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Beth Holland

SchoolBook - New York City schools news, data and conversation - 0 views

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schoolbook professional development thinking

shared by Beth Holland on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Beth Holland on 12 Sep 11
     
    The NY Times has launched a new section discussing NYC schools. Some interesting info in here.
  • Robert Ryshke on 14 Sep 11
     
    Thanks for this resource Beth. I have an interest in this work. Bob
Chris Harrow

Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading - SchoolBook - 0 views

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reading testing elementary standardized

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    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.
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