Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years.
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100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher | Best Universities - 0 views
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100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher Apr 6th, 2009 Great teachers know that learning doesn't stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any numb
A List of the Top 200 Education Blogs - 0 views
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All those interested in education-we've got you covered. From humor blogs on college life to one stop shops for school athletics to blogs all about education policy and new technologies, if there's a good education blog out there, you can bet it made our list. We've also mixed in a handful of exceptional web tools and sites that we thought deserved a spot in the top 200.
Google Wave Use Cases: Education - 0 views
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After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. Entitled 'Wave in Class,' this wave was started by Loren Baum (a self-described "collaborative learning enthusiast" and graduate student at Ben Gurion University) and Sam Boland (a Politics student and "Tech Enthusiast" at Occidental College, Los Angeles).
KS3 Modern Foreign Languages - Thinking Skills | Teachers TV - 0 views
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This programme explores how Andy Markham uses thinking skills techniques to teach Russian to mixed ability students at Frederick Gough School, a specialist language college in Scunthorpe.
Journalism students turn to Wikipedia to publish stories | eCampus News - 0 views
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"College students know the online resource of which they dare not speak: Wikipedia, the voluminous internet encyclopedia demonized by many in higher education-and a resource that two University of Denver instructors use as a centerpiece of their curriculum."
Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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I like that this article address the obvious gaps of research and lack of control of multiple variables that could eschew results. Nevertheless there are some great data points on why keeping and retaining the best in our profession needs to be a continued focus and conversation. Is it enough to use test scores, of course not. But a balanced system that helps us speed up the process for removing ineffective folks in our profession can't hurt.
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from the biggest selection of . Save time, save money, and stop lugging around all those books! Make the switch with eTEXTBOOKcity, and college online textbooks on the web. With one quick search, compare the prices and formats of all digital textbooks purchase online textbooks today!
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Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher | Best Colleges Online - 0 views
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100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool.
U.S. Department of Education - Open Innovation Portal - 0 views
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By connecting an idea from a teacher in Maine to a principal in Oklahoma, or a teacher-entrepreneur in North Dakota with a foundation in New York, the Portal will be a national marketplace of ideas of how we can ensure that every American child will graduate ready to succeed in college and the workplace.
100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School | Online Colleges - 0 views
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100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School October 25th, 2009 With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
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