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The Greatest Shows on Earth: The Case for Arts Education and Support by AINE GREANEY



The Greatest Shows on Earth: The Case for Arts Education and Support

NOVEMBER 27, 2013
This post by AINE GREANEY originally…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 30, 2013 at 3:46pm — No Comments

In India, a School that Empowers Students and Teachers by SUZIE BOSS



In India, a School that Empowers Students and Teachers

NOVEMBER 27, 2013
This post by SUZIE BOSS originally appeared in…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 30, 2013 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Understanding the Cognitive Demands of Poverty on our Students By Sam Chaltain

Understanding the Cognitive Demands of Poverty on our Students

By Sam Chaltain on November 15, 2013 
Ed Week…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 30, 2013 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Are Virtual Math Manipulatives As Good As Actual Manipulatives? by Justin Burris

Are Virtual Math Manipulatives As Good As Actual Manipulatives?

In this article in Teaching Children Mathematics, Justin Burris (a Texas math coach and University of Houston visiting professor) reports on a study of third graders’ mathematical thinking about place value in the Investigations curriculum. Some students used virtual base-ten blocks (part of an enVision software program) while other students used real base-ten blocks. Researchers…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 27, 2013 at 7:46am — No Comments

Why today's kids need to get their hands dirty by Annie Murphy Paul

The joy of making things
In New Haven,…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 26, 2013 at 8:04am — No Comments

NYS Retired School Administrators and Supervisors Position Paper on High-Stakes Testing

NYSRSAS Position Paper on

High-Stakes Testing in New York State

As former school administrators/supervisors and residents of school districts in New York, the New York State Retired School Administrators and Supervisors [NYSRSAS] are concerned about the current state of high-stakes testing in our schools.  

It is our position that the impact of current testing on children, teachers, administrators and…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 26, 2013 at 7:39am — No Comments

International test scores: Getting the data straight By Valerie Strauss

 


International test scores: Getting the data straight

By Valerie Strauss, Updated: November 22 at 6:15 pm

Here is a third post in a debate on The Answer Sheet about international test scores and whether they tell us anything important about the U.S. public education system.

The conversation began with a…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 25, 2013 at 10:24am — No Comments

Is It Better to Have a Great Teacher or a Small Class? by EMILY RICHMOND

Is It Better to Have a Great Teacher or a Small Class?

A new report suggests that students are better off in a larger class taught by an excellent instructor.
by EMILY RICHMONDNOV 19…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 25, 2013 at 10:22am — No Comments

Why America's Prep Schools Aren't Following Arne Duncan's Public School Education Reforms by Shaun Johnson

Why America's Prep Schools Aren't Following Arne Duncan's Public School Education Reforms

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Shaun Johnson

http://www.good.is/posts/why-america-s-prep-schools-aren-t-following-arne-duncan-s-public-school-education-reforms

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Our public education system, with all of its admitted flaws, manages to…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 25, 2013 at 10:18am — 1 Comment

The Reading Wars: Why Natural Learning Fails in Classrooms by Peter Gray

Freedom to Learn

The roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning.
by Peter Gray

The Reading Wars: Why Natural Learning Fails in…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 25, 2013 at 8:43am — No Comments

That Doesn't Seem Like Lobbying for Children By Peter DeWitt

That Doesn't Seem Like Lobbying for Children

By Peter DeWitt on November 20, 2013
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Added by Michael Keany on November 25, 2013 at 8:30am — No Comments

Using Blogs and Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning by William Ferriter and Nicholas Provenzano

Using Blogs and Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning

In this Kappan article, William Ferriter (a North Carolina sixth-grade teacher) and Nicholas Provenzano (a Michigan high-school English teacher) sing the praises of the two-way conversation with fellow teachers around the world made possible by blogs and Twitter (Provenzano’s The Nerdy Teacher has almost 30,000 Twitter followers), and the “unconferences” they…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 24, 2013 at 11:00pm — No Comments

The Schoolhouse: Where Dreams Go to Die? by Dr. Arnold Dodge

Arnold Dodge

Arnold Dodge

Chairperson of the Department of Educational Leadership and Administration at LIU-Post…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 23, 2013 at 10:25am — No Comments

Russ on Reading: The Common Core in English/Language Arts: A Critically Literate Reading by Russ Walsh

Russ on Reading: The Common Core in English/Language Arts: A Critically Literate Reading

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2013 at 10:11am — No Comments

Test, Punish and Push Out

Test, Punish, and Push Out: How "Zero-Tolerance" and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth Into the School To Prison Pipeline

A report by The Advancement Project

Advancement Project is an innovative civil rights law, policy, and

communications “action tank” that advances universal…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2013 at 10:06am — No Comments

Artistic to the Core: Music and Common Core by DR. KARIN NOLAN



Artistic to the Core: Music and Common Core

NOVEMBER 20, 2013
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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2013 at 10:06am — No Comments

An Interview with Grant Wiggins: The Power of Backwards Design by Ben Johnson



An Interview with Grant Wiggins: The Power of Backwards Design

NOVEMBER 19, 2013
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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

“Who Needs More Time (on Tests)?” by Benjamin Lovett

Universal Design for Assessment

In this article in Better: Evidence-Based Education, Benjamin Lovett (Elmira College) agues that giving students with special needs extra time on tests is not always appropriate. “Giving extended time accommodations is an attractive solution when young people with disabilities perform poorly on school assessments,” says Lovett. “The accommodations can raise performance, and they have also been shown to reduce…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2013 at 8:17am — No Comments

Highly Effective Study Strategies by John Dunlosky

Highly Effective Study Strategies

In this helpful article in American Educator, John Dunlosky (Kent State University) summarizes the research he and several colleagues have done on the most effective methods of studying. [For a more detailed report on this research, see Marshall Memo 470.] It turns out that the strategy used most often by students – reading, re-reading, and highlighting – is one of the least-effective ways to retain…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2013 at 8:15am — No Comments

Finding and Replicating Successful Practices by Arvind Singhal

Finding and Replicating Successful Practices 

In this intriguing Kappan article, Arvind Singhal (University of Texas/El Paso) says that every community has positive deviants – “individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers although everyone has access to the same resources and challenges.” The challenge for change agents is (a) spotting the positive deviants, who…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

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