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1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.

Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it

is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution

and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.

One of their large lessons is…

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Teaching Students to Turn Empathy into Action BY MAURICE ELIAS

Teaching Students to Turn Empathy into Action

BY MAURICE ELIAS

10/11/11…

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Why I Send My Children to Public Schools by Robert Niles

Robert Niles

Founder and editor, ThemeParkInsider.com

Why I Send My Children to…

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Eugenic Legacies Still Influence Education by David B. Cohen

Eugenic Legacies Still Influence Education

OCTOBER 9, 2011

by David B. Cohen

"Every student, every day" - a reminder to myself posted in…

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Do Administrators Run the Risk of Losing Touch with Students? By Peter DeWitt

Do Administrators Run the Risk of Losing Touch with Students?

By Peter DeWitt on October 6, 2011…

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Teaching Secrets: After the Honeymoon By Cossondra George

Teaching Secrets: After the Honeymoon

By Cossondra George

TLN

The school year's honeymoon is over. Teachers and students are settling into routines—which can be comforting but can also confront new teachers with the reality of how tiring a teacher's life can be. This can be a make-or-break period for new teachers. It's when you need to develop habits that will sustain you—and keep your excitement and…

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The Ideal vs. the Reality by C. Kent McGuire

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

The Ideal vs. the Reality

Updated October 2, 2011, 07:00 PM…

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A New Goal for an Old Idea by Cassandra L. Davis

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

A New Goal for an Old Idea

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Done Well, Differentiation Works by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

Done Well, Differentiation Works

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Acknowledging the Trade-Offs (in differentiation) by Frederick Hess

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

Acknowledging the Trade-Offs

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Homework: Only Review What You Need to Review By David Ginsburg

Homework: Only Review What You Need to Review

By David Ginsburg on October 2, 2011

Teacher in Front of Classroom.jpg A lot…

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Tip for New Teachers #1: Always Be Watching

They say teachers must have eyes on the back of their heads. This is definitely true on some level, and there are some very obvious, but not necessarily intuitive, tricks to get close to this reality--close enough that you might actually hear your students say,…

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Tip For New Teachers #2: Monitor Your Talking Time!

I'm sure every one of us has sat through a class, as a student or an observer, and thought, "Gee this teacher must love the sound of his or her own voice." We watch the students tuning out the teacher's words, waiting until it's time for them to participate…

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Do school superintendents matter? By Jay Mathews

Do school superintendents matter?

By Jay Mathews

Washington Post

Early in 2004, at a party for Washington-area school leaders, Jack D. Dale, head of the Frederick County, Md., system, let slip that he had gotten a big new job…

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Good Evaluation Requires Data -- And Sound Judgment By Tom Vander Ark

Good Evaluation Requires Data -- And Sound Judgment

By Tom Vander Ark

Posted: 10/1/11 12:36 PM ET…

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The University of Wherever By BILL KELLER

The University of Wherever

By BILL KELLER

NY Times

FOR more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have envisioned a world of virtual…

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