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Quick Poll: Are you happy with the education you or your child received from an American Public School?
Quick Poll: Which direction is American Public Education moving?
Quick Poll: Did you feel that the 2008 Presidential Candidates considered education a priority in their campaigns and vision for America?
Quick Poll: Do you think American Public Education needs a complete overhaul, just some modifications or is fine the way it is?
Quick Poll: If you had the choice of the level of American government that would have the most influence over your public school which would it be? (select one)
Quick Poll: How would you rate the overall quality of teaching your public school?
Quick Poll: How would rate the quality of leadership in your public school?
Quick Poll: Do you believe that either you or your child is learning in public school what is needed in order to be productive and engaged citizens in the 21st Century?
Quick Poll: Do you believe that the current school funding formula (primarily property taxes) is fair and equitable for all public schools?
Quick Poll: Do you think all American public schools should spend the same amount on educating a child or should it be left up to the individual school districts?
Quick Poll: Do we spend too much, too little or just the right amount on American Public Education?
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A high quality education provides adaptability to provide for differentiated student needs. There is connectivity to academic and global learning communities. High quality education provides pathways to problem solve independently and collaboratively, and think creatively.
Assessing the success of this model is ongoing, and not content based because it is not concrete.
What does a high quality education look like? It has relevency, stresses critical thinking, basic skills, effective communication & collaboration skills. It is forward-thinking, involves more than just teachers and students, and focuses on local and global community awareness.
To measure it, we need to use Authentic Assessments, performance tasks, open-ended responses, cumulative assessments, demonstrations, portfolios and be creative to address how diverse learners can demonstrate knowledge.
The best ways to insure access, are provide access to technology, comprehensive teacher training & monitoring, and have home-school-government focus on education, with proper funding.
High quality education is: adaptable, visionary, collaborative, meets the needs of the changing global community, competitive, equitable. It would provide for the development of student communication, reasoning and problem-solving skills, creativity in team-work in all content areas. The measure of it needs to be transformative, authentic, and revelant - it must going beyond the current traditional assessment. This is ensured through standards, reform initiative and re-prioritizing.
In order to have a high quality education, a student must be able to compete globally. This would include a basic national curriculum and/or standards. It would also include being technologically inclined. This would also include having teachers that are willing to learn, collaborate, implement, and engage strategies that allow students to compete globally.
A high quality education encourages effective communication, equal opportunity and access to resources, meaningful critical thinking for analysis and evaluation, personal development of responsibility and ethics, emphasis on a rigorous curriculum, and nurturing of individual skills and interests. These standards must be measured by guiding students through the mastering of fundamentals so that they may ultimately perform authentically in school and in society. Our society must adapt, reform, and reinforce the educational system to keep it relevant and accessible through current technologies, ideas, and methods on a global level.
Future educational policy should focus on preparing our students and teachers to compete in a global market. Teachers (in NJ) are frustrated over the lack of time and resources to properly prepare themselves for 21st C technical expectations. Too much of our time is wasted by State Board policies.We would like to see national standardizaton for lesson planning.
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