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Not a bad idea

Seen this a few times.....sit and read it....worth it.

How Assessment Can Lead to Deeper Learning

Excellent topic.....thank you for sharing this.

"College isn't for everyone. Let's stop pretending it is."

Very controversial right now. Excellent article. But the Common Core is College & Career Ready.......what does that say about this article?

Check out out  Grants database.  We're eager to have other public education fundraising orgs share opportunities. MFEE is a local education fund that support the Montclair public SchoolsWe have compiled a list of dozens of grants open to teachers and students which is regularly updated. > View the database online UPDATED JANUARY 28, 2014

I have seen this. It has been my experience that most of the what interferes with grant writing is the time factor......great resource though, thanks for posting

Classroom flipping involves significantly more than merely recording and posting instructional videos online. For starters, this developing approach involves giving students more control over their learning, while allowing teachers more time and freedom to offer quality instruction.

As a former math teacher, the flipped classroom scared me at first, but then I have to say, I loved it when I was learning stats this summer and used Khan Academy.....

Doodle is a free online event scheduler. Want to coordinate multiple schedules? Use the poll to ask who can attend which meeting.  Helpful when invitees use multiple methods of maintaining a calendar.

Isn't that why we have Google Calendar?

Free, Common Core-aligned lesson revisions for popular 3rd-5th grade Basal readers. An introduction to the Basal Alignment Project, as well as the revised lessons for each Basal reader, can be found in Folders, below. For more info: http://bit.ly/Wzwg8Y

Ethical decision-making should be included as a 21st century skill (overused term but don't know of an alternative).  Some would profess that ethical decision-making has always been a needed skill.  

Game-Based Learning

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

Analysis questions common assumption single-sex schools improve educational environment, achievement

Flipped learning is moving beyond simply the flipped classroom

Rethinking Independent Schools in the 21st Century

A must read for teachers and principals......its a bit long but the details are worthwhile

Does the SAT have real value?

Passion-Based Learning Week 5: Can Minecraft Foster a Growth Mindset?

Fantastic conferences and symposiums for those interested in the latest research in neuroscience and psychology and how it relates to education.

5 Tips to Help Teachers Who Struggle with Technology