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

chronicle.com/...41512 poor students chronicle higher education modest proposal swift satire
shared by Dana Huff on 27 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 27 Nov 11
     
    Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."
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Dickens daren't tell the truth about the real Oliver Twist workhouses | Mail Online - 5 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...l-Oliver-Twist-workhouses.html dickens workhouse workhouses poor london england history
shared by Dana Huff on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 25 Mar 11
     
    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.
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» 10% Students may have working memory problems: Why does it matter?   « Brai... - 0 views

www.sharpbrains.com/...ry-problems-why-does-it-matter working memory learning issues
shared by Kimberly Vance on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • teachers typically judged the students to be highly inattentive, and have short poor attention spans and high levels of distractibility.
    • Kimberly Vance
      Kimberly Vance on 11 May 09
       
      So what is the relationship to ADD/ADHD? Are they two distinct conditions or is there overlap?
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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      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
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      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
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      The centrality of writing
  • inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      Formalism?
  • on teaching the skills that underlie good analytical writing,
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      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
      Van Piercy on 25 Mar 13
       
      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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