Why Make Reform So Complicated?
By Mike Schmoker
In the realm of organizational improvement, complexity kills. It demoralizes employees and distorts the critical connection between effort and outcomes. It is the enemy of the most indispensable elements of…
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How Schools Can Succeed Without Tests
by Anja Kamenetz
The Hechinger Report
The Danville Independent School District in the small city of Danville in central Kentucky has just 1800 students. But they are currently experimenting with a transformational model for public education that’s being watched closely across the state and…
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America's "talent underclass"
The 2010 report Mind the (Other) Gap identified large gaps in academic achievement at the top end of the ability distribution in the U.S. (i.e., among the most able students). …
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Neuroscience approaches with promise…
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The role of genes
Researchers at King's College, the University of Warwick, and the University of New Mexico have published …
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Healthy relationships = more Zs for teens
What has the largest influence on teens' sleep habits? …
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Tackling student mobility
A new…
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Bunkum Awards 2013
NEPC
This marks our eighth year of handing out the Bunkum Awards, recognizing the lowlights in educational research over the past year. As long as the bunk keeps flowing, the awards will keep coming. It’s the least we can do. This year’s deserving awardees join a…
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2nd class citizens
12SundayJan 2014
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The Comcast-Khan Academy Partnership Could Be Trouble
SLATE
Where's Comcast…
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What is the power behind professional learning networks (PLNs) that are everywhere to be found on Twitter? The simple graphic organizer created using the tool, Text 2 Mind Map, forms the basis for a conversation, The Power of the PLN: Making NYEDChat the Voice of…
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Added by Carol Varsalona on January 12, 2014 at 5:12pm —
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I heard the comment many times, as an all-purpose excuse: "They mean well. They just can't get their act together."'
I puzzled over this. I pondered and I pondered. More and more it seemed to me that they don't mean well at all.
And our big national problem is that they do have their act together.
Just take any one item: 50 million functional illiterates and millions of children who never learn to read…
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How to discipline students without turning school into a prison
Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 01/09/2014 - 1:59pm…
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