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Lois Whipple

Rethinking High School: President Obama Announces New Youth CareerConnect Grants | ED.g... - 0 views

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  • That’s the idea behind the Youth CareerConnect grant program, which President Obama discussed this morning during his visit to Bladensburg High School in Prince George’s County, Maryland. In his remarks, the President announced that Bladensburg High was part of a three-school team in Prince George’s County that won a $7 million Youth CareerConnect grant. The grant will give students at Bladensburg High access to individualized college and career counseling, as well as paid work experiences with employer partners such as Lockheed Martin. What’s more, students concentrating in health professions will be able to earn industry-recognized certifications in nursing and pharmacy, and biomedical students will be able to earn college credit from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
  • Lois Whipple on 11 Apr 14
     
    Official blog of the US DOE
Kelly OLeary

Should More Low-Income Students Apply to Highly Selective Colleges? - 0 views

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  • Kelly OLeary on 23 Mar 14
     
    Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Research on College Undermatch "Access to the nation's most selective colleges remains starkly unequal, with students in the lowest income quartile constituting less than 4% of enrollment," say Michael Bastedo and Allyson Flaster (University of Michigan/Ann Arbor) in this article in Educational Researcher. "Students in the top SES quartile comprise 69% of enrollment at institutions that admit fewer than a third of their applicants…" One increasingly popular explanation for this enrollment gap is undermatching - academically able low-income students not applying to selective colleges for which they are qualified, settling instead for lower-tier institutions. Bastedo and Flaster are skeptical about this theory for three reasons First, they don't believe there is good evidence about the life benefits of attending different tiers of college, and most measures of college "quality" are quite unscientific. Life advantages might accrue at the extremes - going to a highly selective college versus a low-quality community college - but the evidence about the whole middle range is "quite muddy," say Bastedo and Flaster. Among the factors that need to be looked at more carefully are a college's graduation rate, students' debt burden, placement in graduate or professional schools, and post-graduate earnings. Second, the authors question whether it's possible for researchers to predict which low-income students will get into selective colleges to which they haven't yet applied. Competition for seats in these colleges has become much more intense in recent years, and extra-curricular activities, alumni parents, athletic prowess, and other intangibles play an increasingly important part. In many of these areas, higher-SES students have great advantages. Third, even if we look only at SAT scores and GPAs, high-achieving disadvantaged students are still not as competitive as the undermatching advocate
mccahillk

Educational Leadership:What Students Need to Learn:High-Stakes Testing Narrows the Curr... - 0 views

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    "Are science, social studies, the arts, and physical education really disappearing from elementary schools? Are critical thinking and deep reading of literature fading from the high school curriculum?"
Barbara Powers

HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environme... - 0 views

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  • Barbara Powers on 25 Mar 14
     
    FREE educational resources for middle school, high school, and college.
John Chandler

Study: High school grades best predictor of college success - not SAT/ACT scores - 0 views

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  • John Chandler on 15 Mar 14
     
    Study: High school grades best predictor of college success - not SAT/ACT scores
  • Gina Cinotti on 16 Mar 14
     
    One of my favorite topics to discuss. And why do we think the SAT is going to be redesigned for Class of 2016? Clearly because we need to align it to the Common Core. More info to come on this....what do you think John?
John Chandler

Field-Testing of Common-Core Exams Gets Off to Shaky Start at Md. High School - Curricu... - 0 views

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  • John Chandler on 06 Apr 14
     
    At Thomas S. Wootton High School, teachers and administrators seem to be in agreement that field-testing for the common-core assessments is off to a bumpy start.
Barbara Powers

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  • Barbara Powers on 15 Apr 14
     
    Homework help for high school students.
Alicia Koster

Should Schools Treat Coding as a 'Basic Literacy'? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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  • On the educational value of coding, the piece quotes Adam Enbar, founder of New York's Flatiron School, which offers a number of pricey computer-programming courses, including a two-week session for high school students:   "I equate coding to reading and writing and basic literacy. Not everyone needs to be Shakespeare, just as not everyone needs to be an amazing developer," he says. "But ... we're entering a world where every job, if not already, will be technical."
Barbara Powers

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  • Barbara Powers on 09 Mar 14
     
    PSI - The Progressive Science Initiative. Example from Tech High School.
Alicia Koster

Can't We Do Better? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • So now let’s look at the latest PISA. It found that the most successful students are those who feel real “ownership” of their education. In all the best performing school systems, said Schleicher, “students feel they personally can make a difference in their own outcomes and that education will make a difference for their future.” The PISA research, said Schleicher, also shows that “students whose parents have high expectations for them tend to have more perseverance, greater intrinsic motivation to learn.” The highest performing PISA schools, he added, all have “ownership” cultures — a high degree of professional autonomy for teachers in the classrooms, where teachers get to participate in shaping standards and curriculum and have ample time for continuous professional development.
  • John Chandler on 09 Mar 14
     
    Can't We Do Better?
Barbara Powers

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  • Barbara Powers on 08 Mar 14
     
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John Chandler

Early learning, assisted by technology | eSchool News | eSchool News - 0 views

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  • John Chandler on 12 Apr 14
     
    one of a series of new early learning schools that model the approach of VINCI Education: a hands-on blend of low-tech and high-tech instruction, guided by a skilled classroom teacher.
John Chandler

The Antidepressant Generation - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • John Chandler on 19 Apr 14
     
    College deans have written about incoming freshman being "crispies" or "teacups": the crispies so burned out by the pressures of high school that they get to college unable to engage in the work, and the teacups so fragile or overprotected in their formative years that they fall apart at the first stress they encounter.  What can/should k-12 leaders do?
Gina Cinotti

ASCD Book: Personalizing the High School Experience for Each Student - 0 views

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  • Gina Cinotti on 24 Mar 14
     
    Seen this a few times.....sit and read it....worth it.
Julia Leong

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  • Gina Cinotti on 08 Mar 14
     
    Best school for achievement, 40% of these kids who created this website
  • Julia Leong on 17 Jul 14
     
    NEW: Club Academia is working with FIRST Robotics team 1868, the Space Cookies, to create FIRST Robotics videos. Check out the FIRST Robotics Tab in the Learn menu for more information!
Daniel Breiman

Club Academia | About - 0 views

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  • Alicia Koster on 08 Mar 14
     
    Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate.
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  • Julia Leong on 08 Mar 14
     
    Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate.
  • meredith fox on 09 Mar 14
     
    Mission: Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate. Since its founding, Club Academia has provided supplemental instruction to students who are struggling with a particular concept and are looking for further explanation. We recognize that often fellow students can most easily help peers understand difficult classroom material. Starting with only four high schoolers uploading videos to a YouTube account, Club Academia has expanded nearly exponentially, currently with 17 video makers and over 500 videos on our website. With the help of the $20,000 Westly Prize grant, we are able to provide equipment for our video-makers and thus create a strong video base. As a result, we are able to expand into more schools and recruit more volunteers to make high-quality videos for our learners!
  • mccahillk on 18 Mar 14
     
    Nice resource for both students and teachers...
  • Daniel Breiman on 19 Mar 14
     
    Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate.
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