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Thursday, April 16, 2009
We may find out what works someday ....
Three school R&D centers are in the works
http://ies.ed. gov/funding/ pdf/2010_ 84305C.pdf
Institute of Education Sciences
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER PROGRAM
For the FY 2010 Education Research and Development Center competition, the Institute invites applications for three National Education Research and Development Center topics. (a) Under the topic of innovation in education reform, the Institute invites applications for a research and development center focused on effective schools – National Research and Development Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools
. (b) Under the topic of assessment, standards, and accountability research, the Institute invites applications for a research and development center focused on the academic curricular area of mathematics – National Research and Development Center on Mathematics Standards and Assessment. (c) For the national goal of improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, the Institute invites applications for a research and development center on improving mathematics instruction – National Research and Development Center on Cognition and Mathematics Instruction.
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Perhaps the research that comes out of this will guide the future direction of math ed in the US. Hopefully it will be led by people who really know some math and are results focused, not just the current NSF EHR funded drones.
I find that very unlikely. The views of the current establishment favor sermons, not pragmatics. Whatever has been proposed is already done - it is more hype and an obstruction of justice. Their reality, not mine.
ReplyDeleteWhen commenting on school reform, Obama spoke about the dishonesty in schools.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the dishonesty of our educational? institutions, like the NSF-EHM? 'What works' now seems more like a euphemism? or 'Success for all'? What about the textbook industry - an icon of success? Not.
When will these self-proclaimed leaders admit they are failures to the point of being accused as frauds?
Bush's plan - Don't participate in PISA? Stupid is what stupid does.
What misery is a school that teach us nothing.