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CAHSEE Summary Reports 2004-2009 (CA Dept of Education) - 0 views

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CAHSEE Reports Education Ethnicity

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Through this CA Dept of Education website, one can view the statistics of the CAHSEE (separated by ethnicity) and the percentage changes from 2004 to 2010.

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Education World ® - Administrators: Is Ability Grouping the Way to Go---Or Sh... - 0 views

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Ability grouping students can be Illegal and has not shown to improve students test scores.

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

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Canon EnglishEd

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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.
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- anonymous on 21 Oct 10
  
  Amazing that these texts are taught in very few courses.
  
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- anonymous on 21 Oct 10
  
  Yeah, that is amazing.
  
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anonymous on 21 Oct 10

This article discusses texts taught in English classrooms.

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The Education Wonks: The CAHSEE fight continues - Thoughts And Ideas Freely Exchanged - 0 views

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CAHSEE Standardized Test High School Diploma Education

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It's a little old, but it provides a brief explanation of some issues that arose when the CAHSEE became a requirement to graduate high school.

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An online service to record voice.

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How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To) - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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How to use twitter--online professional learning communities.

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Weblogg-ed » "Disposable Reform" - 0 views

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  This is fascinating. I agree that "real" learning is self-motivated and directed--and yet we've trained students to think that the only thing that is valuable is what the teacher says. I do a lot of group work in my classes, and one of my colleagues asked me recently if I got bored since I wasn't on stage, so to speak, all the time. I do sometimes, but I don't think my class is about me, it's about helping my students learn. And I believe they learn more if they are actively engaged . . . which is more likely to happen in a smaller group than in a whole class discussion.
  
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“What % of teacher ed programs prepare teachers NOT to be the focal point of the classroom?” and the responses were telling. Most said 5-10%, and my sense is that’s pretty accurate.
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But I also found it striking that she connected our difficulty in sustaining change with what she termed our “disposable culture” here in the US. We try one reform and dispose of it, then we try another and dispose of that one, and then we try yet another. And I can’t help ask, whose fault is that?
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- anonymous on 27 Aug 10
  
  Again, I totally agree. After teaching here in Fresno for 11 years, I've seen so many initiatives to create collaboration between high school and the university. I worked with a great project when I first arrived here, a literacy center at Fresno High. CSUF students, many of whom wanted to be teachers, would tutor high schools, sometimes in the classroom, sometimes in the Literacy Center's room. Everyone involved in the project loved it . . . but after three years, the funding ran out. Now there's discussion yet again about another round of university intervention in high schools . . . I wish we could just develop a great program that would receive long-term funding, instead of just a "flavor-of-the-day" approach to education.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Again, I totally agree. After teaching here in Fresno for 11 years, I've seen so many initiatives to create collaboration between high school and the university. I worked with a great project when I first arrived here, a literacy center at Fresno High. CSUF students, many of whom wanted to be teachers, would tutor high schools, sometimes in the classroom, sometimes in the Literacy Center's room. Everyone involved in the project loved it . . . but after three years, the funding ran out. Now there's discussion yet again about another round of university intervention in high schools . . . I wish we could just develop a great program that would receive long-term funding, instead of just a "flavor-of-the-day" approach to education. </div>
  
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anonymous on 27 Aug 10

Interesting blog about how we repeatedly introduce "new" programs and ideas in schools, only to abandon them for the next wave of "new" ideas.

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A Framework for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Twitter Web2.0

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Using twitter in the classroom

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Literacies for All Summer Institute - 0 views

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Literacy

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Conference on Literacy to be held this summer in Las Vegas.

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Using VoiceThread to Give Students a Voice Outside the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chr... - 0 views

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Voicethread

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Innovative ways to give students an online voice

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Integrating Technology with Limited Resources | Edutopia - 0 views

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Technology Teaching

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How to integrate technology into your classroom when you have few resources

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Langwitches Blog » Wrapping my Mind Around Digital Portfolios - 0 views

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DigitalPortfolios

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Resources to create digital portfolios

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Formula to Grade Teachers' Skill Gains in Use, and Critics - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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ValueAdded Assessment

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Article addressing a form of assessing teacher effectiveness that is becoming more widespread, but that is problematic.

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One Week, One Tool: Anthologize - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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wordpress DigitalHumanities

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Article about using a new Word Press application: Anthologize.

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How to Rip DVD Clips - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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DVD Web2.0

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How to excerpt scenes from DVDs

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The Answer Sheet - Willingham: Reading Is Not a Skill--And Why This Is a Problem for th... - 1 views

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Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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California Discourages Standardized Testing - 1 views

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Linguists find a new language - 1 views

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Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use techn... - 0 views

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