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| This fictitious TIPSheet outlines real behavioral science features that will likely accelerate student learning promptly and dramatically. |
This New Era School Initiative (NESI) TIPSheet 4 offers a school objective consistent with national recognition of a local educator. The target is the NESI first principle, a one point checklist: “Instructional failure is not an option.”
Josh Keller reports that President Barack Obama has nominated Martha J. Kanter as Under Secretary of Education.
I see it very simply,” Ms. Kanter says of her philosophy as an educator. “Educate the top 100 percent.”
She’s someone, said Sarah Snow, now a Stanford University student, “… who sees someone’s potential and will trust them to do the work.”
Kanter champions open educational resources, an effort to make college textbooks and other instructional materials available free online.
She thinks there are more ways to scale up and make more available ways that work for student learning.
Martha J. Kanter Homepage (Unavailable to download the link on April 29, 2010, 5:13 PM.)
Keller, J. Education Dept. Gets a Nominee Who Champions the Underserved, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 2009, p. 1. (Retrieved from The Tablet PC Education Blog, April 29, 2010, 5:15 PM.) http://chronicle.com/article/Education-Dept-Gets-a-Nominee/13630
Review NESI first principles for school reform: “New Era School Initiative (NESI): Doynit on School Reform,” The Tablet PC Education Blog, March 30, 2009, 5:27 AM. (Retrieved April 29, 2010, 5:20 PM.) http://www.robertheiny.com/2009/03/new-era-school-initiative-nesi.html
Thanks, Rob, for pointing me to this article and for calling my attention to Kanter’s work as a datapoint consistent with NESI. Readers may review Rob’s thinking about NESI in his recent comment on New Era School Initiative (NESI): Doynit on School Reform.
Posted by The Tablet PC In Education Blog, April 17, 2009, 5:29 PM. (Retrieved April 29, 2010, 5:o8 PM.) http://www.robertheiny.com/2009/04/nesi-tipsheet-4-educate-top-100-of.html