The Horace Mann League of the USA
 
Greetings! 
Welcome to the August 13, 2012, email of recent additions to the Horace Mann League Blog.  
This notice is a service to the members of the Horace Mann League.  Your comments and suggestions are always appreciated.

Jack McKay, Executive Director, The Horace Mann League of the USA.
Some of the recent postings on the HML Blog for August 13, 2012.
Click on the title to read the complete article.

This week's postings:
The skill that may be the trickiest to teach and test may be the one that underlies and connects skills in all three areas: a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.

This Court Should Reaffirm That The Admissions Process Is An Institution-Specific, Mission-Oriented Process Grounded In Academic Judgments Regarding How to Best Achieve Institutional Goals.  

  

Racial Preference in Austin  

The Supreme Court will hear the case in October. Abigail Fisher, a white student, says that she was denied admission to UT's undergraduate program because of her race.

 

Schools Without Playgrounds, Children Without Childhood, a Future Without Hope

Yes, while our children are savagely beaten down in the Dickensian landscape of high-stakes testing, zero-tolerance policies, school-to-prison pipelines, austerity measures that make the seedy and dangerous streets of American cities the sole source of recreation for many experiencing massive poverty and a sense of their own disposability, the city of Milwaukee is considering whether these children of Fagin should even have "yard time."

  

Which States Do the Worst (and Best) Job of Educating Kids Regardless of Class? 

Economic differences are reflected in the classroom, with students in wealthy schools taking many more advanced courses. But some states have begun to bridge these disparities.  Find your state, click here.  

 

The Adequacies and Inadequacies of Three Current Strategies to Recruit, Prepare, and Retain the Best Teachers for All Students  by Kenneth Zeichner
The strengths and weaknesses of three of the major approaches to teacher education reform in the United States: the professionalization agenda, the deregulation agenda, and the social justice agenda.

  

Ravitch on Obama charter school accountability Race To The Top  (A video presentation.) Click here.  

  

All of the above articles plus more, click here.

 

 

 

 

About Us
The Horace Mann League of the USA is an honorary society that promotes the ideals of Horace Mann by advocating for public education as the cornerstone of our democracy.
 
Officers:
President: Mark Edwards, Supt., Mooresville Graded Schools, NC
President-elect: Joe Hairston, (ret.) Supt., Baltimore County Public Schools, MD
Vice President: Gary Marx, President, Center for Public Outreach, VA
Past President: Julie Underwood, Dean, Sch. of Ed. U. of WI, Madison
2nd Past Pres: George Garcia, (ret.) Supt., Boulder Valley Schools, CO
3rd Past Pres: Steve Rasmussen, Supt., Issaquah School District, WA
 
Directors:
Martha Bruckner, Supt., Council Bluffs Community Schools, IA
Evelyn Blose-Holman, (ret.) Superintendent, Bay Shore Schools, NY
Carol Choye, Instructor, Bank Street College, NY
Brent Clark, Exec. Dir., Illinois Assoc. of School Admin. IL
Linda Darling Hammond, Professor of Education, Stanford U. CA
Nancy DeFord, Supt. (Ret.) Park City Schools, UT
Charles Fowler, Exec. Dir., Suburban School Superintendents, NH
James Harvey, Exec. Dir., Superintendents Roundtable, WA
William Hite, Supt., Philadelphia City Schools, PA
Dwight Jones, Supt., Clark County Schools, NV
Eric King, Supt., (Ret.) Muncie Public Schools, IN
Barry Lynn, Exec. Dir., Americans United, Washington, DC
Stan Olson, Supt. (Ret.) Boise Public Schools, ID
Douglas Otto, Assoc.Prof.,Ed. Ad., University of North Texas, TX
 
Executive Director:
Jack McKay, Professor, (Ret.) University of Nebraska at Omaha, 
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 HML Blog Posts through August 5, 2012
The 304 postings are listed in alphabetical order by author.