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anonymous

What and How English Teachers Teach - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Canon EnglishEd

shared by anonymous on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • While the most of the popular titles are classics (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Gatsby, Huck), the frequency of any one title is low.  The highest scorer appeared in only 22.38 percent of the courses.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Oct 10
       
      Amazing that these texts are taught in very few courses.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Oct 10
       
      Yeah, that is amazing.
  • anonymous on 21 Oct 10
     
    This article discusses texts taught in English classrooms.
Eric Wheeler

http://www.readwritethink.org/ - 0 views

www.readwritethink.org

reading writing literacy resources education teaching languagearts english

shared by Eric Wheeler on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Eric Wheeler on 19 Apr 10
     
    Great resources and lessons for teaching English Language Arts.
anonymous

Literary classics shelved for writing - SignOnSanDiego.com - 1 views

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Classics ERWC

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  • anonymous on 01 Sep 10
     
    Teach rhetoric and banish the classics from HS English classes? What do you think?
  • Cathy Blanchfield on 02 Sep 10
     
    This is the Expository Reading and Writing Course that many of us are adopting. It actually doesn't have to be an either/or. Yes there is less literature and more expository writing; however, most of us also incorporate some literature. I teach Things Fall Apart in a Socratic Seminar format, Macbeth in a more traditional format, and some poetry. The modules from the Expository Reading and Writing Binder are open-ended and need some updating, but they give students an excellent variety of college-like readings and writing instruction. Students learn to critically read passages and interpret their own thinking in writing. The writing instruction is key and not as well defined as the reading instruction in the modules. Teachers need to creatively design the lessons to prepare students to write argument with ease.
Michelle Arce

AN EMERGING SUCCESS | Patriot Ledger, The; Quincy, Mass. Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views

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  • Michelle Arce on 13 Nov 10
     
    English Immersion rather than bilingual education. English Immersion has seen better results, according to this article.
Kyle Dodson

A Brief History of Rhetoric and Composition - 1 views

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Education teachers History

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  • Kyle Dodson on 18 Nov 10
     
    The title is a little misleading, because it is not necessarily "brief." However, it offers a history of teaching English. In case anyone needed more of a historical background of how teaching English was developed. The article explains how the trend shifted from the teacher as an omniscient know-it-all, to a classroom focused on the students.
anonymous

NCTE Secondary Section: Using Wordle in an English Classroom - 2 views

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Wordle Teaching web2.0

shared by anonymous on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 26 Mar 10
     
    Interesting ideas about how to use a new web 2.0 tool
Eric Wheeler

Social Bookmarking in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - 1 views

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social collaboration socialbookmarking web2.0 tutorial howto CommonCraft

shared by Eric Wheeler on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Eric Wheeler on 27 Apr 10
     
    While it uses Delicious as its model, it is a great explanation of Social Bookmarking.
  • anonymous on 27 Apr 10
     
    Thanks for posting this, Eric. It will really help people who need to get a basic understanding of the possibilities of Diigo.
anonymous

Book Review: Building the English Classroom: Foundations, Support, Success - National W... - 1 views

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Kathee CI161

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  • anonymous on 16 Feb 11
     
    My book review of Bruce Penniman's Building the English Classroom
Eric Wheeler

APPitic - 1,300+ EDUapps - 0 views

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iPad apps resources Apple ipod Teaching English Education

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  • Eric Wheeler on 15 Nov 11
     
    Apps for Education
Eric Wheeler

MythologyTeacher.com - 0 views

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mythology teaching English

shared by Eric Wheeler on 27 May 10 - Cached
  • Eric Wheeler on 27 May 10
     
    Resources for Teaching Mythology
Elvira Ledezma

State school board adopts Common Core standards - SFGate - 2 views

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shared by Elvira Ledezma on 09 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Yet despite initial concerns that the new national academic standards would dumb down California's curriculum, state education officials said Monday that with just a few tweaks and some additional content, the new standards will give kids a stronger, more organized approach to math and English.
Justin Norris

ED483411.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 4 views

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CAHSEE Ethnicity classroom Education English

shared by Justin Norris on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Justin Norris on 28 Oct 10
     
    I'm not sure if this link will work...but here is a great article that dives deep into the relationship between passing standardized tests such as the CAHSEE and school conditions and quality.
  • Justin Norris on 28 Oct 10
     
    Okay, I think the link works. Yay!
  • Mallorie Fagundes on 29 Oct 10
     
    That is really interesting. The methodology they used it kind of confusing; I didnt realize they used logarithms for this kind of data. Either way, I think I can use the data to investigate if their is a racial bias with the test.
Linda Garcia

ASCD Infobrief:Examining Charter Schools:Examining Charter Schools - 1 views

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shared by Linda Garcia on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • By definition, the common link among these 5,000-plus schools is their acceptance of increased accountability in exchange for increased autonomy, but the schools themselves may have little in common
  • More than three-quarters of charter schools nationwide are freestanding, started by educators, parents, activists, and others
  • Although Americans' approval of charter schools has increased 15 percent in the last five years and reached a two-thirds favorable rating, half of the respondents to a recent Phi Delta Kappan poll mistakenly believe that charters are not public schools and are allowed to teach religion.
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  • saying that charter schools are vital to promoting innovation in American schools (Obama, 2009)
  • With so much variation among charter schools, however, significant questions exist regarding how well they are educating students, how they manage their financial responsibilities, and whether creating more charter schools will be better for the nation's schoolchildren.
  • In 2009, Secretary Duncan made lifting charter caps a key component of qualifying for education funding under the $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTTT) program. Originally, to qualify for RTTT money, Duncan said states must eliminate any caps on charter schools. In November 2009, Duncan changed the requirement so that states with caps could still receive money if they had other kinds of innovative public schools and as long as the caps were generous enough (The Wall Street Journal, 2009).
  • Parents' demand for charter schools is outpacing their availability in many locations, with an estimated 365,000 students on waitlists—enough to fill more than 1,100 average-sized charter schools
  • In Montana, where there are no charter schools and where more than half of the state's school districts have enrollments of fewer than 100 students, Superintendent of Schools Denise Juneau objected to the RTTT focus on charter schools in a July 28 letter to Secretary Duncan. "Montana's rural context and economic status has made it challenging for many communities and the state to support the public schools we currently have," Juneau wrote in the letter, "much less encourage the duplication of infrastructure a charter school would mean in most communities" (McNeil, 2009).
  • "The charter movement is putting itself at risk by allowing too many second-rate and third-rate schools to exist," he said, in reference to a recent study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University that found that more than 80 percent of charter schools were performing the same as or worse than their local public schools (2009).
  • The comparison found that only 17 percent of charter schools were producing gains that were significantly better than their traditional public school counterparts, while 46 percent were similar to their local public schools and 37 percent performed significantly worse (Center for Research on Education Outcomes, 2009).
  • In contrast, another recent study by Stanford economics professor Caroline Hoxby found that students who entered lotteries and gained admission to New York City charter schools performed better on state assessments than students who entered the same lotteries and were not admitted to the charter schools.
  • The findings of both studies have been disputed. Critics of the Hoxby study point out that it relies on extrapolations of data, comparing statistical projections of student achievement as opposed to actual student achievement (Ravitch, 2009). Critics of the CREDO study raise doubts about its seemingly contradictory findings that charter schools provided gains for English language learners and poor students while having negative effects on Hispanic and black students (Anderson, 2009).
  • For middle and high school charters that did have baseline scores, that study found charter schools in five of the seven locations it examined were on average no better or worse than local traditional public schools (Zimmer et al., 2009).
  • Of the more than 5,250 charter schools that have ever opened, 657 have closed since 1992. Of those, 41 percent closed because of financial deficiencies caused by either low enrollment or inequitable funding; 27 percent for mismanagement; and only 14 percent for poor academic performance (Allen et al., 2009).
  • A 2005 analysis by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) found that 90 percent of authorizers were local school districts, and two-thirds lacked a dedicated office or staff to oversee the authorizing process (Vanourek, 2005). NAPCS, which has described quality authorizing as an intensive, data-driven process that requires dedicating substantial resources to the task, has called for stricter accountability for local school boards and other entities that authorize charter schools
  • anonymous on 28 Oct 10
     
    An examination of charter schools
Michelle Arce

Making Instructional Adaptations for English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom: Is I... - 3 views

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ELL in mainstream classrooms

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  • Michelle Arce on 28 Oct 10
     
    Article revolving around EL learners... Is enough being done to help these students?
Ryan Williams

Predictive Validity of an English Language Arts Performance Assessment. CRESST Report 729 - 0 views

This article describes how the CAHSEE tests students too late and that there should be more CAHSEE like tests applied to students before they reach the 10th grade.

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started by Ryan Williams on 15 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Jacob Eckrich

The "Canon" of English Literature - 2 views

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Literature Canon History

shared by Jacob Eckrich on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Canonization also distorts literature and introduces predictable biases in interpretation
  • Jacob Eckrich on 19 Nov 10
     
    This article deals with the issue of Literature canons, and how they are formed. Its kind of scary to see how the simple process of deciding what "literature" is in or out can distort one's perception of literature, as well as history.
anonymous

tools4english / FrontPage - 2 views

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shared by anonymous on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Mar 10
       
      Great resources, Eric! I want to share this with my pre-service teachers. Thanks so much for sharing it!
    • Eric Wheeler
      Eric Wheeler on 22 Mar 10
       
      I created the page to share, so please do.
  • Eric Wheeler on 21 Mar 10
     
    This is a Wiki page I use when I present to English teachers at Fresno State during one semester of their student teaching class.
Eric Wheeler

HTI American Verse Project - 0 views

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poetry english reference verse ebooks archive humanities

shared by Eric Wheeler on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Eric Wheeler on 27 Apr 10
     
    Project working to assemble electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920; includes biographical info on poets
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