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Sheri Edwards

Leading Scholar's U-Turn on School Reform Shakes Up Debate - NYTimes.com - 10 views

www.nytimes.com/...03ravitch.html

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Arthur E. Levine, a former president of Teachers College, where Dr. Ravitch got her doctorate and began her teaching career in the 1970s. “Now for her to suddenly conclude that she’s been all wrong is extraordinary — and not very helpful.”
  • In 2005, she said, a study she undertook of Pakistan’s weak and inequitable education system, dominated by private and religious institutions, convinced her that protecting the United States’ public schools was important to democracy.
  • She remembers another date, Nov. 30, 2006, when at a Washington conference she heard a dozen experts conclude that the No Child law was not raising student achievement.
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  • Testing had become not just a way to measure student learning, but an end in itself.
  • Sheri Edwards on 03 Mar 10
     
    "Testing had become not just a way to measure student learning, but an end in itself. "
  • Sheri Edwards on 03 Mar 10
     
    New View -- Expert changes her mind
Tom March

The State of Drupal | MIT World - 20 views

mitworld.mit.edu/723

drupal

shared by Tom March on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 30 Dec 09
     
    Nice hour long presentation by the creator of Drupal.
Jeffrey Fuller

Leader to Leader - Leader To Leader Journal - 16 views

www.pfdf.org/...journal.aspx

leader teaching learning resources

shared by Jeffrey Fuller on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.
  • To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.
  • Throughout human history, it was the super achievers -- and only the super achievers -- who knew when to say "No." They always knew what to reach for. They knew where to place themselves. Now all of us will have to learn that. It's not very difficult. The key to it -- what Leonardo da Vinci and Mozart did -- is to record the results of our decisions.
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  • Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen. The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?" Three years later they look back at what they had written. They have now reached a point where 40 percent of their decisions work out.
  • what we have to learn to get the full benefit from our strengths, where our weaknesses lie, what our values are.
  • The productivity of teachers, for instance, has not improved, and may in fact have shrunk, in the past 70 years. (Of course teachers in the 1920s enjoyed the advantage of not having faculty meetings to attend.)
  • What are you being paid for, and how much time do you spend doing that? Typically, nurses say they are paid to provide patient care, or to keep the doctors happy. Both are good answers; the problem is that they have no time to do either job. One hospital more than doubled its nurses' productivity simply by asking them these two questions, and then hiring clerks to do the paperwork that prevented nurses from doing their real job.
  • Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.
  • Know people's strengths. Place them where they can make the greatest contributions. Treat them as associates. Expose them to challenges.
  • the United States is that it attracts top knowledge workers from around the world -- not just because they earn more money but because they are treated as colleagues, not as subordinates.
  • Organizations that understand this -- and strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers' way -- will be able to attract, hold, and motivate the best performers.
anonymous

Teachers' Domain: Home - 20 views

www.teachersdomain.org

teachers resources interactive education technology

shared by anonymous on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Judy Robison on 20 Jan 10
     
    Register to download, share, and save resources. It's simple, safe, and free! includes Math, Language Arts, Social Studies. Arts,and Science resources. Standards based (NY state) free registration
anonymous

Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com - 20 views

www.nytimes.com/...07Teachers-t.html

Teaching education teacher school Improvement

shared by anonymous on 07 Mar 10 - Cached
  • There was no shortage of prescriptions at the time for how to cure the poor performance that plagued so many American schools. Proponents of No Child Left Behind saw standardized testing as a solution. President Bush also championed a billion-dollar program to encourage schools to adopt reading curriculums with an emphasis on phonics. Others argued for smaller classes or more parental involvement or more state financing.
  • This record encouraged a belief in some people that good teaching must be purely instinctive, a kind of magic performed by born superstars.
Vahid Masrour

Project Fun Way: When Project Learning and Technology Meet | Edutopia - 43 views

www.edutopia.org/earning-technology-integration

education project learning technology

shared by Vahid Masrour on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • But the Web is different; it's everyman's encyclopedia. "I gave them specific questions to look up," says MacLean, noting that she had already searched to make sure the answers were there and were understandable and accurate. "They could open their laptops and get it right then, and I would move on to the next activity."
    • Vahid Masrour
      Vahid Masrour on 05 Apr 10
       
      keys to a methodology of web exploration for elementary and middle school (at least)?
  • When coupled with professional development, the one-to-one laptop program demonstrably improves student learning. But the amount of instruction that teachers receive is also lopsidedlopsided. The state offers webinars and a training staff, but not all schools make use of them.
Steve Ransom

Subject Matters: Why students fall behind on history - CNN.com - 22 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

history testing standardizedtesting curriculum compacting trivia

shared by Steve Ransom on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • "I think they learn information by itself, in isolation," Frazer said of his students. "But putting the big picture together is not happening."
  • History is not an area that requires testing under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, so it often gets shortchanged
  • "The only issue that I have with what I teach is, I wish I had time to go deeper,"
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  • "You have to take away time from the bigger topics in order to make sure you cover small details, just because they could appear on the state exam,"
  • constantly weighing how much "trivia"
  • Because some of that material was covered as long ago as eighth grade, Frazer must take time to review so his students can pass the high school test.
  • Steve Ransom on 20 Jan 11
     
    Great article that paints our current educational direction toward trivia vs. deep understanding
Tom Daccord

Advise the Advisor: Melody Barnes | The White House - 9 views

www.whitehouse.gov/advise

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  • Advise the Advisor is a new program to help senior staff at the White House stay connected to the American people.

    Providing our nation’s students with a world-class education is a shared responsibility. It’s going to take all of us – teachers, parents, students, philanthropists, state and local governments, and the federal government – working together to prepare today’s students for the future.

    This week, Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council and one of President Obama’s senior advisors on education policy, is asking for feedback from parents, teachers and students about what’s working in their communities and what needs to change when it comes to education.

    You can add your voice to the conversation by answering one or all of the following questions:

    • Parents: Responsibility for our children’s education and future begins in our homes and communities. What are some of the most effective ways you're taking responsibility at a personal and local level for your child’s education?
    • Teachers: President Obama has set a goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. How are you preparing your students for college and career? What’s working and what challenges do you face?
    • Students: In order to compete for the jobs of the 21st century, America’s students must be prepared with a strong background in reading, math and science along with the critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity needed to succeed in tomorrow’s workforce. How has your education prepared you for a career in the 21st century? What has worked and what challenges do you face?

    Past Questions

    David Plouffe, Senior Advisor to the President, kicked off the series by asked for your feedback on how American innovation affects your community and the obstacles to innovation you see where you live. Check out David’s video and read his follow up blog post responding to some of the major themes we saw in reading your feedback.

    Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, posted the second edition of Advise the Advisor asking for feedback from small businesses about the obstacles they face in getting off the ground. Austan responded to some of your feedback during a live chat at the Winning the Future Forum on Small Business in Cleveland.

    Please answer the question(s) below that best apply to you. Please restrict your answers to no more than 2,500 characters.

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    Responsibility for our children’s education and future begins in our homes and communities. What are some of the most effective ways you're taking responsibility at a personal and local level for your child’s education?

  • Tom Daccord on 11 Mar 11
     
    "Advise the Advisor is a new program to help senior staff at the White House stay connected to the American people."
Maggie Verster

2011 State of Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity Curriculum in the U.S. Survey - 26 views

mobile.microsoft.com/...Article.mspx

school2.0 cybersafety onlinesafety onlinesecurity

shared by Maggie Verster on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 09 May 11
     
    A study released today from the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), sponsored by Microsoft Corp., finds that schools are ill-prepared to teach students the basics of online safety, security and ethics - skills that are necessary in today's digital times.
Bill Campbell

CR Survey: 7.5 Million Facebook Users are Under the Age of 13 - 0 views

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facebook parenting socialnetworking research

shared by Bill Campbell on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Of the 20 million minors who actively used Facebook in the past year, 7.5 million of them were younger than 13, according to projections from Consumer Reports’ latest State of the Net survey. 
  • more than 5 million were 10 and under
  • Bill Campbell on 12 May 11
     
    Is it time to change the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) to make following it's intent more realistic?
James Herbert

The State of Digital Education [Infographic] - 20 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ital_education_infographic.php

education education2.0 readwriteweb infographic learning2.0 classroom2.0

shared by James Herbert on 17 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Its point is that the old one-size-fits-all education model is not as well suited to growing up in the Web age as the custom fit that new technology allows.
  • James Herbert on 17 Aug 11
     
    "Its point is that the old one-size-fits-all education model is not as well suited to growing up in the Web age as the custom fit that new technology allows"
Paul Beaufait

Successful Strategies for English Language Learners - 19 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

Boston civil rights education EEO ELL English English language learners English speaking populations HIspanics justice learners NCES NYC Obama schools school districts settlements Title VI U.S. U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Justice White

shared by Paul Beaufait on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Between 1979 and 2008, the number of school-age children (ages 5-17) in the United States who spoke a language other than English at home increased from 3.8 to 10.9 million, or from 9 to 21 percent of the population in this age range, according to the latest figures from the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES).
  • Perhaps one of the greatest examples of inequity lies in a joint investigation of the Department of Justice and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights that revealed last October that Boston Public Schools had failed to properly identify and adequately serve thousands of ELLs since 2003 as required by the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • Paul Beaufait on 19 Aug 11
     
    Angela Pascopella reported on U.S. school district and national measures "to address surging ELL enrollment-and dropout rate[s]" (deck).
Greg Lunsford

Analysis Questions - 0 views

ets.tlt.psu.edu/...164

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  • Key Crafting Words Distinguish Identify What assumptions exist What motives exist What conclusions exist Make a distinction What is the premise What ideas apply What is the relationship between What is the main idea or theme What literary form is used Implicit in this statement is What is the function of What statement is relevant What does the author believe or assume State the point of view What inconsistencies or fallacies exist What persuasive technique has been used and so on
  • Greg Lunsford on 04 Oct 11
     
    Key crafting words
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Reading Comprehension:Making Sense of Online Text - 33 views

www.ascd.org/...king-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx

reading literacy research strategies educational education searching

shared by Phil Taylor on 16 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Kathleen Buckley on 17 Sep 11
     
    I worked with Julie Curio a few years ago for MA New Literacies. I think it is so important to start teaching students these new skill to comprehend text and to efficiently search a topic. However, I teach graduate level courses and I do these exercises with teachers and many (regardless of age) do not know these strategies. States need to do more PD to bring administrators and teachers up to par so we can make sure our students are ready for whatever comes their way. Thanks, ~Katy
Martin Burrett

Charactistics of Matter - 0 views

downloads.bbc.co.uk/...activity_06_09-03-25.swf

states of matter solid liquid gas science

shared by Martin Burrett on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 15 Sep 11
     
    A superb interactive science video from the BBC about the charactistics of matter, featuring solids, liquids and gases. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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