Education Research

Ever wondered how your brain works and how you can learn better? May be helpful for teaching your students as well.

The National Parks Service's Teaching with Historica Places uses places listed on the National Register of Historic Places to enhance traditional teaching of history, social studies, geography, etc. There are over 135 classroom lesson plans. I find this to be very interesting because I would like to incorporate more examples of material culture in the classroom. I think lessons like this provide a valuable lens through which to study historic moments.

This is an interesting article about the current market for teaching jobs in New York City.

Pretty cool pictures for various words....don't let students go on here alone though, as I've seen an explicit word or two (for example, look under letter "P").

Reading for Healthy Families: Building Communities of Learning was launched in 14 of Oregon's 36 counties.

Constructivist theories grew out of the work of a couple of Russians around the time of the Russian Revolution. It is radical subjectivism dressed up as science, and has no scientific credibility whatsoever. It is used by radical educators to push their barrow that nothing the teacher knows is worth the student learning and that all knowledge is innate. It's bullsh*t. Theories like this rot are part of the reason that the bottom has dropped out of Western education and we have a generation who can't write. This should be resisted by any educator with an interest in educational excellence.

As someone who has been going through hell all year because my sole evaluator has a chip on her shoulder, I can tell you that I love the idea of using master teachers as a complementary system of evaluation alongside administrators.

A very helpful explanation in my opinion....

The article mentions that Charter Schools must outperform public schools. That's easy enough to do when you get to choose your students. There is no way to effectively compare and contrast student performance between public and charter schools because the deck is stacked so completely for the charters.

100 Educational Web Sites for your students... there is a lot of variety here and the sites are grouped into categories.

Is technology really helping?

Very interesting article on the academic success of generations of immigrants.

The world is filled with sluggish spectacles. Watching them would be painful were it not for time-lapse photography, which can make those long stories short and remarkably entertaining. When a

I see that students can get merit-based pay measured on data other than standardized test scores... Just sayin' is all....