Paul W Bennett
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Education commentator, consultant and author. Specialist in decoding edubabble.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Joined August 2009
Lasting Memories: One of the real highlights of researchED Atlantic Canada 25 was presenting Dr Jamie Metsala with the first researchED Canada Award of Excellence. The first recipient of any award sets the standard #rEDATCan25 Ty @NicoleJConrad for capturing the moment #NSed
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Ontario Student Assessment: Provincial agency #EQAO @eqao put to the test. Education Minister @PaulCalandra has already succeeded in putting abolitionists on the defensive. Good to see informed commentators coming forward #ONTed #ONpoli #cdned
torontostarreplica.pressreader.com
EQAO is going to be put to the test. With lessthanimpressive gains in the provincial assessments of reading, writing and math — and with results that vary among schools, boards, and the...
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Morning Ritual: Reading the Provincial Paper over Coffee - the perfect way to begin the day. Seeing your own byline in @chronicleherald gives it special meaning. It's all about making a small contribution to public discourse. Support local journalism and @caj
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Digital Dangers in Schools: How Vulnerable are Students on Chromebooks? The video game, #Roblox, is alluring and a gateway for predators. A N.S. 14-year-old was trapped in that web and alerts us to the dire consequences. Ty #BlairRhodes @CBCNS
saltwire.com
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School Conduct Code Compliance Alert: Education researcher Elizabeth Lance's Report Card, based upon 60 of 72 boards, provided failure rates on Entrance Signage (80%), Reporting (82%), Public Access (18%), and Cyberbullying Prohibition (18%). Ty @AnwarKnight #7Hours #ONTed
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Student Assessment Review: Latest round of Ontario's EQAO student results sparks a Provincial Review to examine effectiveness of student assessment, curriculum alignment, and deployment of results to improve outcomes. Long overdue. Let's get it right this time @PaulCalandra
Ontario's Education Minister acknowledges that if his ministry was "doing it right," EQAO test scores would be higher. The province is now going to hire an advisory panel, to look at improving standardized test scores. #onpoli #onted
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School Board Reform: Ontario's Waterloo Region School Board is ground zero in the struggle for public accountability. School Board "Codes of Conduct" are routinely used to silence dissent. Trustee @_MikeRamsay finds vindication @WR_Record @OPSBA #ONTed #ONpoli #cdned
The integrity commissioner’s report has been released, and now it’s clear that trustee Mike Ramsay’s punishment was way over the line, Luisa D’Amato writes.
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Generative AI and Liberal Education : AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself. A new critique of the latest threat to liberal education and the future of higher education
currentaffairs.org
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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School Board Reform: Ontario Education Minister @PaulCalandra found a "poster child" for school board dysfunction and mismanagement. His letter to parents provides the rationale. Read the "Updated Story" in the North Bay Nugget #ONTed #ONpoli #cdned
nugget.ca
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Education historian Paul W. Bennett (author of The State of the System) says Ontario’s system has always been “a battleground between local autonomy and provincial control.” That tension runs through every era, starting in the late 1800s... to "latest chapter in an old fight."
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Centralization and Local School Governance: Ontario's Bill 33 is latest skirmish in a 180 year saga - exerting more centralizing managerial control over local school autonomy. My take @iPoliticsCA #ONTed #ONpoli
ipolitics.ca
In this week’s Adjournment Proceedings, we look at how Ontario's school boards have undergone changes for the past 180 years, with the province expanding local control, only to rein it in, then...
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Sound analysis and wishy-washy responses. More funding or better targeted resources? Bring back community officers or restorative justice? Continue with PEBS/PEBIS when it's failing - or go for a Culture of Student Behaviour? The article ducks key questions
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Violence in Canadian Schools: Is School Violence reaching a tipping point? What needs to change? A fairly comprehensive round-up by Naomi Buck. Graphic examples, aggregated research but the suggested policy responses are all over the map. No consistency!
theglobeandmail.com
Underfunding and outdated policies mean students’ needs are being neglected and teachers are stretched thin. The only solution is more boots on the ground
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Where's Brad? Our Dr Brad Currie is one of the Top 30 Ed Tech Influencers in 2024 in the United States. He's ridden HighTech to the top of educational administration #EdTech Over to @MrZachG
edtechmagazine.com
Get to know the top voices in educational technology to stay up to date on the latest news and emerging trends.
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Educational Fantasyland: Who is Training Teachers to Chase the Dragon? New Jersey Assistant School Superintendent Dr. Brad Currie and who knows how many others. On of Dr Zach Groshell's best posts on #EducationRickshaw Blog. Over to @researchEDCan
https://t.co/itpvu7x9v4
educationrickshaw.com
The phrase “chasing the dragon” refers to the classic cycle of addiction. People keep chasing the dragon not because it’s working, but because they’re convinced the payoff will eventually come — if…
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There's a Canadian connection! The graphic illustration comes from Erica Bota of @ThinkLink Graphics, based in Squamish, BC. Looks to be inspired by constructivist theory fused with 21st century learning dogma. Possibly a mutation of Indigenous ways of learning
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Educational Leadership Visionary: Dr Brad Currie, director of planning, research & evaluation, Chester (N.J.) School District, co-founder of #EvolvingEducators posted this #EducationalFantasyland image on X-Twitter. Ty Zach Groshell @MrZachG for solving the mystery @thebandb
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Growth Mindset and Closing the Gap: New research study utilizing PISA data finds #growthmindset has limited effect in mediating the learning gap associated with SES and achievement. Ty @DTWillingham for spotting the study
Using PISA data from 73 countries, researchers estimated the extent to which growth mindset mediates the association of SES and achievement, and find results consistent w/ the picture of the last 10 years. It's a real effect. It's small. https://t.co/5aSxOKQxZk
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Restoring Local Voice: Seven years after Nova Scotia lopped off English language school trustees, Ontario is pursuing a different plan, starting with Student and Family Support offices. Public facing local bureaus may avert bureaucratic overgrowth #NSpoli
saltwire.com
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School Board Reform: Ontario's phasing out school trustees, but the evolving plan deviates from what happened in Nova Scotia. Restoring local voice came first under Bill 33, the Supporting Students Act Over to @PaulCalandra @HeatheratLFP #NSed
saltwire.com
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