Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 4:39pm —
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Principal: Why I’m marching to ‘save our schools’
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This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, the principal of …
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 2:34pm —
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Montessori Builds Innovators
by Andrew McAfee
WSJ
There are strident disagreements these days over every aspect of American educational policy, except for one. Everyone thinks it would be great if we could better teach students how to innovate.
So shouldn't we be paying a great deal of attention to the educational method that produced, among others, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, Jimmy Wales, Peter…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 1:21pm —
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David Thornburg on Open-Source Textbooks
by Betty Ray
Editor's Note: Today’s guest blogger is David Thornburg, Ph.D., a futurist, author, consultant and founder and Director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center.
The world of education changed last month at 2PM EST on December 2, when NASA announced the …
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 1:16pm —
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Student Teaching: More Than a Custody Arrangement?
By Sarah Henchey
TLN
I took the leap in the fall of 2010. With six years of experience as a teacher, I agreed to partner with a local university (my alma mater, as it happened) to mentor my first student teacher.
She joined my 6th grade language arts classroom for one day a week throughout the fall semester and participated full-time in the…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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The Digital Immigrant and Digital Native Discussions Continue...(…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 11:33am —
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Public policy towards children has moved towards treating them more like adults and ways that…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 11:31am —
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By Shelly Alcorn
This guest post is by Shelly Alcorn, CAE, an …
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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2011 at 10:36am —
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Who is Responsible for Teaching Financial Literacy?
It has become increasingly evident that nations around the globe are still in the grip of the worst economic freefall since the Great Depression. Crisis. As the European Union faces both short and long term unrest and the opposing forces within our nation battle over entitlement reductions vs. tax increases the vast majority of our citizens are clueless about the fundamental issues that are the root causes for our…
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Added by Gerald Lauber Ed.D on July 27, 2011 at 10:33am —
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Nicholas A. Villani, President of Career and Employment Options, Inc. has written an article that was published in the Autism Spectrum News, Summer 2011…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 26, 2011 at 3:29pm —
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Note: Jeff Henig, a professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 25, 2011 at 1:56pm —
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Added by Michael Keany on July 25, 2011 at 1:24pm —
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Those whom the Lord wishes to punish for their waywardness he sends to meetings. These are the types you can expect to find there.
The Circumlocutor: Listen to him take eight minutes to paraphrase the four-paragraph text in front of you, and then realize that you are not quite sure what his point was. You are not permitted to…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 25, 2011 at 9:33am —
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In Jim Collins’ bestselling book “Good to Great” he points out that the enemy of Great is Good. He explains that we don’t have great schools because we have good schools – society is content with good. My primary focus as an educator is to help motivate our students, staff and community…
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Added by Bill Burkhead on July 24, 2011 at 7:00am —
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Everyone agrees that the most important in-school factor in student achievement is the…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 22, 2011 at 4:26pm —
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I recently read a post from Andrew Marcinek, an educator who I greatly respect and often agree with. Are We Chasing Technology or Mastering It? His post however caused me, for the first time after several years of connection, to disagree with him. In his…
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Added by Tom Whitby on July 22, 2011 at 1:41pm —
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Hope, Title IX, and Dreams of the World Cup
It hadn't occurred to me that the U.S. would actually lose to Japan in the World Cup Soccer Final last Sunday. Our women's team was magical. They came from behind against Brazil and won on penalty kicks and the rest seemed…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 21, 2011 at 8:56pm —
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Ronald was six when he noticed his father had black grease around his mouth after working on a car.…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 21, 2011 at 8:00am —
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In What Other Profession...by David Reber
Here is an article for those of you who have a lot to say about the teaching profession, and yet have not spent time in an actual classroom (like say, most politicians) - In what other profession...by David Reber
I’m going to step out of my…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 20, 2011 at 5:55pm —
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Want to stop teachers from cheating? A history lesson from corporate America
By Dan Ariely, Published: July 18
This piece is part of a leadership roundtable on the right way to approach teacher incentives — with opinion pieces by Duke University behavioral economics professor …
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Added by Michael Keany on July 20, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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