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Ed schools vs. education By Jack Kelly

Ed schools vs. education

August 12, 2012 

If our kids learned as much in school as Canadian kids do, we'd increase our gross domestic product by about $50 trillion over the next 80 years, estimates Eric Hanushek of the Hoover Institution.

The GDP gain would be doubled if our kids learned as much as Finnish kids…

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5 Lessons Our Kids Don't Learn in School For Success in Life by Jennifer Owens

Jennifer Owens

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Winning Back the Teenage Male by Eric Kester

Eric Kester

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Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education BY: Cathy Davidson and Mark Surman



Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education

Teaching our kids to code will make them uniquely prepared to fully contribute to the world.…

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Rick Hess: Extending The School Year For Everybody 'A Really Bad Idea'

Rick Hess: Extending The School Year For Everybody 'A Really Bad Idea'

Posted: 08/08/2012

Huffington Post…

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Average Is Over, Part II By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Average Is Over, Part II

NY Times

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Still MORE on Flipping the Faculty Meeting by Bill Ferriter

Still MORE on Flipping the Faculty Meeting

by Bill Ferriter

TLN

Back in early July, I wrote two posts (see here and here)…

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Evaluating teachers is not so easy by ANNE G. FAIGEN

Evaluating teachers is not so easy

ANNE G. FAIGEN, a novelist who was a high school teacher, knows from experience that assessing classroom performance is indeed complicated
August 5, 2012 12:31 am

In a conversation about…

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Improving Academic Achievement for Disadvantaged Children by Maurice Elias

Improving Academic Achievement for Disadvantaged Children

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What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020 by ARIEL SCHWARTZ



What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020

Fast Company

Is the era of the ivy-walled college coming to an end? How much will technology reshape what we think of as the college experience? See what the experts had to say.



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Teach for America: What's the Purpose? by Kenzo Shibata

Kenzo Shibata

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Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say

Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say

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Putting schools on a diet: The public speaks By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler

Putting schools on a diet: The public speaks

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler/ August 2, 2012

In November 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a widely noted address about the tough economic times facing American K-12 education. “I am here,” he said, “to talk today about what has been called the New Normal. For the next several years,…

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Tested: Why Standardized Tests Don't Make Sense - An Infographic by Accredited Online Colleges

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Instant Resources: The Importance of Media Literacy by Peter DeWitt

Instant Resources: The Importance of Media Literacy



Have you ever read a story and wondered if it was accurate? When doing research, do you not only read your primary sources but also dig down a little deeper and read the sources they used? Do you take it a step further and look…

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Is It Important for Nonnative Speakers to Lose their Accents?

Is It Important for Nonnative Speakers to Lose their Accents?

 

From the Marshall Memo #444

In this article in Foreign Language Annals, University of Utah professors Rachel Hayes-Harb and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp sum up their study of whether having a “foreign accent” affects being understood by a native speaker. “Although nonnative speakers often strive to ‘overcome’ their accents,” say the authors,…

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12 Ways Parents Can Contribute to Education Reform

12 Ways Parents Can Contribute to Education Reform

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Teacher Leaders Should Stop Being Scaredy Cats and Embrace Social Media by Lillie Marshall

Follow-Up: Teacher Leaders Should Stop Being Scaredy Cats and Embrace Social Media



Lillie Marshall

Teachers lag behind other careers in harnessing the power of social media, and a major reason is fear.

"It's dangerous to…

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Let's Get Rid of Subs By Nancy Flanagan

Let's Get Rid of Subs

If there were ever an outmoded,…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 23, 2012 at 1:47pm — No Comments

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