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Do our education commissars have their act together? Do they mean well???
I heard the comment many times, as an all-purpose excuse: "They mean well. They just can't get their act together."'
I puzzled over this. I pondered and I pondered. More and more it seemed to me that they don't mean well at all.
And our big national problem is that they do have their act together.
Just take any one item: 50 million functional illiterates and millions of children who never learn to read…
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Encouraging Teacher Leaders to Become Principals by BOB LENZ
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How to discipline students without turning school into a prison by Lynn Russo Whylly
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I Hate Technology & Other Lame Opinions By Peter DeWitt
I Hate Technology & Other Lame Opinions
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Takeaways from Math Methods: How Will You Teach Effectively? by Jennifer Bay-Williams
Takeaways from Math Methods: How Will You Teach Effectively?
JANUARY 8, 2014This post by Jennifer Bay-Williams originally appeared in Edutopia’s …
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Hurdles for teacher leaders
Hurdles for teacher leaders
Why must teacher leadership be so difficult? asks José Luis Vilson in a post on the Center for Teaching Quality website. Encouraging teachers in leadership roles helps all involved: Teachers can demonstrate professional growth over time and help fill voids in their school, principals can cultivate leaders in their buildings and work with them on mentoring new teachers, and students get a teacher with a macro-view…
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Toward a (truly) universal pre-K in NYC
Toward a (truly) universal pre-K in NYC
Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a campaign to win a tax on high-earning New Yorkers to vastly improve the city's pre-kindergarten and after-school programs, reports Al Baker in The New York Times. De Blasio has assembled a high-powered taskforce and media campaign to apply political pressure in Albany, where he needs state leaders' approval to raise the city's tax rate to 4.41 percent, from 3.87…
Added by Michael Keany on January 8, 2014 at 11:03am — No Comments
ELLs and the policies around them
ELLs and the policies around them
A new brief from the Education Commission of the States examines reform issues around English Language Learners (ELLs), who as of 2010-11 were one in every 10 public school students in the United States. More than 25 percent of ELLs speak a language other than Spanish, and 10 percent speak a language that is not in the top ten; in some states, a majority of ELLs don't speak top-ten languages. The brief…
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The People and Moments That Define Us from A Principal's Reflections by Eric Sheninger
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Be in a National Magazine: Voice Your Opinion on Opting-Out
Opting out is in, but does it work?
More parents are choosing to opt out of high-stakes standardized testing for their kids. But what impact does not participating really have—and is it really the best way to implement change?
Answer this question here in the comment section, or email me at
bookgirlblogger(at)gmail(dot)com, and your opinion could appear in a national magazine.
Happy reading and…
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From the Outside of 2013 NCTE Looking Back In
While it is time to post my proposal for the NCTE 2014 Convention, I thought I would share my experience at the 2013 NCTE Convention in Boston last November.…
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6 HABITS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE by Gwen Moran
6 HABITS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE
WHAT MAKES SOME PEOPLE PERSEVERE THROUGH TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES WHILE OTHERS BEGIN FLAILING AT THE FIRST SIGN OF CRISIS? UNDERSTANDING THE KEY QUALITIES OF RESILIENT PEOPLE IS THE FIRST STEP TO CULTIVATING THAT BOUNCE-BACK QUALITY IN YOURSELF.
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The case for nagging kids about their homework
The case for nagging kids about their homework
Submitted by Matthew Zalaznick on Mon, 01/06/2014 - 4:29pm…
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Fighting Back With Facts
Yes, we can reverse the dark tide in American education. Easily. Teach facts.
First, fully confront the nihilism you are up against. Some people want to pull the plug so that everything substantial drains out of the classroom. All facts, all knowledge, gone. The children will spend their time discussing problems in society, preparing portfolios, working on projects. Nothing these children say or think will mean very much because they won’t know any…
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This Time It’s Personal and Dangerous by Barbara Bray
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Are Ideals Really Ideal? by Aaron David - Peter DeWitt’s Blog
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I’m no Common Core fan, but give it a chance by Jay Mathews
I’m no Common Core fan, but give it a chance
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Learning from Lyddie
I recently read Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson and I couldn't put it down. Why?
1. Ms. Paterson followed the most important rule of writing by creating a character readers care
about. I liked Lyddie as a person, and was willing to stick through 200 pages with her to make
sure things turned out in her favor.
2. Ms. Paterson grabbed me with all of the sights, sounds and smells of the time period. I felt like I
was on a…
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The Common Core Goes to Kindergarten: How Should Teachers Respond? by Russ Walsh
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TEACH THE FOUR IMPROVERS OF WRITING AND MAKE YOUR STUDENT WRITERS THE EDITORS
TEACH THE FOUR IMPROVERS OF WRITING AND MAKE YOUR STUDENT WRITERS THE EDITORS
Evelyn Rothstein, Ed.D., Adjunct Professor and Educational Consultant
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