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Cathy Owens-Oliver

Common Core State Standards Require Upgraded Teaching Methods - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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    Common Core in the Cloud, with Vicki Davis, will show teachers how to "use technology to produce writing and to collaborate with others.
Henry McNair

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers | PARCC - 0 views

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    "It will be challenging but also exciting, as [Common Core and PARCC have] implications for improving our curriculum, our assessments, and how we design and deliver them." "I support PARCC because it is necessary for our students to be college and career ready.
Tamira Chapman

Harvard deans urge renewing civic education | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 0 views

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  • What strikes us about these passages is not their antiquity, but their wisdom. Today, many Americans have lost pride in their government. At a time when universities trumpet their place in the world—and within Facebook—but say little about their place in the Republic, these calls to educate citizens who will sustain the nation have new and vital meaning. It is time to reimagine higher education’s civic mission.
  • They are positioned not only to foster innovation, which is essential to national prosperity, but also to teach the public responsibilities associated with invention and entrepreneurship.
  • American democracy depend
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  • “A Republic, if you can keep it,” as Benjamin Franklin described our form of government, will not persist through momentum alone.
  • We see civic education as the cultivation of knowledge and traits that sustain democratic self-governance. The synergistic components of civic education in American colleges and universities are a tripod of intellect, morality, and action, all grounded in a knowledge base of American history and constitutional principles.
  • Civic education cannot flourish if intellect is privileged over morality and action, as is usual today.
  • As science either marginalized or helped transform other subjects, citizens’ responsibilities for the public good were squeezed out of the mission of higher education. Moral philosophy became a marginal
  • The student movement of the 1960s
  • Its antiauthoritarian agenda and tactics notwithstanding, the student movement sought to reassert the educational importance of common values and social mission.
  • In the mid 1980s,
  • Service learning flourished
  • A student volunteering at a soup kitchen…very much enjoyed the experience and felt that it had made him a better person. Without thinking through the implications of his statement, he said, “I hope it is still around when my children are in college, so they can work here, too.”Finding a Way Forward
  • Instead of a prescription, we offer a framework for conversation about the intertwined roles of intellect, morality, and action.
  • civic education needs to be spread across the curriculum.
  • transgressions are likely to be treated legalistically, rather than as teachable moments.
  • Action. Civic learning is about the effect of human decisions on other people and on society at large.
  • Integrate civic education into core requirements and concentrations or majors.
Tolga Hayali

Educational Leadership:Reading: The Core Skill:True-or Not? - 0 views

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    Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
Lisa Lin Schneider

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commoncore setonhall15 standards curriculum

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