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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com - 55 views
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They are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect themselves. In a new study to be released this month, the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves. “Social networking requires vigilance, not only in what you post, but what your friends post about you,” said Mary Madden, a senior research specialist who oversaw the study by Pew, which examines online behavior. “Now you are responsible for everything.”
Why College Graduates Are Irrationally Optimistic - NYTimes.com - 31 views
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When we learn what the future may hold, our neurons efficiently encode unexpectedly good information, but fail to incorporate information that is unexpectedly bad.
The Poor Quality of an Undergraduate Education - NYTimes.com - 40 views
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large numbers of the students were making their way through college with minimal exposure to rigorous coursework, only a modest investment of effort and little or no meaningful improvement in skills like writing and reasoning.
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Simply put: academic investments are a lower priority.
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When 18-year-olds are emboldened to see themselves in this manner, many look for ways to attain an educational credential effortlessly and comfortably. And they are catered to accordingly. The customer is always right.
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Reading Strategies for 'Informational Text' - NYTimes.com - 247 views
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 97 views
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As Levin watched the progress of those KIPP alumni, he noticed something curious: the students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence.
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They were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next time; to bounce back from a fight with their parents; to resist the urge to go out to the movies and stay home and study instead; to persuade professors to give them extra help after class.
Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 7 views
Great Ways to Teach Any Day's Times - NYTimes.com - 53 views
With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise - NYTimes.com - 43 views
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Technology companies are collecting a vast amount of data about students, touching every corner of their educational lives — with few controls on how those details are used.
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growing parental concern that sensitive information about children — like data about learning disabilities, disciplinary problems or family trauma — might be disseminated and disclosed, potentially hampering college or career prospects.
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implications beyond education.
Economic Scene - Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes.com - 19 views
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Early this year, Mr. Chetty and five other researchers set out to fill this void. They examined the life paths of almost 12,000 children who had been part of a well-known education experiment in Tennessee in the 1980s. The children are now about 30, well started on their adult lives.
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Just as in other studies, the Tennessee experiment found that some teachers were able to help students learn vastly more than other teachers. And just as in other studies, the effect largely disappeared by junior high, based on test scores. Yet when Mr. Chetty and his colleagues took another look at the students in adulthood, they discovered that the legacy of kindergarten had re-emerged.
Text to Text | 'The Giver' and 'The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction' - NYTimes.com - 59 views
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ideas for connecting it to a larger discussion about the popularity of dystopian literature, as well as options for going further
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Key Questions: Why are dystopian novels so popular among young adults right now?
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What can dystopian fiction show or teach us that, perhaps, other kinds of stories cannot
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What's Lost as Handwriting Fades - 52 views
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Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information.
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When children had drawn a letter freehand, they exhibited increased activity in three areas of the brain that are activated in adults when they read and write
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When the children composed text by hand, they not only consistently produced more words more quickly than they did on a keyboard, but expressed more ideas.
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The Learning Network (NY Times) - 50 views
Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - The New York Times - 13 views
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hat the education system must adjust to better accommodate the way students learn, a point that some teachers brought up in focus groups themselves
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roughly 75 percent of 2,462 teachers surveyed said that the Internet and search engines had a “mostly positive” impact on student research skills. And they said such tools had made students more self-sufficient researchers.
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But nearly 90 percent said that digital technologies were creating “an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.”
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Evaluating Sources in a 'Post-Truth' World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News - The New York Times - 69 views
Poetry Pairing | - 68 views
Analysis Examines Disabled Students' Suspensions - 0 views
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According to a new analysis of Department of Education data, 13 percent of disabled students in kindergarten through 12th grade were suspended during the 2009-10 school year, compared with 7 percent of students without disabilities. Among black children with disabilities, which included those with learning difficulties, the rate was much higher: one out of every four was suspended at least once that school year.
100 Ways to Celebrate the 100th Day of School - 63 views
In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History - 49 views
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