As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string a common thread through my posts), there is a growing pile (digital and otherwise) of [...]
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Using Blogs as Data Collectors
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 6, 2011 9:25 am.When I started graduate school, web-based reference tools were only just being developed. At the time, I was using Endnote to keep track of my citations. That is, until I clumsily tripped over the cord attached to my iBook. This was before the cord was magnetic, and I watched in stop-action as all of my [...]
What Do I Mean by Policy?
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 13, 2011 10:35 pm.I asked one of my professors during my first or second year of grad school, How are education policies made? I demanded an answer to a truly impossible question, and my professor’s answer was appropriate: It is a very complex process. As a fifth grade teacher, I couldn’t fathom the enormous chasm that lived between [...]
Night Before the First Day of School
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 7, 2011 11:51 pm.I wonder if my bad sleep patterns lately are a subconscious act of solidarity with teachers throughout New York City who are preparing to start another academic year tomorrow. I remember all too well that charged mixture of excitement and anxiety that churns in your belly the night before school starts — I always thought [...]
Night Before the First Day of School
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 7, 2011 11:51 pm.I wonder if my bad sleep patterns lately are a subconscious act of solidarity with teachers throughout New York City who are preparing to start another academic year tomorrow. I remember all too well that charged mixture of excitement and anxiety that churns in your belly the night before school starts — I always thought [...]
“Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But not test scores.”
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 6, 2011 4:35 pm.This past Sunday’s New York Times published the first of a series of articles about “the intersection of education, technology and business as schools embrace digital learning”(p. 16) with the title “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores.” I have to say, I appreciate the NYT’s effort at turning the spotlight to education every now and then, [...]
