What's Lucy Reading?

TASC President Lucy N. Friedman catches you up on her list of must-reads:

The New America Foundation’s Ed Money Watch blog highlights interesting new data about pathways into teaching for Hispanic and African-American men. It seems that alternative rather than traditional teacher training programs do a better job of attracting these prospective teachers. Many young men of color have their first work experiences in camps and after-school programs. What lessons can we apply to help more men become teachers?

In Richard F. Elmore’s new book of essays on reforming education, I Used to Think…and Now I Think…, the piece I found most thought-provoking was Elmore’s own. Here’s how he begins: “I used to think that policy was the solution. And now I think that policy is the problem.”

February 1 is Digital Learning Day, and TASC’s contribution will be a paper and video on technology-enabled learning through school-community partnerships. Even before our Mayor pledged to learn to code I set a 2012 goal for myself: to become more technologically literate.