Michael Keany's Blog – August 2013 Archive (64)

Why Are Schools Across N.Y. State So Frustrated? By Peter DeWitt

Why Are Schools Across N.Y. State So Frustrated?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 20, 2013 at 8:03am — No Comments

Don't Just Learn - Overlearn by Annie Murphy-Paul

Don't just learn—overlearn

"Why do I have to keep practicing? I know it already!”



That’s the familiar wail of a child seated at the piano or in front of the multiplication table (or, for that matter, of an adult taking a tennis lesson). Cognitive science has a persuasive retort: We don’t just need to learn a task in order to perform it well; we need to overlearn it. Decades of research have shown that superior performance requires practicing beyond the point of mastery. The… Continue

Added by Michael Keany on August 19, 2013 at 10:36am — No Comments

In Testing, a Principal Leans on Her Experience By MICHAEL WINERIP

The New York Times


August 13, 2013

In Testing, a Principal Leans on Her Experience

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:32pm — No Comments

Back to School: Goal Setting With Your Students by MAURICE ELIAS



Back to School: Goal Setting With Your Students

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:18pm — No Comments

How come officials could predict new test score results? by Carol Burris

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How come officials could predict new test score results?

By Valerie Strauss, Updated: August 12, 2013…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Rating Schools of Education By Walt Gardner

Rating Schools of Education

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:04pm — No Comments

The Implications of Universal Preschool By Matthew Lynch

The Implications of Universal Preschool

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Added by Michael Keany on August 16, 2013 at 10:02pm — No Comments

Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things By Anthony Cody

Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things

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Added by Michael Keany on August 15, 2013 at 7:44am — No Comments

Minding the Gap: SAT and the Socio-Economic Divide By Ilana Garon

Minding the Gap: SAT and the Socio-Economic Divide

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Added by Michael Keany on August 15, 2013 at 7:42am — No Comments

England vs Scotland: Competing school reform visions by Marc Tucker

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England vs Scotland: Competing school reform visions

By Valerie Strauss, Updated: July 22, 2013…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Can the Common Core Fix Poverty? By Peter DeWitt

Can the Common Core Fix Poverty?

Ed Week

Too many…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 11:26am — No Comments

School Change: Make Room for "Wrongdoing" by MATT LEVINSON

 

School Change: Make Room for "Wrongdoing"

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 11:15am — No Comments

Teacher Burnout: Start Preventing It Now! by NICHOLAS PROVENZANO



Teacher Burnout: Start Preventing It Now!

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Added by Michael Keany on August 13, 2013 at 11:11am — No Comments

What matters more than raw brainpower? by Annie Murphy Paul

Beyond sheer brainpower
What does it take…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

Life After This Scarlet-Letter Week

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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 2:25pm — No Comments

Get to Know a C.E.O., with Joel Klein By Tom Segal

Get to Know a C.E.O., with Joel Klein

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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Test scores usher in 'Hard Times' for New York's kids by Carol Burris

Burris: Test scores usher in 'Hard Times' for New York's kids

New York students labored through days of testing

Photo credit: Tribune Content Agency / Donna Grethen | New York students labored through days of testing so that the ignorance of the "number 20s" could be exposed for all to see. The question to be asked is, to what end?…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 12, 2013 at 7:43am — No Comments

Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation

Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation

In this Harvard Educational Review article, Heather Hill (Harvard University) and Pam Grossman (Stanford University) raise three concerns about recent state and district innovations in teacher evaluation. First, they believe most classroom observation instruments are generic and don’t focus on important content-specific aspects of teaching. Second, they say evaluations are mostly done by generalists…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 10, 2013 at 10:45am — No Comments

Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and Challenges By Amber M. Winkler

Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and Challenges

By Amber M. Winkler

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Education Gadfly

With Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on the tip of everybody’s tongue and Common Core–aligned assessments expected to roll out nationally in less than…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 9, 2013 at 9:44am — No Comments

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