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Bernstein: High school future is high tech By MARC F. BERNSTEIN

Bernstein: High school future is high tech

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Photo credit: Illustration by Martin Kozlowski |

It's time for the next big thing in education, a true revolution in our approach to high school teaching and learning. The vision comes courtesy of …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 4, 2012 at 9:47am — No Comments

Going Too Easy on Our Charges: Teachers and Doctors’ “Affective Errors” by Dan Brown

Going Too Easy on Our Charges: Teachers and Doctors’ “Affective Errors”

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by Dan Brown

Teachers make an uncountable number of decisions. Many of those decisions relate to how hard to push our students and how much leeway to grant those that don’t conform to…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 1, 2012 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Save the Children by Tom Allon (candidate for NYC Mayor)

Save the…
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Added by Michael Keany on May 30, 2012 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Ten Pieces of Advice for Rookie Teachers

Ten Pieces of Advice for Rookie Teachers



From the Marshall Memo #437

(Originally titled “The Don’ts and Don’ts of Teaching”)

In this Educational Leadership article, New York City high-school teacher Gary Rubinstein lists the mistakes he wishes he’d been warned not to make in his rookie year:

• Don’t try to teach too much in a day. Teachers are…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 27, 2012 at 11:21am — No Comments

And the winner of the May 20 photo contest was ...

Tagrid Sihly

Tagrid corrected identified the following (and gets a free one-year extension on membership):

The name of the school is the Boston Latin School.
Graduate who was a Tea Party organizer: Samuel Adams
Graduate known for his large signature: John Hancock
Graduate who is a father of a US…
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Added by Michael Keany on May 27, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Thoughts on Racial and Economic Integration in Schools and Classrooms

Thoughts on Racial and Economic Integration in Schools and Classrooms



From the Marshall Memo #437

In this Education Gadfly article, Michael Petrilli knits together several important demographic and pedagogical themes that have been in the news recently:

• For the first time, reported The New York Times last week, nonwhites account for more than half of U.S. births.…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 26, 2012 at 10:08am — No Comments

Dumb Kids’ Class



The benefits of being underestimated by the nuns at St. Petronille’s

Dumb Kids’ Class

By MARK BOWDEN…
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Added by Michael Keany on May 24, 2012 at 11:30pm — No Comments

What Teacher Leaders Learned This School Year

What Teacher Leaders Learned This School Year

What is the most significant lesson you learned this year? I posed this question to members of the Teacher…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 24, 2012 at 11:42am — No Comments

Six Affirmations for PBL Teachers BY ANDREW MILLER

Six Affirmations for PBL Teachers

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Added by Michael Keany on May 23, 2012 at 6:48pm — No Comments

A Gay-Straight Alliance in Every School by Peter DeWitt

Peter DeWitt

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Added by Michael Keany on May 23, 2012 at 11:41am — No Comments

Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis

Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis

BY DAVID D. BURSTEIN | 05-21-2012 |Fast Company

Since 1982, historian Robert Caro has been chronicling the life of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. The…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 22, 2012 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Standardized Testing Fails the Exam BY W. JAMES POPHAM

Standardized Testing Fails the Exam

If enough educators -- and noneducators -- realize there are serious flaws in how we evaluate our schools, maybe we can stop this absurdity.

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Added by Michael Keany on May 22, 2012 at 1:54pm — No Comments

A Significant Error That Policymakers Commit by Larry Cuban

A Significant Error That Policymakers Commit

by Larry Cuban

As a result of inhabiting a different world than teachers, policymakers make a consequential error. They and a cadre of influentials confuse teacher quality with teaching quality, that is, the personal traits of teachers—dedicated, caring, gregarious, intellectually curious—produce student learning rather than the classroom and…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 22, 2012 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Education in America Serves No Purpose Today by William E. White

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Added by Michael Keany on May 22, 2012 at 1:35pm — No Comments

3 Teacher Evaluation Mistakes to Avoid by Robyn Jackson

3 Teacher Evaluation Mistakes to Avoid

by Robyn Jackson

School districts across the US are creating new teacher evaluation systems that are supposed to better identify ineffective teaching and, in some cases, tie a teacher’s rating to student performance. My quarrel is not with the evaluation systems themselves however. My quarrel is with how they are being implemented. Here are three of the most common mistakes I’ve seen:

1.…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 22, 2012 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Pathways to Hope

Pathways to Hope



From the Marshall Memo #436

“Many young people dream the American dream, believe it can be achieved, and haven’t a clue how to make it a reality,” says Shane Lopez, who runs the Gallup Student Poll, in this Kappan article. “Students generally are confident. They think ‘I can do anything!’… But, where there is a will, there is not always a way. Students often lack strategies to…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 21, 2012 at 7:15pm — No Comments

Critical Questions about the Common Core By Anthony Cody

Critical Questions about the Common Core

Educators in the United…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 21, 2012 at 6:58pm — No Comments

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