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Wikidot.com .wikidot.com Share on Join this site Edit History Tags Source Explore » Schools - Teachers - Parents Issues in Schooling contact Create account or Sign in About Welcome page THEMES ISSUES and CONCERNS ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS CURRENT THEORY & RESEARCH CURRENT PRACTICE From, For, & About PARENTS INFORMATION & CONNECTIONS Resources and Links Videos and Multimedia What's New? COURSES and GROUPS ECI 696 (at NAU) ECI 761 (at NAU) ECI 730 (at NAU) FORUMS Discussions WORKING WITH THIS SITE What is a Wiki Site? How to create pages and participate? How to edit pages? Members' Pages How to join this site? Site members Recent changes List all pages Page Tags Site Manager CHECK OUT the Exploratory Nook & Store EXPLORE - LEARN - SHOP - ENJOY!!! Page tags assumptions cognition coleman community complexity conformity control curriculum deprofessionalization explicit fragmentation grouping instruction justice learning metapatterns motivation nclb null participation patterns phonics politics rationalism relevance simplification space technology testing uniformity All content on this site is the work of the original author and in no way represents the opinions of any organization, including those of the administrators of this site. Welcome to the Schools Teachers Parents Wiki This site provides an online community that promotes communication between parents, teachers, and teacher educators interested in changing schools. Although most teachers are dedicated to helping children, the pressures from the “institution of schooling” prevents them from doing what they feel they should be doing in the classroom. Teachers and university teacher educators have very little power to change schools. The real power to change lies with parents and the voting public. One of the major problems that keep schools on a path of dysfunction has to do with communication about teaching, learning, and schooling. The majority of communication to the public about education comes from politicians and the media. Neither of these groups have any knowledge or understanding of the research on learning and teaching or of the professional practices of teachers. What is even more problematic is that the agendas of politicians may in fact be focused on keeping education mediocre. A well-informed and thoughtful populace is not one that can be easily misled or controlled. It may not pay to provide a truly excellent education for our children. Featured New Articles: July, 2011 Blame Game Revisited Issues Concerning Homework Performance Pay Academic Motivation Inclusion and Its Barriers FEATURED VIDEOS "Hackschooling Makes Me Happy" - Logan LaPlante at TEDx University of Nevada "Rigged Game" — Teaching Children In This Awful Way Is Like Helping A Person Who Is On Fire By Drowning Them The Power of Children's Imaginations — Common Core and Tests Undermine Children's Potentials Protests Against Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan at the American Education Research Association Meeting in San Francisco, 2013 Standardize Boycott — An Interview with Cynthia Copeland Jon Stewart's Commencement Address at William & Mary Blue Hat Movement (Opting Out) and a Sixth-Grade Girl's Courage Parents Take Action Against Standardized Tests Pay attention to the poorly worded and constructed test questions. The test questions also bring up some basic curriculum questions: Who benefits (from the tests)? … Pearson and other corporations? What knowledge is worth knowing? … What knowledge is truly important for children? Transferred Highland Park teacher resigns in impassioned YouTube video — from Highland Park Sun Times A courageous teacher speaks out. EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Stay tuned…. Copyright belongs to the authors of pages. page revision: 32, last edited: 13 May 2014 18:54 Edit Tags Discuss (1) History Files Print Site tools + Options Edit Sections Append Edit Meta Watchers Backlinks Page Source Parent Lock Page Rename Delete Help | Terms of Service | Privacy | Report a bug | Flag as objectionable Powered by Wikidot.com Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License Click here to edit contents of this page. Click here to toggle editing of individual sections of the page (if possible). Watch headings for an "edit" link when available. Append content without editing the whole page source. Check out how this page has evolved in the past. 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