[Assam] Naga school tops - video : Improve High Schools - China, India , USA: Harvard GSE News: March 2008
umesh sharma
jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 3 21:47:50 CST 2008
http://www.dpsrkp.net/educationWorld.htm
India's Top Schools List:
Nagaland based Delhi Public School, Dimapur is among the top 50 schools in India. Interestingly from South India there are no schools in the top 20 - from where the Education World is published (Bangalore) and where the IT and tech centers of India exist. Could be due to the IMRB (Indian Marketing and Research Bureau being HQed in Delhi's Safdurjung Enclave - I have seen its office from outside many times) and Indian national media being concentrated in Delhi -high;ighting only schools from their area.
Delhi's Delhi Public School RK Puram is at the top (one of its 2007 graduates is the Mr Harvard Freshman Siddhant Singh ) having beaten India's long reigning Doon School, Dehradun.
Scindia School, Gwalior, Mayo College, Ajmer, MGD School, Jaipur etc are conspicuous by their absence - perhaps indicative of an era where IIT entrance results matter more than overall personality development . Even from Doon School (as per a hostelmate of mine who was a Duke of Edinburg Gold medal winner and captain of its hockey team) students leave after grade 10 to join Delhi Public School , Delhi branches - to take a shot at IITs.
Doon and other boarding (called public schools - UK style) schools being notoriosuly famous for their stiff upper lip , blue blooded image disdaining milling masses preparing for competitive exams - like IIT-JEE etc. Now jobs in tea-gardens have dried up and IAS is no longer that attractive - since everyone wants global careers.
any comments?
Umesh
PS: Comparing US and Indian education reminds me that India has about 40 million school age children out of school - the largest such group in the world. Becos Indian govt cannot afford schools for everyone - despite Right To Education being touted on paper.
umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: How do Guwahati and Shillong high schools compare with those of Bangalore
or Delhi?
Umesh
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WS_QENuOYL8
competition among high schools for their countries' future
DVD trailer
http://www.2mminutes.com/
Harvard meet on world's best schools ignore India?
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2008/02/6_bridge.html
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Graduate School of Education News March 2008
Features HGSE Alum to Head Philadelphia Schools
Arlene Ackerman was recently named the new CEO of the Philadelphia School District marking her return to urban public school leadership.
HGSE Alum Recognized for Outstanding Dissertation
The dissertation of Ernesto Trevino, Ed.M.’01, Ed.D.’07, which examined the educational opportunities for indigenous children of Mexico, recently earned the prestigious Gail P. Kelly Award.
Star Discusses Making Algebra Work in Recent Webcast
Assistant Professor Jon Star was the featured speaker of the Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement’s webcast, Making Algebra Work: Instructional Strategies That Deepen Student Understanding on February 19.
HGSE Grad to Lead Mass. Department of Education
Mitchell Chester, Ed.D '91, comes to Massachusetts as the new commissioner of education with more than 20 years experience working in education policy.
Collins Honored by American Library Association
Gutman librarian John Collins was named the 2008 Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award recipient by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, which represents 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals.
Mind, Brain and Education Named Best New Journal
In a ceremony in Washington, D.C., Mind, Brain, and Education, a journal founded and edited by HGSE Professor Kurt Fischer, was named the best new journal in social sciences and humanities by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) division of the Association of American Publishers.
Family Valued
A look at the benefit, and possible downside, to family engagement in schools. (From Ed. magazine)
BRIDGE Event Focuses on Tactics of the World's Best Performing Schools
Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.
Luttrell Advocates for Children's Rights at Annual Visible Rights Conference
Associate Professor Wendy Luttrell recently spoke in Cambridge at the second Visible Rights Conference: Photography by and For Children where youth violence, homelessness, environmental protection, and media literacy were among the discussed topics.
To view a more complete list of feature stories, please visit the HGSE News home page.
Events Askwith Education Forums March 13: Shaping the Field of Educational Research: Insights from the National (Back)Stage
This forum, held in conjunction with the HGSE Student Research Conference, aims to illuminate the principles guiding institutional decisions about educational research.
March 18: Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life
Join us for a screening of Darius Goes West. In this multi-award-winning documentary, 15-year-old Darius Weems, and 11 of his best friends, set off across America with the ultimate goal of having Weems' wheelchair customized by MTV's Pimp My Ride. A Q&A will follow the screening with Logan Smalley, HGSE student and film director; Darius Weems; and crew members Jason Hees and Sam Johnson.
April 2: The Media: Driving Education Policy?
Perhaps more than any other professional field, the education agenda—or at least the public’s perception of it—is greatly influenced by the media and columnists. This discussion with leading print columnists will explore the public’s view of American education, and how this perspective is shaped by the news media.
April 9: Adolescent Literacy: Translating Research into Effective Policy and Practice
At this forum, discussion will center on the problem of struggling adolescent readers, which in recent years has been identified as a "crisis" in the U.S. education system, drawing increasing interest from researchers and policymakers.
Other HGSE Events March 27: HGSE Reception at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
If you are planning to attend the AERA annual meeting in New York, please be sure to join us for the Harvard Graduate School of Education reception. Please check the HGSE Events Calendar frequently for information on more upcoming campus events.
HGSE In The Media The following is a list of recent media appearances by HGSE faculty members. Please note: websites are increasingly requiring registration and, in some cases, charging fees for viewing content. Current availability is noted.
Ed Week Chat: Mica Pollock on Race in Schools
Mica Pollock discusses how educators can address race-related issues in classrooms. (Education Week, 02/27/08, Free registration required)
At Some Point, Private Hillary and Public Hillary Will Have to Meet
"It is also imperative that Clinton describe what Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan calls 'the moments where meaning is made' and the events that shaped her commitments." (Seattle Times, 02/26/08)
Team Obama
Ed Week looks at the background of some of Senator Obama's education advisers including HGSE Professor Fernando Reimers. (Education Week, 02/25/08)
Teacher Absenteeism Affects Student Achievement
"Does teacher absenteeism have a direct impact on student achievement? You bet, say Harvard researchers Raegen Miller, [Professor] Richard Murnane, and [Professor] John Willett, who are examining the effect of teacher absences on fourth-grade test scores in a large, urban school district." (School Library Journal, 02/20/08)
Tenure, Part II: Revitalizing Burnt-Out Profs
"If routine breeds stagnation, will well-established universities be able to change? Professor Richard Light of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education thinks so. He has a grant from the Spencer Foundation to demonstrate that colleges can themselves become learning institutions. Not only do schools impart education to students, but they also have the potential to embed creative ideas within themselves. Light is working to develop best practices that schools can share to keep innovation in teaching moving forward." (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 02/20/08)
Shades of Brilliance
"A graduate student attending the Harvard Graduate School of Education, [Susan] Foster has been teaching the Step into Art program alongside Rischin for a year. 'I think one of the best parts of the program is the students are really excited to see the art in person,' Foster said. 'They already come equipped with the knowledge of that piece of art so I think they are more excited to see it because they know something about it.'" (The Daily News Tribune, 02/20/08)
When Modern Life Just Doesn't Add Up
"'It improves retention and outcome dramatically,' says [Senior Research Associate John] Comings. 'Just putting a map into their heads of where they are going appears to be very important for maintaining their motivation to learn and also their achievement.'" (The Guardian, 02/19/08)
Good Parenting Ups Kids' Mental Skills
"At a critical time in early childhood when the brain is developing, stress inhibits the formation of connections between brain cells and restricts blood flow to the brain. 'It literally disrupts brain architecture,' says [Professor] Jack Shonkoff, MD, a child development expert at Harvard University." (Web MD, 02/15/08)
Study Examines Whether Complex Financial Aid Forms are Barriers to Post-Secondary Education
"The College Enrollment Study is a joint venture that involves University of Toronto associate professor Philip Oreopoulos of economics, researchers from Case Western Reserve, and principal investigator [Professor] Bridget Long from Harvard." (University of Toronto, 02/11/08)
The End of Literacy? Don't Stop Reading
"'I don't worry for a nanosecond that reading and writing will disappear. Even in the new digital media, it's essential to be able to read and write fluently and, if you want to capture people's attention, to write well. Of course, what it means to 'write well' changes: Virginia Woolf didn't write the same way that Jane Austen did, and Arianna Huffington's blog won't be confused with Walter Lippmann's columns. But the imaginative spheres and real-world needs that all those written words address remain,' writes Professor Howard Gardner." (The Washington Post, 02/15/08)
A World of Potential
"David Zarowin, executive director of WIDE World, an online professional development program housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is working with officials in the Jing An school district in Shanghai - the one with the stringless harp - on online courses for teachers." (Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, 02/03/08)
Chilean Early Childhood Program Makes a Difference
"Late in January, a delegation from Chile visited Harvard to discuss 'Un Buen Comienzo' ('A Good Start'), an early childhood education program undertaken in 2006 by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Medical School, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, with the Chilean Ministries of Education and Health and other local institutions that impart preschool education." (The Harvard Gazette, 02/01/08)
Where Have all the IT Girls Gone?
"Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education at Harvard University, ascribes this difference only in part to gender. 'In early years, there's evidence that boys are somewhat more oriented toward physical objects, while girls are more oriented toward other persons and social interchange. But these are only averages, and the within-gender differences far outweigh the across-gender differences.'" (Management Today, 02/01/08)
Building a Knowledge Base for Educational Leadership
"'Something important is clearly afoot in the training of educational leaders. For more than a decade, academics and policymakers have been at work developing and implementing standards for the preparation of education leaders through the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium, under the aegis of the Council of Chief State School Officers. Now, these standards have worked their way into the certification systems in most states,' writes Professor Richard Elmore." (Education Week, 01/29/08, Free registration required)
My Turn: 2008 Partners -- You, I and the Media
"I've read two interesting books that relate to the issue of our access to a monumental amount of information. Dr. Howard Gardner (Harvard educator and psychologist) describes what I think we all need to do when deciding who to vote for. In his new book, Five Minds for the Future, he writes a synthesizing mind is critical for today and the future, saying, 'A synthesizing mind is able to knit together information from disparate sources into a coherent whole.' Being able to do this could result in our feeling confident we have chosen the right candidate." (Burlington Free Press, 01/29/08)
Web 2.0: Helping Reinvent Education
"Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, opened his talk Thursday morning at FETC 2008 with an unexpected statement. 'What you're going to hear this morning,' he said, 'is a talk I've never given before.'" (The Journal , 01/08)
Harvard Family Research Project After School Programs in the 21st Century
The latest Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation research brief from the Harvard Family Research Project draws on seminal research and evaluation studies to address two primary questions: (a) Does participation in afterschool programs make a difference, and, if so (b) what conditions appear to be necessary to achieve positive results? The 12-page brief concludes with a set of questions to spur conversation about the evolving role of after school in efforts to expand time and opportunities for children and youth in the 21st century.
Harvard Education Publishing Group Harvard Education Press
Harvard Education Press is pleased to announce the March release of Resourceful Leadership: Tradeoffs and Tough Decisions on the Road to School Improvement, by Elizabeth City, which examines decisions about the use of three key resources - time, money, and staff - and how tradeoffs among them are integrated into school leaders' improvement strategies. City is a senior faculty member at Boston's School Leadership Institute, where she teaches courses in using data, learning and teaching, and staffing and professional development and coeditor of Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning (Harvard Education Press, 2005).
Harvard Education Press will be sponsoring a special session at this year's American Educational Research Association conference in New York City. The session, "Teaching with Cases: An Introduction to the Use of Cases in the Development of Educational Leaders," will be presented by Richard Elmore and Susan Moore Johnson of HGSE; it will take place Wednesday, March 26, 2008, from 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in Concourse G, Lower Level, Hilton New York Hotel. This special session will provide an opportunity for instructors, professional developers, and researchers to discuss the use of case studies in the education, training, and professional development of educational leaders at all levels. The session introduces the new Harvard Education Press title, Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership.
Harvard Educational Review
Harvard Educational Review will be sponsoring two events at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in connection with the spring 2008 special issue dedicated to adolescent literacy. On Tuesday, March 25, from 4:05 p.m. to 6:05 p.m. in Concourse G, Lower Level, Hilton New York Hotel, there will be a panel discussion "Improving Adolescents' Literacy Skills: What Do We Know and What Do We Have to Learn?" featuring Mark Conley, Michigan State University; Elizabeth Birr Moje, University of Michigan; Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago; Alfred Tatum, University of Illinois at Chicago; and discussant Catherine Snow from HGSE. Following the panel there will be a reception in celebration of the Special Issue from 6:15-7:45 p.m. in the Lincoln Suite, 4th Floor, Hilton New York Hotel.
The Harvard Educational Review is pleased to announce the release of Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance, edited by Malia Villegas, Sabina Rak Neugebauer, and Kerry Venegas. This new volume from the Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series, examines a wide range of Indigenous cultures and educational settings, including Native American, Haitian, Mexican, African, and Australian.
Harvard Education Letter
The March/April 2008 issue of the Harvard Education Letter includes the following articles: Educating Teenage Immigrants: High schools experiment with ways to group new English-language learners by Lucy Hood; A Conversation with Catherine Snow on Hot Topics and Key Words: Pilot project brings teachers together to tackle middle school literacy; a point of view commentary by Richard Weissbourd, The "Quiet" Troubles of Low-Income Children; and Waking Up to Sleep Deprivation by Sue Costello and Richard Weissbourd.
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