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in title, tags, annotations or urlHigh-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her 'ineffective' - The Washington Post - 94 views
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Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views
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the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
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to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
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I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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Bill Gates wants your kids to learn history this way - and he's paying to get it into schools - The Washington Post - 82 views
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Gates told the Times article’s author, Andrew Ross Sorkin, that after he watched it: “I just loved it. It was very clarifying for me. I thought, ‘God, everybody should watch this thing!’”
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And there you have it. Bill Gates likes something; Bill Gates pays to get it into schools. It may be a good idea. It may be a bad idea. It doesn’t matter, because Gates has the money and clout to inject it into wherever he wants to inject it.
Homework: An unnecessary evil? … Surprising findings from new research - The Washington Post - 32 views
Learning is an 'expedition' at schools that enhance class with field work - The Washington Post - 28 views
40 maps that explain the world - 177 views
A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here's what he found. - The Washington Post - 99 views
My Sharebar by Post Planner - 29 views
Attention, college shoppers. These schools are slashing their prices. - The Washington Post - 15 views
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As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut. St. John's College slashed tuition from $52,734 in this school year to $35,000 in the next.
This superintendent has figured out how to make school work for poor kids - The Washington Post - 41 views
Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Washington Post - 90 views
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"To cognitive neuroscientists, Handscombe's experience is the subject of great fascination and growing alarm. Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia."
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Washington Post article on how the internet is impacting our ability to read and concentrate.
Treehouse teaching and laundry art: Educators find creative ways to reach kids - 5 views
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was also concerned about her students’ lack of engagement — so few were completing the assignments she emailed to parents
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Playing with her family’s laundry marked the first time Maliah seemed happy — actually happy — since the start of the pandemic.
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Nobody should ever be penalized or put at a disadvantage for the supplies they don’t have,” Dillingham thought to herself. “But everyone’s got laundry!”
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What happened to America's teens when coronavirus disrupted high school? - 10 views
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biggest challenge of the pandemic was not that I was depressed but just, every day became the same thing. It kind of became, like, boring and saddening because this isn’t what I’m used to.
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Covid gave them the chance to see that, hey, our kids actually learn better when they have a little bit of a break.
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