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Incoming College Board Head Wants SAT to Reflect Common Core - 1 views

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  • Erin Saunders on 21 May 12
     
    One of the chief architects of the Common Core State Standards was named the next president of the College Board today and said one of his top priorities is to reshape the organization's influential college-admissions test, the SAT, to better reflect the new standards. David Coleman will assume his new duties on Oct.
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Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide - 0 views

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    MLA
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Wordnik - 0 views

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  • Virginia Glatzer on 27 Apr 12
     
    Define, Relate, List, Discuss, See, Hear, Love words
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    Define, Relate, List, Discuss, See, Hear, Love words
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Education Week: Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Prereading - 0 views

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  • On the topic of prereading and scaffolding, the most recent version takes care to "leave room for a wide range of instructional approaches" that engage students in reading, while at the same time "setting some basic parameters based on the standards," such as ensuring that scaffolding "does not pre-empt or replace the need to read the text,"
  • To argue that meaning resides solely in the text is antithetical to several decades of research which shows that meaning is in the interaction of reader and text,"
  • "In too many classrooms, the actual text never enters the discussion," he said. "It's all about kids' feelings about it, or their experiences related to it. The teacher spends 45 minutes wallowing in that space, but never gets into the information in the text."
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  • "to do quite a bit of framing to get my kids to the point where they can wrestle with the text."
  • oesn't need to be an either-or,
  • To do that, teachers have many strategies at their disposal, he noted. They can supply information upfront, when appropriate. They can plan a cold reading but assign texts leading up to it that will fill in knowledge gaps. They can ask students to read a group of surrounding pieces in conjunction with a central text.
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Should You Flip Your Classroom? | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Ellen Eisenberg on 19 Apr 12
     
    To "flip" or not to "flip"?
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Celebrating National Poetry Month with Technology | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Fun to share
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Picking Up the Pieces of No Child Left Behind - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Professional development and collaboration... imagine that!
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Abstract of a paper comparing typing to hand-writing and transfer to memory - 0 views

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    Abstract of a paper comparing typing to hand-writing and transfer to memory
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Infographic: Write It Down | Course Hero - 0 views

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  • Virginia Glatzer on 12 Apr 12
     
    To bring your laptop or not to bring your laptop: that is the question. In today's classrooms, students are presented with a variety of ways to take notes ranging from the old school pen and paper to laptops and tablets. This week, we take a look at various note-taking methods to try and suss out the best techniques for recording-and retaining-important information. Check it out.
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School Leaders Must Embrace Change - Learning Forward%u2019s PD Watch - Education Week ... - 0 views

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    Leading and managing change
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New Literacy Standards Could Challenge Even Passionate Readers - 0 views

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  • Erin Saunders on 04 Apr 12
     
    A week with a Washington High honors student highlights the hopes and challenges of a national push to deepen adolescent literacy Zach Morales learned early that high school would go more smoothly if he kept certain things to himself. But privately, the unassuming teen is proud of his passion for reading.
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