February 2012
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Tiny Tim
heymissat:
In Spanish II…
Me: We’re going to be learning a new tense today.
Student: I feel like it’s A Christmas Carol up in here with all this past, present, and future tense stuff!
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Despite Focus on Data, Standards for Diploma May... →
Houston… we have a problem:
How do you create a single graduation exam for 200,000 seniors when some are heading to the Ivy League and others to pump gas? If the standard is set too high, so many will fail — including children with special education needs and students for whom English is a second language — that there will be a public outcry. But if the standard is set too low, the result...
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January 2012
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What Can America Learn From the World’s Most... →
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Colleges use Turnitin to turn away plagiarists -... →
What are we doing as a culture, and particularly as educators to teach and instill ethical values?
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Rick Santorum: Left uses college for... →
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that “the left” uses universities to indoctrinate young people for the purpose of “holding and maintaining power.”
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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning... →
Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment and it’s not enough. Reform is no use anymore, because that’s simply improving a broken model. What we need — and the word’s been used many times during the course of the past few days — is not evolution, but a revolution in education.
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How Mrs. Grady Transformed Olly Neal - NYTimes.com →
To me, the lesson is that while there are no silver bullets to chip away at poverty or improve national competitiveness, improving the ranks of teachers is part of the answer. That’s especially true for needy kids, who often get the weakest teachers. That should be the civil rights scandal of our time.
The implication is that we need rigorous teacher evaluations, more pay for good teachers and...
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Government seeks help to stop teacher-led cheating... →
Could the high rates of erasures on exams be tied to teacher pay based on student performance?
Phi Delta Theta International Site - New York... →
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End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google →
As I’ve been saying for weeks now SOPA is the greatest attack on the Bill of Rights especially our Right to Free Speech & Freedom of Information in the modern era.
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America's dangerously removed elite - Education -... →
An interesting take on public vs private education, arguing that politicians and “ruling elite,” maintain their distance from the public schools they are governing & passing laws & budget policies that weaken them.
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The Daily Muse: Think for yourself...the teacher... →
fdundore:
I kept this posted on the wall in my classroom for 12 years….and everyday on the first day of school, I got the strangest looks from my students. ”Mrs. D, do you know that word is misspelled?….Mrs. D….um….” I kept it there for several reasons: 1) I loved things that made my students cock their…
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Cyberbaiting Is on the Rise as Teacher Tantrums... →
Students have always found a way to needle the teacher — the hapless substitute or the instructor who has never mastered classroom management skills. But now, they have the high-tech tools to shame the teacher virally.
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December 2011
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
It is possible to create equality. And perhaps even more important — as a challenge to the American way of thinking about education reform — Finland’s experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.
The problem facing education in America isn’t the ethnic diversity of the...
