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rstrean

Choosing A Credit Card: The Deal is in the Disclosures - 0 views

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financial

shared by rstrean on 26 Mar 11 - Cached
  • rstrean on 26 Mar 11
     
    basic terms for understanding credit card applications; from 2008 but not rendered irrelevant by the 2009 reforms
Lena Darnay

I'm a Teacher and After Tuesday, I Could Be Fired - 135 views

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shared by Lena Darnay on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Lena Darnay on 15 Mar 11
     
    This is an interesting perspective blog post from Huffington Post sharing the view of education reform from a High School English teacher in California.
Greg Gichan

A Nation at Risk: Edited by Yong Zhao - Eugene, MO, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - 28 views

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A Nation at Risk education policy education reform risk education reform

shared by Greg Gichan on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Greg Gichan on 16 Mar 11
     
    A new look at "A Nation at Risk" on its 30 year anniverary!
Florence Dujardin

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities to Increase College Readiness - 17 views

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shared by Florence Dujardin on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Florence Dujardin on 02 Jun 11
     
    For over a decade, professional learning communities (PLCs) have been touted as an effective way to build upon the knowledge and skills of experienced teachers, yet much of the evidence base is derived from self-reports by practitioners. Although several generations of school reform (the standards movement, No Child Left Behind, and now the Common Core State Standards) have cited improving teacher effectiveness as key to improving student achievement, little change has occurred in the nature of professional development. This article argues that professional development generally, and PLCs in particular, would benefit from the insights gleaned from the extensive literature on teacher expertise that focuses on how well teachers understand the content they teach and how well they understand how students learn that content.
Steve Ransom

Our Future, Our Teachers: The Obama Administration's Plan for Teacher Education Reform ... - 102 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Oct 11
     
    Some needed changes here, but rating program effectiveness on K12 student test scores is ludicrous!
Carol Ansel

The Daring Librarian: Wikipedia is not wicked! - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 70 views

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shared by Carol Ansel on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Teaching Wikipedia in 5 Easy Steps: *Use it as background information *Use it for technology terms *Use it for current pop cultural literacy *Use it for the Keywords *Use it for the REFERENCES at the bottom of the page!
  • 4 ways to use Wikipedia (hint: never cite it) Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia 20 Little Known Ways to Use Wikipedia Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica Schiff, Stacy. “Know it all: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?” The New Yorker, February 26, 2006 And: Yes students, there’s a world beyond Wikipedia **Several years ago, Nature magazine did a comparison of material available on Wikipedia and Brittanica and concluded that Brittanica was somewhat, but not overwhelmingly, more accurate than Wikipedia. Brittanica lodged a complaint, and here, you can see what it complained about as well as Nature’s response. Nature compared articles from both organizations on various topics and sent them to experts to review. Per article, the averages were: 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia. -0- Follow The Answer Sheet every day by bookmarking http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet. And for admissions advice, college news and links to campus papers, please check out our Higher Education page. Bookmark it! var entrycat = ' ' By Valerie Strauss  |  05:00 AM ET, 09/07/2011 .connect_widget .connect_widget_text .connect_widget_connected_text a {display:block;} #center {overflow:visible;} /*.override-width iframe {width:274px !important;}*/ Tumblr Reddit Stumbleupon Digg Delicious LinkedIn http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html#_=1315504289567&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2F
  • Carol Ansel on 08 Sep 11
     
    Excellent perspective on "The 'W' Word" - use it wisely for what it is - high school and college kids shouldn't be citing any general knowledge encyclopedias for serious research - but that doesn't mean there aren't some excellent uses for it.
Ruth Howard

The "Shock Doctrine" comes to your neighborhood classroom - Salon.com Mobile - 43 views

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  • Ruth Howard on 14 Sep 11
     
    via @IanChia Capitalism and Technology take advantage of economic downturn (Shock Doctrine tactics) which fuel policies with vested interests not education reform at heart.
Brian Mull

States Seen Lagging on Innovation, Technology - Digital Education - 23 views

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  • Brian Mull on 16 Nov 09
     
    "A report released yesterday gave most states Cs and Ds when it comes to educational innovation and technology, according to this story by my colleague Michele McNeil. States are not reinventing education in ways that are necessary to tackle challenges of raising achievement and preparing students for the rigors of the workplace, the report concludes. "The key to improving results will be to help schools not only to avoid mistakes, but to position themselves better to adopt imaginative solutions," states the overview of the report, "Leaders and Laggards". "In brief, for reform to take hold our states and schools must practice purposeful innovation.""
Jim Peterson

But Who Champion's Citizenship? : 2¢ Worth - 51 views

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  • we don’t need reform in education – we need purpose
  • Jim Peterson on 23 Apr 11
     
    What is the purpose of education? To help discover who we are and then express that positively and effectively with everyone around us.
Steve Ransom

Kindergartners and iPads-Part 2 | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - 36 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 04 May 11
     
    With parent perspectives like this, 1:1 initiatives had better do things right and ensure that powerful learning is going on in conjunction with powerful tools. Such perceptions must be challenged and teachers must be ready for the challenge
Matt Renwick

Educational Leadership:Best of Educational Leadership 2004-2005:Pathways to Reform: Sta... - 18 views

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  • Common ends, diverse pathways.
  • what makes life worth living
  • between the science of learning and the practice of teaching lie important value judgments
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  • many ways for a school to be “good
  • Normative questions are not easily settled by empirical means
  • burning desire to raise students' test scores
  • a craft model of professionalism
thebda

Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its ed... - 45 views

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  • thebda on 21 Mar 15
     
    "We really need a rethinking of education and a redesigning of our system, so it prepares our children for the future with the skills that are needed for today and tomorrow"
Tracy Sockalosky

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/82329/education-reform-Finland-US - 46 views

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shared by Tracy Sockalosky on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Tracy Sockalosky on 14 Feb 11
     
    Finland could teach us alot!
Jeff Andersen

More Students Report Talking With Their Professors Outside of Class. Here's Why That Ma... - 16 views

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student retention

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  • Jeff Andersen on 24 Feb 20
     
    You're reading the latest issue of Teaching, a weekly newsletter from a team of Chronicle journalists. Sign up here to get it in your inbox on Thursdays. This week: I point to some key findings in the newest annual National Survey of Student Engagement. I share readers' feedback on how they have reformed their gateway courses. I ask whether your college or department has developed alternatives to teaching evaluations.
Martin Burrett

@Digicoled's Digest - Computing, for all? - 3 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Nov 17
     
    "Evidence gathered from The Royal Society showed that "pedagogies for computing in schools remain less developed than those for other subjects", and that "the provision of the subject at GCSE was sporadic". Recommendations from the report suggest a push to realise the ambition of recent curriculum and qualifications reforms, to improve gender balance in computing, and ensure there is a strong supply of computing teachers entering the profession."
Randolph Hollingsworth

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - School Improvement Reform Report on... - 15 views

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shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 24 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 24 Oct 10
     
    Stupski Fndtn staff + McREL researchers ask 2 questions: (1) How can teachers adapt the principles of effective pedagogy to differentiate instruction and meet the needs of all learners in order to help Our Kids be challened, motivated, and successful? (2) How can teachers create structured, challenging, yet nurturing classroom environments to ensure that Our Kids are engaged and successful learners? KEY FINDINGS: adaptive and differentiated instruction (theory and methodologies) in culturally relevant classroom that allows for student "role fluidity" + teacher skill in finding gaps in knowledge/skills + motivating students through engaging projects and targeted instruction (academically rigorous and nurturing) PLUS fac devt must be supported by and inclusive of school leadership. a Design Collaborative might act on 5 options: (1) Support teachers to better utilize methods and theories of culturally relevant pedagogy and differentiated instruction, (2) Implement a pedagogical program based on the notion of "role fluidity" to give students a central voice in the classroom, (3) Use technology to engage students and enhance pedagogy, (4) Guide teachers in creating academically rigorous and positive classroom learning environments, (5) Implement pedagogical programs based on developing higher order thinking and subject-specific skills. Report by Kerry Englert, Helen Apthorp, Matthew Seebaum. Dated Oct 2009
Jennie Snyder

Elizabeth English: Why So Many Schools Remain Penitentiaries of Boredom - 80 views

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shared by Jennie Snyder on 20 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Instead, educators must become designers of doing.
  • eaching is a highly skilled craft, requiring not only explicit objectives, but a beautifully designed and irresistible learning experience that asks students think critically, solve a problem, create a product.
  • Educational leaders have to have the courage to reinvent our schools for real this time. And our teachers must be teachers of children as well as teachers of their subject area. This means possessing pedagogical knowledge -- the tools in the tool belt to design a lesson for the students of the present and the problems of the future.
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  • Our schools and teaching have to be worthy of a student's attention.
  • And here's where our schools become relevant once more: in teaching our children to evaluate and use that information in ways that are important and meaningful and to satisfy their fundamental human desire to construct solutions for the world full of engaging and pressing problems they will inherit.
thebda

From Plantation Thinking to Rainforest Thinking | headguruteacher - 12 views

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shared by thebda on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • School culture is dominated by the notion that, in all areas, there is a right way to do things and that, consequently, schools or teachers should be doing things in a certain way; this requires controls and accountability measures.
  • Rainforest Thinking is a powerful concept. 
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