#joel klein

[ascolta-la-voce-del-silenzio]

"I colori sono i veri abitanti dello spazio. La linea non fa che viaggiarvi attraverso e percorrerlo; essa passa soltanto."

- Joel I. Klein

[seanshannon]

When I was having difficulty remembering to pass around sign-in sheets for each of my classes in my early years of teaching, I created my own set of sign-in sheets with one of my favourite quotes on each of them. Even though I knew that the quotes would make my students realize that I’m even more of a dork than I appear at first blush, the ability to share those quotes with my students still did its trick in getting me to take attendance more often. Most of the quotes have something to do with education and/or personal growth, and not being able to use those sheets after we transitioned to online learning partway through last semester was a downer. At least now I’ve got time to prepare an alternate way of getting those quotes to my students in my online classes this coming semester ...

[hbnbm]

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch tries on Oculus Rift

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch tries on Oculus Rift

Rupert Murdoch, founder of the world’s second-largest media company, News Corp, took the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for a spin this week.

Murdoch, News Corp’s Chief Technology Officer Paul Cheesbrough, and Chief Executive Officer Joel Klein saw the Oculus Rift during an “amazing ‘field trip’” to Framestore’s offices in New York, according to Murdoch’s Tumblr.

Framestore offers…

View On WordPress

[murdochhere-blog]

Amazing "field trip" today for Rupert, Paul Cheesbrough, Joel Klein and me to Framestore in Soho, where the team was kind enough to explain their business and let us demo some of their virtual reality experiences, such as the Game of Thrones "Ascend the Wall" experience.  

New York City

April 16, 2014

[gothamschools-blog]

Joel Klein’s contention that those who oppose the co-location of charter schools in district schools "lack … courage" and "ignore" charter school families is disingenuous in the extreme. We oppose co-location because it disrupts school communities and makes district-school students feel like second-class citizens when they see in the charter school new equipment and technology that their own classrooms lack. No New York City child should be disrespected in this manner, and shame on Mr. Klein for establishing the policy that made it so.

— Comptroller John Liu, a mayoral candidate, responding to former Chancellor Joel Klein's criticism of candidates' positions on co-location, the space-sharing arrangement that allowed charter schools to flourish in New York City. Klein issued the criticism, his first comments on the race to replace his former boss, in a speech to charter school backers today.

[movingrememberthese]

Joel Klein on what will happen to schools in the next 5 years

...we'll move from the classroom as the locus of the learning experience to the individual child as the focus of the learning experience.

[ctforum]

"Our Great Education Challenge" in 2010 was an exciting, entertaining, and controversial conversation (it even came with protesters!). Get caught up with one of today's most pressing and contentious debates - that of our national education policy. 

Featuring Davis Guggenheim, the director of the film "Waiting for Superman," Deborah Gist, two-time teacher of the year and Rhode Island Commissioner of Education, Joel Klein, then Chancellor of New York City Schools, Jon Shnur, education reform pioneer and CEO of New Leaders for New Schools and Lily Eskelsen, Vice President of the NEA, the largest teachers' union in the US. Norah O'Donnell was the moderator. 

[yvetteeeeeb-blog]

The Case for a Teacher Bar Exam

It's facile, at best, to look to a small, largely homogenous, country, with a very different educational pedigree as a model for a nation like ours. Still, the "go- Finland" crowd is onto something: Finland long ago decided to professionalize its teaching force to the point where teaching is now viewed on a par with other highly respected, learned professions like medicine and law. Today, only the best and brightest can and do become teachers: Just one in every 10 applicants are accepted to teacher preparation programs, which culminate in both an undergraduate degree and subject-specific Master's degree. Even after such selective admissions and competitive training, if there are graduates who are not deemed ready for the classroom, they will not get appointed to the system.

Like law and medical schools, education schools shouldn't be able to survive if fewer than half their students can pass a rigorous professional exam.

Contrast that with America, where virtually anyone who graduates from college can become a teacher, and where job security, not teacher excellence, defines the workforce culture. According to the consulting firm McKinsey, "The U.S. attracts most of its teachers from the bottom two-thirds of college classes, with nearly half coming from the bottom third." And, today, more than a third of math teachers in the U.S. don't have an undergraduate degree in math, let alone a Master's degree. Yet, even with this remarkably low threshold for entry, once someone becomes a teacher in the U.S., it's virtually impossible to remove him or her for poor performance. 

What explains this cross-national difference? It does not seem to be teacher pay. Although teacher salaries in Finland are slightly higher than the average salary there, they are comparable to teacher salaries in other European countries. And when adjusted for national price indices, they're lower than teacher salaries in the U.S.

Instead, the difference seems to be rooted directly in the relative professionalization of the position. In addition to setting high standards of entry and providing high-quality professional education, Finland has established a culture that motivates teachers to excel at school and then innovate in the classroom. As a result, teaching holds an appeal comparable to that of other high-status careers in Finland.

-Excerpted from Joel Klein's Atlantic article "The Case for A Teacher Bar Exam" http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/the-case-for-a-teacher-bar-exam/267030/