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Breakthroughs To Literacy: What are most popular reading curricula? Or your favorite? Or most hated?
So far as I can tell, most American children are taught by programs that combine Whole Language and some phonics, all done under the banner of Balanced Literacy.
But what are the actual names of the most dominant curricula?? I know the name "Breakthrough to Literacy" and also "Success for All."
Please list the others you know about.
If you want to praise them or condemn them, that's…
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What matters more than raw brainpower? by Annie Murphy Paul
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Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers
Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week
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Get to Know a C.E.O., with Joel Klein By Tom Segal
Get to Know a C.E.O., with Joel Klein
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Test scores usher in 'Hard Times' for New York's kids by Carol Burris
Burris: Test scores usher in 'Hard Times' for New York's kids
Photo credit: Tribune Content Agency / Donna Grethen | New York students labored through days of testing so that the ignorance of the "number 20s" could be exposed for all to see. The question to be asked is, to what end?…
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Let’s Not Expect Everyone to Run a 4 Minute Mile
I don’t know about you but when I occasionally run in a 5K a 9 minute mile average pace is pushing it for me. Now I’m sure there are some very fit, athletic 50 year olds who can do much better, but clearly if we expected (or mandated) that everyone at my age should run a 4 minute mile the results would be much like what we see in the recently released NYS assessment failure rates. The standard setting equivalent of expecting all to perform at high levels that are dubious in terms of attending… Continue
Added by David A. Gamberg on August 11, 2013 at 7:00am — No Comments
Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation
Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation
In this Harvard Educational Review article, Heather Hill (Harvard University) and Pam Grossman (Stanford University) raise three concerns about recent state and district innovations in teacher evaluation. First, they believe most classroom observation instruments are generic and don’t focus on important content-specific aspects of teaching. Second, they say evaluations are mostly done by generalists…
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A Retirement State of Mind
Billy Joel's lyrical tune, A New York State of Mind, has been playing in my mind lately. Since retiring from public education, I have been pondering what retirement means. Joel's song and a quote from a retiree gave me pause.…
Added by Carol Varsalona on August 10, 2013 at 9:37am — No Comments
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and Challenges By Amber M. Winkler
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and ChallengesBy Amber M. Winkler Thomas B. Fordham Institute Education Gadfly With Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on the tip of everybody’s tongue and Common Core–aligned assessments expected to roll out nationally in less than… |
Added by Michael Keany on August 9, 2013 at 9:44am — No Comments
Is the day of reckoning upon us? By Kathleen Porter-Magee
Is the day of reckoning upon us?
By Kathleen Porter-Magee / August 8, 2013
Thomas Fordham Institute
Education Gadfly
On Wednesday, New York officials released results from the state’s first administration of the new, more difficult, Common Core–aligned tests. As officials warned—and as everyone knew—the results were low; shockingly low in some instances. Last year, 47 percent of New York students scored at or…
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Teaching Is The Core
On July 8, 2013, I along with 600-800 NYS educators gathered for a week full of learning and engagement at the Network Team Institute training in Albany, New York. We were charged by Deputy Commissioner Ken Slentz to become lea…
Added by Carol Varsalona on August 8, 2013 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment
Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action by David Brooks
Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action
In this New York Times column, David Brooks says the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (Fisher v. University of Texas) is “another small signal that the era of explicitly race-based affirmative action is coming to an end.” Why? Brooks believes it’s because three things have changed:
• Economic inequality is now more important than race as a source of…
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Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy by David Warlick
Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy
Posted on | August 6, 2013 | by David Warlick
Many months ago I spoke at a leadership conference in Vancouver. When the event was over, officials with…
Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 2:12pm — No Comments
Should We Teach “Other People’s Kids” Differently? by Chris Lehman
Should We Teach “Other People’s Kids” Differently?
by Chris Lehman
http://christopherlehman.wordpress.com…
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Don't Worry About Your Test Scores By Peter DeWitt
Don't Worry About Your Test Scores
Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 1:53pm — No Comments
Common Core Test Results
Over the next few days there will be plenty of media buzz over test scores in New York State. These stories draw viewers, sell ad time and sell newspapers. Ka-ching!!
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The Rich Get Richer (And The Test Scores Prove It)
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Invitation to Impact Teaching and Learning
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