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It's 3 AM and the White House Wants to Change Your Math Curriculum
03.18.2008
Gary StagerPresident Bush's National Math Advisory Panel has released its final report and several Pulse Contributing Editors discuss the merits of the effort while none if surprised by the panel's focus on "core math skills."
Read these provocative articles and share them with colleagues! Post your comments as well.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am
03.18.2008
Roger SchankThere is no evidence whosoever that says that a nation that is trailing in math test scores will somehow trail in GDP or whatever it is you really care about. This is just plain silly, but we keep repeating the mantra that we are behind Korea in math as if it has been proven that this matters in some way...
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Presidential Math Panel Vows to Increase Learning Disabilities
03.18.2008
Gary StagerIn a world-class display of side-splitting math teacher humor, National Math Advisory Panel member Francis “Skip” Fennell told the New York Times, “Just as “plastics” was the catchword in the 1967 movie The Graduate, the catchword for math teachers today should be ‘fractions.’“
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Mathematics and Policy
03.17.2008
David ThornburgRecent pronouncements from Washington regarding math education have suggested that pedagogical points of view don't matter in the teaching of mathematics. For example: "There is no basis in research for favoring teacher-based or student-centered instruction," Dr. Larry R. Faulkner, the chairman of the panel, said at a briefing last Wednesday. "
Too bad he, Secretary Spellings and by extension, their boss - The President of the United States, are demonstrably wrong.
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500,000 Schools
04.29.2008
Dan KinnamanSmaller schools score higher across the board.
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Those Who Would Be President Pontificate on Education
01.17.2008
Susan OhanianEducation does not get much play in the debates. People who care about
the issues should pay close attention to what the candidates are saying,
even though they lie. I guess we the electorate choose which lies we
want to believe.
*Republicans
1) Rudy Giuliani: whose education advisory board should give you ....
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The NEA’s Approach to Encourage More Reading: Like Dealing with Hunger by Hosting Wine-Tasting Parties
01.03.2008
Stephen KrashenThe National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has come up with a bad solution to a problem that doesn’t exist!
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Do Kids Read Less for Fun? Blame Standardized Tests
11.28.2007
Alfie Kohn Several years ago, a teacher who regularly invited her
students to "drop everything and read" their favorite books was asked by a
colleague whether she was still setting aside class time for that purpose. ....
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Bush is Winning This War!!!!
11.15.2007
Gerald ColesO.K., Mission Accomplished hasn't been accomplished in Iraq and the
Taliban in Afghanistan remain strong, but let's give credit where
it's due. The president has been fighting several wars at once and
while his hands are full with his wars abroad, here at home his wars
are going splendidly.
As ....
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Technology in Education
Teacher Training: Oh, Oh!
11.01.2007
Ron CanuelBanking on the next generation of teachers may still be a long shot, given the current training systems in place.
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The Inside Scoop on Teach for America
11.01.2007
Barnett BerryTeach for America (TFA) really may be more like Enron than Google... TFA is spending about $125,000 per teacher!
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What if Every Child had a Laptop and Nothing Changed?
10.11.2007
Bruce DixonWe need to continuously be challenging ourselves, and asking whether we are doing enough...
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Teaching...And All That Jazz
08.25.2007
Etta Kralovec
I love to listen to jazz; watching jazz musicians play together is one of life?s greatest pleasures for me. I am not an aficionado or a jazz buff, I can?t play jazz, I am just a fan. Beyond the music of jazz, I am drawn into jazz, in part, because ....
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A "Reading First" New Edition?
06.01.2007
Linda PolinHow long will it take for "Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!" to be in your school library? Will "Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper!" be tested by Accelerated Reader?
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TwitterLiteracy and Buy a Friend a Book Week
05.09.2007
Yvonne Andres
TwitterLiteracy
and Buy a Friend a Book Week
Hey educators
? are
you looking for more innovative ways to increase student literacy? Two of my
newest discoveries are TwitterLit and BAFAB.
TwitterLit.com - Twittering
the first
lines of books so you don't have to!
If you are a writer
or a
book lover ? ....
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The Steep "Unlearning Curve"
02.07.2007
Will RichardsonOne of the most challenging pieces of figuring out how to move education
forward in a systemic way is "unlearning curve" that we teachers and
educators have to go through to even see the possibilities that lay before
us. So much of our traditional thinking about personal learning and
classroom practice is being challenged ....
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The Formative Assessment Flap
09.28.2006
W. James PophamIn 1998, Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, published results of an extensive, meta-analytic review of research regarding the instructional payoffs of well-conceived classroom assessments. These two British researches concluded that classroom assessment, if properly implemented, could not only improve how well students were learning what was being taught in class, but could also meaningfully boost students’ scores on external achievement exams.
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Students Rating YOUR Teachers Online
08.30.2006
Odvard Egil DyrliThroughout my years of supervising, when I suggested that teachers ask students to evaluate the quality of their teaching anonymously, it seemed that many would rather throw up through their noses. "The students won't know the value of what I am teaching until later in their lives," said one, and "It doesn't matter what ....
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