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Noah Mackert

@mrmackert

Homemaking after 20 years working in NYC and LA public schools. Minnesotan. he/him

 Los Angeles, CA
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I wrote about how teachers were represented by artists on the Left in the 1970s, as represented in books by eccentric publisher Harlin Quist. All now out of print. open.substack.com/pub/noahma…
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Anne Carson offers a great deal of pleasure to the reader. I always have new ideas when I read her work. Even the conservative may find nourishment. A shame to deny yourself.
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Which LA mayoral candidate has a plan for this?
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Maybe I'm wrong, but in my experience the problem in urban public schools is less that "teachers have given up" and more that they are working with weak systems and bad ideas. The idea that "research shows homework has no benefit," for example, is incorrect.
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It sounds, even to me, like the kind of argument an out-of-touch academic would make. But I've made a career out of this issue, and I keep coming back to it. We have plenty of will, and even plenty of money. What we don't have is agreement on what to do.
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I like this homework discourse. A reminder that we really do not agree on some of the most basic elements of schooling.
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I will say, in 20 years of working in public schools, I have learned one lesson very clearly. You cannot solve any of these challenges with an ideologically-imbalanced toolkit. Every effective school or teacher synthesizes traditional and progressive techniques.
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Some examples of what are, in my view, good homework experiences:
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The next day, there is a 5-minute quiz on the basic questions at the start of class. It is graded by partners and handed in. Then, there is a discussion about the juicier question. It is lively. Students who failed the quiz do not participate; they do their homework.
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In these examples, homework is not just extra practice, but an integral part of the learning process. The stakes change from K to 12. But at each level, homework is taken seriously, with policies surrounding it that synthesize both traditional and progressive approaches.
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This video of Dolly Parton covering Stairway to Heaven is going around. Here's a higher quality version for you to enjoy. RIP to the Queen of Country and an absolute angel on Earth.
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people often post this stuff to imply that moral panics about the technologies of the past were quaint. But the past is full of reminders that we are on a long, slow march away from embodied experience, and that we’ve lost more of it than we can even remember
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Daily Mirror, September 14, 1938
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Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)
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Another obscure corner of the Education Department is scheduled to lose funding this week. hechingerreport.org/proof-po…
A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat

Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week

hechingerreport.org
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