Wake-Up!

by Robert Pondiscio
December 9th, 2010

Obama Calls For Education “Wake-Up Call”  Huffington Post, December 7, 2010.

Report on Black Male Achievement Gap is “Wake-Up Call,” AOL News, November 11, 2010.

Waiting for ‘Superman’ a “Wake Up Call” on Education, CBS Evening News, September 23, 2010.

Scores: A wake-up call for NY schools, New York Post, August 9, 2010.

A wake-up call for science education, Boston Globe, January 20, 2009.

News: Wake-Up Call for American Higher Ed, Inside Higher Education, May 21, 2008.

Gates gives wake-up call to nation’s high schools, March 3, 2005.

No Child Left Behind should wake up schools, St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2004.

A Wake-up Call From One Of America’s Top Education Watchdogs… News-Tribune, Aug 26, 2001.

Test Scores a `Wake-Up Call,’ Associated Press, Mar 1, 1998.

“’The report is a wake-up call,’ says Education Secretary Lamar Alexander,” Kids aren’t growing up reading, USA Today, May 29, 1992.

A Nation at Risk (1983) provided the nation with a much-needed wake-up call, Koret Task Force.

Hey, wait a minute…Maybe it’s not asleep!

“Data is Fabulous!”

by Robert Pondiscio
December 9th, 2010

In 2nd grade, you might expect your child to read Charlotte’s Web in language arts; learn the oceans and continents for geography; understand the changing of the seasons in science; identify odd and even numbers, and learn to round numbers to the nearest ten in math. 

In this California classroom, they’re planning their Spring data growth targets.

<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=MVLwu6uQK2I">http://youtube.com/watch?v=MVLwu6uQK2I</a>

Someone needs to explain to me how this benefits children in any way.