SKrashen: The problem is not a lack of technology. The problem is poverty.

SKrashen: The problem is not a lack of technology. The problem is poverty: Comment on " Education Needs to Change as Fast as Technology," by Zack Sims. Posted at http://www.forbes.c...

SKrashen: The problem is not a lack of technology. The problem is poverty.

Schools Matter: MOST BIASED POLL EVER

Schools Matter: MOST BIASED POLL EVER: The AP reported that according to a recent poll, 7 out of 10 Californians support the common core.   Those who took the poll f...

Schools Matter: MOST BIASED POLL EVER

SKrashen: Beware of STEM Fever

SKrashen: Beware of STEM Fever: Sent to the Register-Guard, April 2, 2014 Before Eugene's educators continue with their plans ("Leaders eye transforming academy ...

SKrashen: Beware of STEM Fever

SKrashen: Yes, let's drop the SAT essay. While we're at it, let's drop the SAT

SKrashen: Yes, let's drop the SAT essay. While we're at it, let's drop the SAT: Sent to the NY Times, March 11 Re: "Can writing be assessed?"  March 10. There is no point in testing writing form, i.e. the use ...

SKrashen: Yes, let's drop the SAT essay. While we're at it, let's drop the SAT

SKrashen: Do we need the SAT?

SKrashen: Do we need the SAT?:

Sent to USA Today, March 6, 2014

Not mentioned in the discussion of changes in the SAT ("Sharpen those pencils: The SAT test is getting harder," March 6) is the question of whether we need SAT-type examinations. 

In two different studies, researchers from UC Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton reported that high school grades were a good predictor of college success, and that adding SAT scores did not improve the predictive power of grades alone. 

These results suggest that teacher evaluation does a better job of evaluating student potential than standardized testing does: The repeated judgments of professionals who are with students every day appears to be more valid that a test created by distant strangers. 

Stephen Krashen

Sources: 
Bowen, W., Chingos, M., and McPherson, M. 2009. Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Universities. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 
Geiser, S. and Santelices, M.V., 2007. Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes. Research and Occasional Papers Series: CSHE 6.07, University of California, Berkeley. http://cshe.berkeley.edu

original article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/05/sat-college-board-redesign-college-entrance-exam/6078091/

SKrashen: Do we need the SAT?

SKrashen: Invest in libraries and librarians

SKrashen: Invest in libraries and librarians: Sent to Los Angeles Times, Feb 24. Research and common sense tell us that we get better at reading (and writing, spelling, grammar and voc...

SKrashen: Invest in libraries and librarians

SKrashen: Please take a closer look at the Common Core

SKrashen: Please take a closer look at the Common Core: Sent to the School Library Journal 2/23 Librarians may be "findings aspects of the common core to celebrate"("What's ha...

SKrashen: Please take a closer look at the Common Core

Why corporations want our public schools (from YES!)

Why corporations want our public schools (from YES!). pic.twitter.com/szW5Q3vBcx
— Stephen Krashen (@skrashen) February 23, 2014

Infographic: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools

Why corporations want our public schools (from YES!)

SKrashen: Our focus should be on protecting children from the impact of poverty

SKrashen: Our focus should be on protecting children from the impact of poverty: Published in the Wall Street Journal, February 21. Response to: "A progressive education" (Editorial, Feb. 14) Your editorial s...

SKrashen: Our focus should be on protecting children from the impact of poverty

Dr. Stephen Krashen defends libraries at LAUSD Board Meeting

Dr. Krashen, Professor Emeritus of USC, and world renowned language acquisition expert speaks in support of more libraries and librarians in LAUSD. February 11, 2014.

This is such important information that doesn't get disseminated because corporations can't make big profits off of children going to libraries and reading books. The research is indisputable, we need to advocate for what works!

Dr. Stephen Krashen defends libraries at LAUSD Board Meeting

A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen, hosted by UTLA Bilingual Education Committee

  A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen by Robert D. Skeels

UTLA Bilingual Education Committee

Dr. Stephen Krashen 

Professor Emeritus University of Southern California 

A Critical Look at Common Core

What does it mean for our children? 

What are the implications for English Learners? 

and 

Dr. Katherine Hayes

Chief Researcher LAUSD 

Best Practices for Organizing Classes with English Learners 

Friday, February 14, 2014 

Time: 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.* 

UTLA 3303 Wilshire Blvd. 

Los Angeles 90010 

fee: $10.00 

*Light refreshment will be served 

R.S.V.P Maria Hedrick @ 213-487-5560. Send payment by February 10

A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen, hosted by UTLA Bilingual Education Committee

SKrashen: A better way to deal with summer loss in reading: Libraries

SKrashen: A better way to deal with summer loss in reading: Libraries: Sent to the Seattle Times, Jan 31, 2014 There is a much cheaper and much more effective way to deal with summer learning loss than adding...

SKrashen: A better way to deal with summer loss in reading: Libraries

SKrashen: The Common Core: A Disaster for Libraries, A Disaster for Language Arts, a Disaster for American Education

SKrashen: The Common Core: A Disaster for Libraries, A Disaster for Language Arts, a Disaster for American Education: Stephen Krashen Knowledge Quest 42(3): 37-45 (2014). There never has been a need for the common core and there is no evidence ...

SKrashen: The Common Core: A Disaster for Libraries, A Disaster for Language Arts, a Disaster for American Education

SKrashen: The Common Core and Voluntary Reading

SKrashen: The Common Core and Voluntary Reading: Sent to the New York Times, January 23, 2014 Charles Blow's inspirational testimonial ("Reading is fundamental," January 22)...

SKrashen: The Common Core and Voluntary Reading

SKrashen: Heritage Language Development: Exhortation or Good Stories?

SKrashen: Heritage Language Development: Exhortation or Good Stories?:   Lao, C. and Krashen, S. 2008. Heritage language development: Exhortation or good stories? International Journal of Foreign Language Tea...

SKrashen: Heritage Language Development: Exhortation or Good Stories?

SKrashen: The Spectacular Role of Libraries in Protecting Students from the Effects of Poverty

SKrashen: The Spectacular Role of Libraries in Protecting St...: Stephen Krashen Published in: iLeader: Journal of School Library Association of New South Wales 1(4): 3-6 (2012) ...

SKrashen: The Spectacular Role of Libraries in Protecting Students from the Effects of Poverty

SKrashen: The cost of the new standards

Sent to the Hartford Courant, September 21, 2013

The estimate of $1.19 billion to implement the Common Core Standards is a tiny percentage of the real cost ("Common Core Standards To Change State's Education Landscape," Sept. 21).
The new tests must be administered online. Many districts lack enough up-to-date or even working computers, and even if computers are in place, there will be continual upgrades and replacements as well as major changes as new technology is developed.
Taxpayers will have to pay for all of them. Because no evidence has been provided showing that online testing will benefit students in any way, this adventure is a boondoggle.
Whether or not the tests help students, computer and testing companies will make a lot of money taking no risk. If student achievement declines, we will be told that we need even higher-tech tests, and we will be presented with National Test 2.0.

Stephen Krashen

SKrashen: The cost of the new standards

SKrashen: Afterschool English: Important information lacking...

SKrashen: Afterschool English: Important information lacking...: Sent to the South China Morning Post, Sept 11, 2013 The South China Morning Post reports that "Needy children in Hong Kong benefit fr...

SKrashen: Afterschool English: Important information lacking...

Dr. Stephen Krashen featured on People Make a Difference

People Make a Difference with Danny Brassell 03/14/2011 interviewing the distinguished Dr. Stephen Krashen. A real education expert discusses real solutions for education and places blame for struggling schools squarely were it belongs, on poverty.



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Stephen Krashen, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California

Dr. Stephen Krashen featured on People Make a Difference

Dr. Stephen Krashen on The Case for Libraries

"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself." — Isaac Asimov


The mayor's budget experts who want to cut public library funding should consider the extraordinary amount of research on the impact of libraries on children.

Of the many items in the San Diego Union over the last few days about libraries ("Sanders to propose deep cuts to parks, libraries," April 15; "Community life thrives at endangered public libraries," April 16; Letters, April 16), only Pam Munoz Ryan ("Improving literacy through school libraries," April 16) mentioned these studies: They show that when children have access to good public and/or school libraries with plenty of good books and with adequate staffing, they read more, and thus do better on reading tests. For children of poverty, public and school libraries are typically the only possible source of reading material.

We complain that children don't read well enough, but we make it impossible for them to improve.

These commments were sent the San Diego Union Tribune

Stephen Krashen, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California

Dr. Stephen Krashen on The Case for Libraries