What Happened To Schools That Group Students Of Different Ages?
Larry Cuban
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1/18/19
“Adoption of an innovation in schooling has less to do with what the research says and far more about what school leaders and practitioners believe about students, teaching, learning, and knowledge.”
Project-Based Learning: The 100-Year Old History
Washington Post
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12/12/18
“The same year that armistice ended World War I, Columbia University professor William Heard Kilpatrick produced his own shot heard round the world: “The Project Method.”"
Look At History To Assess Effectiveness Of Tech Innovations (“Reforms”)
Larry Cuban
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12/6/18
“In viewing technological innovations as a sub-set of curricular, instructional, and organizational reforms, then, teachers, principals, and parents can identify patterns and figure out possible consequences for the adoption of the innovation. They can track the journey as it goes from policy to classroom practice, and expect certain outcomes while being open to unanticipated ones as well.”
"The Factory Model” Is A Myth. The Real Problem Is Inequality.
Vice
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10/16/18
“High school is broken in America. Its buildings and classes are old and stodgy. As an institution, it’s unchanging, built to crank out factory workers and thus unsuited for our modern, high-tech era… It’s a popular narrative reflecting the very real fears held by so many young people today when it comes to economic instability, inequality, and their future prospects in the labor market. The thing of it is, it’s just not true.”