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by Rosanna Pittella, The One Voice Institte of Elemental Ethics and Education
Sep 1, 2008
Hello everyone - For those among us who are tired of talking about change and wish to take action - here are 5 reasons why educators who wish to facilitate change in education are meeting in NY in November - Read all about it at [link removed]
1) You are aware and concerned about issues in education and you want to DO SOMETHING significant...See MoreHello everyone - For those among us who are tired of talking about change and wish to take action - here are 5 reasons why educators who wish to facilitate change in education are meeting in NY in November - Read all about it at [link removed]
1) You are aware and concerned about issues in education and you want to DO SOMETHING significant and satisfying to make a difference! You want to be part of this happening like no other! Interactivity in all sessions, practical plans for bringing about needed change, live theatre and music, and unusual networking and bonding are hallmarks of this unique event, and you want to be part of it!
2) You have something to say! Your skills and experience equip you to make recommendations and suggestions that, if implemented, could really turn around one or many aspects of academic life! You have just always needed a megaphone, and this conference will provide that!
3) You may or may not attend conferences and present to educational conference regularly, but either way, when you do – you want to make the most of your time, and your investment of energy and dollars. If you go to a conference, you want to come away with something memorable and excellent value for your conference dollars. This conference is designed to be that conference for you! Why are One Voice Conferences so unique?
4) You realize there is only one way that the issues in education will ever be resolved. That is, if people like you together with your peers, raise your voices, provide the answers to the important questions, and demand that they be implemented for the greater good of students, educators, parents and society at large.
5) You are ready to make connections with educators from all over the world, share your experience, opinions, ideas, and the issues you identify as most significant in your view and you are interested in hearing the same from your global peers.
Hope to see you there...Rosanna
What are each of the candidates stances on NCLB? or are they both going to let it continue?
I'm hearing conflicting reports. Some say CA or individual district maybe, are putting off purchasing new reading adoption by 1 year. Others say no, that adoptions selection begin this school year with the use of the new adoption starting next school year. Has anyone heard?
Terri F. 1st grade CA
Our entire district is expected to fall into PI next year. Many of us are trying to figure out exactly what that means for us. We are in California. Does anyone know where we could learn more about what might be coming?
by Flintstones
Sep 28, 2008
My school hasn't made ayp in 2 years. If we don't make it this year what happens?
by The children don't vote or invest. They're just foodstuff!
Oct 5, 2008
Follow the money. Unscrupulous publishers and assorted "educational reform" parasites are cleaning up bigtime, and they don't care a rat's ass about our nation's children. In fact, the more stupid our citizens are, the easier life is for thieves.
I see a lot of negatives about NCLB on this chatboard. Recognizing that there is both good and bad to this law, I'd like to focus on the positive in this thread. How has NCLB had a positive impact on your school, your district, or your state?
by ANGRY Father
Nov 11, 2008
CLB is a lie, a Bush Family SCAM, a useless and incoherent pile of dunk! And it is in fact leaving ALL our kids behind. The argument of "civil Rights" is an abuse to dumb down our Children even more as it victimize not only Teachers but the Students that are simply made to pass grads, undeserved. The assumption is that there is a direct cause and e...See MoreCLB is a lie, a Bush Family SCAM, a useless and incoherent pile of dunk! And it is in fact leaving ALL our kids behind. The argument of "civil Rights" is an abuse to dumb down our Children even more as it victimize not only Teachers but the Students that are simply made to pass grads, undeserved. The assumption is that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between a teacher's ability to teach and a student's learning. Students and their actions apparently plays only subordinate or inconsequential roles in their learning, only the actions of the all-powerful, but made totally powerless by NCLB, teacher matter. "Better teachers (Where should those geniuses of teachers come from? From China? Since teachers receive NO education which allows them to be able to do their Job successfully and efficiently. ) Thus the teacher is always at fault. What in fact is very far from reality of education in the U.S. The driving force behind learning is not the teacher but the individual student, and the will to learn. the system of education itself is gravely at fault here as well. What alone allows every attempt to individualize lessons to fail, because a teacher simple has no time or resources to make separate lessons for each student (what alone is INSANE to expect from any teacher!) Our DUMBING DOWN pathetic Education system and our society is made to believe that it is the teacher responsibility to "archive" excellence" for the students, while the students enjoy the right of a carefree, stress-free youth. Our debilitating and destructive thinking about education does not compel students to strive so that they may discover the full range of their abilities so they become literary intellectual impotence. Not only do most students in our school system fail to learn academics in any "depth", they also learn that someone else is responsible for their success or failures in life. There should be no question that this does not reflect the reality of their adult life later in any way. NCLB and all the nonsensical theocratic motivated dumbing down of our Children has to go, for our Children to be able to compete in the Future and for our nation to even have a Future in comparison to the rest of the World. I am seeking more informed parents and teachers willing to speak out very loud against this obviously intentional and perpetuated dumbing down of our Children. Even up to joint law suits against the School System, if this is what needed to be done!
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