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Cheating the Gifted? By Nancy Flanagan

Cheating the Gifted?

By Nancy Flanagan on December 2, 2011 

It's an argument that seems to bubble up cyclically. It doesn't matter what the hot policy idea du jour is, someone is bound to assert: What we're doing right now does not serve the needs of the gifted!

The question was raised in the…

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Brain Rules Schools by Tom Vander Ark

Tom Vander Ark

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Open Letter to Jonah: You Have Thousands of Friends You Haven't Met Yet by James Peron

James Peron

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The New Global Skill Set By Anthony Jackson

The New Global Skill Set

Just as businesses are now collaborating…

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Use of Case Studies as a Student-Centered Approach to Learning by Eric Sheninger

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Use of Case Studies as a Student-Centered Approach to Learning

by Eric Sheninger

The use of case studies is a powerful pedagogical approach to incorporate student-centered learning activities into lessons.  As a science teacher I routinely utilized case studies as they provided a relevant context to what I was teaching.  Claire Davis and Elizabeth Wilcock conducted an excellent literature…

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A Wounded Lover of Writing Prompts BY TODD FINLEY

A Wounded Lover of Writing Prompts

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The value of a veteran teacher By Valerie Strauss

The value of a veteran teacher



Former teacher Sandra Geddes gets a hug from students at an after-school science club at Westbrook Elementary School in Bethesda. (Jahi Chikwendiu - WASHINGTON…

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How to Create Nonreaders Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power By Alfie Kohn

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ENGLISH JOURNAL

Fall 2010 -- vol. 100, no. 1

How to Create Nonreaders

Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power



By Alfie Kohn



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Financial Literacy for High School Students BY BRIAN PAGE

Financial Literacy for High School Students

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Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other By Larry Ferlazzo

Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other

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You Know the Joke, And It's Not Funny By Anthony Jackson

You Know the Joke, And It's Not Funny

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Should Schools Be Run for Profit? By Diane Ravitch

Should Schools Be Run for Profit?

Dear Deborah,



The…

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Do Multiple Choice Questions Pass the Test? By JASON KOEBLER

Do Multiple Choice Questions Pass the Test?

November 28, 2011 

Use a No. 2 pencil, fill out each circle completely, and don't make any stray marks—these are rules every child learns when taking standardized tests that are largely based on multiple choice. But are multiple choice exams the…

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Why I Signed: Principals' Objections to the New Evaluation System

Why I Signed: Principals' Objections to the New Evaluation System

Nov. 28, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

Principals who object to the new state system to evaluate teachers and principals…

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Middle Grades Matter by Geneviève DeBose and Kareen Borders

Middle Grades Matter

“You teach middle school? Why?! All those hormones and growth spurts and changes.How do you do it?”

These words are not uncommon…

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Five Big Changes to the Future of Teacher Education by Tina Barseghian

Five Big Changes to the Future of…

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Only Artists Can Make the Difference by John M. Eger

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Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement by Alan Singer

Alan Singer

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The Global Search for Education: More on Arts by C.M. Rubin

C. M. Rubin

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How About Better Parents? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

How About Better Parents?

NY Times



IN recent years, we’ve been treated to reams of op-ed articles about how we need better teachers in our public schools and, if only the teachers’ unions would go…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2011 at 10:05am — No Comments

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