In the spirit of the end-of-the-year and end-of-the-decade lists mania that seems to grip us (ahem!) periodically, over on On our Minds, Sarah Trabucchi had a post last week entitled “The Decade’s 10 Big Ideas in Education.” Ms. Trabucchi list was the product of the “education brains” at the publisher, Scholastic.
What’s on the list? It includes alternate paths to teaching, transformative technology, accountability, data-driven instruction, charter schools, the rise of digital content, a focus on adolescent literacy, books are the new black, it takes a village, the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
What rings my chimes about this list? Only one of them—”Data-Driven Instruction: Once we have data on every student, it’s easier to reach them quickly and to teach them better. Data is the new currency of 21st Century schools”— actually mentions instruction. And, to my skeptical eye, I suspect this is a reference to large-scale standardized testing, not to the kind of student performance data—progress-monitoring data—that can demonstrably be used to improve student performance.
If you’d like to peruse the list, go to The Decade’s 10 Big Ideas in Education
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