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Hey Arne: Assess This! By Sam Chaltain

Hey Arne: Assess This!

Dear Mr. Secretary:

We're…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 8, 2013 at 3:58pm — No Comments

Great Teachers Are Virtuosos By Walt Gardner

Great Teachers Are Virtuosos

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Added by Michael Keany on May 8, 2013 at 3:55pm — No Comments

What If Your Students Don't Like You? by Renee Moore

What If Your Students Don't Like You?



Fawn Johnson, at National Journal/Education Experts blog, asked guest bloggers to respond to an intriguing post that ended with these…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 8, 2013 at 3:40pm — No Comments

UDL and the Common Core



UDL and the Common Core

 

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Added by Michael Keany on May 8, 2013 at 3:34pm — No Comments

THE SOCIAL EQUALITY PROBLEM and SCHOOL UNDERACHIEVEMENT

THE SOCIAL EQUALITY PROBLEM and SCHOOL UNDERACHIEVEMENT

  From Evelyn Rothstein

From MY MANY years of  professional  experience  in schools with poor children, I believe that the major cause of underachievement is not  from “parental faults”, but from the vast differences in educational equality which result from:

  • Limited access to pre-school
  • Low quality curriculum
  • Use of textbooks with…
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Added by Evelyn Rothstein on May 8, 2013 at 2:19pm — No Comments

Character Education Redux: Lessons Kids Need to Learn By Ilana Garon

Character Education Redux: Lessons Kids Need to Learn

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Added by Michael Keany on May 8, 2013 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Teaching to the skill

 

A close friend, a music teacher, was speaking to me recently about the incorporation of more informational and non—fiction texts into the English Language Arts curriculum.  He asked me,  “How can a student leave high school without learning The Catcher in the Rye or The Lord of the Flies to make room for these other texts?  I said to him, ”Well, what do you teach?  Does every student leave learning the Hallelujah Chorus? What happens if they do not?  Do they still take…

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Added by Jennifer McKenna on May 7, 2013 at 11:34am — No Comments

Can Michael Fullan Save California from NCLB? By Peter DeWitt

Can Michael Fullan Save California from NCLB?

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Added by Michael Keany on May 7, 2013 at 10:03am — No Comments

A Note from George Lucas: Celebrating Unsung Heroes in Education

A Note from George Lucas: Celebrating Unsung Heroes in Education

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Added by Michael Keany on May 7, 2013 at 10:01am — No Comments

Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom (Infographic) from Center for Digital Education

Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom (Infographic)

ON APRIL 29, 2013
Integrating technology in education is essential, and many districts do it well, as demonstrated by the Digital School Districts…
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Added by Michael Keany on May 7, 2013 at 8:55am — No Comments

Liberal education policies go too far, cause backlash

Recent news out of North Carolina states: “Senate wants cursive, times tables taught.”

Imagine, government at the state level has to pass a law requiring that schools make sure children know the most basic things--multiplication tables and how to write their names.

The new initiatives were passed by “a wide margin.”

This news shows how foolish our Education Establishment can be: they let the school situation deteriorate to the point that…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on May 6, 2013 at 4:04pm — No Comments

The Coming Revolution in Public Education by JOHN TIERNEY



The Coming Revolution in Public Education

Why the current wave of reforms, with its heavy emphasis on standardized tests, may actually be harming students
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Added by Michael Keany on May 6, 2013 at 1:53pm — No Comments

High Quality Preschool Isn't an Option for Children in Poverty By Peter DeWitt

High Quality Preschool Isn't an Option for Children in Poverty

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Added by Michael Keany on May 6, 2013 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Rich Parents Love Small Class Sizes by Dana Goldstein

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MAY 05, 2013

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Added by Michael Keany on May 6, 2013 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Students' info should not be shared

Students' info should not be shared

Daily World - Gannett

May 2, 2013   |  

Parents raised the alarm when they learned the state Department of Education had provided confidential student data to a…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 6, 2013 at 8:41am — No Comments

Why learning and multitasking don't mix by Annie Murphy Paul

Why learning and multitasking don't mix

A note to my readers: I'm devoting this…
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Added by Michael Keany on May 6, 2013 at 8:35am — No Comments

What Do Math Educators Think About the Common Core? By Erik Robelen

What Do Math Educators Think About the Common Core?

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Added by Michael Keany on May 4, 2013 at 9:36am — No Comments

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