Sunday, March 05, 2006
More Blogging About Rural Education and Small Schools
Here are some more blog entries about rural education and small schools from the past week or two.
From Mr. Rural ED:
The 65% Solution
The Denver Post has done a great public service by educating the public about a proposed ballot measure that would require Colorado's pubic school to allocated at least 65% of their current operating expenditures to classroom instructional activities.
Thousands of well-intentioned Coloradoans have signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot. Governor Bill Owens became the 100,000 signers. I was asked to sign the petition at my local grocery store. The person collecting signatures wasn't too happy about the questions I asked...
From NPR Topics: Education:
'Old Hawaiian' Life Fading with Loss of Maui School
The last one-room school in the state of Hawaii closed in 2005, just a few weeks before the school year began. There had been a school in the village of Ke'anae, on the north coast of Maui, for 96 years...
Two from Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Edu_RSS Most Recent - RSS old:
Tipping Points for Small Schools Movement?
Been aware of the dialogue growing out of the upcoming closure of the 3 small learning academies at Denver's Manual High School? If you're sitting on either side of the small schools movement debate, or just a curious bystander, then this 'local' event is certainly one that needs to be looked as a bellweather 'canary in a coalmine' tipping point (any more language play on your mind?). Even better, go to the Small Schools Listserve to learn more and toss your 2-cents in the ring. Maybe we'll all learn something in the process, rather than tossing the baby out with the bathwater or investing in just another 'new math' curriculum. An excerpt (from one of the many, many voices already jumping into the talking points pool):I would strongly support a forum to discussed what happened, and what didn't, at the Manual Complex. I was Director of Research & Evaluation at the Colorado Children's Campaign (the lead intermediary) from 2002-2004, the last two years of init think:lab, February 27, 2006.
Rutgers Offers Small School Training
"One lesson we have learned for certain in school- conversion work is that, if we don't win the hearts and minds of the people involved, things will stay the way they are." - Larry Myatt, Education Week ***** Interesting question for you: "Small Schools: What's the Big Idea [about creating and sustaining small schools]?" Want to dig in and find out a bit more? Then consider the following opportunity:THE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE SCHOOL PRACTICES at RUTGERS presents:SMALL SCHOOLS INSTITUTEAPRIL 5 and 6 (Either date or both), 2006Rutgers University - Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, New Jersey Join the growing network of small schools: Research indicates that small schools can be far more effective than larger ones. However, as Michelle Fine has recently noted, small schools can also become just "big schools in drag." This Institute will give you valuable tools and strategies to make your smaller school more effectiv think:lab, March 2, 2006.
Tags: AERA, small schools, rural, education, blog, blogging, blogs
From Mr. Rural ED:
The 65% Solution
The Denver Post has done a great public service by educating the public about a proposed ballot measure that would require Colorado's pubic school to allocated at least 65% of their current operating expenditures to classroom instructional activities.
Thousands of well-intentioned Coloradoans have signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot. Governor Bill Owens became the 100,000 signers. I was asked to sign the petition at my local grocery store. The person collecting signatures wasn't too happy about the questions I asked...
From NPR Topics: Education:
'Old Hawaiian' Life Fading with Loss of Maui School
The last one-room school in the state of Hawaii closed in 2005, just a few weeks before the school year began. There had been a school in the village of Ke'anae, on the north coast of Maui, for 96 years...
Two from Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Edu_RSS Most Recent - RSS old:
Tipping Points for Small Schools Movement?
Been aware of the dialogue growing out of the upcoming closure of the 3 small learning academies at Denver's Manual High School? If you're sitting on either side of the small schools movement debate, or just a curious bystander, then this 'local' event is certainly one that needs to be looked as a bellweather 'canary in a coalmine' tipping point (any more language play on your mind?). Even better, go to the Small Schools Listserve to learn more and toss your 2-cents in the ring. Maybe we'll all learn something in the process, rather than tossing the baby out with the bathwater or investing in just another 'new math' curriculum. An excerpt (from one of the many, many voices already jumping into the talking points pool):I would strongly support a forum to discussed what happened, and what didn't, at the Manual Complex. I was Director of Research & Evaluation at the Colorado Children's Campaign (the lead intermediary) from 2002-2004, the last two years of init think:lab, February 27, 2006.
Rutgers Offers Small School Training
"One lesson we have learned for certain in school- conversion work is that, if we don't win the hearts and minds of the people involved, things will stay the way they are." - Larry Myatt, Education Week ***** Interesting question for you: "Small Schools: What's the Big Idea [about creating and sustaining small schools]?" Want to dig in and find out a bit more? Then consider the following opportunity:THE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE SCHOOL PRACTICES at RUTGERS presents:SMALL SCHOOLS INSTITUTEAPRIL 5 and 6 (Either date or both), 2006Rutgers University - Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, New Jersey Join the growing network of small schools: Research indicates that small schools can be far more effective than larger ones. However, as Michelle Fine has recently noted, small schools can also become just "big schools in drag." This Institute will give you valuable tools and strategies to make your smaller school more effectiv think:lab, March 2, 2006.
Tags: AERA, small schools, rural, education, blog, blogging, blogs
