(I’m republishing my finest posts from the primary half of the 12 months. You may see all the checklist of them right here)
Solely 1 / 4 of federally funded training improvements benefited college students, report says is the headline of a Hechinger Report article
It paperwork a federal program financially supporting 172 “revolutionary” packages, and it wasn’t very profitable.
It’s not that clear from their funded checklist who really initiated the tasks, however I would definitely wager dollars-to-donuts that not many, if any, have been led by academics who have been really within the classroom.
Possibly it’s time for the feds, or a state, to begin an training equal to the more and more profitable assured money grant packages to household offering no-strings hooked up monies.
In different phrases, as an alternative of blowing their bucks on non-teacher initiated tasks, give a big group of academics $10,000 every to spend on their college students anyway they deemed match – books, area journeys, snacks, bean bag chairs, and so forth. Actually, is there any draw back to doing one thing like that?
It wouldn’t appear truthful, however I assume you’ve gotten a management group of academics who didn’t get something (although, come on, they must get one thing for collaborating!), after which use a number of measures to evaluate success (like we did in our Lengthy Time period English Language Learners pilot program) – not simply standardized check scores.
I’m not holding my breath – what will we academics learn about what our college students, want, anyway?
ADDENDUM: I had forgotten to incorporate one key cause why I feel academics’ concepts can be higher – the precept of subsidiarity (the folks closest to issues typically have a fairly good thought on methods to resolve them).