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ELL Advocates Call for PARCC Tests in Spanish By Lesli A. Maxwell

ELL Advocates Call for PARCC Tests in Spanish

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Added by Michael Keany on August 7, 2013 at 9:36am — No Comments

Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools by Alice Jenkins

Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools

by Alice Jenkins

 

In an era where 53% of college graduates are jobless or underemployed future graduates have little to look forward to with all of the education and skills they have acquired besides sitting in front of a computer and applying to low level jobs on craigslist. These people…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 7, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

The Buddha in the Attic

When I read that today was the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, I was reminded of the novel, The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka.  This Pen Faulkner award winner follows the lives of Japanese women from their journey to San Francisco to become "picture brides" for strangers, to the internment of Japanese-Americans at the onset of World War II.

A friend and I read this book for…

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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on August 6, 2013 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Is There a Connection? by Cory Koedel

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Is There a Connection?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2013 at 11:31am — 1 Comment

Texting, Tweeting, and Terrible Grammar in K-12 Schools By Matthew Lynch

Texting, Tweeting, and Terrible Grammar in K-12 Schools

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2013 at 11:28am — No Comments

Is it good to tell a first-grader, ‘You might be a dropout?’ by Annie Murphy Paul

Acting on early signs…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Classroom Observations Are Not About Compliance By Peter DeWitt

Classroom Observations Are Not About Compliance

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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 7:32pm — No Comments

If You Want to Motivate Someone, Shut Up Already - An Interview with Brandon Irwin

The Motivation Provided by Having a Partner and Being Part of a Team

In this Harvard Business Review interview by Scott Berinato, Kansas State University kinesiology professor Brandon Irwin reports some interesting findings on motivation and coaching that may apply to K-12 schools. He had people perform abdominal “planks” (lying face down, keeping your body straight, lifting yourself up on your elbows, and holding that position as long as you…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Student achievement and teacher evaluations: The math doesn’t add up? BY SCOTT MCLEOD

Student achievement and teacher evaluations: The math doesn’t add up?

1+1=3

Many states are applying for NCLB waivers. But they are adopting teacher evaluation criteria that are statistically, professionally, and morally inappropriate. …

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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Why Teachers Should Read for Pleasure

My friend and mentor, Carol Varsalona sent me this interesting article on the importance of teachers reading to enhance their confidence in the classroom and their own personal well-being.  Check out other interesting teaching tidbits and facts on Carol's new blog, …

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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on August 5, 2013 at 2:02pm — No Comments

What Can We Learn From Failure? By Peter DeWitt

What Can We Learn From Failure?

Ed Week

What really…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 3, 2013 at 11:28am — No Comments

Do Schools Work Hard Enough to Engage Parents? By Peter DeWitt

Do Schools Work Hard Enough to Engage Parents?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 3, 2013 at 10:53am — No Comments

What Price Racial Diversity? By Walt Gardner

What Price Racial Diversity?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 2, 2013 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Standardized Testing for Colleges: A Necessary Evil? By Matthew Lynch

Standardized Testing for Colleges: A Necessary Evil?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 2, 2013 at 4:39pm — No Comments

Four Questions Every New Superintendent Should Ask By Jonathan Travers and David Rosenberg

Four Questions Every New Superintendent Should Ask

Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

Congratulations! You’ve just been named superintendent of a large, urban school district. You’re in good company: Dozens of districts—from Boston to…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 2, 2013 at 3:02pm — No Comments

They said it! Would you say it?

"I have no idea what I want to do"

I heard this comment from a 22 year-old college graduate. He’s a bright, engaging, confident young man who played collegiate sports. Yet, he doesn’t know how to go about finding a job that he thinks he’d…

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Added by Bob Wolf on August 2, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Helping Girls Unlock Their Leadership Potential by ANNE OBRIEN



Helping Girls Unlock Their Leadership Potential

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Added by Michael Keany on August 1, 2013 at 3:28pm — No Comments

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