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Richard Bradshaw

The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics | The Heritage Fou... - 33 views

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progressive politics constitution

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  • Government had to be limited both because it was dangerous if it got too powerful and because it was not supposed to provide for the highest things in life.
  • In Progressivism, the domestic policy of government had two main concerns. First, government must protect the poor and other victims of capitalism through redistribution of resources, anti-trust laws, government control over the details of commerce and production: i.e., dictating at what prices things must be sold, methods of manufacture, government participation in the banking system, and so on. Second, government must become involved in the "spiritual" development of its citizens -- not, of course, through promotion of religion, but through protecting the environment ("conservation"), education (understood as education to personal creativity), and spiritual uplift through subsidy and promotion of the arts and culture.
  • Progressives therefore embraced a much more active and indeed imperialistic foreign policy than the Founders did.
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  • The trend to turn power over to multinational organizations also begins in this period, as may be seen in Wilson's plan for a League of Nations, under whose rules America would have delegated control over the deployment of its own armed forces to that body.
  • The Progressives wanted to sweep away what they regarded as this amateurism in politics. They had confidence that modern science had superseded the perspective of the liberally educated statesman. Only those educated in the top universities, preferably in the social sciences, were thought to be capable of governing.
  • Government, it was thought, needed to be led by those who see where history is going, who understand the ever-evolving idea of human dignity.
  • Politics in the sense of favoritism and self-interest would disappear and be replaced by the universal rule of enlightened bureaucracy.
  • Today's liberals, or the teachers of today's liberals, learned to reject the principles of the founding from their teachers, the Progressives.
  • That is the disparagement of nature and the celebration of human will, the idea that everything of value in life is created by man's choice, not by nature or necessity.
  • Liberal domestic policy follows the same principle. It tends to elevate the "other" to moral superiority over against those whom the Founders would have called the decent and the honorable, the men of wisdom and virtue. The more a person is lacking, the greater is his or her moral claim on society. The deaf, the blind, the disabled, the stupid, the improvident, the ignorant, and even (in a 1984 speech of presidential candidate Walter Mondale) the sad -- those who are lowest are extolled as the sacred other.
  • The first great battle for the American soul was settled in the Civil War. The second battle for America's soul, initiated over a century ago, is still raging. The choice for the Founders' constitutionalism or the Progressive-liberal administrative state is yet to be fully resolved.
  • The Progressive system managed to gain a foothold in American politics only when it made major compromises with the Founders' constitutionalism.
  • Sober liberal friends of the Great Society would later admit that a central reason for its failure was precisely the fact that it was an expertise-driven engineering project, which had never sought the support or even the acquiescence of popular majorities.
  • Seth Roberts on 31 Dec 10
     
    I hope you know better than to use any resource from such a biased source in the classroom without one from the opposite side, say the Brookings Institution in this case. I found your posting of this article from this anti- free thought organization that is a puppet of big business and the far right on an education site plain wrong.
  • Richard Bradshaw on 31 Dec 10
     
    Well, the truth is I did not intend to share this bookmark with Diigo Education, but somehow it was posted in the group. I had intended it only for myself as part of research I am doing.
Beth Panitz

McREL: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - 46 views

www.mcrel.org

education resources teaching research

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  • Beth Panitz on 13 Dec 10
     
    What Works in teaching and learning
Tim Hornbacher

Doing What Works - Home - 63 views

dww.ed.gov

professional research government education resources teaching curriculum NCLB

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  • Beth Panitz on 13 Dec 10
     
    A source of information on research-based education practices
Beth Panitz

Publications by Steven E Gutstein - RDIconnect - 5 views

www.rdiconnect.com/...ions-by-Steven-E-Gutstein.aspx

rdiconnect

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  • Beth Panitz on 17 Jan 11
     
    articles on autism research 
Javier E

Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 89 views

www.nytimes.com/...21memory.html

test knowledge education retrieval constructivism learning

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  • The Purdue study supports findings of a recent spate of research showing learning benefits from testing, including benefits when students get questions wrong. But by comparing testing with other methods, the study goes further.
  • the results “throw down the gauntlet to those progressive educators, myself included.”
  • “Educators who embrace seemingly more active approaches, like concept mapping,” he continued, “are challenged to devise outcome measures that can demonstrate the superiority of such constructivist approaches.”
Randolph Hollingsworth

U. of Notre Dame Reports on Experiment to Replace Textbooks With iPads - Wired Campus -... - 35 views

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textbooks ipad ipads experiment ebooks best practices

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  • replace traditional textbooks with iPads as part of a yearlong study by the university’s e-publishing working group into the use of e-readers
  • students were more connected in and out of the classroom
  • said that the iPad made it easier to collaborate and manage group projects
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  • Dropbox
  • Students lamented not being able to write in the margins of their assigned readings
  • computer-based final exam,
  • iAnnotate
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 31 Jan 11
     
    Research report emphasizing cultural change to iPad for e-reading sharing/collaborative work (e.g., Dropbox and iAnnotate) but online final exam still chose laptops (since not collaborative effort?)
Kevin Jarrett

Report Calls for National Effort to Get Millions Of Young Americans onto a Realistic Pa... - 29 views

www.gse.harvard.edu/...realistic-path-to-employa.html

edreform

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  • Kevin Jarrett on 09 Feb 11
     
    Harvard GSE research. College isn't for everyone.
Chai Reddy

Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 17 views

www.nytimes.com/...21memory.html

tests testing students studying memorization constructivism mapping

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  • Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
  • “I think that learning is all about retrieving, all about reconstructing our knowledge,” said the lead author, Jeffrey Karpicke, an assistant professor of psychology at Purdue University. “I think that we’re tapping into something fundamental about how the mind works when we talk about retrieval.”
Julie Dillard

What is Smallpox | Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire - 19 views

www.jennermuseum.com/...smallpox.html

cjhs epidemic virus world infection smallpox

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  • enters the body through the lungs and is carried in the blood to the internal organs, which it infects.
  • e virus variola
  • Julie Dillard on 05 Mar 11
     
    ELA Epidemics Research
bruce mcbrien

Great site for teacher resources, ideas, student research, concept review, cyber field ... - 160 views

This great site is a collection of organized resources for students and teachers. It is WELL worth a visit! http://www.conferencecallsunlimited.com/classroom-conference.php

resources sharing research virtual learning

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anonymous

Baltimore, My Baltimore, Part II: Down to the Wire | text2cloud - 34 views

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baltimore news resources tools

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  • anonymous on 22 Feb 11
     
    How do you teach students to think about the importance of context? What does online multi-media research look like in real-time? What's the connection between what's on HBO and what's on Fox News? Can we teach students to think in the 21st century or only to react?
Randolph Hollingsworth

Women's History Month Resources » Feminist Peace Network - 19 views

www.feministpeacenetwork.org/...womens-history-month-resources

women's history month resources

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  • Kentucky Women In The Civil Rights Era
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 03 Mar 11
     
    The research on KY women's history by University of Kentucky students and our Open Knowledge Initiative are highlighted on this list of resources! Yahoo!
Bob Rowan

NCREL - 36 views

www.ncrel.org/about

petec petec2011 education technology

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  • Bob Rowan on 23 Feb 11
     
    North Central Regional Educational Laboratory; good source for academic research related to technology
Don Doehla

AVID | Decades of College Dreams - 31 views

www.avid.org

education resources tools avid

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  • Don Doehla on 22 Aug 13
     
    AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college readiness system for elementary through higher education that is designed to increase schoolwide learning and performance. The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates student learning, uses research based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.
anonymous

Baltimore, My Baltimore | text2cloud - 19 views

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text2cloud news resources

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  • anonymous on 17 Feb 11
     
    What kind of research should inform the work of citizen journalists? How do we prepare individuals to commit to a lifetime of learning rather than a lifetime of self-rightous rage?
Deborah Baillesderr

CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology - 117 views

www.cast.org

udl education technology teaching learning cast

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  • Denise Whiteman on 15 Mar 11
     
    WOW! Free tools related to literacy skills. The book builder tool has a section which reads a story (here's a link for "A Tortoise and a Hare") - They offer professional development and multimedia learning tools. ....."A Tortoise and a Hare" - just this one book offers an amazing variety of learning tools including: activating background knowledge, self assessment and reflection, collaboration and communication, action and expression, coping skills and strategies, challenge and support, recruiting interest, goal-centered learning, and designing flexible curriculum. Each of these skills has a specific activity within the story to address it (almost every page has a different one!). Every page also has a question to think about and respond to. At the end it discusses the moral in another activity and the story itself offers extension activities for follow-up. The story is read by a young girl, but there is also a text reader built in, a glossary, and word-by-word English/Spanish translations.
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  • msovoice on 16 Mar 11
     
    This is great. Good for educators, parents, and students. The book builder thing is cool!
  • Mark Trerotola on 22 May 12
     
    An educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
  • Marc Patton on 02 Mar 13
     
    CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
Holly Barlaam

VCU Life Science Videos - 109 views

www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/...default.asp

life science science videos biology videos

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  • Holly Barlaam on 19 Mar 11
     
    Life science videos from VCU covering topics such as evolution, genetics, biotechnology, research careers. I really like how the videos aren't just informative but focus on relevant or interesting topics, giving a real-world connection for students. For example, within the biotechnology videos, there is a focus on topics such as silk making, individualized drugs, tissue engineering, alternative transplants, etc. Videos tend to be short as well and won't take an entire period but can easily be incorporated into your lesson at any point.
  • Gerald Carey on 19 Mar 11
     
    Nice get! You need Realplayer installed to play the videos online or when you download them.
Julie Whitehead

Technology Integration - Download free content from Edutopia on iTunes - 81 views

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etools digital_citizenship digitalliteracy web2.0 integration free technology

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  • Julie Whitehead on 21 Mar 11
     
    Integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class. Effective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts. Effective technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent and when technology supports curricular goals.
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