I wonder what will be considered highly effective teaching if someone likes the way this so called graduate school of education prepares its teachers. Mind blowing really. Follow the links Dr. Ravitch has in the original article to this reblog to see what I mean.

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This is a site to discuss better education for all, so here is a discussion about teaching.

As faithful readers know, we have had a discussion here about the Relay Graduate School of Education and its methods. It trains teachers for charter schools. See here and here and here and here.

Carol Corbett Burris objected to its narrow pedagogy. I objected to the very fact that it is a “graduate school of education” since its faculty includes no scholars, it teaches nothing other than classroom management and data analysis, it offers no courses in the foundations of education, nothing about cognitive psychology or sociology or economics or history, just one way to teach. To my way of thinking, Relay is a teaching program, not a graduate school of education. I would like to hear someone from Relay explain on what grounds they call themselves a “graduate school of education”…

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