As Mr. McCullough said in his graduation speech: “Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”
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Lesson | 12 Ways to Use The Times to Develop Math Literacy - NYTimes.com - 1 views
How About Better Parents? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Parents more focused on their children’s education can also make a huge difference in a student’s achievement.
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There’s no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student’s achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers.
Is Algebra Necessary? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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There are many defenses of algebra and the virtue of learning it. Most of them sound reasonable on first hearing; many of them I once accepted. But the more I examine them, the clearer it seems that they are largely or wholly wrong — unsupported by research or evidence, or based on wishful logic.
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Of all who embark on higher education, only 58 percent end up with bachelor’s degrees. The main impediment to graduation: freshman math.
Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Thanks for the lead, Jill
How About Better Parents? - NYTimes.com - 3 views
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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We try to talk to parents about having to sort of make it O.K. for there to be challenge, because that’s where learning happens.”
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If your premise is that your students are lacking in deep traits like grit and gratitude and self-control, you’re implicitly criticizing the parenting they’ve received — which means you’re implicitly criticizing your employers.
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Randolph wants his students to succeed, of course — it’s just that he believes that in order to do so, they first need to learn how to fail.
Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading - SchoolBook - 0 views
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By asking young students to spend time taking tests like this we are doing them a double disservice: first, by inflicting on them such mediocre literature, and second, by training them to read not for pleasure but to discover a predetermined answer to a (let’s not mince words) stupid question.
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Literary texts, whether by A.A. Milne or Leo Tolstoy, always admit multiple interpretations — and the greater the work, the more robust the tension among these readings, and the graver the loss in trying to reduce the work to a single idea.
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While focused on teaching reading to elementary students, the points raised here apply also to mathematics teaching ... reducing everything to a single way and a single answer is stifling, minimizing, and counterproductive.
Yes, algebra is necessary. - Daniel Willingham - 1 views
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it's misleading to depict math as the chief villain in America's high dropout rate.
SchoolBook - New York City schools news, data and conversation - 0 views
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The NY Times has launched a new section discussing NYC schools. Some interesting info in here.
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Thanks for this resource Beth. I have an interest in this work. Bob
NYT article, SAT Scores Correlate to Family Income - 2 views
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What do SAT scores correlate well to?
Decline of SAT Scores, Can We Reverse the Trend - 0 views
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Interesting article. Does they have it right? I question whether the data is really accurate because we are relying on the College Board to get objective data.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - 1 views
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LOS ALTOS, Calif. - The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.
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