February 2015 Blog Posts (89)

In Defense of Annual School Testing By CHAD ALDEMAN





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Added by Michael Keany on February 7, 2015 at 8:34am — No Comments

A Template for Walkthroughs by Martin Weinstein

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Have a wonderful weekend.

 

Yours truly,

Martin Weinstein

Added by Martin Weinstein on February 6, 2015 at 4:39pm — No Comments

What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’? by Katrina Schwartz

What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2015 at 9:18am — No Comments

How Professors Can Bolster Inquiry in College Using K-12 Tech Tricks by Katrina Schwartz

How Professors Can Bolster Inquiry in College Using…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2015 at 9:16am — No Comments

Misguided Direction: Will Students Turn Their Backs On Education? by Joey J. Cohen via Peter DeWitt

Misguided Direction: Will Students Turn Their Backs On Education?

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2015 at 9:13am — No Comments

How schools ruined recess — and four things needed to fix it By Angela Hanscom

How schools ruined recess — and four things needed to fix it…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 5, 2015 at 1:19pm — No Comments

What Do Principals, Teachers Want in an NCLB Rewrite? By Alyson Klein

What Do Principals, Teachers Want in an NCLB Rewrite?

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Added by Michael Keany on February 5, 2015 at 1:16pm — No Comments

Differentiated to death by David Griffith

Differentiated to death

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Added by Michael Keany on February 5, 2015 at 10:18am — No Comments

WHAT TOMORROW'S SCHOOLS CAN LEARN FROM LEGO TODAY by MARTIN LINDSTROM



WHAT TOMORROW'S SCHOOLS CAN LEARN FROM LEGO TODAY

TEACHERS HAVE SOME OF THE GREATEST STORIES TO TELL. CAN THEY CLICK WITH KIDS?



Today’s…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 5, 2015 at 9:12am — No Comments

STEM Is More Than A Learning Experience

STEM does not mean teaching more. It means teaching differently. It requires project and problem based learning. It requires partnerships with businesses and the health care industry. Science and technology are pushing our lives forward simultaneously. Math, in the service of science, technology, and problem solving, is a partner. New engineers will benefit from innovative design programs supported by the arts and informed by history to break open how we illuminate our homes, play…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on February 5, 2015 at 7:27am — No Comments

A Few Hours With John Hattie by Steve Peha

A Few Hours With John Hattie

by Steve Peha

TEACHING THAT MAKES SENSE

www.ttms.org

Last month, when I spoke at the Learning Forward conference, I had the pleasure of speaking as well with John Hattie. Hattie’s…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2015 at 8:41am — No Comments

Charters slightly better for special needs (in NYC, anyway)

Charters slightly better for special needs (in NYC, anyway)

New York City's Independent Budget Office has released a report finding children with disabilities stayed at charters at a slightly higher rate than at traditional public schools, contrary to the prevailing narrative, writes Elizabeth Harris for The New York Times. The report examined 3,000 students at charters and 7,200 students at nearby traditional public schools who started kindergarten in 2008. It found…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2015 at 8:09am — No Comments

Hands off the Carnegie Unit

Hands off the Carnegie Unit

A new report from the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching looks at the Carnegie Unit -- or credit hour -- which it established over a century ago as a rough gauge of student readiness for college-level academics, standardizing student exposure to subject material by ensuring consistent amounts of instructional time. Reformers now argue that reliance on the Carnegie Unit has in fact slowed progress toward diplomas and degrees. Critics say that…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2015 at 8:09am — No Comments

Why grade-span testing won't work

Why grade-span testing won't work

Despite a real possibility that, going forward, states will have to test students only once in each grade span (once in elementary, middle, and high school), a new paper from the Brookings Institution argues that annual testing is critical to judging school quality. Using a decade of data, the paper projects how schools would rate based only on average test scores in a solitary grade -- the situation under a grade-span testing regime…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2015 at 8:06am — No Comments

The increasingly less-common Core

The increasingly less-common Core

One hope of the Common Core was that states would discard the national patchwork of 50 sets of standards measured by 50 different tests, writes Emma Brown in The Washington Post. For the first time, parents and policymakers would directly compare student performance in one state to the rest of the nation, making it harder for lagging states to hide weak performance. The goal seemed easily within reach in 2011, as 45 states and the…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2015 at 8:04am — No Comments

There is free lunch, but what does it signify?

There is free lunch, but what does it signify?

"Free and reduced-price lunch" is generally used to indicate concentrations of poverty and how these affect learning, but is it the best yardstick? asks Will Huntsberry for NPR. Does qualifying for the program necessarily indicate risk of falling through the cracks of American education? To qualify for the federal lunch program, families must be at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level -- about $44,000…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2015 at 8:00am — No Comments

In Defense of Childhood

“You will never accomplish your design of forming sensible people, unless you begin by making playful children.”

                                                                                                                                                 -Rousseau

 

Beneath the headlines, there are danger signs that lie ahead as a result of the current calls to reform education.  Some economists, business leaders, and politicians use the metrics…

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Added by David A. Gamberg on February 3, 2015 at 3:00pm — No Comments

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