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What is Up with the Multiplication Tables?
by Lisa Cooley (Reposted from The Minds of Kids) Math education is in an abysmal state in this country. How do we know it? Count the people in your life who believe they have something called “math...
View ArticlePushing Against the Tide…to Change Public Education
Pushing Against the Tide is a new Facebook group made up of educators and community members in Maine. Together we want to change public education. Our first priority is to raise awareness about the...
View ArticleSign to Support Learning-Based Education!
By Lisa Cooley Support Learning-Based Education! In the language of education, often two words are confused…”teaching” and “learning.” But…as we know, just because teaching is going on in a classroom...
View ArticleThe Governor’s Grades
By Lisa Cooley The Minds of Kids I don’t know why I’m so impatient with the huge flap over the Maine Education Department’s new school grades. It just seems everyone, from those defending them to those...
View ArticleDoes “Mass Customized Learning” Represent Real Education Change?
By Lisa Cooley, The Minds of Kids There are big changes taking place in some Maine school districts. These districts have joined a group called the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning, and have...
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“Do we want to get to the Moon or not?”
by Lisa Cooley, The Minds of Kids The development of the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) was a key breakthrough in the huge task of designing a way to get astronauts to the Moon. For a long time,...
View ArticleWhat is an “extreme” view on public education?
by Lisa Cooley and Lindy Davies (More Minds of Kids) I’m sure there are a lot of folks around me who wonder why I stick to views on education that seem so extreme. It is the most unlikely eventuality...
View ArticleStandards-Based Education: Life in a Dream World
By Lisa Cooley, The Minds of Kids Maria Libby, (Assistant Superintendent of MSAD 28 and Five Town CSD) in her opinion piece in last week’s Camden Herald, paints a very rosy picture of the future of...
View ArticleThe Two Fronts
By Lisa Cooley, The Minds of Kids The battle for better public education has two fronts: the work to change the system, and to help those kids who are stuck in it now. The effort to change the system...
View ArticleThe Governor’s Grades, Part II (The Travesty Continues)
by Lisa Cooley, The Minds of Kids Quick thoughts on the Morning After: If student achievement can be shown (albeit in a flawed way) to be so low among high-poverty area schools, the only thing...
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