Added by Michael Keany on October 1, 2012 at 12:30pm —
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Added by Michael Keany on October 1, 2012 at 11:30am —
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What Kinds of Reports Do Parents Really Want on Their Children?
From the Marshall Memo # 452
“Decades of research show that grades don’t lead to deeper understandings, increased intellectual risk-taking, or better performance on complex tasks,” say Jim Webber (University of Nevada/Reno) and Maja Wilson (University of Maine/Orono) in this Kappan article. “Similarly, conversations based around…
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Added by Michael Keany on October 1, 2012 at 8:54am —
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The Malpractice of Over-parenting
From the Marshall Memo #452
In this thoughtful New York Times article, clinician/consultant/author Madeline Levine offers advice on how parents can strike the right balance between being overly protective and overly permissive with their children. “The happiest, most successful children have parents who do not do for them what they are capable of doing, or almost…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 28, 2012 at 1:51pm —
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"Won't Back Down": A misleading movie with blatant stereotypes
The movie “Won’t Back Down,” which will open in theaters Sept. 28, already is drawing a lot of attention, particularly from educators, parent activists and other public school advocates who believe its portrayal of parent engagement and what…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 28, 2012 at 1:44pm —
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From Save our Schools March
http://saveourschoolsmarch.com/issues-2/parent-trigger/back-movie/#wont-1
Originally posted at Parents Across America on August 13,…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 28, 2012 at 1:30pm —
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The Paradoxical Logic of School Turnarounds: A Catch-22 (Tina Trujillo)
TINA TRUJILLO is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in education from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.A. in education from the University of Colorado Boulder. This …
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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2012 at 2:34pm —
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Carol Burris and I Dissect A Bizarre New York Times Editorial
September 17, 2012 //
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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2012 at 2:29pm —
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After 20 years in schools, it is completely obvious to me that schools are limited in their abilities to overcome every challenge that every child faces.
Even in affluent schools, children are plagued by all kinds of out-of-school factors including mental illness of various levels resulting in depression and…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2012 at 2:25pm —
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Not Your Parents' PTA
By Andrew P. Kelly & Patrick McGuinn
Education reform is awash in a surge of "parent power." Long considered bystanders (or even obstacles) to the push for school reform, a slew of new "education reform advocacy…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2012 at 12:00pm —
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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2012 at 7:13pm —
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Cartoons on Common Core Standards
For this monthly* post of cartoons, I have selected images about the impending Common Core curriculum standards in math and English for K-12 students. While many countries have a national curriculum, the U.S. does not. Since the Common Core standards have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. will soon have a national–not federally mandated–one.
According to a…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2012 at 7:08pm —
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Clinical Neuropsychologist; Lecturer on Psychology, Dept. of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2012 at 12:03pm —
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Many Children Left Behind
By Nancy Rauch Douzinas A new batch of five-year olds is headed to Kindergarten this week, carrying with them, along with some jitters, big dreams of success.
But a soon-to-be-published study from Teachers College brings troubling news. Gaps in early childhood services are leaving many kids with the odds stacked heavily against…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2012 at 11:53am —
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