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Douglas Reeves Pushes Back on Educational Folklore
Douglas Reeves Pushes Back on Educational Folklore
From the Marshall Memo #448
In this iconoclastic American School Board Journal article, author/consultant Douglas Reeves notes that a number of strongly-held opinions are folklore – they’re not backed up by facts. “Critical thinking is not criticism,” he says. “Rather, it is the capacity of a person to distinguish claims from evidence.” Here are…
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Three ed reforms parents should worry about most by Carol Burris
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Back-to-School Time With a Gay Kid by Amelia
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Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan Differ On Standardized Testing In Schools by Joy Resmovits
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3 Ways To Make Everyone Around You Smarter BY JIM KOUZES AND BARRY POSNER
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A good teacher is hard to keep By Sujata Bhatt
A good teacher is hard to keep
Too often, teachers who are consistently successful with students are not given leadership roles that would allow them to reach students beyond their own classrooms.…
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What Happens to Student Learning When Teachers Are Absent?
What Happens to Student Learning When Teachers Are Absent?
From the Marshall Memo #446
“The mythology surrounding the substitute teacher is not a pretty one,” says reporter Jaclyn Zubrzycki in this Education Week article: “Paper airplanes, lost learning, bullying.” The average teacher is out 10 days a year, and one study found that 37 percent of teachers are absent more than 10 days a year. That’s…
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Solution-Driven Unionism by Randi Weingarten
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Douglas Reeves Makes the Case for Teaching Handwriting
Douglas Reeves Makes the Case for Teaching Handwriting
From the Marshall Memo #446
In this thoughtful American School Board Journal article, author/consultant Douglas Reeves asks whether teaching cursive is worth the time and effort schools used to put into it. Handwriting is still a hot-button issue for many educators and parents. What’s the right course of action, given the shortage of time in…
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Buying Ponies: What Works and What Doesn't in the Tough and Tumble World of Teaching by Adam Saenz
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Reasons why men should be teaching in the classroom, too - by William Gomley
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Teachers' Lounge: The Lifelong Eighth Grader
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Eight problems with Common Core Standards By Marion Brady
Eight problems with Common Core Standards
This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum…
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What’s Right About the Common-Core Math Standards
What’s Right About the Common-Core Math Standards
From the Marshall Memo #446
In this Education Week article, Michigan State professor William Schmidt reports on a study he conducted with Richard Houang comparing the Common Core State Standards in mathematics with U.S. state standards as of 2008-09 and standards from other high-performing countries. Their conclusions refute the contention of some…
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An Argument Against Requiring Algebra – and Some Reactions
An Argument Against Requiring Algebra – and Some Reactions
From the Marshall Memo #446
In this provocative New York Times opinion column, Queens College (NY) political scientist Andrew Hacker questions whether algebra and subsequent upper-level math courses should be required. Failing algebra is a major reason for our high dropout rate in secondary school and college, he says. “Why do we subject…
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Teachers who excel: A lesson from Miss Smoot by John Yemma
Teachers who excel: A lesson from Miss Smoot
Nothing is more important in K-12 education than the quality of a teacher. But how do we make great teachers? We could start with someone like Jane Smoot.
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Does More Tech in the Classroom Help Kids Learn? by Julie Halpert
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10 THINGS WE NOW KNOW ABOUT EDUCATION SPENDING
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Ed schools vs. education By Jack Kelly
Ed schools vs. education
August 12, 2012
If our kids learned as much in school as Canadian kids do, we'd increase our gross domestic product by about $50 trillion over the next 80 years, estimates Eric Hanushek of the Hoover Institution.
The GDP gain would be doubled if our kids learned as much as Finnish kids…
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5 Lessons Our Kids Don't Learn in School For Success in Life by Jennifer Owens
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