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Tony Richards

The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 0 views

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    "What Makes a Great Teacher? Image credit: Veronika Lukasova Also in our Special Report: National: "How America Can Rise Again" Is the nation in terminal decline? Not necessarily. But securing the future will require fixing a system that has become a joke. Video: "One Nation, On Edge" James Fallows talks to Atlantic editor James Bennet about a uniquely American tradition-cycles of despair followed by triumphant rebirths. Interactive Graphic: "The State of the Union Is ..." ... thrifty, overextended, admired, twitchy, filthy, and clean: the nation in numbers. By Rachael Brown Chart: "The Happiness Index" Times were tough in 2009. But according to a cool Facebook app, people were happier. By Justin Miller On August 25, 2008, two little boys walked into public elementary schools in Southeast Washington, D.C. Both boys were African American fifth-graders. The previous spring, both had tested below grade level in math. One walked into Kimball Elementary School and climbed the stairs to Mr. William Taylor's math classroom, a tidy, powder-blue space in which neither the clocks nor most of the electrical outlets worked. The other walked into a very similar classroom a mile away at Plummer Elementary School. In both schools, more than 80 percent of the children received free or reduced-price lunches. At night, all the children went home to the same urban ecosystem, a zip code in which almost a quarter of the families lived below the poverty line and a police district in which somebody was murdered every week or so. Video: Four teachers in Four different classrooms demonstrate methods that work (Courtesy of Teach for America's video archive, available in February at teachingasleadership.org) At the end of the school year, both little boys took the same standardized test given at all D.C. public schools-not a perfect test of their learning, to be sure, but a relatively objective one (and, it's worth noting, not a very hard one). After a year in Mr. Taylo
John Pearce

Recommended iPod Apps (Grade Levels & Subjects) Escondido Union School District - iRead - Google Docs - 6 views

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    Another quite extensive list of iPod/iPhone apps from the Escondido Union School District.
arunaraayala

Indian doctors flown in to meet UK staff shortages - Locality News - 0 views

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    Britain's exit from the European Union is likely to impact NHS workforce, leading to the UK governme...
John Pearce

Course: 21st Century Technology Skills - 13 views

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    From the Queensbury Union Free School District comes this Moodle based 21st Century Technology Skills course. The 10 Week Computer Literacy Course for 6th grade students covers Understanding Computers | Digital Literacy | Digital Citizenship | Cyber Safety
John Pearce

with iPod Touches (Learning Continuity) - 10 views

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    Huge number of educational apps available at iTunes, mostly free.
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    The Acalanes Union High School District has published this list of iPod Touch/iPhone apps that are installed on the iPod Touches that the district schools have. It lists the apps under curriculum area along with a short description, the cost if any and the iTunes link.
Roland Gesthuizen

Teacher pay: broken promises and falling standards - The Drum Opinion - The inconvenience to families from teacher strikes is regrettable, but attacks on teachers' working conditions ultimately hurt students. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 2 views

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    Today, thousands of public school teachers are on strike after the Victorian Government reneged on its election promise to substantially increase their salaries. The inconvenience to families is regrettable, but the reality is that attacks on teachers' working conditions ultimately hurt students.
Nigel Robertson

Court fails Toronto professor's grading on a budget - 0 views

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    A University of Toronto professor who got students to grade their peers' work has seen the practice blocked by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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