important to note that, while Norway may not have the focus on education that neighboring Finland does, they are doing a lot of things right with their resource boom. Quality of life there is incredibly high, the oil company is state-owned, and much of the revenue from oil is diverted into the Government Pension Fund, held in trust for all Norwegians. It was valued at $513 billion last year; for a country with 4 million citizens, that is pretty impressive (more than $100K per citizen). Hopefully this forethought will begin to carry over into the realm of education.

Re: Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon

Alex James — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:56:15 -0000

“Imagination is more important than
knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while
imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and
understand.”
Our friend, Albert Einstein summed it up another way!

Re: A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents

Janet | expateducator.com — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:17:27 -0000

This is very timely. Not only did I need to laugh, I should keep these in mind as I work through a particularly tricky parent/teacher conference this next week - I'm not terribly sure how this parent will react to not-so-good news.

What I know for sure...I began treating parent/teacher conferences very differently after attending the first one as a step-parent.

Janet | expateducator.com

Re: An Open Letter to NBC News and Brian Williams

Gewalters10 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:53:47 -0000

Subject: School solutions/education made fair and simple
I saw Bennet on tv discussing Duncan's proposals. I have always believe from my own experience 55-60 years ago that it all about the halves and halve not. will explain below. I also believe that vouchers are the wrong approach because they average around 5,000 dollars per year and about the cheapest private(Catholic) school is around 8,500 dollars. A good private school average is more like 15,000 thousand dollars. So how does the low income-low medium income parent get the difference. The only people that vouchers will help are the upper middle class who already have their child in a private school and vouchers will help them with part of their tuition.                                                                                               Subject:SCHOOL UNIFORMS FROM K TO 12 WILL SOLVE MANY IF NOT MOST OF TODAY'S SCHOOL PROBLEMS[SELF ESTEEM,GANG COLORS PROBLEMS,PARENTS POCKET BOOK, MORE SCHOOL PRIDE, CONCENTRATION ON LEARNING NOT FASHION AND PEER PRESSURE. TREAT ALL SCHOOL LIKE THEY WERE A CHARTER SCHOOL OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL[REF; DRESS AND DISCIPLINE]Subject: SCHOOL UNIFORMS FROM K TO 12 WILL SOLVE MANY IF NOT MOST OF TODAY'S PROBLEMS. THE ONE THING SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS HAVE IN COMMON, OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL AS CHARTER SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE SCHOOL UNIFORMS.

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS MISSING THE POINT ON EDUCATION. MOST WARS ARE ABOUT THE HALVES AND HAVE NOTS. EDUCATION IS MUCH THE SAME. POOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS DO WORSE THAN MORE AFFLUENT DISTRICTS. THEY ATTRACT THE BEST TEACHERS, HAVE THE BEST SURROUNDINGS ETC, I AM 73 YEARS OLD AND GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL IN 1955. MY FAMILY WAS VERY POOR AND THERE WEREN'T ANY TITLE MONEY FLOATING AROUND. HAVING TO PUT FRESH CARDBOARD IN MY SHOES EVERY MORE TO COVER THE HOLES IN MY SHOES WAS THE NORM. CLOTHS WERE USED SOMETIME WELL USED. I WORKED IN THE CAFETERIA THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL FOR MY LUNCH. YOU CAN HIDE HUNGER, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE YOUR APPEARANCE WHICH IS MUCH MORE COMPETITIVE TODAY THAN 50+ YEARS AGO. MANY FAMILIES DO WITHOUT SO THEIR CHILD CAN HAVE EXPENSIVE TENNIS SHOES OR AN EXPENSIVE PURSE OR DESIGNER JEANS ETC. MANY MAKE DO WITH WHAT EVER THEY HAVE. I CAN'T REMEMBER A DAY IN WHICH I WASN'T EMBARRASSED WITH MY CLOTHS. NEVER HAD BREAKFAST AND WASN'T MUCH AFTER I GOT HOME. WORKING FOR MY LUNCH WAS A GOD SEND. ALL THE TITLE MONIES AVAILABLE HAS HELPED THE LOW INCOME FAMILIES CHILDREN FAKE IT PRETTY WELL AT SCHOOL BUT THERE STILL IS THE CLOTHING ISSUE. SOME SCHOOLS YOU CAN'T WEAR CERTAIN COLORS BECAUSE OF GANGS CLAIM A CERTAIN COLOR. KIDS CLOTHS ARE STOLEN AS WELL AS SHOES.     AROUND THE WORLD AND IN MANY PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE U.S., KIDS WEAR UNIFORMS AND SEEM TO DO MUCH BETTER IN SCHOOL, BETTER DISCIPLINED KIDS IN THE CLASS ROOM ETC. THEY CAN BETTER CONCENTRATE ON LEARNING BECAUSE THEY HAVE BETTER ESTEEM ABOUT THEMSELVES AND NOT HAVING TO COMPLETE. I REMEMBER OVERHEARING A KID TEASING ANOTHER THAT HE HAD LAST YEARS SHIRT ON. UNIFORMS WOULD TAKE THE BURDEN OFF THE PARENTS FROM HAVING TO BUY DESIGNER CLOTHS ETC. SO THEIR CHILD MIGHT ESCAPE SOME TYPE OF EMBARRASSMENT. FROM THE WAY THEY DRESS. SELF ESTEEM IS EVERYTHING AT THE SCHOOL AGE. MANDATORY SCHOOL UNIFORMS FOR ALL STUDENTS K-12 WOULD SOLVE 75% OF THE
LEARNING AND DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS IN THE U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND IT WOULD BE SO EASY TO IMPLEMENT. I KNOW ITS BEEN TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS BUT NOTHING IS EVER DONE. THE GOVERNMENT COULD SUBSIDIZE SOME LOW INCOME PARENTS IF THAT IS A PROBLEM, BUT I WOULD THINK IT WOULD SAVE ALL PARENTS MONEY IN THE LONG RUN ESPECIALLY LOW INCOME PARENTS. I WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SUGGESTION. I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE THAT UNIFORMS ARE THE ANSWER TO MUCH OF THE SCHOOLS PROBLEMS. IT DON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IF YOU ARE IN THE MOST MODERN CLASS ROOM IN THE WORLD OR IN ONE WHERE THE PAINT IS FALLING OF THE CEILINGS. IF YOU ARE SITTING THERE THINKING ABOUT YOUR APPEARANCE AND NOT THE TEACHER AND THE LESSONS, THE DECO RE DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. HOPE YOU WILL GIVE THIS LETTER A LOT OF THOUGHT.                                 GLEN WALTERS

Subject: Response from U.S. Department of Education
Mr. Glen WaltersVia email: gewalters10@yahoo.com
Dear Mr. Walters:

Thank you for your letter to Secretary Arne Duncan sharing your thoughts on school uniforms in schools. Your letter was referred to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for review and I am pleased to respond.

As you may know, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) does not have the authority to determine state or local education policies or practices, unless these matters are specifically required in federal education statutes. Indeed, because education is primarily the responsibility of the State and local governments, the Department is specifically prohibited by law from exercising any direction, supervision, or control over such matters as curriculum, the teaching of particular subjects, and graduation requirements, local administration and personnel issues, and allocation of State or local resources. If you have not done so already, you may wish to share your thoughts with your State Department of Education.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. I am sorry we cannot be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Hope Huynh
Education Program Specialist
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
U.S. Department of

Re: A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents

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Re: Evaluating Teachers with VAM: Variable Ambiguous Mistake

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Re: Science Goals for Students

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Re: Unanswered Questions About Standardized Testing

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