Michael Keany's Blog – October 2011 Archive (52)

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? By Jonah Lehrer

Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

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Added by Michael Keany on October 22, 2011 at 10:29am — No Comments

Do You Want Your Kids on That Bus? by John Merrow

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Added by Michael Keany on October 20, 2011 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Education in the Age of Information by Dr. Gino Yu

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The Public Equivalent of Love by David Kirp

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Added by Michael Keany on October 19, 2011 at 1:09pm — No Comments

5 Facts About Bilingualism by Delia Lloyd

5 Facts About Bilingualism

by Delia Lloyd

Posted: 10/13/11 12:16 PM ET…
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Added by Michael Keany on October 18, 2011 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Ten Wishes for Student Success by Maya Frost

 

 

President Obama shared some advice with America’s school children (or some of them, anyway). I’m happy that he encouraged students to work hard and stay in school. He had some sound long-term suggestions.  



But as …

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Added by Michael Keany on October 18, 2011 at 10:42am — No Comments

Creating Education Success at Home By Marc Tucker

Creating Education Success at Home

Despite the fact that the United States spends more per student on elementary and secondary education than any other nation except Luxembourg, students in a growing number of nations outperform our students. Our organization, the National Center on Education and the Economy, has researched the education systems of the…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 17, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Engaging Parents: An Elementary Teacher's Field Guide BY GAETAN PAPPALARDO

Engaging Parents: An Elementary Teacher's Field Guide

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Added by Michael Keany on October 14, 2011 at 5:21pm — No Comments

What We Lose When Teachers Retire By Learning Forward

What We Lose When Teachers Retire

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Added by Michael Keany on October 14, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

Counting Success One Student, One Community at a Time by Alma and Colin Powell

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Added by Michael Keany on October 12, 2011 at 11:18am — No Comments

What Can We Learn From Finland? By Diane Ravitch

What Can We Learn From Finland?

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Added by Michael Keany on October 12, 2011 at 11:09am — 2 Comments

Congress can make students improve, and improve, and improve, and improve, and… By Richard Rothstein

COMMENTARYEducation

Congress can make students improve, and improve, and improve, and improve, and…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 12, 2011 at 10:56am — No Comments

Ten Lessons that the Arts Teach

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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Added by Michael Keany on October 12, 2011 at 10:54am — No Comments

Teaching Students to Turn Empathy into Action BY MAURICE ELIAS

Teaching Students to Turn Empathy into Action

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Added by Michael Keany on October 12, 2011 at 5:30am — No Comments

Why I Send My Children to Public Schools by Robert Niles

Robert Niles

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Added by Michael Keany on October 11, 2011 at 10:47am — No Comments

Eugenic Legacies Still Influence Education by David B. Cohen

Eugenic Legacies Still Influence Education

OCTOBER 9, 2011
by David B. Cohen
classroom

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

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Added by Michael Keany on October 10, 2011 at 10:18am — No Comments

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

Do Administrators Run the Risk of Losing Touch with Students?

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Added by Michael Keany on October 7, 2011 at 4:32pm — 1 Comment

Teaching Secrets: After the Honeymoon By Cossondra George

Teaching Secrets: After the Honeymoon

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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Added by Michael Keany on October 5, 2011 at 12:17pm — No Comments

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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Added by Michael Keany on October 4, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

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