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How to Use Wild Hog Questions in the Classroom by BEN JOHNSON



How to Use Wild Hog Questions in the Classroom

JANUARY 23, 2014
This post by BEN JOHNSON originally appeared in Edutopia’s …
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Added by Michael Keany on January 24, 2014 at 8:54am — No Comments

Administrators Gone Mad By Justin Minkel

Administrators Gone Mad

By Justin Minkel on January 22, 2014 Ed Week

I wrote in a …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 23, 2014 at 12:06pm — No Comments

10 Critical Issues Facing Education By Peter DeWitt

10 Critical Issues Facing Education

By Peter DeWitt on January 23, 2014 
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Twitter Chats: An Hour Well Worth Your Time By Peter DeWitt

Twitter Chats: An Hour Well Worth Your Time

By Peter DeWitt on January 19, 2014 
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Added by Michael Keany on January 22, 2014 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Collaboration Matters by Joshua Block



Collaboration Matters

JANUARY 22, 2014
This post by JOSHUA BLOCK originally appeared in Edutopia’s …
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Added by Michael Keany on January 22, 2014 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less by Jessica Leahey

Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less

When done right, frequent testing helps people remember information longer.
JAN 21 2014,
The Atlantic
Bebeto…
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Added by Michael Keany on January 22, 2014 at 4:41pm — 1 Comment

Change and challenge: tips on moving forward in the face of resistance by Grant Wiggins

Change and challenge: tips on moving forward in the face of resistance

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Added by Michael Keany on January 21, 2014 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Mike Schmoker on Curriculum Focus and Simplicity

Mike Schmoker on Curriculum Focus and Simplicity

“In the realm of organizational improvement, complexity kills,” says author/consultant Mike Schmoker in this powerful article in Education Week. “It demoralizes employees and distorts the critical connection between effort and outcomes. It is the enemy of the most indispensable elements of improvement: clarity, priority, and focus… It prevents us from perceiving the simplest, but most effective…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 21, 2014 at 10:00am — No Comments

Are You Sick of Highly Paid Teachers?

Thanks to Scot McLeod for drawing our attention to this post.



sboucher

Daily Kos

MON FEB 21, 2011 AT 09:18 PM PST

Are you sick of highly-paid teachers?

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Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do -- babysit!

We can get that for less than minimum wage.



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Added by Michael Keany on January 20, 2014 at 11:53am — No Comments

Remember Like an Actor - improve your memory using these actors’ tricks by Annie Murphy Paul

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It Takes a Dream and a Team to Create a Voice in Education

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” 
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
 
At just what point in life do…
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Added by Carol Varsalona on January 19, 2014 at 6:51pm — No Comments

‘I would love to teach but…’ by Valerie Strauss about the resignation of Kris Nielsen from Teaching



‘I would love to teach but…’



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Added by Michael Keany on January 19, 2014 at 11:26am — No Comments

Obama’s Homework Assignment by Thomas L. Friedman



NY Times SundayReview|OP-ED COLUMNIST

Obama’s Homework Assignment

JAN. 18, 2014…



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Added by Michael Keany on January 19, 2014 at 11:22am — No Comments

Education Establishment and Imperialism

Wouldn't you confidently predict that our Education Establishment is full of people who spend a lot of time complaining about imperialism. They do this because they are smugly confident that it's Other People who commit this crime, and especially the United States.

But what after all is imperialism but trying to tell everybody else what to do. Not just tell them but make them.

And who does all that more than our own Education…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on January 17, 2014 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Common Core’s Newer Math - A return to mathematical ignorance By David G. Bonagura Jr.

Common Core’s Newer Math 

A return to mathematical ignorance 

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2014 at 2:31pm — No Comments

New Yorker Magazine Cover Highlights Parents' Perspective by Alexander Russo

Covers: New Yorker Highlights Parents' Perspective

by Alexander Russo
This Week in Education…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2014 at 2:25pm — No Comments

Teach Kids to Use the Four-Letter Word by JOE HIRSCH

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A Mobile Dilemma by Tom Whitby

A Mobile Dilemma

JANUARY 16, 2014
This post by TOM WHITBY originally appeared in Edutopia’s TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION blog…
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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2014 at 2:12pm — No Comments

Striking a Balance: Digital Tools and Distraction in School by MARY BETH HERTZ



Striking a Balance: Digital Tools and Distraction in School

JANUARY 17, 2014
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Writing - Don't Assign It! Teach It! Evelyn Rothstein

WRITING – DON’T ASSIGN IT! TEACH IT! -

Evelyn Rothstein, Ed.D.   Professor and Educational Consultant

For many students, writing is an assignment to be submitted and  corrected  by the teacher with the hope of “getting it right.”  Rarely have students at any level had direct, specific…

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Added by Evelyn Rothstein on January 17, 2014 at 12:41pm — No Comments

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