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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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England vs Scotland: Competing school reform visions by Marc Tucker
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Can the Common Core Fix Poverty? By Peter DeWitt
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School Change: Make Room for "Wrongdoing" by MATT LEVINSON
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Teacher Burnout: Start Preventing It Now! by NICHOLAS PROVENZANO
Teacher Burnout: Start Preventing It Now!
AUGUST 8, 2013This post by NICHOLAS PROVENZANO originally appeared in…
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Gary Rubinstein: Dramatic Collapse of Charter School Test Scores
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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
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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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What matters more than raw brainpower? by Annie Murphy Paul
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Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers
Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week
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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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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
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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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
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Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation
Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation
In this Harvard Educational Review article, Heather Hill (Harvard University) and Pam Grossman (Stanford University) raise three concerns about recent state and district innovations in teacher evaluation. First, they believe most classroom observation instruments are generic and don’t focus on important content-specific aspects of teaching. Second, they say evaluations are mostly done by generalists…
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A Retirement State of Mind
Billy Joel's lyrical tune, A New York State of Mind, has been playing in my mind lately. Since retiring from public education, I have been pondering what retirement means. Joel's song and a quote from a retiree gave me pause.…
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Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and Challenges By Amber M. Winkler
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and ChallengesBy Amber M. Winkler Thomas B. Fordham Institute Education Gadfly With Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on the tip of everybody’s tongue and Common Core–aligned assessments expected to roll out nationally in less than… |
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Is the day of reckoning upon us? By Kathleen Porter-Magee
Is the day of reckoning upon us?
By Kathleen Porter-Magee / August 8, 2013
Thomas Fordham Institute
Education Gadfly
On Wednesday, New York officials released results from the state’s first administration of the new, more difficult, Common Core–aligned tests. As officials warned—and as everyone knew—the results were low; shockingly low in some instances. Last year, 47 percent of New York students scored at or…
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Teaching Is The Core
On July 8, 2013, I along with 600-800 NYS educators gathered for a week full of learning and engagement at the Network Team Institute training in Albany, New York. We were charged by Deputy Commissioner Ken Slentz to become lea…
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