What’s the formula for a good school?
By Jay Mathews, Published: August 28
Summer’s gone, almost. It’s time to get serious about fixing our schools.
I had fun in July and August jousting with readers about provocative topics such as teachers making unannounced home visits and getting D.C. schools leaders…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 29, 2011 at 12:28pm —
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What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar
The country's strongest innovators embrace creativity, play, and collaboration -- values that also inform their physical spaces.
A community about to build or rehab a…
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Twenty Movies Every Educator Should See
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August 24, 2011
How to Fix Our Math Education
By SOL GARFUNKEL and DAVID MUMFORD
NY Times
THERE is widespread alarm in the United States about the state of our math education. The anxiety can be traced to the poor performance of American students on various international tests, and it is now embodied in George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, which requires…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 25, 2011 at 7:55am —
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How Teachers and New Administrators Can Lead Together
By Cindi Rigsbee
Teacher Leader Network
A few weeks ago, the faculty at my school received an unexpected call from our principal. He used the synchronized messaging system that delivers phone calls to all of us at once, usually announcing weather delays and PTA meetings. And even though I was…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 24, 2011 at 4:05pm —
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There are more successful schools than you think (see for yourself)
This was written by Sean Slade, director of Healthy School Communities at ASCD, a global association empowering educators to support…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 23, 2011 at 1:47pm —
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How Do We Prepare Our Children for What’s Next?
Paul Schultz
What kids learn at a young age will determine whether they're prepared for a future full of unknowns.
When most of us were deciding what to major in at college, the word Google was not a verb.…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 22, 2011 at 4:33pm —
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The Hidden Costs of Higher Ed
By NOAH S. BERNSTEIN
NY Times
OVER the next few weeks, millions of Americans will be heading off to college, and despite the promise of need-blind admissions, more of them than ever will be struggling to pay for it. It’s not just the economy’s fault: even as they publicize lavish financial aid packages, colleges and universities are making it harder for average American families…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 22, 2011 at 6:47am —
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Ten Tell-Tale Signs that It’s Time to Get Back to the Classroom
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We've been "data driven" for…
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ENGLISH JOURNAL
Fall 2010 -- vol. 100, no. 1
How to Create Nonreaders
Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power
By Alfie Kohn
Autonomy-supportive teachers seek a student's initiative
- whereas controlling teachers seek a student's…
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Larry Ferlazzo
When A “Good” Class Goes “Bad” (And Back To “Good” Again!)
Note: I posted a version of this piece last week in In Practice , a group blog written by teachers who work in lower-income communities. It originally included nine actions I had taken. Since that original posting, I remembered a tenth step I took, and also solicited anonymous feedback from my students about their perception of changes that have occurred in the classroom. I’ve included both the…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 17, 2011 at 6:24pm —
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Helping Students Deal with Uncertainty in the Classroom
BY BEN JOHNSON
8/16/11
I did an experiment with a group of adult educators. I gave them very vague instructions on how to arrange groups. The goal was that each educator would participate in four different groups. I told them that the composition of each group had to be different. Some of the adults were willing to work it out, trial and error even. Others would get to a point and then realize that they did not…
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This is the first of a series of posts former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is writing for The Huffington Post over the next few weeks through back-to-school season on U.S. Education.
Hopelessness and lack of confidence, spending dominating policymaking conversations, angst at all levels of government, and a public disgusted, disconnected and disappointed -- descriptors of our current economic situation? No, (well yes), they're descriptors of the current…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 17, 2011 at 9:03am —
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The ‘absurd’ debate about length of school year
This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at …
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Mathematics Education: A Way Forward
By David Wees -
Population × Bad curriculum Multiple generations = Functionally innumerate population
The objective of good math teaching should not be to "cover the curriculum" but to show students how to explore our fascinating and beautiful world through the lens of…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 15, 2011 at 2:37pm —
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Super Teachers Alone Can't Save Our Schools
Extraordinary educators are rare and often burn out. To save our schools, says Steven Brill, we have to demand more from ordinary teachers and their unions.…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 15, 2011 at 2:01pm —
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The 6 Dumbest Things Schools Are Doing in the Name of Safety
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