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Feb 19, 2008

Carnival of Education #159: Briefing the Next US President on 35 Issues

By: Alvaro Fernandez

Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President,

Thank you for stop­ping dur­ing recess for a quick study sessiMeditation School Studentson. 35 edu­ca­tors have col­lab­o­rated to present this Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion as a use­ful les­son plan for you and your edu­ca­tion pol­icy team on what our real con­cerns and sug­ges­tions are.

In case this is your first visit to our Sharp­Brains blog, let me first of all point out some use­ful resources to stay sane dur­ing the rest of the cam­paign: selected Brain Teasers, a list of 21 great Brain Books, over a dozen inter­views with lead­ing sci­en­tists on learn­ing and brain-based top­ics, and more.

With­out fur­ther ado, let’s pro­ceed to the issues raised. We hope they pro­vide, at the very least, good men­tal stim­u­la­tion for you and your advisors.

Edu­ca­tion as a System

4. Swim­ming is good, but I’d rather surf (Nancy at Teacher in a Strange Land).

5. Insur­gents fight­ing the Dark Side (the Sta­tus Quo) (Norm at Edu­ca­tion Notes Online).



Learn­ing and Teach­ing Philosophy

6. The First Step (for Aca­d­e­mic Suc­cess) Is Fail­ure (Joanne at SharpBrains).

7. 1777? (Joanne Jacobs).

8. Maybe we should revisit what is the pur­pose of edu­ca­tion? (Mike at Dan­ger­ously Irrelevant).

9. Who needs a col­lege degree? (Jacob at Early Retire­ment Extreme).

10. Are Schools (Cog­ni­tively) Nutri­tive for Children’s Com­plex Think­ing? (Tom and Chris­tine at SharpBrains).

11. May our teach­ing be too suc­cess­ful for our own good? (Lau­reen at The Life with­out School).


From edu­ca­tor to educator

12. Should there be a limit to shar­ing best prac­tices? (Ms Cor­nelius at A Shrewd­ness of Apes).

13. Do you man­age stress well? (Gre­gory at SharpBrains).

14. Where in the world are my union lead­ers? (Wood­lass at Under Assault: Teach­ing in NYC).

15. Is home­work work­ing? (Sum­mer at Mom Is Teaching).

16. What is the edu­ca­tion value of Yale’s Sex Week? (Dana at Prin­ci­pled Discovery).

17. What makes a good edu­ca­tor? (Carol at Bellringers).

18. How do we sur­vive tough schools? (Andrew at Scenes From The Battleground).

Tech­nol­ogy

19. Give me more of it, please! (Pat at Suc­cess­ful Teaching).

20. Enough. Have you heard of Gizmo High? (Matt at Going to the Mat).

21. Using tech­nol­ogy in the Class­room 101 (Matthew at In Practice).

22. How can we inte­grate video in the class­room? (Matthew at Cre­at­ing Life­long Learners).

23. Any­thing beyond Junior Achieve­ment? (Adam at Ipex).

24. Cre­at­ing a Photography-rich book (Bogu­sia at Nucleus Learning)

25. How to cre­ate online con­tent ( Larry Ferlazzo).

Kids and kids

26. Help: how do I deal with kids who mis­be­have? (Mike at Edu­ca­tion in Texas).

27. Help: what do we do with the pro­foundly gifted? (The “More” Child).

28. Why do we accept unhelp­ful label­ing of kids? (Mar­cella at abyss2hope).

29. What is the role of nutri­tion? (Jack­son at Alter­na­tive Channel).

30. Can we edu­cate about Dar­fur? (Bill at The Tem­pered Rad­i­cal).

Enrich­ment Oppor­tu­ni­ties

31. Do you play any musi­cal instru­ment? (Megan, a high schooler, at SharpBrains).Piano musical training

32. How many plays did Shake­speare write? (Gedaly a the Bard Blog).

33. Brain Teaser: Words in your brain! (Pas­cale at SharpBrains).

34. Please Don’t Out­source Your Brain to your Vicepres­i­dent, ok? (Alvaro at SharpBrains).

35. After all these years…can’t we all just be happy? ( JM at “Lead From The Start”).

Dear Mr or Mrs Next US Pres­i­dent, we hope you have enjoyed this brief­ing. If you want to con­tribute to future Car­ni­vals of Edu­ca­tion, you can use this sim­ple sub­mis­sion form.

Enjoy the year,

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13 Responses

  1. Mathew says:
    February 19, 2008 at 6:00

    Great job host­ing. The new pres­i­dent will have his/her hands full.

  2. Bellringers says:
    February 19, 2008 at 7:48

    Thanks for hosting…Let’s hope the pow­ers that be lis­ten. Now wouldn’t that be something?

  3. Alvaro says:
    February 19, 2008 at 9:18

    Well, edu­ca­tion requires patience and per­sis­tence :-) thank you for your great posts.

  4. Carnivals! at Joanne Jacobs says:
    February 20, 2008 at 4:24

    […] Sharp Brains Blog is host­ing this week’s Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion with the theme: Brief­ing the next pres­i­dent on edu­ca­tion issues. […]

  5. Gedaly says:
    February 20, 2008 at 9:37

    This is a great edi­tion with lots of really inter­est­ing posts! I hope our next pres­i­dent stum­bles upon this list.

    When was the last time edu­ca­tion was a big issue (and not one on the list of things to get cut)?

  6. Mrs. Bluebird says:
    February 21, 2008 at 4:25

    Great job hosting…maybe I’m miss­ing some­thing, but I’ve been try­ing to get sub­mis­sions in to the car­ni­val for the past few weeks — I used to always see a call for sub­mis­sions on the Wonk’s site, but haven’t lately…so I never know where to send it…what am I doing wrong?? How do you all find out where to send your sub­mis­sions now that it’s not on the site?

  7. Alvaro says:
    February 21, 2008 at 12:51

    The best way is sim­ply to sub­mit your best weekly arti­cle using the sub­mis­sion form I link to at the end of the post. The arti­cle then gets auto­mat­i­cally sent to who­ever is the host that week. Good luck! let me know if you have any ques­tions about that.

  8. Dawn says:
    February 21, 2008 at 3:10

    Great car­ni­val! Won­der­fully orga­nized and full of fan­tas­tic posts!

  9. Veni says:
    February 24, 2008 at 1:18

    :) )

  10. Pat says:
    February 26, 2008 at 2:53

    This was a great car­ni­val. I enjoyed all the arti­cles! Thanks for your hard work get­ting all of this together.

  11. Alvaro says:
    February 26, 2008 at 7:08

    Dawn, Veni, Pat, thank you for your com­ments and great posts! putting this together was great braon exer­cise :-)

  12. Sorting Out Science » Blog Archive » Carnivalia says:
    February 26, 2008 at 9:34

    […] Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion #159: Brief­ing the Next US Pres­i­dent on 35 Issues […]

  13. Mister Teacher says:
    February 27, 2008 at 6:32

    Mrs. Blue­bird has a point. The sub­mis­sion guides have been screwed up for a cou­ple of weeks. The “easy to use sub­mis­sion form” has had ME listed as the next host for a cou­ple of weeks now, so I’ve been get­ting the entries. I didn’t know about YOUR car­ni­val until I read about it on Edu­ca­tion Wonks! :(
    Nice Car­ney, though…

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