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Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy by Dr. Judy Willis
Added by Michael Keany on December 24, 2013 at 10:33am — No Comments
Grim News from the NAEP from an article by Andy Smarick
Grim News from the NAEP
In this Education Gadfly article, Andy Smarick says the just-released National Assessment of Educational Progress data from 20 large U.S. cities contain lots of sad news about disadvantaged students. Specifically:
- In the average city, only one in four students reached proficiency in 4th-grade and 8th-grade reading and…
Added by Michael Keany on December 24, 2013 at 10:28am — No Comments
These Tiny Wooden Houses Are The College Dorm Of The Future
These Tiny Wooden Houses Are The College Dorm Of The Future
Housing is expensive. So why not have students live in cubes they can afford? That's the idea behind the “smart student unit."
Fast Company
A few years ago, Swedish student housing company AF Bostäder had…
Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 11:48am — No Comments
Coding Is Coming To Every Industry You Can Think Of, Time To Start Learning It Now
Coding Is Coming To Every Industry You Can Think Of, Time To Start Learning It Now
No matter what you do, it’s going to be helpful to learn to code. So we should probably start teaching it in school.
Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 11:46am — No Comments
Making Predictions Can Help You to Learn Better by Annie Murphy Paul
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Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments
Fostering Teacher Leadership Through Collaborative Inquiry by Jenni Donohoo
Fostering Teacher Leadership Through Collaborative Inquiry
Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments
Wisdom for the School Leader: Coping with the What-If's from The 21st Century Principal by J. Robinson
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In No One We Trust By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
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MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking by Diane Ravitch
Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2013 at 9:10am — No Comments
WHAT ARE TESTS REALLY MEASURING?: WHEN ACHIEVEMENT ISN’T ACHIEVEMENT by P.L. Thomas
WHAT ARE TESTS REALLY MEASURING?: WHEN ACHIEVEMENT ISN’T ACHIEVEMENT
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A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2013 at 9:09am — No Comments
You've Got to Reach Before You Teach by MAURICE ELIAS
You've Got to Reach Before You Teach
DECEMBER 17, 2013This post by MAURICE ELIAS originally appeared in Edutopia’s …
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Added by Michael Keany on December 20, 2013 at 9:02am — No Comments
Why Is Data a Dirty Word? By Peter DeWitt
Why Is Data a Dirty Word?
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Be Present from A Principal's Reflections by Eric Sheninger
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Language, Measures, and the US Handicap in Math by Peter Gray in Freedom to Learn
Language, Measures, and the US Handicap in Math
Does Asian math superiority derive partly from a difference in number names?
Added by Michael Keany on December 19, 2013 at 9:21am — No Comments
All-important and overlooked: classroom management
All-important and overlooked: classroom management
A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality investigates the extent to which America's traditional teacher-preparation programs offer research-based strategies for candidates to better manage classrooms from the outset. Most programs can correctly claim at least some classroom-management instruction, but it's often scattered throughout the curriculum. Most…
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Community schools: It's time
Community schools: It's time
Efforts to create full-service community schools that serve the whole child with an array of services are gaining traction under California's new education funding formula, writes Jane Meredith Adams for Ed Source. The convergence of more money for low-income students and a new mandate to work with families under the Local Control Funding Formula has created an environment in which community…
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School leadership at the heart of reform
School leadership at the heart of reform
A new paper from Bain & Company argues that transformational leadership is vital to solving the nation's public-education crisis, but most school systems lack an effective end-to-end model for identifying, encouraging, and developing school leaders over time. It also considers current school-leadership development models by districts and charter management…
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Added by Michael Keany on December 17, 2013 at 7:34pm — No Comments
Wither teacher unions?
Wither teacher unions?
Long among the wealthiest and most powerful interest groups in American politics, teacher unions are grappling with financial, legal, and public-relations challenges and fighting for the support of an increasingly skeptical public, writes Stephanie Simon on Politico.com. The National Education Association (NEA) has lost 230,000 members, or 7 percent, since 2009, and is projecting…
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Added by Michael Keany on December 17, 2013 at 7:32pm — No Comments
The Critical Words Your Students Must Know for the Common Core State Standards! by Marilee Sprenger
The Critical Words Your Students Must Know for the Common Core State Standards!
by Marilee Sprenger
http://www.marileesprenger.com/the-critical-words.html
Researchers estimate 85% of achievement test scores are based on the vocabulary of the standards. Students from poverty, ELL…
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Added by Michael Keany on December 17, 2013 at 8:29am — 1 Comment
Mommy, It’s Only A Game (Has competitiveness gone too far?) by Dr. Louis. C. D’Aquila, D.A., CFT
Mommy, It’s Only A Game
(Has competitiveness gone too far?)
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Dr. Louis. C. D’Aquila, D.A., CFT
Email: ldaquila@verizon.net
About the author: The author of this article is a retired teacher, former varsity track and soccer coach and adjunct college professor. Presently active as a…
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