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Why Make Reform So Complicated? By Mike Schmoker

Why Make Reform So Complicated?

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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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Added by Michael Keany on January 16, 2014 at 8:20am — No Comments

To Help Students Learn, Appeal to What They Value by HEIDI A. OLINGER



To Help Students Learn, Appeal to What They Value

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Added by Michael Keany on January 16, 2014 at 7:59am — No Comments

How Schools Can Succeed Without Tests by Anja Kamenetz

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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Added by Michael Keany on January 15, 2014 at 9:05pm — No Comments

America's "talent underclass"

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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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 7:01pm — No Comments

Neuroscience approaches with promise

Neuroscience approaches with promise…



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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 7:01pm — No Comments

The role of genes

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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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 6:57pm — No Comments

Healthy relationships = more Zs for teens



Healthy relationships = more Zs for teens 



What has the largest influence on teens' sleep habits? …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 6:56pm — No Comments

Tackling student mobility

Tackling student mobility 



A new…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 6:54pm — No Comments

What Are the 7 Mind Frames of Learning? guest blog by John Hattie from Peter DeWitt

What Are the 7 Mind Frames of Learning?

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Bunkum Awards 2013 - Awards for Shoddy Educational Research

Bunkum Awards 2013

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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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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 8:30am — No Comments

2nd class citizens by Grant Wiggins



2nd class citizens





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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2014 at 11:16am — No Comments

The Comcast-Khan Academy Partnership Could Be Trouble By Danielle Kehl

The Comcast-Khan Academy Partnership Could Be Trouble





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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2014 at 9:59am — No Comments

The Importance of “Talking Math” with Kids by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2014 at 8:03am — No Comments

The Power of the Professional Learning Community (PLN)

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 — No Comments

Do our education commissars have their act together? Do they mean well???

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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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on January 11, 2014 at 8:51pm — No Comments

Encouraging Teacher Leaders to Become Principals by BOB LENZ

 

Encouraging Teacher Leaders to Become Principals

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2014 at 5:49pm — No Comments

How to discipline students without turning school into a prison by Lynn Russo Whylly

How to discipline students without turning school into a prison

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2014 at 1:31pm — No Comments

I Hate Technology & Other Lame Opinions By Peter DeWitt

I Hate Technology & Other Lame Opinions

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2014 at 2:37pm — No Comments

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