Shanghai test scores have everyone asking: How did students do it? - CSMonitor.com - 1 views
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The US teaches procedurally in math, they noted – repetition of the same procedures until a student can remember reflexively how to solve a particular type of math problem. In China, students are encouraged to understand the connections between each step of the problem so that they can think their way through them, even if the order is forgotten.
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Once one student in the classroom explains a problem correctly, the next student has to explain it, too. That is often repeated until most or all of the students can confidently work their way through a problem, Miller says. It’s a bit different from the US practice of calling on one or two raised hands, then moving on.
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Florida's Class Size Amendment: Did it help students learn? : Education Next - 0 views
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He found no detectable benefit from mandated class size reduction–either for students in general or for any student subgroup, racial, ethnic, or level of disadvantage. In Chingos’s words, “the study strongly suggests that monies restricted for the purpose of funding class-size reduction mandates are not a productive use of limited educational resources.”
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees - HBS Working Knowledge - 0 views
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This particular attendance award may have been especially flawed because rather than rewarding workers for exceptional performance, it rewarded them for fulfilling a basic job expectation.
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hat awards are more effective when they recognize good behavior in the past, rather than behavior going forward
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ou can't put a price on that. The recognition of hearing you did a good job and that others are hearing about it is worth more than money
Educational Insights From Shanghai - Top Performers - Education Week - 0 views
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he schools were joyous places. This, he said, seemed to be the foundation for everything else he observed
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ecause the lessons were beautifully crafted, clearly designed to be as engaging as possible.
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were lined with other teachers who were collaborating in the design of these lessons.
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 0 views
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Instead, the public school system's teachers are trained to assess children in classrooms using independent tests they create themselves. All children receive a report card at the end of each semester, but these reports are based on individualized grading by each teacher.
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There's no word for accountability in Finnish,"
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"Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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Education Week: What Is 'Excellence for All'? - 0 views
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ids are different, for a variety of reasons, and ignoring those differences means failing to meet their real needs.
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As one new study shows, responsibly recognizing those differences can drive achievement for all kids involved. Looking particularly at Massachusetts middle schools, most of which have abandoned the practice of tracking, the Brookings Institution’s Tom Loveless found something surprising. Schools that tracked students had significantly more math pupils performing at the “advanced” and “proficient” levels, and fewer students at the “needs improvement” and “failing” levels. And the opposite was true of schools that had “un-tracked.” In short, students did better when they were in classes tailored to their needs.
Education Week: Lectures Are Homework in Schools Following Khan Academy Lead - 0 views
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It’s not just about the kids watching the same lecture the night before. For us, the big piece is having teachers use data to make instructional decisions about their students,
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Students worked through those initial units quickly, but she could see when they hit their “pain points”—sometimes on material covered several grades earlier. The Los Altos Pilot Administrators, teachers, and students in Los Altos School District share their experiences with Khan Academy. Source: The Khan Academy Administrators Teachers Students “In order for me to get that kind of understanding of a student, I would have had to sit down one-on-one and work through problems and see a pattern, which I’m happy to do, but it takes a lot of time,” Ms. Caldwell said. “This confirmed my suspicions and allowed me to remediate much more quickly.”
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“I was able to identify those learning gaps in real time, whether it was from 3rd or 4th or 5th grade, and I was able to remediate and saw those learning gaps begin to disappear
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Education Week: Building the Digital District - 0 views
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I think a lot of his decisions are based on leadership,” Smith says of Edwards and his management. “You’ve got to have the right people on the bus, but not only that, they’ve got to be on the right seats on the bus.
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instead, it tells teachers to seek their own content and align it to the subject curriculum
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Teachers are expected to share lessons with colleagues electronically via ANGEL, the district’s content-management software, created by Washington-based Blackboard Inc., and all four schools in the district’s 1-to-1 program each employs a technology facilitator to aid that process. The district’s three elementary schools only began distributing laptops to its third graders this year.
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Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework - Dana Goldstein - The Atlantic - 0 views
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He found that most had few or no memories of their parents pushing or prodding them or getting involved at school in formal ways. Instead, students described mothers and fathers who set high expectations and then stepped back. “These kids made it!,” Robinson told me. “You’d expect they’d have the type of parental involvement we’re promoting at the national level. But they hardly had any of that. It really blew me away.”
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n middle-class households, kids learned to ask critical questions and to advocate for themselves—behaviors that served them well in the classroom.
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by as much as eight points on a reading or math test—is by getting them placed in the classroom of a teacher with a good reputation. This is one example for which race did seem to matter: white parents are at least twice as likely as black and Latino parents to request a specific teacher.
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