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Robin Ricketts

GWU launches online prep school - 48 views

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    launches online prep school
Sean Tangey

The Answer Sheet - Test scores and economic competitiveness - 41 views

    • Sean Tangey
       
      Reference?
Leslie G. Perry

Five myths about America's schools - The Washington Post - 97 views

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    A good synopsis of the issues.
Jim Connolly

iCloud, cloud computing services promise to change the way we use computers - The Washington Post - 73 views

    • Jim Connolly
       
      Sounds insidious!
Maureen Greenbaum

Bill Gates - How teacher development could revolutionize our schools - 80 views

    • Maureen Greenbaum
       
      Eager to learn from the best - this is the key phase Sharing- collaborating - share your syllabus- share your assignments- share our wuizzes - then we will all have more time for the students.
Peter Beens

Matt Damon's clear-headed speech to teachers rally - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 185 views

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    Wonderful speech by Matt Damon @ Save Our Schools March in DC
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    Empowerment! Teachers helping students find their own abilities. Great speech by Matt Damon who really appreciates his education experience that helped him. e was an emerging learner and through the fostering of teachers his life has grown.
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    Here is the speech that actor Matt Damon gave today to thousands of teachers, parents and others who attended the Save Our Schools march on the Ellipse near the White House to protest the Obama administration's education policies that are centered on standardized tests.
Steve Ransom

Kozol: 'I'm sick of begging' Congress to do the right thing - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 37 views

  • o culture is starved. Aesthetics are gone. Joy in learning is regarded as a bothersome distraction. "These kids don't have time for joy, or whim, or charm, or inquiry! Leave whim and happiness to the children of the privileged. Poor kids can't afford that luxury." Even good and idealistic inner-city principals tell me that they feel they have no choice.
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    "So culture is starved. Aesthetics are gone. Joy in learning is regarded as a bothersome distraction. "These kids don't have time for joy, or whim, or charm, or inquiry! Leave whim and happiness to the children of the privileged. Poor kids can't afford that luxury." Even good and idealistic inner-city principals tell me that they feel they have no choice"
Roland Gesthuizen

5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 111 views

  • Political leaders at every level are demanding we evaluate and pay teachers based on student test scores and value-added statistical formulas. If that turns out to be a bad strategy, the long-term ramifications for the nation could be staggering.
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    "Now's the time to transcend the usual debates over how to make our schools better and our teachers more effective - and break free of the myths that keep us fighting 20th century battles. Instead we need to look hard at the realities, framed by research evidence as well as the challenges teachers face everyday"
Gerald Carey

The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is still divided - The Washington Post - 21 views

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    A good site show how maps of different population data can be used to compare to formerly distinct populations
Roy Sovis

Where education technology will - and won't - take us by 2024 - 65 views

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    "students"
Andrea Paulakovich

Why schools should relax about cheating - 132 views

    • Andrea Paulakovich
       
      Read your assigned question and complete one of the following: 1) ask questions to clarify 2) hypothesize about various aspects of the problem 3) design an inquiry to test the hypotheses
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      Example: Do we need to re-evaluate our educational system if 85% of students are cheating?
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
       
      Definitely! Something is wrong if 85% of the students are doing what the school system calls cheating, instead of doing what the system call learning.
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