Showing posts with label Stephen Krashen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Krashen. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2015
SKrashen: The ELL "Problem" and the Common Core "Solution"*
SKrashen: The ELL "Problem" and the Common Core "Solution"*: Stephen Krashen There is a problem with ELLs/Emergent Bilinguals (henceforth ELLs), but it is not the problem that is typically stated i... [READ ALL]
Monday, April 06, 2015
SKrashen: Do education officials understand why the opt out movement is so strong?
Posted at: http://www.sfgate.com/…/Education-commissioner-Students-can…
In response to: "Education commissioner: Students can't opt out of testing"
Missing from this article is why parents are refusing to allow their
children to be tested: the parents are not against assessment but are
against excessive and inappropriate assessment. This is the reason the
opt-out movement is so widespread. I wonder if those imposing penalties
for opting out understand this.
S Krashen
In response to: "Education commissioner: Students can't opt out of testing"
Missing from this article is why parents are refusing to allow their
children to be tested: the parents are not against assessment but are
against excessive and inappropriate assessment. This is the reason the
opt-out movement is so widespread. I wonder if those imposing penalties
for opting out understand this.
S Krashen
Saturday, February 28, 2015
SKrashen: Proposed reductions in testing: the boondoggle remains
SKrashen: Proposed reductions in testing: the boondoggle remains: LETTER Published in Substance http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=5465§ion=Article February 26,2015 In my e-mail t...
Saturday, January 24, 2015
SKrashen: 21st Century Skills Requires a 21-Hour School Day
SKrashen: 21st Century Skills Requires a 21-Hour School Day: Sent to the Oregonian, June 23. Re: "With trepidation, state school board tells districts to schedule more students for full school ye...
Monday, January 12, 2015
SKrashen: A common core for community colleges?
SKrashen: A common core for community colleges?:
Sent to the New York Times, Jan 11, 2015
The President's plan to fund community colleges sounds great: It would reduce the high costs of college and also provide job preparation in areas where there are shortages, such as carpentry, electrical work, construction, and plumbing, specialties that do not require a four-year degree. ("Obama, in Tennessee, Begins Selling His Community College Tuition Plan," January 9).
Our concern is the requirement that "Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes." Does this mean an expansion of the common core, bringing expensive and untested standards and nonstop testing to the college level?
Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus
University of Southern California
Kris Nielsen
Author, Children of the Core (2013)
Source for "Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/08/president-proposes-make-community-college-free-responsible-students-2-years
Original article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/us/obama-announces-plan-to-pay-for-community-college.html
Sent to the New York Times, Jan 11, 2015
The President's plan to fund community colleges sounds great: It would reduce the high costs of college and also provide job preparation in areas where there are shortages, such as carpentry, electrical work, construction, and plumbing, specialties that do not require a four-year degree. ("Obama, in Tennessee, Begins Selling His Community College Tuition Plan," January 9).
Our concern is the requirement that "Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes." Does this mean an expansion of the common core, bringing expensive and untested standards and nonstop testing to the college level?
Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus
University of Southern California
Kris Nielsen
Author, Children of the Core (2013)
Source for "Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/08/president-proposes-make-community-college-free-responsible-students-2-years
Original article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/us/obama-announces-plan-to-pay-for-community-college.html
Thursday, August 21, 2014
SKrashen: Opposition to the common core
SKrashen: Opposition to the common core: Sent to the Washington Post, August 20, 2014
The Post has reported that according to a recent PDK/Gallup poll, the "Common Core educational standards are losing support nationwide" (August 19). The poll asked those opposed to the Common Core why they were opposed, giving them several possible reasons.
The options did not include the reasons many educators oppose the Common Core: There is no need for a radical change in curriculum or testing. Substantial improvement will come only when we deal with the real problem: Poverty. When researchers control for the effect of poverty, American test scores are near the top of the world. Our unspectacular overall scores are because the US has the second highest level of child poverty among all 34 economically advanced countries (now over 23%, compared to high-scoring Finland’s 5.4%).
Poverty means poor nutrition, inadequate health care, and lack of access to books, among other things. All of these negatively impact school performance. Instead of protecting children from the effect of poverty, the common core is investing billions in an untested curriculum and massive testing, despite research showing that increasing testing does not increase achievement.
Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus
University of Southern California
original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/common-core-educational-standards-are-losing-support-nationwide-poll-shows/2014/08/19/67b1f20c-27cb-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
The Post has reported that according to a recent PDK/Gallup poll, the "Common Core educational standards are losing support nationwide" (August 19). The poll asked those opposed to the Common Core why they were opposed, giving them several possible reasons.
The options did not include the reasons many educators oppose the Common Core: There is no need for a radical change in curriculum or testing. Substantial improvement will come only when we deal with the real problem: Poverty. When researchers control for the effect of poverty, American test scores are near the top of the world. Our unspectacular overall scores are because the US has the second highest level of child poverty among all 34 economically advanced countries (now over 23%, compared to high-scoring Finland’s 5.4%).
Poverty means poor nutrition, inadequate health care, and lack of access to books, among other things. All of these negatively impact school performance. Instead of protecting children from the effect of poverty, the common core is investing billions in an untested curriculum and massive testing, despite research showing that increasing testing does not increase achievement.
Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus
University of Southern California
original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/common-core-educational-standards-are-losing-support-nationwide-poll-shows/2014/08/19/67b1f20c-27cb-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
Saturday, June 07, 2014
@ THE CHALK FACE: Dr. Krashen’s Solutions Work! Preempt “summer learning loss” by addressing poverty, and ensuring access to books!
First published on @ THE CHALK FACE on June 6, 2014
Providing more access to interesting reading material by investing in public libraries and librarians is an excellent way to deal with summer learning loss. — Dr. Stephen D. Krashen
Let's talk about serendipity. This morning at teacher sent me a Haertel paper on the unreliability of Value Added Measures, and I saw a figure in the paper on "summer learning loss" that started me working on an infographic. After creating the graphic and the corresponding tweet, I noticed that Dr. Paul Thomas had tweeted a new post by Professor Krashen on essentially the same topic entitled: Arne Duncan suggests year-round school as a solution to the summer slide. I disagree. It may well be that it was pure chance, but it's probably because school (at least LAUSD) was wrapping up this week.
Krashen's Solutions Work!
Professor Stephen Krashen and colleagues have repeatedly proven that both access to books, and ameliorating the effects of poverty are critical in addressing so-called achievement gaps. Neoliberal corporate education reform's wrongheaded assertion that we need to lengthen the school year ignores these indisputable facts, as emphatically illustrated by differences in the table (Haertel 17) above:
- References
- Haertel, Edward. "Reliability and Validity of Inferences About Teachers Based on Student Test Scores." Educational Testing Service, 2013. Web. 6 June 2014 <http://j.mp/1kQw5kw>
- Krashen, Stephen D. "Protecting Students against the Effects of Poverty: Libraries." New England Reading Association Journal. 46.2 (2011): 17-22. Web. 6 June 2014 <http://j.mp/1kIlgFV>
- —————. The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. Print.
- Shin, Fay H, and Stephen D. Krashen. Summer Reading: Program and Evidence. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2008. Print.
Dr. @skrashen's proven reforms to preempt "summer learning loss." Address poverty, and ensure access to books! #LAUSD pic.twitter.com/d3oPORVZpF
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) June 6, 2014Sunday, May 25, 2014
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...
Friday, April 25, 2014
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...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
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 ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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 ...
Thursday, March 06, 2014
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/
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/
Monday, February 24, 2014
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...
Sunday, February 23, 2014
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...
Saturday, February 22, 2014
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
Friday, February 21, 2014
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...
Sunday, February 16, 2014
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!
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen, hosted by UTLA Bilingual Education Committee
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
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...
Monday, January 27, 2014
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 ...
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