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After 20 years in schools, it is completely obvious to me that schools are limited in their abilities to overcome every challenge that every child faces.
Even in affluent schools, children are plagued by all kinds of out-of-school factors including mental illness of various levels resulting in depression and…
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Education reform is awash in a surge of "parent power." Long considered bystanders (or even obstacles) to the push for school reform, a slew of new "education reform advocacy…
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After being appointed Assistant Principal of a local elementary school in the spring of 2005, one of my first purchases was the book What Great Principals Do Differently by Todd Whitaker (if you are on Twitter, Todd is a MUST follow @ToddWhitaker). Although I wasn't a principal yet, I heard this book would offer some wonderful…
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For this monthly* post of cartoons, I have selected images about the impending Common Core curriculum standards in math and English for K-12 students. While many countries have a national curriculum, the U.S. does not. Since the Common Core standards have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. will soon have a national–not federally mandated–one.
According to a…
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A new batch of five-year olds is headed to Kindergarten this week, carrying with them, along with some jitters, big dreams of success. Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2012 at 11:53am — No Comments
Grit – Necessary But Not Sufficient
From the Marshall Memo #451
In this Education Gadfly commentary on Paul Tough’s new book, How Children Succeed [see Marshall Memo 450, #5 for more], Robert Pondiscio of the Core Knowledge Foundation worries that most people’s big takeaway from the book will be, “It’s all about character” or “Grit trumps cognitive ability.” In fact, the book tells the…
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Does Minimum Grading Inflate Grades and Lead to Social Promotion?
From the Marshall Memo #451
In this Educational Researcher article, James Carifio and Theodore Cary (professor and researcher at University of Massachusetts/Lowell) report on their study of seven years of student grading data from an urban high school. They wanted to see if the practice of minimum grading (which the school used…
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Five Myths About Keeping Students Back
From the Marshall Memo #451
In this article in Principal Leadership, Shane Jimerson (University of California/Santa Barbara) and Tyler Renshaw (Louisiana State University) debunk these myths about retaining students:
• Myth #1: Retention is a gift of time and helps students catch up. “Research reveals that students who are…
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Dell Computer has sponsored four education Think Tanks over the last year, or so, and I have been fortunate to participate in three of them. At each get-together educators, education related organizers, education industry executives, and most recently students, were brought together in an open discussion on the weighty topics of education and education reform. All of the discussions were video-taped, and live-streamed, and even animated on a mural to a viewing audience. The final production…
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