Rick Hess: Extending The School Year For Everybody 'A Really Bad Idea'

For educators who have been connected since the early days of social media, it is difficult to understand the reason people would ask, “What is #Edchat?” We must remember that many educators using social media for professional reasons have joined only recently. The idea of using social media for professional reasons is a relatively new concept. One would hope that it is having a positive effect because the Department of Education declared August Connected Educators Month. In our…

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by Bill Ferriter

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What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020

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Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say

A short time ago I attended a meeting where members of a college English department were doing a presentation to the faculty about their writing program. As I listened to about a 30-minute presentation of the types of writing required by this program, it became obvious to me that two words in this presentation of a college writing program were never uttered. They were two words that as an educator I come in contact with almost every day. Two words that have changed the way information is…

Putting schools on a diet: The public speaks

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler/ August 2, 2012

In November 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a widely noted address about the tough economic times facing American K-12 education. “I am here,” he said, “to talk today about what has been called the New Normal. For the next several years,…

Algebra May Not Be Necessary, But Mathematics Is Essential!

“Is Algebra Necessary?” screamed the front-page headline of The New York Times Sunday Review on July 29, 2012. For almost 2000 words, Andrew Hacker,…

By Jon Becker

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Dear AERA,

The deadline for submissions to the 2013 annual meeting is a few days away, but I won’t be submitting anything. I don’t expect to attend the 2013 meeting, and I let my AERA membership lapse a year or two ago.…

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Is It Important for Nonnative Speakers to Lose their Accents?

From the Marshall Memo #444

In this article in Foreign Language Annals, University of Utah professors Rachel Hayes-Harb and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp sum up their study of whether having a “foreign accent” affects being understood by a native speaker. “Although nonnative speakers often strive to ‘overcome’ their accents,” say the authors,…

There are only a few explanations that many educators offer up as reasons not to learn and use any technology as tools for learning. One of the most popular excuses, frequently cited by educators, is that there is not enough time to learn all of the stuff that is out there. It certainly is true that there are a huge number of things to learn out there that are linked to technology. When thought about as a complete package, it most definitely can be overwhelming, and I wholeheartedly agree…

JUL 23, 2012

12 Ways Parents Can Contribute to Education Reform

by Staff…