What’s happened to get people thinking and talking about “different” instead of “better?”
Play-Doh & IB Theory Of Knowledge: Student Hand-Out & Videos | Larry Ferlazzo... - 0 views
Is character education the answer? | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute - 0 views
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"Over the last few years, there has been a growing awareness of the need to incorporate character development into school curricula, and various efforts to do so have received wide attention. Perhaps the best-known effort is the Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, which has been implemented in close to 150 charter schools across the country."
May, 2016 Writing Prompts Are Here For The TOK Essay! | Theory Of Knowledge - 1 views
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16 Modern Realities Schools (and Parents) Need to Accept. Now. - Modern Learning - Medium - 0 views
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The Web and the technologies that drive it are fundamentally changing the way we think about how we can learn and become educated in a globally networked and connected world. It has absolutely exploded our ability to learn on our own in ways that schools weren’t built for.
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In that respect, current systems of schooling are an increasingly significant barrier to progress when it comes to learning.
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Learning Myths And Realities From Brain Science : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views
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The idea that individuals have different learning styles, such as auditory or kinesthetic, is a pernicious myth. Boser compares it to the flat-earth myth — highly intuitive, but wrong.
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Almost 90 percent of respondents agreed that simply re-reading material is "highly effective" for learning. Research suggests the opposite.
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On the topic of "growth mindset," more than one-quarter of respondents believed intelligence is "fixed at birth". Neuroscience says otherwise.
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Some Common Alternative Conceptions (Misconceptions) - 0 views
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Seasonal Change
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Knowledge about the Earth
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Path of blood flow in circulation
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The Test of the Common Core | E. D. Hirsch, Jr. - 0 views
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Here's the follow-up post to "Why I'm For the Common Core." It explains why we should be leery of the forthcoming "core-aligned" tests -- especially those in English Language Arts that people are rightly anxious about.
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These tests could endanger the promise of the Common Core.
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The first thing I'd want to do if I were younger would be to launch an effective court challenge to value-added teacher evaluations on the basis of test scores in reading comprehension. The value-added approach to teacher evaluation in reading is unsound both technically and in its curriculum-narrowing effects. The connection between job ratings and tests in ELA has been a disaster for education.
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What poor children need in school - 0 views
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Most educational policy elites, whether in government or in the nonprofit sector, mean well.
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Yet policymakers tend to come from a relatively privileged slice of American society. And they tend to possess a set of beliefs and assumptions distinct to their background.
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But in most cases, the fact that decision-makers inhabit a different world from students—and particularly, poor students—is a matter of great significance.
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More Than Half of Students 'Engaged' in School, Says Poll - Education Week - 1 views
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Students who strongly agree that they have at least one teacher who makes them "feel excited about the future" and that their school is "committed to building the strengths of each student" are 30 times more likely than students who strongly disagree with those statements to show other signs of engagement in the classroom—a key predictor of academic success, according to a report released Wednesday by Gallup Education.
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"Many, many, many teachers, principals and superintendents have known for literally decades that if we don't engage students to care about being in school, that's going to get in the way of learning," he said.
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"One of the big problems with No Child Left Behind and even [the Common Core State Standards] is that we are only focused on students' cognitive learning,"
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Message to My Freshman Students | Keith M. Parsons - 1 views
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Your teachers were not allowed to teach, but were required to focus on preparing you for those all-important standardized tests.
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Your teachers were held responsible if you failed, and expected to show that they had tried hard to avoid that dreaded result.
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First, I am your professor, not your teacher. There is a difference.
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