tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37079081.post5774449474412176373..comments2023-09-22T03:23:13.932-04:00Comments on What SIS faculty are reading: Something to Think About In Regards to Distance EdMartin Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15605774514148710902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37079081.post-55835867189022466322009-02-18T22:58:00.000-05:002009-02-18T22:58:00.000-05:00"...The preliminary results of the surveys, which ..."...The preliminary results of the surveys, which polled <B>faculty members and administrators </B> separately about their opinions of distance-learning programs, were unveiled here Monday at the American Council on Education's conference."<BR/><BR/>A related opinion piece NY Times this week on America's national shame: education at large<BR/><BR/>Op-Ed Columnist<BR/><B>Our Greatest National Shame </B> <BR/>NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF<BR/>Published: February 14, 2009 <BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15kristof.html?ex=1250485200&en=47ab114338f0637f&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=OP-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M082-ROS-0209-L1&WT.mc_ev=click<BR/><BR/>"So maybe I was wrong. I used to consider health care our greatest national shame, considering that we spend twice as much on medical care as many European nations, yet American children are twice as likely to die before the age of 5 as Czech children — and American women are 11 times as likely to die in childbirth as Irish women."<BR/><BR/>"Yet I’m coming to think that our No. 1 priority actually must be education. That makes the new fiscal stimulus package a landmark, for it takes a few wobbly steps toward reform and allocates more than $100 billion toward education."<BR/><BR/>"That’s a hefty sum — by comparison, the Education Department’s entire discretionary budget for the year was $59 billion — and it will save America’s schools from the catastrophe that they were facing. A University of Washington study had calculated that the recession would lead to cuts of 574,000 school jobs without a stimulus."<BR/><BR/>..........<B>One of the greatest injustices is that America’s best teachers overwhelmingly teach America’s most privileged students. In contrast, the most disadvantaged students invariably get the least effective teachers, year after year — until they drop out." </B><BR/><BR/>"This stimulus package offers a new hope that we may begin to reform our greatest national shame, education. "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com