Wednesday, August 18, 2010

linda darling-hammond

teaching not really being a profession
1) teachers don't get access to the knowledge that exists that they need
2) teachers are so politically managed. teachers can be asked to do things that are actually mal practice
3) get very little opportunity to take control

change in business in 1980s - to problem solving teams 

if government was running businesses like they are running schools - they would be in the same boat.

Radney: I don't think we really address the problems in education by pointing out shortcomings of teachers and teacher training. I think that is the wrong focus.
Jefferson county in kentucky

Terry Smith: Seymour Papert put it this way - whatever good ideas come into a public school system are quickly deformed into what the school wants. Good ideas and good training dies when it walks into the public schoolhouse door.

check out zhoa's book - a lot of people are referencing it