Posts belonging to Category Education Reform
Posted by Chip on March 4, 2010
National “Common Core,” grade by grade, K–12 educational standards are being rapidly finalized across the political landscape as they pass through the doors of governor’s offices and state houses even before the miniscule window of opportunity for public comment closes. Kentucky has already become the first state to endorse such standards publicly in a special [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, Common Core standards, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, early childhood education, Education Reform, kindergarten, social-emotional development, U.S. education policy | 
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Posted by Chip on January 8, 2010
If you work in the field of education, you may share the same troubling mental image I have as we enter the new decade and ponder the future of our children.
I see the beginning of a national marathon with teachers, administrators and state education officials all crowded at the starting line. There’s a giant banner [...]
Categories: Education Reform |
Tags: achievement gap, Arne Duncan, Great Society, improving education, Race to the Top, U.S. education policy, Whitney Young, Yong Zhao | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on January 24, 2008
If you’re looking for a riveting book about education that reads like a novel and speaks with fire in the belly about the gross injustice in our education system for children disenfranchised by poverty and/or race, I highly recommend the 354 page-turner by Susan Eaton, The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial.
This extraordinarily [...]
Categories: Books, Education Reform |
Tags: Education Reform, Susan Eaton, The Children in Room E4 | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on January 15, 2008
William Crain, professor of psychology at the City College of New York, graciously contributed the foreword to the 3rd edition of my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14 (NEFC, 2007).
I have long been an admirer of Dr. Crain’s major textbook in child development, Theories of Development which I certainly recommend.
Here I’d like to [...]
Categories: Books, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform, Importance of Play |
Tags: Developmental Education, developmental teaching, Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society., Theories of Development, William Crain, Yardsticks | Post a Comment »
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