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A play-centered curriculum being tested out in some DC schools

Interesting article on technology and education!!

While we're writing the analysis for our assessments and some of us are preparing our students for SOLs, let's reflect on how ridiculous standardized tests can be.

Jim Fay and David Funk's positive behavior management program. Adults provide students with limits in a caring way. Treat students with dignity, they will learn to be responsible and gain self-confidence.

What our students struggle with - besides school.

This is the website from science class. Happy planning!

QR Codes in Elementary Classrooms

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. A week after Congress backtracked on some key components of landmark school nutrition legislation, nutrition advocates are saying that the battle for healthy school food needs to be fought district by district, along the lines of what several California districts are already doing.

Interesting YouTube video!

In Perryville, Arkansas, Heifer International recreates communities from developing countries so kids can experience firsthand how to survive in difficult living conditions.

Editor's Note: Diane Ravitch is taking a break from the blog this week, and Deborah Meier is blogging in her place today. Bridging Differences will begin its Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow and return next week. I'm back from Chicago-my sort-of second home. I spent my "off hours" arguing, as usual, with my friend Mike Klonsky.

"In late July I decided to join Twitter. To be perfectly honest with you I had no idea what I was supposed to do when I got on there but I heard so much about it I thought it would be a worthwhile experience."

Literacy best practices blog

This website has some pretty cool infographics....it's also biased against the SOPA bill (a bill in Congress which could have an impact on internet use in the US), so I figured that even if it was a biased website it touched on two things we've discussed in class

Great Resources!

Not only about education, but I thought this was so ridiculous that it had to be shared

This game reinforces compoung machines knowledge by having students think what machines will best work to solve problems.

In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England.

A Webquest found through using Google about World Hunger.