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Michael Keany's Blog – February 2013 Archive (102)

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Dear Teacher, With Love: When Student Letters Change Your Life By Marilyn Rhames

Dear Teacher, With Love: When Student Letters Change Your Life

By Marilyn Rhames on February 27, 2013 
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Added by Michael Keany on February 28, 2013 at 10:29am — No Comments

Teaching Values: Let's End Our Misguided Approach By Katherine Casey and Francesca Kaplan Grossman

Teaching Values: Let's End Our Misguided Approach

By Katherine Casey and Francesca Kaplan Grossman
Premium article access courtesy of TeacherMagazine.org.

"Schools and teachers don't get to choose whether they teach values. Schools and teachers are always affecting values by, for…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 28, 2013 at 10:24am — 2 Comments

Professional-development reform: 8 steps to make it happen By Tom Murray

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Professional-development reform: 8 steps to make it happen

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Added by Michael Keany on February 28, 2013 at 9:51am — No Comments

Thirty Years Later: A Nation Still at Risk? By: Alison DeNisco

Thirty Years Later: A Nation Still at Risk?

This April marks the 30th anniversary of the controversial Reagan-era report “A Nation at Risk”—and little has changed since.
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Added by Michael Keany on February 27, 2013 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Why I Cannot Support the Common Core Standards by Diane Ravitch

Why I Cannot Support the Common Core Standards by Diane Ravitch

I have thought long and hard about the Common Core standards.

I have decided that I cannot support them.

In this post, I will explain why.

I have long…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 27, 2013 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Twitter Is Perfect for Socially Awkward People By Peter DeWitt

Twitter Is Perfect for Socially Awkward People

By Peter DeWitt on February 26, 2013 
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Added by Michael Keany on February 27, 2013 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Singapore: Bilingual Language Policy and its Educational Success By Anthony Jackson

Singapore: Bilingual Language Policy and its Educational Success

By Anthony Jackson on February 25, 2013 
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Added by Michael Keany on February 27, 2013 at 2:15pm — No Comments

ADHD Medication Can Help Kids, But It Can't Fix Schools By Nancy Rappaport

ADHD Medication Can Help Kids, But It Can't Fix Schools

By Nancy Rappaport
Ed Week

I think we can all agree that reforming schools through medicating students would be misguided, even ridiculous.

Yet The New York Times reported…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 26, 2013 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Poverty's Prominent Role in Absenteeism By Marc Cutillo

Poverty's Prominent Role in Absenteeism

By Marc Cutillo
Article Tools Ed Week

Half of life is just showing up." I once loved repeating that to my students who were regularly absent from school. Like all good quotes, it owns a perfect blend of simplicity, adaptation,…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 26, 2013 at 5:45pm — No Comments

A Genetic Code for Genius? By GAUTAM NAIK

  • The Wall Street Journal
  • February 15, 2013, 8:17 p.m. ET

A Genetic Code for Genius?

In China, a research project aims to find the roots of intelligence in our DNA; searching for the supersmart…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 25, 2013 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Advanced Placement: Growing, But Good Enough? By Peter Gow

Advanced Placement: Growing, But Good Enough?

By Peter Gow on February 25, 2013 
Ed Week

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You Better Start Listening to Teachers By John Wilson

You Better Start Listening to Teachers

By John Wilson on February 25, 2013 
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The IQ Debate By Walt Gardner

The IQ Debate

By Walt Gardner on February 25, 2013 
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Added by Michael Keany on February 25, 2013 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

When Schools Cut Nurses By Peter DeWitt

When Schools Cut Nurses

By Peter DeWitt on February 24, 2013 

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Added by Michael Keany on February 25, 2013 at 9:36am — No Comments

5 Indications Your Leadership Is Obsolete for 21st Century Schools by J. Robinson



The 21st Century Principal

Technology, Teaching, and Public Education…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 25, 2013 at 9:28am — No Comments

Some Concerns About Facebook by Stephen Marche

Some Concerns About Facebook

“Does the Internet make people lonely, or are lonely people more attracted to the Internet?” asks novelist Stephen Marche in this troubling article in The Atlantic. He quotes John Cacioppo (University of Chicago’s Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience): “If you use Facebook to increase face-to-face contact, it increases social capital… It’s like a car. You can drive it to pick up your friends. Or you can…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 24, 2013 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Can Parent Involvement Be a Negative Factor in a School? by Linn Posey-Maddox

Can Parent Involvement Be a Negative Factor in a School?

In this American Journal of Education article, Linn Posey-Maddox (University of Wisconsin/Madison) explores the phenomenon of middle- and upper-middle-class parents raising funds, writing grants, and volunteering in their children’s urban schools. The contributions from these parents can make a significant difference to school quality in tight budget times, providing art and music…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 24, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

How Educators Sometimes “Enable” Students (an Oldie but Goodie)

How Educators Sometimes “Enable” Students (an Oldie but Goodie)

(Originally titled “ ‘Enabling’ Undermines Responsibility in Students”)

In this 1989 Educational Leadership article, Wisconsin social studies teacher Steven Landfried writes candidly about teachers who are “enablers” – they let students (and colleagues) off the hook by allowing them to be lazy, avoid responsibilities, and miss out on opportunities for growth.…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 23, 2013 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Activity Speaks Louder Than Words: Improving Student Engagement by KENDELL DORSEY

Activity Speaks Louder Than Words: Improving Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 20, 2013
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Added by Michael Keany on February 22, 2013 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Is Educational Technology Worth the Hype?by BOB LENZ

Is Educational Technology Worth the Hype?

FEBRUARY 22, 2013
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