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

Is the day of reckoning upon us? By Kathleen Porter-Magee

Is the day of reckoning upon us?

By Kathleen Porter-Magee / August 8, 2013

Thomas Fordham Institute

Education Gadfly

On Wednesday, New York officials released results from the state’s first administration of the new, more difficult, Common Core–aligned tests. As officials warned—and as everyone knew—the results were low; shockingly low in some instances. Last year, 47 percent of New York students scored at or…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 9, 2013 at 9:32am — 1 Comment

Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action by David Brooks

Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action

In this New York Times column, David Brooks says the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (Fisher v. University of Texas) is “another small signal that the era of explicitly race-based affirmative action is coming to an end.” Why? Brooks believes it’s because three things have changed:

• Economic inequality is now more important than race as a source of…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy by David Warlick

Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy

Many months ago I spoke at a leadership conference in Vancouver. When the event was over, officials with…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 2:12pm — No Comments

Don't Worry About Your Test Scores By Peter DeWitt

Don't Worry About Your Test Scores

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The Rich Get Richer (And The Test Scores Prove It)

The Rich Get Richer (And The Test Scores Prove It)
Source: Best Education Degrees

Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 11:38am — No Comments

ELL Advocates Call for PARCC Tests in Spanish By Lesli A. Maxwell

ELL Advocates Call for PARCC Tests in Spanish

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Added by Michael Keany on August 7, 2013 at 9:36am — No Comments

Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools by Alice Jenkins

Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools

by Alice Jenkins

 

In an era where 53% of college graduates are jobless or underemployed future graduates have little to look forward to with all of the education and skills they have acquired besides sitting in front of a computer and applying to low level jobs on craigslist. These people…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 7, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Is There a Connection? by Cory Koedel

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Is There a Connection?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2013 at 11:31am — 1 Comment

Texting, Tweeting, and Terrible Grammar in K-12 Schools By Matthew Lynch

Texting, Tweeting, and Terrible Grammar in K-12 Schools

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2013 at 11:28am — No Comments

Is it good to tell a first-grader, ‘You might be a dropout?’ by Annie Murphy Paul

Acting on early signs…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Classroom Observations Are Not About Compliance By Peter DeWitt

Classroom Observations Are Not About Compliance

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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 7:32pm — No Comments

If You Want to Motivate Someone, Shut Up Already - An Interview with Brandon Irwin

The Motivation Provided by Having a Partner and Being Part of a Team

In this Harvard Business Review interview by Scott Berinato, Kansas State University kinesiology professor Brandon Irwin reports some interesting findings on motivation and coaching that may apply to K-12 schools. He had people perform abdominal “planks” (lying face down, keeping your body straight, lifting yourself up on your elbows, and holding that position as long as you…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Student achievement and teacher evaluations: The math doesn’t add up? BY SCOTT MCLEOD

Student achievement and teacher evaluations: The math doesn’t add up?

1+1=3

Many states are applying for NCLB waivers. But they are adopting teacher evaluation criteria that are statistically, professionally, and morally inappropriate. …

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What Can We Learn From Failure? By Peter DeWitt

What Can We Learn From Failure?

Ed Week

What really…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 3, 2013 at 11:28am — No Comments

Do Schools Work Hard Enough to Engage Parents? By Peter DeWitt

Do Schools Work Hard Enough to Engage Parents?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 3, 2013 at 10:53am — No Comments

What Price Racial Diversity? By Walt Gardner

What Price Racial Diversity?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 2, 2013 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Standardized Testing for Colleges: A Necessary Evil? By Matthew Lynch

Standardized Testing for Colleges: A Necessary Evil?

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Four Questions Every New Superintendent Should Ask By Jonathan Travers and David Rosenberg

Four Questions Every New Superintendent Should Ask

Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

Congratulations! You’ve just been named superintendent of a large, urban school district. You’re in good company: Dozens of districts—from Boston to…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 2, 2013 at 3:02pm — No Comments

Helping Girls Unlock Their Leadership Potential by ANNE OBRIEN



Helping Girls Unlock Their Leadership Potential

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Added by Michael Keany on August 1, 2013 at 3:28pm — No Comments

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