(I’m republishing my greatest posts from the second half of 2024. You’ll be able to see your complete record of them right here)
Schooling Week stories on one more survey discovering that we lecturers spend our private cash on college students – Educators Put together Early, Spend Their Personal Cash for New Faculty 12 months.
That’s not new information, as I’ve documented in The Finest Information On How A lot Cash Academics Pay Out Of Their Personal Pocket – What Do You Spend?
However this survey is one other alternative for me to plug what I feel could be an important experiment for a basis to fund.
Right here’s what I’ve written earlier than:
Possibly it’s time for the feds, or a state, to start out an schooling 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 initiatives, give a big group of lecturers $10,000 every to spend on their college students anyway they deemed match – books, discipline journeys, snacks, bean bag chairs, and so on. Actually, is there any draw back to doing one thing like that?
It wouldn’t appear truthful, however I suppose you’ve a management group of lecturers who didn’t get something (although, come on, they must get one thing for taking part!), 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 take a look at scores.
Since most ed analysis experiments will not be profitable (see Feds Discover In New Report That Most Of Their Funded “Improvements” Didn’t Work – Maybe Its Time To Fund Instructor Initiatives?), what have they got to lose?
And, if it really works (as I assume it’s going to), maybe we lecturers would be capable to cease shelling out our personal money for scholar books, meals, tissues, band aids, and so on….