Education Change in Action
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over the past decade, there has been significant rhetoric pertaining to research and reform in education. While debate and resistance abound surrounding these subjects, there is an ever increasing number of individuals and groups making positive inroads toward 'bailing out' education. With an intention to promote expansion of interventions that are successful, we have created an Action in Education thread on the message board of our new EBLI web site. The goal is to build a network connecting those experiencing positive change in education and literacy with those searching for answers.
Accounts of Washington DC's Chancellor Michelle Rhee's unconventional and powerful reform actions have recently been highlighted in an article in TIME magazine
as well as in Newsweek. An op-ed in the New York Post by John Corcoran, author of The Teacher Who Couldn't Read and his newly released book The Bridge to Literacy, urges President-elect Obama and educators to not only critically examine the epidemic of illiteracy plaguing our country but to seriously pursue avenues to eradicate it.
There are other less obvious but very powerful resources that continue to diligently plod toward expanding quality in education. For example, the extensive research from Peterson Handwriting has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the motor process of handwriting is a necessary element of education. They even provide daily free, live internet support to educate and assist those interested in the process of how to properly teach handwriting. Rapid, dramatic improvement in writing, reading fluency, and attention has been experienced by students at Ounce of Prevention Reading Center as well as in schools where EBLI trained teachers are using Peterson Handwriting along with EBLI interventions.
Networking with others to share information about what is really working in education will accelerate progress toward effective, efficient education as a whole. Please visit the link on our message board to promote this process!
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