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News: Wikipedia for Credit - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 10 Sep 10
     
    Professors assign their students to create Wikipedia content
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ASCD Infobrief:Examining Charter Schools:Examining Charter Schools - 1 views

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  • 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
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Yes. And She's Totally Stalking You. - Failbook - Funny Facebook Status Messages ( Fail... - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 09 Sep 10
     
    Interesting statistics about social networking.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan Rethinks His Goals - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...12education.html NCLB RacetotheTop Education
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  • anonymous on 11 Dec 10
     
    Hope that NCLB will change.
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Prezi - The zooming presentation editor - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 27 Apr 10
     
    Love this site--they say it will replace PowerPoint.
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EUSD iRead - 1 views

sites.google.com/...home ipod ipodtouch iread audio reading itunes itouch
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  • Eric Wheeler on 11 Jan 11
     
    From their page: iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful, curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes, Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data about fluency rates - this has been very promising.
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Some classroom management tips | Dkzody's Weblog - 1 views

dkzody.wordpress.com/...some-classroom-management-tips CI161 ClassroomManagement
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  • anonymous on 14 Jan 11
     
    Practical advice about classroom management from a teacher who taught at Fresno High for 20 years.
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Suzanne Collins, Sherman Alexie make list of challenged library books - The Washington ... - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 11 Apr 11
     
    This year's challenged books list includes Sherman Alexie and Suzanne Collins.
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Illuminated text: a student exemplar | Digital Is ... - 1 views

digitalis.nwp.org/675 digitalstorytelling IlluminatedText
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  • anonymous on 20 Jan 11
     
    Student created illuminated text.
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High School Curriculum May Teach Teens How to Handle Unwanted Babies | The Blaze - 1 views

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  • Justin Norris on 27 May 11
     
    New York State officials are considering including legal directions within high school curriculum that kids can take if they have an unwanted pregnancy.
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The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

www.fluency21.com/...blogpost.cfm teachers
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  • Benjamin Caulder on 24 May 11
     
    A great analogy and analysis of teachers' plight.
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California Governor Puts the Testing Juggernaut On Ice - Living in Dialogue - Education... - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ornia_governor_puts_the_t.html Testing CA Education
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  • anonymous on 18 May 11
     
    Interesting article about Gov. Brown's vision for education.
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Book Review: Building the English Classroom: Foundations, Support, Success - National W... - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 16 Feb 11
     
    My book review of Bruce Penniman's Building the English Classroom
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Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education - The Answer Sheet - Th... - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 29 Mar 11
     
    Great article about effective school systems worldwide
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NCTE Secondary Section: To Write or Not to Write: The Ethics of Posting Objectives - 1 views

nctesecondary.blogspot.com/...or-not-to-write-ethics-of.html Teaching Standards Objectives
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  • anonymous on 07 Feb 10
     
    Interesting exploration of what standards should do and why writing them on the board is antithetical to student learning.
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10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class | The Whiteboard Blog - 1 views

www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/...-digital-storytelling-in-class digitalstorytelling Classroom2.0
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  • anonymous on 08 Jul 11
     
    Tools to create digital stories (many of them are animated rather than live action)
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District Summary of Fresno Unified - 1 views

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  • Kyle Dodson on 18 Nov 10
     
    In case anyone is interested in more of a local glance at the public school system, this site offers statistics on every California District by gender, ethnic backgrounds, and by math and literacy numbers.
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YouTube - Charter Schools vs. Public Schools - 1 views

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  • Evonne Villagomez on 18 Nov 10
     
    This video describes how charter schools are different from traditional public schools.
  • Kyle Dodson on 18 Nov 10
     
    This is a good comparison. It bothers me in class how many times (older) people discuss how their son or daughter's charter/ private school scores higher on test scores than clovis or fresno unified, but they fail to understand the entire system is completely different.
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Teachers fight scripted curriculum - SFGate - 1 views

articles.sfgate.com/...chool-districts-middle-schools While many compromise by using an anthology these teachers fight for novels.
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  • Jennifer Flores on 19 Nov 10
     
    This article is about teachers who are fighting for literature in the classroom.
  • Ryan Williams on 19 Nov 10
     
    wow this article really makes me reconsider becoming a teacher. In fact this was a nightmare of mine, teaching no complete books and novels. How can students question texts critically if they cannot even finish the book. I find this new age teaching style insanely counterproductive because like the article stated some text provide a spark for the students to begin to question critically. If we continue to only use sections of full texts then the students are missing out on more possible discussion. The future seems darker for not only the students but for the teachers that once had to read a whole book and think.
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Social Bookmarking in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - 1 views

www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english social collaboration socialbookmarking web2.0 tutorial howto CommonCraft
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  • 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.
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