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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Marion Brady</title>
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		<title>Stop the Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day Three&#8230; And I already wasted a whole weekend without posting. D&#8217;oh. Marion Brady to the rescue. I know listservs are so 1998, but as I have said here several times before, you should still be subscribed to at least one: MiddleL. For those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with the concept of a listserv (or e-mail list), go to Wikipedia and read up. My regulars probably probably remember me beating this drum before, but I&#8217;ma gonna do it again. Go join up. People with problems/questions like our MrM&#8217;s get answers all the time from people with a lot more letters after their names than I have. You can sign up here. As I have also said before (here&#8217;s the first time), my fave contributor on MiddleL is Marion Brady, who has some revolutionary (these days) ideas about education.  We all know that things like NCLB and &#8220;Race to the Top&#8221; and the testing associated with them are doing more harm than good. The tests are mostly about memorized knowledge and not about the skills need in a future world. Which, by the way, probably can&#8217;t be tested for. But there&#8217;s a lot of money to be made in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I guess I hafta go back to work tomorrow. This whole two-week spring break thing makes one mighty lazy. Sixteen days of sleeping in, plus some mighty fine summer-like weather, and it starts to look an awful lot like summertime. At least with the late Easter this year&#8211;funny how the most important of Catholic holidays follows the old school pagan spring festival scheduling&#8211;we only have 33 school days left until it actually is summer. I have no idea what we&#8217;ll be doing tomorrow. I should probably keep this short. I just got back from a few days in Santa Cruz. That&#8217;s the funky California city that still thinks it&#8217;s a town, and their UC Santa Cruz mascot is the banana slug. They also have the Boardwalk, which turned 100 this year.  Wooden roller coaster, midway games, PINBALL, merry-go-round where you try to grab the ring, the whole nine yards. I voted against the two-week  spring break (our falls are much more beautiful than our springs, which are wiiiindyyy), but I do have to admit that when you go to places like the Santa Cruz Beach-Boardwalk, it&#8217;s nice to have everybody else finished with their break and back at work/school. No lines! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Artist: Marion Brady</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I go again, beating the drum for joining the Middle-L listserv. And once more, I&#8217;m linking to a Marion Brady article. I&#8217;ve also talked about Marion before. Here&#8217;s his latest article, at Truthout.org, about this whole &#8220;accountability&#8221;  issue that&#8217;s become the central feature of our educational system. He makes the point that today&#8217;s standardized tests that supposedly hold us teachers accountable really just test short term memory and &#8220;second-hand knowledge.&#8221; We seem to be over a barrel. To maintain educational quality, we need to monitor and measure performance. But learner qualities and capabilities most deserving of being evaluated are far too complex for our crude tests to monitor. Fortunately, the barrel is of our own making, and can be rolled aside. Philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, in his 1916 Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association of England, pointed the way. &#8220;The secondhandedness of the learned world,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is the secret of its mediocrity.&#8221; When kids are merely trying to remember something read in a textbook or heard in teacher talk, they&#8217;re in the secondhand-knowledge business. When they&#8217;re figuring out how to make sense of something complicated and important that can be seen and touched, they&#8217;re in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Speaker: False Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously I have posted about the Middle-L e-mail listserv. I am again recommending it, especially for newer teachers, and those interested in education policy and the &#8220;big picture.&#8221; As I said before, sometimes you&#8217;ll go days without seeing anything new, but all you have to do is introduce yourself, and ask questions, and you&#8217;ll get answers and suggestions from some pretty intelligent and talented people. One of those people is Marion Brady. In fact, he&#8217;s the main reason I&#8217;m still a subscriber. Just Google &#8220;Marion Brady&#8221; and you&#8217;ll see why. He just had a column printed in the Washington Post that, as usual, hits the nail(s) on the head. I won&#8217;t reprint the whole thing here (even though Marion wouldn&#8217;t mind &#8211; he just wants the ideas out there), because I think you should also read the commentary after. Here are some choice excerpts. False Assumption 1: America’s teachers deserve most of the blame for decades of flat school performance. Other factors affecting learning—language problems, hunger, stress, mass media exposure, transience, cultural differences, a sense of hopelessness, and so on and on—are minor and can be overcome by well-qualified teachers. To teacher protests that they’re scapegoats taking the blame for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Kid! (Guest Speaker)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK. We&#8217;re down to 9 days. We start in the middle of the week because our district is moving to &#8211; after two union-wide votes &#8211; a two-week spring break. I voted against it for just this starting-too-early-in-August-shtuff (among other reasons), but truth be told, I&#8217;m sort of itching to get back to work. It keeps me out of trouble. Though I am quite enjoying all the sleeping in. But ouch. Nine days. As I have said, I&#8217;ve been getting e-mails with questions, and over the next week or so, I&#8217;ll be covering more of those topics (600 words, more KBAR, grading essays). This will get me in the groove for the rapidly approaching school year, and that&#8217;s a necessary thing. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a presentation from a guest speaker whom I respect very much. I &#8220;met&#8221; him through an e-mail listserv. Old school, I know. I signed up for the Middle-L listserv about 4 or 5 years ago as part of one of the requirements for the EETT grant we got back then. I&#8217;ve stuck around ever since. The list might go days or weeks with any action, but I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading almost everything that gets posted. My fave contributor [...]]]></description>
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