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Dana Huff

Put Poor Students to Work - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 7 views

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    Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."
Dana Huff

Dickens daren't tell the truth about the real Oliver Twist workhouses | Mail Online - 5 views

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    This article describes conditions in workhouses for the poor in Victorian England. It would be great to pair with Oliver Twist or with Blake's two "Chimney Sweep" poems.
Kimberly Vance

» 10% Students may have working memory problems: Why does it matter?   « Brai... - 0 views

  • teachers typically judged the students to be highly inattentive, and have short poor attention spans and high levels of distractibility.
    • Kimberly Vance
       
      So what is the relationship to ADD/ADHD? Are they two distinct conditions or is there overlap?
Van Piercy

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class.
    • Van Piercy
       
      So they were going to a WAC/WID curriculum? Makes sense.
  • a coherent, well-turned paragraph
  • the essay questions were just too difficult. Many would simply write a sentence or two and shut the test booklet.
    • Van Piercy
       
      So they just didn't know how to think? No one had taught them to think. Cf. Philips-Exeter and the Harkness table.
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  • bad writing
    • Van Piercy
       
      The centrality of writing
  • inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays
    • Van Piercy
       
      Formalism?
  • on teaching the skills that underlie good analytical writing,
    • Van Piercy
       
      The skills underlying good writing--not just formalism?
  • To be able to think critically and express that thinking, it’s where we are going,”
  • the importance of formal writing instruction
  • constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—
  • write informative and persuasive essays.
  • David Coleman
    • Van Piercy
       
      So wait, is Coleman the architect of New Dorp's success? No.
  • Students’ inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays was severely impeding intellectual growth in many subjects
  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day
  • DeAngelis
  • ­roughly 40 percent of students are poor, a third are Hispanic, and 12 percent are black
  • Her decision in 2008 to focus on how teachers supported writing inside each classroom was not popular.
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