The Myth of Teachers Not Changing

Larry Cuban

http://larrycuban.wordpress.com

How I Talk to My High-School Students About the Internet

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How I Helped Teachers Cheat

By DAVE TOMAR

FROM 2001 to 2010, I worked as an academic ghostwriter, helping students cheat in college and grad school.…

Using the “Wisdom of the Crowd” to Make Good Decisions

In this Harvard Business Review article, Alex “Sandy” Pentland (M.I.T.) warns leaders to avoid two common errors when making important decisions: working in isolation and following the herd. Successful decision-makers, he says, engage in social exploration – reaching out and forming connections with many different kinds of people, exposing themselves to a broad variety of thinking,…

Six Myths and Two Facts About African-American Youth and Educators

In this Education Week article, Leslie Fenwick (Howard University) examines some all-too common perceptions about African-American students and educators:

• Myth: Black parents are not interested in their children’s education and do not engage in school-affirming behaviors. Fact: According to a 2008 National Center for Educational Statistics report, 94…

What could be more obvious? New textbooks, new curricular, new reforms, whatever, can easily be tested and should be tested.

The bizarre thing is that there is so little large-scale testing in American education. Speaking as the house cynic, I would say that's because the Education Establishment knows their ideas are  Inferior and will perform poorly in serious testing.…

The principalship: 6 ways smartphones have changed the landscape

How I turned my classroom into a ‘living video game’—and saw achievement soar

Posted By Contributor On March 12, 2013 @ 1:05 pm In Best Practices News,Curriculum,eClassroom News,Engaging Students with Game-Based Learning,Featured Best Practice,Featured TCEA,TCEA,Top News…

In Public Education, Edge Still Goes to Rich

By EDUARDO…

Thompson: SAT Scores Are Great, But Teaching Is An Act of Love

November is Picture Book Month.  Click on the link to find tips for celebrating this beloved medium.

Picture books are the most expensive books to produce, and consequently the most difficult to get published.  Due to the short, concise nature of the text, the picture book author must be fastidious with his or her words, and merciless with his or her revisions and edits, making well-written picture books models of…

Happy Election Day!  It was on this day in 1872, that suffragist Susan B. Anthony broke the law and tried to vote for president.  Hopefully you have honored the sacrifices of all those who came before us and voted already, today.  If not, please get out and vote. 

When you get home, why not read, Duck for President  with your own kids?

Happy reading,

Christine…

The WOW! factor of CCSS

Teaching Hope

In this intriguing Kappan article, Shane Lopez (Gallup Organization) reports that only half of American children are hopeful – that is, believe their future will be better than their present and think they have the power to shape a better future. It seems that we’re not doing a very good job teaching young people how to hope.

“Hopeful thinking combines future thinking with a sense of agency or efficacy,” says…