August 2012 Blog Posts (51)

Rick Hess: Extending The School Year For Everybody 'A Really Bad Idea'

Rick Hess: Extending The School Year For Everybody 'A Really Bad Idea'

Posted: 08/08/2012

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2012 at 11:30pm — No Comments

How Does #Edchat Connect Educators?

For educators who have been connected since the early days of social media, it is difficult to understand the reason people would ask, “What is #Edchat?” We must remember that many educators using social media for professional reasons have joined only recently. The idea of using social media for professional reasons is a relatively new concept. One would hope that it is having a positive effect because the Department of Education declared August Connected Educators Month. In our…

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Added by Tom Whitby on August 8, 2012 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Average Is Over, Part II By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Average Is Over, Part II

NY Times

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2012 at 8:56am — No Comments

Still MORE on Flipping the Faculty Meeting by Bill Ferriter

Still MORE on Flipping the Faculty Meeting

by Bill Ferriter

TLN

Back in early July, I wrote two posts (see here and here)…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2012 at 7:49pm — No Comments

Evaluating teachers is not so easy by ANNE G. FAIGEN

Evaluating teachers is not so easy

ANNE G. FAIGEN, a novelist who was a high school teacher, knows from experience that assessing classroom performance is indeed complicated
August 5, 2012 12:31 am

In a conversation about…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2012 at 7:47pm — No Comments

Improving Academic Achievement for Disadvantaged Children by Maurice Elias

Improving Academic Achievement for Disadvantaged Children

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2012 at 3:34pm — No Comments

What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020 by ARIEL SCHWARTZ



What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020

Fast Company

Is the era of the ivy-walled college coming to an end? How much will technology reshape what we think of as the college experience? See what the experts had to say.



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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2012 at 11:24am — No Comments

Teach for America: What's the Purpose? by Kenzo Shibata

Kenzo Shibata

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2012 at 11:10am — No Comments

Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say

Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say

  |  Posted: 08/06/2012 …

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2012 at 11:07am — No Comments

What’s the big deal about Blogging?

A short time ago I attended a meeting where members of a college English department were doing a presentation to the faculty about their writing program. As I listened to about a 30-minute presentation of the types of writing required by this program, it became obvious to me that two words in this presentation of a college writing program were never uttered. They were two words that as an educator I come in contact with almost every day. Two words that have changed the way information is…

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Added by Tom Whitby on August 3, 2012 at 6:14pm — No Comments

Putting schools on a diet: The public speaks By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler

Putting schools on a diet: The public speaks

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler/ August 2, 2012

In November 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a widely noted address about the tough economic times facing American K-12 education. “I am here,” he said, “to talk today about what has been called the New Normal. For the next several years,…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 3, 2012 at 5:37am — No Comments

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