I was commissioned by Education Week to illustrate an opinion article about the growing trend of treating education like customer service, with teachers expected to prioritise parent and student satisfaction over genuine learning.
The author argues that doing so undermines teachers’ professionalism, encouraging grade inflation and pressurising teachers to placate rather than educate - harming both students and the integrity of the school system.
The article concludes with an interesting metaphor, encouraging the reader to think of education as a serving of vegetables. “You can steam them and cover them in cheese, but they’re still vegetables - and they must be eaten.”
At Ron Brown College Preparatory High School, students aren't kids or boys.
In the classrooms and cafeteria, they're kings.
That's just one of the many things that stand out in this new boys-only, public school in Washington, D.C. The school opened in August 2016 to a class of roughly 100 young men. All are freshmen. All are students of color. All are determined to change the narrative.
In Washington, and the rest of the country, that narrative says too many young black men are below-average readers. They're suspended from school at above-average rates and less likely to graduate than any other group.
Ron Brown College Prep is a radical effort to change that.
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After a wave of bills limiting class discussions on race and gender, an Education Week analysis shows the policies have slowed.
Is it the beginning of the end of “anti-critical race theory” legislation?
Starting in 2021, state lawmakers introduced a wave of such proposals, many modeled off a 2020 executive order signed by then-President Trump forbidding federal employees from receiving training on a number of “divisive concepts,” including the idea that any race was inherently superior to another, or that individuals should bear guilt for things that happened in the past. Some of these bills explicitly name-checked critical race theory—an academic framework for analyzing structural racism in law and policy.
Education Week recently updated its ongoing tracker of these laws, and concluded the pace of newly introduced legislation has slowed. The organization has counted just 10 bills that would affect K-12 education so far in 2024, of which two have passed.
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Some analysts see the slowdown on critical race theory legislation as a sign of fatigue with this element of the ongoing battle over who should shape curriculum.
“There’s only 50 states and only a subset that are sort of safe Republican ones where politicians can vote for these without worrying about being held politically accountable, so it can’t keep going forever,” noted Jeffrey Henig, a professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. “You can only signal-call so long, so it’s not that surprising that once people have done their pass and proven themselves to the true believers in their largely solid, gerrymandered, state-legislated districts, things would run out of steam in some way.”
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Attempts to undo the laws could come through the courts. Lawsuits from various combinations of parents, teachers, students, teachers’ unions, and civil rights organizations have been filed in at least six states—Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, and Tennessee. The lawsuits generally allege that the laws are impermissibly vague and violate students’ and teachers’ rights to free speech or due process.
The latest lawsuit, filed just this week by two students and their teacher in Little Rock, Ark., takes aim at that state’s executive order and legislation that forbid “teaching that would indoctrinate students with ideologies,” including critical race theory. State officials had cited those rules when determining that the newly developed AP African American Studies course would not count for credit.
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Two newer laws signed this year suggest that diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programs could be the latest target.
These anti-DEI laws gained traction after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last year that bans affirmative action in college admissions, and appear to be aimed mainly at higher education institutions. But several would also prohibit DEI efforts in K-12 schools and districts.
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Here, too, Henig sees the possibility of overreach.
“People’s attitudes about Harvard and Columbia and Penn as these elite, distanced institutions are different if it starts playing out at Michigan State and your local community college,” he said. “I think there’s some of that same friction when it comes closer to home.”
Education Week 2023 in Australia – How we can reduce wasted energy and keep the night dark.
Make a Bush Clock and learn how to use the stars to find South and to estimate the passage of time when out in the bush. Move outside to observe the night sky and count the stars in the Southern Cross – Crux and contribute valuable data to the Globe at Night Project.
Motivate to care about the environment and our place in it and how we can reduce wasted energy to keep the night dark.
These activities can be done with students from Years 4-6 or Secondary School Years 7 -8, in the school grounds or with parents at home to help with finding the Southern Cross and then counting the stars they can see according to their level of light pollution. Discussion in the class room can help to identify ways in which each student can help to reduce energy wasted and the level of light pollution and why we need to protect our night sky so that we can still see the stars and help to protect the environment for the health of ourselves and the wildlife.
A daytime online tutorial is offered which includes the Bush Clock, the Southern Cross is at its’ highest elevation in May and so it is a good time to look for it and the Southern Cross is also the constellation for the Globe at Night Activity during May and it can be booked for each individual school so that a Q&A is possible. Evening activities onsite at the Observatory will be available as well. These activities can be tailored for each school that would like to take up the offer.
أهمية الحفظ والاستذكار لدى كاتب المحتوى وفيمَ ستنفعه محفوظاته؟
أهمية الحفظ والاستذكار لدى كاتب المحتوى وفيمَ ستنفعه محفوظاته؟
مساء السعادة،
عساكم بخير وعافية ودوام الصحة والسرور يا ربّ.
اقترحت عليّ الأستاذة كنزة هذا الموضوع فشَكَر الله لها، كنزة مشتركة في رديف فماذا تنتظر؟ اشترك الآن في رديف.
مساء الأنوار 🌹هل من الضروري أن يحفظ الكاتب أبياتا شعرية؟ أو حتى قصائد؟— كنزة (@Kenza68180571) October 20, 2022
جدول المحتويات
جدول المحتوياتما هو الحفظ أو التذكر؟الفوائد العلمية للحفظ والاستذكارهل من الضروري يحفظ الكاتب أبياتا…
