21st Century Literacy

21 Century Literacy is a 401(c)(3) non-profit located in Austin, TX and serving the world. We offer a free curriculum and professional development.

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J. M. Beach talking with Joe Donahue on Northeast Public Radio on The Round Table. They discuss why accountability metrics in schools aren't working and they explore the question, Can we measure what matters most?

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What is real knowledge? What does authentic learning look like? How can we best evaluate teaching and learning? How can we get the best out of our schools?

J.M. Beach talks with Geoffrey Riley on NPR for Southern Oregon

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Can we measure what matters most in education?

J. M. Beach is discussing educational reform with Karin Sconzert, professor of education, on WGTD "Education Matters"

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What if a college degree is merely a "positional good" that leaves everyone worse off because schooling is like a treadmill, leaving everyone running in place, rather than a meritocratic ladder to a better life?

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J. M. Beach is talking with Tom Sumner, discussing: Can we transform schools into learning organizations? Do schools reward merit or something else? What does educational reform actually mean, and is it even possible?

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J. M. Beach on Why We Can't Measure What Matters Most in Education

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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

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Theories of learning developed in education and psychology for the past 100 years are woefully inadequate to support the design of schools and classrooms that foster deep learning and equity.

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A polluted information supply imperils our nation’s civic health. We need high-quality digital literacy curricula, validated by rigorous research, to guarantee democracy.

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"Practice is, first and foremost, a process by which we can experience the world and our engagement with it as meaningful...learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history or that learning."

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"The real lesson is that under conditions of true complexity - where knowledge required exceeds that of any individual and unpredictability reigns - efforts to dictate every step from the center will fail. People need room to act and adapt."

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"Teachers do influence, but never produce or control, student learning. Teachers play an important part in the learning process, but not the central role...Students have to want to learn. And they have to work at learning."

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Imagine a world where teachers make a billion dollars...

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Can we measure what matters most when it comes to teaching and learning? Who should be managing our schools?

J. M. Beach talking to Burt Cohen on "Keeping Democracy Alive"

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J.M. Beach talking to Guy Rathbun, KCBX, on his radio show “Ideasphere”

What is education? Can we fully understand and measure teaching and learning? Who should be in control of the evaluation of schools?

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Standards are important, yet there are limits to what can be routinized...one must know enough about the surrounding tasks to ensure the standards won't inadvertently undermine the pursuit of other equally important ends.

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Even when school appears to be successful, even when it elicits the performances for which it has apparently been designed, it typically fails to achieve its most important missions.

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J. M. Beach is on the NPR show The Best of Our Knowledge talking about his two new books, Can We Measure What Matters Most? and The Myths of Measurement and Meritocracy.

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In a positional competition, there is no net benefit if everyone adopts the behavior or secures the scare commodity. Everyone is worse off. Schools are treadmills, not ladders. You work to stay in place, not rise.

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