August 2013 Blog Posts (97)

How come officials could predict new test score results? by Carol Burris

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How come officials could predict new test score results?

By Valerie Strauss, Updated: August 12, 2013…

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Rating Schools of Education By Walt Gardner

Rating Schools of Education

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:04pm — No Comments

The Implications of Universal Preschool By Matthew Lynch

The Implications of Universal Preschool

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:02pm — No Comments

Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things By Anthony Cody

Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things

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Added by Michael Keany on August 15, 2013 at 7:44am — No Comments

Minding the Gap: SAT and the Socio-Economic Divide By Ilana Garon

Minding the Gap: SAT and the Socio-Economic Divide

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Added by Michael Keany on August 15, 2013 at 7:42am — No Comments

Writing For Children Across Boundaries

Having difficulty writing a character who is a different gender, race, or from a different culture than you?  The Highlights Foundation is offering a workshop on Writing Across Boundaries.  It sounds like a good one, so if you attend, comment here and let us know how it goes!

Happy reading and writing,

Christine…

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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on August 14, 2013 at 11:00am — No Comments

England vs Scotland: Competing school reform visions by Marc Tucker

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England vs Scotland: Competing school reform visions

By Valerie Strauss, Updated: July 22, 2013…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Can the Common Core Fix Poverty? By Peter DeWitt

Can the Common Core Fix Poverty?

Ed Week

Too many…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 11:26am — No Comments

School Change: Make Room for "Wrongdoing" by MATT LEVINSON

 

School Change: Make Room for "Wrongdoing"

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 11:15am — No Comments

Teacher Burnout: Start Preventing It Now! by NICHOLAS PROVENZANO



Teacher Burnout: Start Preventing It Now!

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 11:11am — No Comments

Online Writers' Conference Starts Today

Don't feel like leaving the house today?  You can stay in your pjs and get great writing tips over the next two days by participating in Writeoncon. 

Happy reading and writing,

Christine

bookgirlblogger.blogspot.com

Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on August 13, 2013 at 9:06am — No Comments

Breakthroughs To Literacy: What are most popular reading curricula? Or your favorite? Or most hated?

So far as I can tell, most American children are taught by programs that combine Whole Language and some phonics, all done under the banner of Balanced Literacy.

 But what are the actual names of the most dominant curricula?? I know the name "Breakthrough to Literacy"  and also "Success for All."

Please list the others you know about.

If you want to praise them or condemn them, that's…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on August 12, 2013 at 3:41pm — No Comments

What matters more than raw brainpower? by Annie Murphy Paul

Beyond sheer brainpower
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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week

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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 2:25pm — No Comments

Get to Know a C.E.O., with Joel Klein By Tom Segal

Get to Know a C.E.O., with Joel Klein

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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Test scores usher in 'Hard Times' for New York's kids by Carol Burris

Burris: Test scores usher in 'Hard Times' for New York's kids

New York students labored through days of testing

Photo credit: Tribune Content Agency / Donna Grethen | New York students labored through days of testing so that the ignorance of the "number 20s" could be exposed for all to see. The question to be asked is, to what end?…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 7:43am — No Comments

Let’s Not Expect Everyone to Run a 4 Minute Mile

I don’t know about you but when I occasionally run in a 5K a 9 minute mile average pace is pushing it for me. Now I’m sure there are some very fit, athletic 50 year olds who can do much better, but clearly if we expected (or mandated) that everyone at my age should run a 4 minute mile the results would be much like what we see in the recently released NYS assessment failure rates. The standard setting equivalent of expecting all to perform at high levels that are dubious in terms of attending… Continue

Added by David A. Gamberg on August 11, 2013 at 7:00am — No Comments

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