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Readin’, ‘Ritin’ ‘Rithmetic, and Religion
3.14.10 - Karl C. Priest - The “M” in MTV does not stand for “Morality.” Some people say the “M” is more accurately for “Manipulation.” The television network broadcasts programming that promotes drugs, sex, and violence 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
BRIEF REVIEW OF PUBLISHED ITEMS FROM THE DRAFT TEXAS SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS (MARCH 2010)
3.14.10 - Erich Martel - The attempt to reduce US (or any other) history to “liberal” versus “conservative” history reduces history and the history classroom to a tug of war between self-serving factions who view history and social studies as vehicles for promoting their agendas....
Inching Toward a Multiple Life Cycles Education Policy
3.10.10 - Tom Sticht - In the book I learned that Diane Ravitch, advocate of standards, testing, accountability, and school choice, had changed her mind. In her new book (The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Basic Books, 2010), she says she was wrong about all that. Instead...
DRAFT K-12 COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT
3.10.10 - WASHINGTON—The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today released the first official public draft of the K-12 standards as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative...
Should the Austin, TX, school system invalidate its 2009 NAEP test scores?
3.8.10 - Nakonia (Niki) Hayes - If a nationally recognized test is given, but the sampling method used to select the students who were tested cannot be clearly explained and the names of the schools that participated are protected by laws of “confidentiality,” should its test results be invalidated for practical use? The answer must be, “Yes.” ...
The Rationale for Preparing Mature Adults as Teachers of Diverse Children in Urban Poverty
3.5.10 - Martin Haberman - Seven thousand youth drop out of school everyday. The achievement gaps between racial groups and economic classes continues to widen. The persistentshortage of teachers who can be effective in 120 failing urban school systems guarantees that the miseducation of seven million diverse children in urban poverty will continue....
Raine ADHD Study: Long-term outcomes associated with stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD in children
3.3.10 - This project uses longitudinal data collected as part of the Western Australian Pregnancy Birth Cohort to examine the long-term social, emotional, school-based, growth, and cardiovascular outcomes associated with the use of stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD. These outcomes are measured at the age of 14-years. ...
Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn - What They Don’t Teach in School
3.2.10 - by Harry & Rosemary Wong - Jessica Fenton walked into her first year in the classroom and like so many new teachers, was caught off guard. The obstacles she encountered left her feeling unprepared and overwhelmed. She ran into problems that were never dealt with in her college education courses....
SUNY Geneseo Leverages Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer to Monitor Network Behavior during RIAA Crackdown and Beyond
3.2.10 - In higher education, each department has to take appropriate measures for growth. Especially when it comes to technology, budgeting out the right amount of money for a department is based on how well it justifies the use of that money....
THE DATA IS IN: WHAT WORKS IN ALTERNATIVE TEACHER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM DESIGN
Dr. Vicky Schreiber Dill and Delia Stafford-Johnson - Knowledge workers, mid-career teachers know from firsthand experience, will come from schools where mathematics and science content is well taught. Alternative teacher certification programs smooth the way for high tech workers rich in this knowledge to move from work to school. ...
New Study Reports Wide Achievement Gaps Among Nation's Top Students
2.24.10 - A new report from the Indiana University Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) finds that achievement gaps among high ability students from different economic, racial and linguistic backgrounds in the U.S. are large and growing, and some of the top achieving groups aren't performing as well as in the past. ...
New Education Sector Report Highlights How Colleges Can Reduce Student Loan Defaults
2.24.10 - Washington D.C.—Colleges across the nation are struggling to confront a growing problem in higher education: student debt. As more students borrow more money than ever before, and recent graduates enter the worst job market in a generation, students are increasingly unable to pay back their loans....
HOW RESEARCH-BASED SELECTION IS NOW THE ONLY TOOL LEFT TO DETERMINE COMPETENCY IN TEACHER CANDIDATES: WHO TO HIRE?
2.23.10 - Starting with Research-based Selection. The teacher shortage and the drain of qualified people out of the public schools at a rate of about 50% every three years has not abated. Conversations like this are heard around the nation in site-based teams...
America's Private Public Schools
10.20.10 - Michael J. Petrilli, Janie Scull - This new analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds that more than 1.7 million American children attend what we've dubbed "private public schools" -- public schools that serve virtually no poor students. In some metropolitan areas, as many as one in six public-school students...
How Can We Find Enough Quality Individuals To Help Students Make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)? The Third Dimension!
2.20.10 - We read that in the next several years, in order to avoid losing billions in federal aid, schools like Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will need to find and credential as many as 15,000 teachers. We also read that many of the best teachers leave teaching because of modest salaries and poor working conditions. ...
The Source and Nature of Best Practice in Teaching
2.22.10 - Martin Haberman - Learning is changed behavior. There are at least a dozen fields of scholarly discipline that explain causes for changed behavior.Unfortunately for teacher education as a field of inquiry and for teachers of children and youth...
Skydiving without Parachutes
2.16.10 - Barry Garelick - “What’s a court doing making a decision on math textbooks and curriculum?” This question and its associated harrumphs on various education blogs and online newspapers came in reaction to the February 4, 2010 ruling from the Superior court of King County ...
Creativity in the Classroom
2.14.10 - Dave Gray - Futurist Alvin Toffler once said that mass education has both an overt and a covert curriculum. The overt curriculum was “reading, writing and arithmetic,...
What Accounts for Low Science Achievement and What Might Be Done About It
2.14.10 - Martin Haberman - While other areas of the curriculum had fewer than half the students reaching the proficient level these scores in science were especially dismal. Why is science achievement the lowest? Of the low?...
Tax more? Spend less? Reform first?
2.13.10 - Lorie A. Shane - Reform, revenue and reduction have become the buzzwords in Michigan's school funding debate, but there's no consensus on which should come first or how much is needed....- Next step for special ed
- Arizona House moves to improve tuition tax credit program
- Becoming a Classroom of Readers
- The Case for Slow Reading
- A Refreshing Conversation
- Reversing Readicide
- Teaching Critical Reading with Questioning Strategies
- Extreme Makeover: School Edition
- Women in Science: UC San Diego Alumnae Succeed in Male-Dominated Fields
- Curriculum Reform in Chinese Secondary Education
- Office of Civil Rights Enforcement Points to Need for Tracking Reform
- What's possible when we stand up for kids?
- A New Era for the Strategic Management of Human Capital
- GAO Issues Report on University Endowments
- A Lack of Consequences for Sexual Assault
- Compulsively Impulsive / Impulsively Compulsive
- A Period of Transformation for East LA Schools
- Five "Honorees" of Bunkum Awards Announced for their Contributions to Sub-Par Education Research
- Time for a Paradigm Shift for Professional Learning
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools. 2009.
- Privatizing for the Public Good?
- Helping Americans Help Themselves: Toward a National Single Stop Policy and More Efficient, More Effective Poverty Fighting
- More Government Preschool: An Expensive and Unnecessary Middle-Class Subsidy
- False Fronts? Behind Higher Education’s Voluntary Accountability Systems
- Rennie Center report sheds light on strategies Massachusetts schools and districts are using to reduce their dropout rates.
- Report Advocating Universal Choice Lacks Evidence for Its Equity Claims
- NEW AEI/EDUCATION SECTOR REPORT ON THE PITFALLS OF VOLUNTARY ACCOUNTABILITY IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
- How We’re Doing in the World
- Teacher Effectiveness Don't Forget School Design
- Why Race to the Middle?
An Interview with Diane Ravitch: Reforms and Reforms Everywhere; And No Improvement Forthcoming
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