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It's the Students, Stupid by Will Fitzhugh

It's the Students, Stupid

The billionaires' club, with their long retinue of pundits, researchers, and other hangers-on, are giving their attention, some of the time, to education. But they are not paying attention to the academic work of students, or to their responsibility for their own education.

Mr. Gates spent nearly two hundred million dollars recently on a program for teacher assessment, but does he realize that in almost every class there are…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 3:21pm — 3 Comments

The "Reggio Approach" to 0-99 Education: A Deep Exploration of Continuity by ADAM PROVOST

The "Reggio Approach" to 0-99 Education: A Deep Exploration of Continuity

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator by ELANA LEONI

Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 2:51pm — No Comments

'Garbage In, Garbage Out' from Bridging Differences by Deborah Meier

'Garbage In, Garbage Out': Version 2

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

From India

Recently, I was offered an opportunity to travel to India to work with an organization that provides ESL classes to students in New Dehli. The classes do not cost the students; however, they need to make a committment of one hour fourty-five minutes per day six days per week. The blended approach has provided students with the abiility to interact with software, engage in quality of instruction, and dialogue with their peers. I visited in one of the centers just southeast of my location. The… Continue

Added by Robert M. Hagan, Ed.D. on March 20, 2013 at 10:29pm — No Comments

Fight For Our Kids

When thinking about sound literacy instruction and the daily challenges that we face as educators, I cannot help but consider the significant divide that exists between what research tells us is developmentally appropriate for children versus what the state of New York (and many other states across the country) is telling us our children need to do to be considered college and career ready. …

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Added by Tony Sinanis on March 20, 2013 at 8:33pm — 1 Comment

How Does Your School Have Fun? by Bob Lenz

How Does Your School Have Fun?

Recently, I listened to a story on NPR's All Things Considered called…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Re-Imagining the Comprehensive High School by Adrienne Curtis Dickinson

Re-Imagining the Comprehensive High School

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 3:19pm — No Comments

How Your School Compares Internationally By Stu Silberman

How Your School Compares Internationally

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 11:40am — No Comments

The Verdict on Steubenville: My Students' Reactions to Rape and Jock Culture By Ilana Garon

The Verdict on Steubenville: My Students' Reactions to Rape and Jock Culture

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 11:38am — No Comments

Making Sense of Steubenville By Sam Chaltain

Making Sense of Steubenville

As educators, what are we…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 11:35am — No Comments

Lance Armstrong and Teaching Students the Meaning of Integrity By Joseph W. Gauld

Lance Armstrong and Teaching Students the Meaning of Integrity

Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

The saga of Lance Armstrong continues. Still attempting to rehabilitate himself, he most recently said in …

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 11:23am — No Comments

Info for Parents: 24 Blogs Filled with Ideas on How to Motivate Your Kids to Finish the School Year Strong

24 Blogs Filled with Ideas on How to Motivate Your Kids to Finish the School Year Strong

2013 MARCH 19
by Michelle

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my …

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 10:34am — No Comments

Scheduling meetings made easy with doodle.com

Doodle.com has been up and running since 2007, but with the advancements of HTML5 and other browser technologies, web-hosted apps have been gaining in popularity. We’ve got Dropbox and …

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Added by Ryan Fisk on March 19, 2013 at 4:04pm — No Comments

Talent Isn't Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness - Interview with Carol Dweck by Jocelyn K. Glei

Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco

Talent Isn't Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 11:23am — No Comments

20 of your songs that changed the world - Teachable Resource

20 of your songs that changed the world

BBC News Magazine

Clockwise from top left: The Specials' Free Nelson Mandela; Billie Holliday's Strange Fruit; David Hasselhoff; Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

Can a song really help change the world? A recent Magazine feature raised this question, and hundreds of readers responded.

Fifty years ago, Barbara, a French singer of Jewish descent, wrote the song Goettingen about a German city she loved. Many believe her song helped …

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 11:09am — No Comments

What Makes the Most Difference in Sustaining a Good Program?

What Makes the Most Difference in Sustaining a Good Program?

In this article in Exceptional Children, Kent McIntosh (University of Oregon), Sterett Mercer, Amanda Hume, Mary Turri, and Susanna Mathews (University of British Columbia), and Jennifer Frank (Pennsylvania State University) report on their study of the sustainability of the Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SPBS) program in 217 schools in 14 states. They analyzed four factors…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 10:01am — No Comments

Forget The Mission Statement. What’s Your Mission Question? by Warren Berger



Forget The Mission Statement. What’s Your Mission Question?

INNOVATION ENGINE

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 8:41am — No Comments

Firing Bad Teachers Has Surprisingly Meager Effects By Kevin Drum

Mother Jones

Firing Bad Teachers Has Surprisingly Meager Effects

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Added by Michael Keany on March 18, 2013 at 10:56am — No Comments

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