Week+5

Face-to-face 8:30 – 4:00 ||   || ===**Wrap-Up: Goals & Philosophies **===
 * Week 5 (Oct. 8)

**Discuss: Calls for Reform **

 * ====Is reform necessary now? why/why not? ====
 * ====What reforms are necessary? ====
 * ====Do you agree? ====
 * ====How do they match with the goals and purposes of education? ====
 * ====(start drafting Reflection 2) ====


 * More Calls for Reform **


 * Read/Report/ ****Post summaries (jigsaw in-class) **
 * 1) [|Middle School Students beliefs --A Voice from the Middle: Highlights of the 2007 NASSP/PDK Middle School Student Poll] (Principal Leadership, Polk Library print collections
 * 2) [|Students Thrive on Cooperation and Problem Solving] by Bob Pearlman, Edutopia
 * 3) [|The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts]
 * 4) [|Net Day - Students and Teachers Speak Up]
 * 5) [|Teaching and Learning Conditions Improve High School Reform Efforts]
 * 6) [|Reimaging School issue] //Educational Leadership//, April 2010 (search for issue at ASCD.org)
 * 7) Reshaping High Schools issue //Educational Leadership//, May 2008 (search for issue at ASCD.org)
 * 8) [|Teachers of 2030: Creating a Student-Centered Profession for the 21st Century (Center for Teaching Quality]
 * 9) [|Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts](//NY TImes//) and associated report The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School
 * 10) Daggart, Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce Conference -- [|Lexile Score discrepancies (doc)](1 page) Find additional information on Lexile scores, help us understand what they are and why they are important.
 * 11) [|Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success]
 * 12) [|Goals of a Liberal Education -- College learning for the New Global Century (LEAP)]
 * 13) Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education VALUE []
 * 14) [|Measuring Up 2008: The National Report Card on Higher Education]
 * 15) [|Colleges Seek New Ways to Give Students a General Education](//Chronicle of Higher Ed//)
 * 16) Improving College Readiness ([|report], [|//Education Week//][| article])
 * 17) [|Advocates Push New Definition of Career Readiness] (Assoc. for Career and Technical Education [|Definition], National Assoc. of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium [|vision statement])
 * 18) [|Rising College Enrollments Are Seen in Government's 10-Year Forecast]
 * 19) [|US: Boost [college graduate ratio to 60%]] (article in University World News), [|Lumina Foundation Goal 2025]
 * 20) [|Work Force Fueled by Highly Skilled Immigrants.] -- //NY Times online//

**Introduce: Standards**
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