tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746901658370301167.post1411502874439417650..comments2024-03-28T00:46:56.994-07:00Comments on When 140 Characters Isn't Enough: Whatever it takes?Sam Freedman (@samfr)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07413287655324567750noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746901658370301167.post-5611842351134174592021-02-02T01:33:55.176-08:002021-02-02T01:33:55.176-08:00Writing a book or article review is interesting bu...Writing a book or article review is interesting but not easy, that's why you need <a href="https://247writingservices.com/book-review-homework-writing-help/" rel="nofollow"> Book Review Homework Writing Services</a> as well as <a href="https://247writingservices.com/article-review-assignment-help/" rel="nofollow"> Article Review Assignment Help</a> to complete your review. 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If this is improvement in behaviour then clearly more discipline would help in any environment. If it is an increased love of and returns from learning then as you say it depends on a teacher who is given the freedom to express him/herself in the right environment. The latest accountability dashboard from FTT is a good insight into a range of possible measures. Who decides which is more important?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746901658370301167.post-79114943238904612102013-05-12T04:12:38.358-07:002013-05-12T04:12:38.358-07:00A good illustration of why education based on orga...A good illustration of why education based on organisational conformity has severe limitations. It's easy to see how focus on a particular objective eg Jumping 2m, running a 4 minute 1500m or getting an A* in maths is more likely to be realised if all distractions are removed. The question is what is lost as a result? Is jumping 1.5m or a 5 minute 1500m or a C in maths good enough for most people? It doesn't follow that for any individual they will me happier or more successful in life because they perform academically beyond a certain threshold. If it was the case university professors would be the highest paid people.42https://www.blogger.com/profile/13286204502527676937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746901658370301167.post-18055171455257517952013-05-12T03:53:11.663-07:002013-05-12T03:53:11.663-07:00Really interesting post Sam - thanks. Your last tw...Really interesting post Sam - thanks. Your last two paragraphs are an essential reflection on the Charter movement - and its attendant strengths and weaknesses. It raises real questions about the problems with lasting social mobility.<br /><br />I think the highly rigid approach, with long days and 'no excuses' approaches to discipline and attendance etc. are built to serve communities that typically have very little parental engagement and with little structure to support schooling. It is obvious why a long school day and other such organisational principles flourish and are required in this context. I worry about the policy tourism that transplants such models whole-scale elsewhere, but divorced from the very specific contexts wherein they flourish. <br /><br />The necessary rigidity of the typical Charter structure is too far removed from the flexible and independent demands of college (not to mention the 'real life' skills of moving away from your local community that is too often alien to these students with no familial background of College) and drop out rates threaten to undermine the 'success' of the movement. Educating families about Higher Ed access is just as significant as priming the students for SAT success - a message we must learn in the UK. At least they have a scholarship programme (unlike our system - a huge future issue considering the recent escalation of fee costs in the UK) to help the transition, whereas we have moved to their Higher Ed model without the embedded support systems for a real breadth of access.<br /><br />The 'failures' of the Charter system and student College retention rates is an important lesson for our Higher Ed access ideals more generally. In my family there was no history of Higher Ed, but my two siblings and I all went to local universities (one way of lessening the 'culture shock'). I think we need to strengthen local links between schools and higher education still further, as well as systematising a scholarship programme. My fear is there is no money or political urge to make this happen.AlexQuigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827121785326009387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746901658370301167.post-17881293657159649192013-05-12T03:11:04.127-07:002013-05-12T03:11:04.127-07:00Presumably these schools have Thomas Gradgrind as ...Presumably these schools have Thomas Gradgrind as their inspiration?Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647405720597546140noreply@blogger.com