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in title, tags, annotations or url2017 Education Research Highlights | Edutopia - 0 views
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Practice Testing, Planning Top List of Effective Studying Strategies
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New Teachers—and Their Students—Benefit From Mentors
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Clickers Boost Fact Retention, but Can Impede Deeper Learning
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Curiosity Is a Unique Marker of Academic Success - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Yet in actual schools, curiosity is drastically underappreciated.
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The power of curiosity to contribute not only to high achievement, but also to a fulfilling existence, cannot be emphasized enough.
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When Orville Wright, of the Wright brothers fame, was told by a friend that he and his brother would always be an example of how far someone can go in life with no special advantages, he emphatically responded, “to say we had no special advantages … the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”
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Alternatives To Homework: A Chart For Teachers - 0 views
10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation - 0 views
Experts Say Measuring Non-Cognitive Skills Won't Work, But Districts Still Try | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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Federal education law now requires one non-academic measure of school progress, which has led some districts to consider including students’ social and emotional growth as a performance measure.
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She writes that even the researchers who popularized terms like “grit” think using it to measure school effectiveness is a bad idea:
The Changing Role Of The Teacher - 0 views
7 Things the Best Teachers Will Regret This School Year - Brilliant or Insane - 1 views
Helping Students Navigate the World of Texting - 1 views
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Texting offers some interesting challenges for middle school students as they develop and practice social and emotional interactions with one another.
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Starting a classroom conversation about texting can help students share and learn together the best ways to navigate the world of texting. Teachers could Have students discuss texting in "pair shares" Visit with students asking for pros and cons from every student (if you have a small enough group) Include as an essay topic the things students like or don't like about texting
This Week In Education: Thompson: How Houston's Test and Punish Policies Fail - 0 views
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I often recall Houston's Apollo 20 experiment, designed to bring "No Excuses" charter school methods to neighborhood schools. Its output-driven, reward and punish policies failed. It was incredibly expensive, costing $52 million and it didn't increase reading scores. Intensive math tutoring produced test score gains in that subject. The only real success was due to the old-fashioned, win-win, input-driven method of hiring more counselors.
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Michels finds no evidence that Grier's test-driven accountability has benefitted students, but he describes the great success of constructive programs that build on kids' strengths and provide them more opportunities.
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With the help of local philanthropies, however, Houston has introduced a wide range of humane, holistic, and effective programs. Michels starts with Las Americas Newcomer School, which is "on paper a failing school." It offers group therapy and social workers who help immigrants "navigate bureaucratic barriers—like proof of residency or vaccination records." He then describes outstanding early education programs that are ready to be scaled up, such as the Gabriela Mistral Center for Early Childhood, and Project Grad which has provided counseling and helped more than 7,600 students go to college.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Pros and Cons of Using Social Media for School Announcements - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: How to Follow a #Hashtag Across Multiple Social Networks - 0 views
A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days - a sobering lesson learned | Granted, and... - 1 views
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I have made a terrible mistake.
A strange definition of a 'bad' teacher - The Washington Post - 0 views
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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