Syllabus

Fastplants are a unique teaching tool that bring inquiry-based science into the classroom. Fastplants are low maintenance, flowering plants with a short life cycle. This makes them ideal for classroom use and experimentation.

• The Hollywood Curriculum
• The Education Electorate. Education Week.
  
  

• What is the most important thing you learned in school? How and Why? (PDF)

• No Child Left Behind (Official Site)
• Hot Topics - No Child Left Behind (Education Week)

• Hot Topics - Privatization of Public Education (Education Week)
• Philadelphia Lines up Outside Group to Run Schools (Education Week)
• Edison Schools "Research and Evaluation" (Research for Action)
• Dallas Official Wants to End Edison Deal (NY Times)
• Edison Schools (EdisonSchools.com)
  
  

• Research on Charter Schools, Privatization, and Homeschooling: Mission Statements/Purposes of different institutions

• Homeschooling (Time Magazine)
• Changed by Charters (Education Week)
• Horace's Hope - A Story Where Nothing Happens
• Horace's Compromise - What High School Is
• The School Choice Wars - John Merrifield
• The Charter School Challenge - Bryan Hassel
• Horace's Hope- The Words of Reform
• New Schools for a New Century - Ravitch
  
  

• First Observations - Reactions in Stellar Forum

• Should it be This Easy to be a Teacher (Time Magazine)
• First Impressions (Education Week)
• My First Year as a Teacher
• Reflections of First-Year Teachers on School Culture
  
  

• 10 min interview with an educator

• Teacher Quality (Education Week)
• Researcher Skewers Explanations Behind Teacher Shortage (Education Week)
• The Teacher Shortage: Solutions that Work (Education World)
• How People Learn - The Design of Learning Environments
• The Courage to Teach - The Heart of a Teacher
  
  

• Classroom Environments

• Benchmarks for Science Literacy
• National Science Education Standards
• Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards
• Classroom Assessment and the National Education Standards
• Contradictions of School Reform - Standardization, Defensive Teaching, and the Problems of Control
• One Size Fits Few - Whose Standards These Are, I Think I Know
• Will Standards Save Public Education? Expert Opinion, The Case for Standards
  
  

• Midterm Portfolio Review (PDF)
• HTML Help
  • HTML Tutorial
  • HTML Basics (See Especially Images and Links)
  • Also take a look at Netscape Compose
    
    

• MCAS Exam
  
  

• Student Observation

• How People Learn
  • Learning and Transfer
  • Effective Teaching: Examples in History, Mathematics, and Science
• The Unschooled Mind, The Disciplined Mind
   
  

• Mini-Assignment (PDF)
  
  

• How do we learn?

• PD1.slogo
• PD11.124.slogo
• StarLogo Information
  
  

• Does it Compute?
• System Crash
• Falling Through the Net
• The Impact of Education Technology on Student Achievement

• Final Paper (PDF)