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Building a Better Teacher

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 12, Clicks: 0)  View Story

Elizabeth Green -- "There are more than three million teachers in the United States, and Doug Lemov is trying to prove that he can teach them to be better."

0 comments | Tags: elizabeth green teaching doug lemov value added no child left behind law | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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Draft K-12 Common Core State Standards Available for Comment

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.nga.org (Views: 18, Clicks: 1)  View Story

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today released the first official public draft of the K-12 standards as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a process being led by governors and chief state school officers in 51 states, territories, and the District of Columbia.

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"Gotta Keep Reading" music video gets Ocoee Middle School students on Oprah show

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.orlandosentinel.com (Views: 19, Clicks: 2)  View Story

Oprah Winfrey had a segment of her show filmed on the campus this morning, where she announced that she and Target would pay for a "wall-to-wall" makeover of the school library, including new furniture, new computers and 2,000 books.

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At universities, is better learning a click away?

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.google.com (Views: 19, Clicks: 2)  View Story

Clickers — not unlike gadgets used on television game shows — first appeared in college classrooms over a decade ago and have since spread to just about every college and university in the country thanks to cheaper and better technology.

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Pi Day 2010

Newman sumitted ago via http://web.mac.com (Views: 55, Clicks: 51)  View Story

Activities for Pi Day.

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Re: Draft K-12 Common Core State Standards Available for Comment

The NGA Center and CCSSO encourage those interested in the standards to provide further feedback by Friday, April 2, 2010, at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Re: At universities, is better learning a click away?

Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur, a pioneer of peer instruction, said he's sympathetic to both camps. Still, he predicts that clickers will be obsolete in 10 years because nearly everyone will own something like a laptop, tablet or smart phone, and he dismisses the argument that multitasking will be a problem.

The teacher just has to be more interesting than YouTube.-- Eric Mazur

Re: Race to Top Enters Home Stretch With 16 Finalists

The dash for cash—and bragging rights—prompted states to embark on aggressive lobbying campaigns to change laws to be more competitive under the 500-point scoring used to weigh the applications. Some lifted caps on charter schools, tore down data “firewalls” standing in the way of new systems of teacher evaluation, and devised strategies to intervene in more low-performing schools.

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