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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Demand, Pay for STEM Skills Skyrocket - STEM Education (usnews.com) - 0 views
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"In the end, you can track this back to high school math. We're very good at the high end, but math is the place most students fail … that's the biggest challenge of them all. How do we get young people to learn math?"
Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 0 views
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The Work Ethic
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these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
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the great divergence
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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.
Study: Teacher hiring should be more scientific | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weat... - 0 views
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The ability to work well with others - flexibility and interpersonal skills - seemed to be a bigger factor in teacher retention than where the teacher went to college. Other things like experience and instructional skills also were big factors.
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Our research suggests that teacher workforce improvements can be derived from more careful hiring decisions,
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such as whether a teacher would be good at teaching students to be good citizens, Goldhaber said.
Change DNA Overview - 0 views
20 tips for putting Google's 20 percent time in your classroom | eSchool News | eSchool... - 0 views
What if Students Made a School? | Blend My Learning - 0 views
Can Schools Cultivate a Student's Ability to Think Differently? | MindShift - 0 views
What Does It Mean To Be A Change Leader in Education? - 0 views
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The first world that change leaders must understand deeply is the world for which they are preparing their students.
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They realize that the world no longer cares how much students know, but rather what they can do with what they know.
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he second world effective change leaders understand is the world of students
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Project-Based Learning in Math: 6 Examples - 0 views
The PBL Coordinator and Hands-On Academic Support | Edutopia - 1 views
Competency-based education arrives at three major public institutions @insidehighered - 2 views
Why I Gave Up Flipped Instruction - 1 views
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