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David Hochheiser

Let's Go Back to Grouping Students by Ability - Barry Garelick - The Atlantic - 3 views

www.theatlantic.com/...274362

tracking atlantic

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    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Terribly generalized.  
  • treated accordingly.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Mistreated accordingly.
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  • Students were tracked into the various curricula based largely on IQ but sometimes other factors such as race and skin color.
  • public schools have done away with "tracking"
  • deemed low achievers or of low cognitive ability?
  • Jonathan Kozol brought accusations against a system they found racist and sadistic.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      He condemns a lot more than the eduction system.  His approach to reform is much more like Finland's, holistic.
  • to restore equity to
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      As if it ever existed?!
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      This is an essential issue.  Are we doing it well?
  • Kozol and others did not go away, and the progressive watchword in education has continued to be "equality."
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      I never knew that equality had such a nasty undertone to it.
  • -- a practice viewed by many in the education establishment as synonymous with tracking
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      It is "tracking." I'm not sure what his point is here.
  • Unfortunately, the efforts and philosophies of otherwise well-meaning individuals have attempted to eliminate the achievement gap by eliminating achievement.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Again, a nasty generalization.  Not only that, but the following practices he cites aren't products of heterogeneous grouping.  
  • In other words, the elimination of ability grouping has become a tracking system in itself that leaves many students behind.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Now he's just not making sense.
  • Dallas Independent School District
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Ed research from Texas??  They want to teach evolution in science classes.
  • The rise of computer-aided learning might make it easier for them to instruct students who learn at different rates.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Is this a for or against grouping statement?
  • this enables students placed in lower-ability classes to advance to higher-ability classes based on their performance and progress.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Practices do not support this assertion.  Upward trajectory is very limited.
  • David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
     
    "Mark Bowden on Being in the Slow Kids' Class"
Justina Elmore

Member states of the United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views

en.wikipedia.org/...r_states_of_the_United_Nations

united nations overview

shared by Justina Elmore on 04 Jun 13 - No Cached
    • Justina Elmore
      Justina Elmore on 04 Jun 13
       
      So, Texas couldn't become a UN member, but instead is represented as part of the US.
Jennifer Everett

Welcome to the Official Web site of Denton, Texas Convention & Visitors Bureau | Diigo - 1 views

www.diigo.com/...roupTours.cfm%3Fp%3D21%26b%3D8

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    • Jennifer Everett
      Jennifer Everett on 01 Feb 12
       
      This site shows statues around town that will help students try to determine what is important in Denton.
Javier E

Getting Into the Ivies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...getting-into-the-ivies.html

admission university foreign globalization

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  • For American teenagers, it really is harder to get into Harvard — or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges — than it was when today’s 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying. The number of spots filled by American students at Harvard, after adjusting for the size of the teenage population nationwide, has dropped 27 percent since 1994.
  • The share for any individual college is minuscule, of course. In 2012, about 33 out of every 100,000 American 18- to 21-year-olds were attending Harvard, down from 45 per 100,000 in 1994. These changes in the share tell you how much harder, or easier, admission has become for American teenagers on average. Between 1984 and 1994, it became easier at many colleges. The college-age population in this country fell during that time to 14.1 million in 1994 from 16.5 million in 1984, and the number of foreign students was relatively stable.
  • For students from the Northeast applying to elite colleges in the region, college admissions have probably become even more difficult in recent decades than these statistics suggest. Not only have colleges globalized, they have also become less regional, admitting more students from states like North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
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  • Over the last 20 years, several large colleges, like N.Y.U. and the University of Southern California, have improved markedly, effectively increasing the number of seats on elite campuses
  • On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.
  • Low-income applicants are left to compete for the remaining slots with applicants who have the highest test scores, most impressive extracurricular activities and most eloquent essays.
  • Michelle Wendt on 29 Apr 14
     
    After reading this i felt I could assuage the parents group at my daughter's school who were heartbroken that their siblings were not accepted into the school as well.
Bill Kuykendall

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 32 views

www.nytimes.com/...11digi.html

broadband education

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  • Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households.
  • little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
  • few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
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  • “Scaling the Digital Divide,” published last month, looks at the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 and its effect on middle school test scores during that period. Students posted significantly lower math test scores after the first broadband service provider showed up in their neighborhood, and significantly lower reading scores as well when the number of broadband providers passed four.
  • The expansion of broadband service was associated with a pronounced drop in test scores for black students in both reading and math, but no effect on the math scores and little on the reading scores of other students.
  • THE one area where the students from lower-income families in the immersion program closed the gap with higher-income students was the same one identified in the Romanian study: computer skills.
  • How disappointing to read in the Texas study that “there was no evidence linking technology immersion with student self-directed learning or their general satisfaction with schoolwork.”
Patience Wieland

Innovations in Teaching and Learning Technology Conference - FREE - 0 views

www.lee.edu/...innovations_conf.asp

instructional technology education conference free Texas Houston area instructional media teaching learning strategies resources

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  • Patience Wieland on 01 Aug 09
     
    In the greater Houston area: this is a free conference occuring in November of this year (so the warmer weather will be a nice break for out of towners) focusing on best practices in teaching and learning, and technology. Also an opportunity to meet other educators!
  • Patience Wieland on 01 Aug 09
     
    Learning takes place in many locations and within the context of a variety of forums. Instructors are challenged on a daily basis to find innovative ways of enhancing the Net generation of students learning experiences. Our goal is promote greater understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques and instructional methodologies online and in the classroom. The Teaching and Learning Technology Conference provides a forum for educators to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models. This conference will explore and showcase excellence and innovation in teaching that facilitates student learning and positively impacts student academic success.
Mitzi Moore

Gil Peñalosa a Success in San Antonio - 5 views

www.biketexas.org/...alosa-a-success-in-san-antonio

environment Bike Texas bicycle

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  • Mitzi Moore on 10 Feb 11
     
    News report about the event during which Group 3A completed their Phase 2 volunteerism.
Gerald Carey

Free math resources proliferate on the web- Southeast Texas P-16 Council - 118 views

setxp16.org/freemath

math resources free

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  • Gerald Carey on 05 Mar 11
     
    Have linked some of these to the Maths Web Sites group but this blog is worth looking at for general Maths resources.
Roland Gesthuizen

Lewisville's texting-in-class program gets thumbs-up from teachers, students | Dallas-F... - 57 views

www.dallasnews.com/...-up-from-teachers-students.ece

dallasnews mobilephone policy technology digitalcitizenship

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  • After they finished answering the question about the Kashmir conflict via their smartphones and other devices, Harris’ students said the technology allows them to share more information and exchange ideas with each other.
  • being able to use technology you’ve grown up with just feels natural. “It fits in with what we’re doing at home,”
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jun 11
     
    While the Lewisville school district still restricts regular cellphone use in the classroom, the policy is being loosened to allow the program to be used by the school's teachers when they feel that technology would enhance learning.
Justin Medved

How schools get it wrong - thestar.com - 19 views

www.thestar.com/...8262--how-schools-get-it-wrong

for:dharter for:mdil

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  • Zachary Stein, who is doing his Ph.D. in human education and development at Harvard University's graduate school of education, notes that when he and a colleague tried to persuade a school board in Texas to change their tests so that they actually captured what children understood, those most strongly pitted against the changes were real estate brokers.
Mrs. Z Zonis

Home | Teaching Texas - 34 views

www.teachingtexas.org

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  • Online Primary or Secondary Sources
    • Mrs. Z Zonis
      Mrs. Z Zonis on 21 Jul 11
       
      Perfect for research projects!
Michele Brown

Zombies: STEM Behind Hollywood by Texas Instruments - US and Canada - 47 views

education.ti.com/...zombies

zombies stem

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  • Michele Brown on 19 Aug 13
     
    This looks really cool. "Zombie Apocalypse, a Hollywood-inspired TI-Nspire™ math and science activity, models the transmission of a hypothetical zombie contagion through the human population, the infection rate and logistics patterns due to resource limits."
Megan N-B

Dietary Guidelines - health.gov - 9 views

health.gov/dietaryguidelines

nutrition guidelines dietary

shared by Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Dietary Guidelines
    • Megan N-B
      Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
       
      NEW dietary guidelines! Just released. Textbook refers to the 2010 guidelines. How are they the same/different?
    • Megan N-B
      Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
       
      Look here for the previous guidelines for comparing!
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  • Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)
  • As of June 2016, you can also download the Dietary Guidelines [PDF - 10.8 MB].
    • Megan N-B
      Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
       
      This website is an excellent resource for finding dietary and physical guideline information. The new Dietary Guidelines were just relesed a few months ago.
    • Megan N-B
      Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
       
      Did you know Texas State has a School Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) you can join?
  • 2015 Advisory Committee
  • Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
     
    New for 2015-2020
  • Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
     
    New for 2015-2020
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