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Does Handwriting Matter in a Digital World?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 40, Clicks: 11)
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All of the research presented at the conference indicates that teaching handwriting is beneficial. That's not surprising, as the conference is being sponsored by a handwriting curriculum company, but the presenters come from a broad range of fields and present a convincing case.

2 comments | Tags: handwriting penmanship digital age digital classroom national handwriting day | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Summit to Make a Case for Teaching Handwriting

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 40, Clicks: 9)
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Handwriting still has a place in the digital age, its proponents say, and they hoped that what they billed as a "summit" on the subject this week would spotlight their case for the enduring value of handwriting in the learning process.

3 comments | Tags: handwriting penmanship digital age digital classroom national handwriting day | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Criticizing (common criticisms of) praise

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 22, Clicks: 4)
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Alfie Kohn -- Over the last few years I’ve had the odd experience of seeing my work cited with approval by people whose views on the issue in question are diametrically opposed to my own. The issue I have in mind is praise. I’m troubled by it, as are the people who quote me, but for very different reasons. So I thought I’d try to set the record straight even if the result is that I antagonize some folks who seem to regard me as an ally.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss alfie kohn praise verbal rewards positive reinforcement | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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Toddlers subjected to palm-reading assessments in China

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.reuters.com (Views: 34, Clicks: 6)
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Several kindergartens in a province in northern China are charging parents 1,200 yuan ($190) for a palm-reading test that they claim can predict their toddlers' intelligence and potential, state news agency Xinhua said.

0 comments | Tags: china palm-reading assessments kindergarten fortune-telling toddlers' intelligence | Topic: Early Childhood BAD >_<

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CCSSM Vocabulary Cards

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.graniteschools.org (Views: 178, Clicks: 97)
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An extensive list of Common Core State Standards math vocabulary for grades kindergarten through seventh grade.

1 comments | Tags: dual immersion math vocabulary academic vocabulary math common core state standards granite | Topic: Math Fun BAD >_<

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Common-Core Work Must Include Teacher Development

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 40, Clicks: 4)
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Stephanie Hirsh -- While we are promoting radical change in creating a coherent national framework for what students should know and the way they learn, we have not yet committed to offering teachers the deep learning they will need to transform the way they work.

2 comments | Tags: professional development common core state standards stephanie hirsh learning forward | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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Common Standards, Not Tests, for Charter Schools Network

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 29, Clicks: 4)
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Erik Robelen -- The situation Achievement First—a nationally-recognized charter schools network—finds itself in today exemplifies one conundrum of the push towards common standards and tests. And that is, the assessments will be a little less common.

1 comments | Tags: charter schools common core state standards assessments achievement first erik robelen | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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STEM Coalition Blasts Plan to End Science Testing Mandate

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 26, Clicks: 6)
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A Republican proposal to end the federal mandate for science testing in public schools is coming under fire from a broad-based coalition that supports improved STEM education.

1 comments | Tags: stem coalition science john kline no child left behind act | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Europe Seen Leading the Way in Hand-Held Computing

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 26, Clicks: 4)
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While hand-held mobile learning is viewed in the United States as a recent trend, its roots go further back in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.

0 comments | Tags: calculators hand-held computing university of wolverhampton smartphones tablet computers | Topic: In the Class BAD >_<

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D.C. charter school under scrutiny for lack of special-ed students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 29, Clicks: 5)
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Bill Turque -- Federal law requires that all public schools provide “a free and appropriate” education to students with disabilities. Charter schools, which are open to all families citywide on a first-come-first-served basis, are prohibited from inquiring about a prospective student’s special-education status.

1 comments | Tags: washington d.c. charter schools bill turque students with disabilities school choice | Topic: Special Education BAD >_<

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How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 24, Clicks: 5)
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James Arnold -- Race to the Top is marketed as a “solution” for states and districts in search of reform. The catch — as with all federal money — is the cash comes with strings that will continue the emphasis on high-stakes testing and the top-down management theories that were the basis of No Child Left Behind. The U.S. Education Department wants teacher evaluations tied to student test scores regardless of how it is done, and they want it done quickly.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss james arnold pelham georgia race to the top u.s. education department | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

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Mass hysteria rare, but usually seen in girls

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 28, Clicks: 4)
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Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.

0 comments | Tags: mass hysteria conversion disorder national institutes of health morgellons social media | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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Australia: Rift on year 12 figures

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 30, Clicks: 5)
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Only 64 per cent of Victorian students are completing a year 12 certificate or equivalent according to federal figures - far fewer than claimed by the state Education Department.

1 comments | Tags: victoria australia high school dropouts victorian certificate of applied learning victorian education department | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Australia: Foster carers left out of loop on schooling

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 35, Clicks: 4)
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Education is expected to be a key priority for reform when the state's inquiry into child welfare in tabled in Parliament next week. But meanwhile, foster carers are struggling with bureaucratic delays at the start of the school year.

0 comments | Tags: australia foster carers foster care association of victoria public schooling | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Australia: Maths, physics fail to get the numbers at school

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 33, Clicks: 5)
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Data prepared for The Sunday Age by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, which oversees the VCE, show a significant decline in enrolments for the more difficult maths subjects - maths methods and specialist maths - over the past decade.

2 comments | Tags: victoria australia victorian curriculum & assessment authority math physics melbourne university | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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