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Draft guidelines for school improvement grants released
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the draft grant guidelines for $3.5 billion in stimulus funding that will be used to turn around the country's worst-performing low-income schools over the next three years.
Draft guidelines for school improvement grants released
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the draft grant guidelines for $3.5 billion in stimulus funding that will be used to turn around the country's worst-performing low-income schools over the next three years.
State bureau finds problem in study of voucher schools
Student mobility in Milwaukee could hamper the state's latest attempt to evaluate voucher schools, warns a report from the Legislative Audit Bureau released Wednesday.
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A New Science of Education 1 Reply
"Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is helping to bring unfolding knowledge about the brain into classrooms and educational systems, and in the process she's challenging fundamental modern notions about ...
Tagged: educational-power-of-play-m...
Started by Anna Billings in Learners, learning, and learning styles. Last reply by Connie Weber 22 hours ago.
Universal Design for Learning; texts in entirely new forms. CAST
Universal Design for Learning; texts in entirely new forms. CAST You've got to see this. Check out the CAST website. This is what I'm looking at in a lecture now at Learning and the Brain (confere...
Tagged: digital+texts, texts, UDL
Started by Connie Weber in Learners, learning, and learning styles 23 hours ago.
Sean Nash's blogpost: "Tinkering: A 'Boys Only' Club?" 14 Replies
Sean Nash's blogpost: "Tinkering: A 'Boys Only' Club?" No one says it like Sean. Wow--what a great personal reflection on the edweek article, "Teaching Girls to Tinker." What did Sean find out fro...
Tagged: tinkering, gender+differences, Nash
Started by Connie Weber in Learners, learning, and learning styles. Last reply by Ellen Pham 1 day ago.
Does Obama Believe in School Integration? by Richard Kahlenberg
Hi All... hope this finds everyone well. Those of you who have read some of my other posts on the subject of school integration may be seeing a theme in my thinking on public school transfromation ...
Tagged: obama, integration, SES
Started by Mike in UNCATEGORIZED 1 day ago.
Any members interested in Israel-based event to discuss online games place in education?
I am trying to plan such an event with game developers, teachers and educators and students. Aimed at exploring the different perspectives on this topic. Even if you can't participate (thought it's...
Tagged: education, event, networking, social, online
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati in Educational technology Nov 20.
Effective Online Teaching - 2
This class will focus on ways the bricks and mortar teacher can get started with online tools such as a wiki, blog or You Tube. Effective Online Teaching - 2 by Don W. Brown Get your own Virtual...
Tagged: teaching, teacher, successful, online
Started by Sukhpreet Kaur in UNCATEGORIZED Nov 18.
"Teachers at Work: Improving Teacher Quality Through School Design" --by Elena Silva 8 Replies
"Teachers at Work: Improving Teacher Quality Through School Design" --by Elena Silva In Education Sector, Silva talks about how we need to "...fundamentally overhaul the way the work of teachers i...
Tagged: school+design, teacher+quality, education+sector, silva
Started by Connie Weber in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 17.
Secretary Duncan and a couple of strange bedfellows
Hi all, I caught an Meet the Press segment on Sunday in which Arne Duncan Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton+ were interviewed about education reform and the "Race to the top" The interview is here ; ...
Started by scott smith in School organization and education reform Nov 17.
"Best Practices" --by Nicholas Meier
"Best Practices" --by Nicholas Meier Here's a great essay on how one size truly does not fit all. From Nicholas Meier's blog entry: "Let’s consider an analogy. Let us say I want to find the "bes...
Tagged: Best+practices
Started by Connie Weber in Learners, learning, and learning styles Nov 14.
Learning Science - facts and process 5 Replies
"It isn't difficult to teach those under the right 40% or so of the Gaussian how science works. What's more, it it far more important to teach how it works than it is to try and stuff a bunch of da...
Tagged: methods, facts, science_education
Started by Ian Carmichael in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Ed Hitchcock Nov 13.
"The one reason Duncan's 'Race to the Top' will fail" --Marion Brady, in Washington Post 10 Replies
"The one reason Duncan's 'Race to the Top' will fail" --Washington Post "When 'Race to the Top' fails, as it will, the main reason won’t be any of those currently being advanced by the corporate i...
Tagged: reform, stimulus, brady, Duncan, Race+to+the+top
Started by Connie Weber in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 13.
Concept-Based History Classroom 11 Replies
People often ask me, "What do you want to 'do' with your life." I don't always know how to answer that question. I know that I want to teach, but beyond that what do I really want to do? There is ...
Tagged: standards, history, curriculum, concept-based
Started by Daniel Kam in Class activities and teaching practices. Last reply by Mike Nov 11.
David Attenborough speaks 3 Replies
"As part of the University’s centenary celebrations, and in association with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s Annual Meeting, David Attenborough came to Bristol to deliver an illustrated ta...
Tagged: Wallace, Darwin, evolution, Attenborough
Started by Connie Weber in UNCATEGORIZED. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Nov 11.
"Googling Fights Dementia, Study Suggests" --Ker Than, in National Geographic News 1 Reply
"Googling Fights Dimentia, Study Suggests" --Ker Than, in National Geographic News "Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss, a new brain-scan study suggests. Scientists...
Tagged: elders, senior+citizens, google, dementia
Started by Connie Weber in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Or-Tal Kiriati Nov 8.
MOOC Research
Massive Online Open Courses now have their own acronym (MOOC) and are drawing some research. Here's a 'paper' investigating the technological components of such courses based one on case study - an...
Tagged: technological_tools, social_networking, online_learning
Started by Ian Carmichael in Journal articles and education in the news Nov 7.
Time to Learn new Tech Class 3 Replies
What do you think? What can you tell?
Tagged: classroom, program, technology
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati in Educational technology. Last reply by Laura Gibbs Nov 6.
Teaching in Silence — the Planet Walker 2 Replies
Here's a fascinating story about the difference one person can make in the world. In what began as a protest to a large oil spill in the San Francisco Bay (1971), John Francis, the Planet Walker, s...
Tagged: Making-a-difference-without..., John-Francis, The-Planet-Walker
Started by Anna Billings in Worldchanging and the good people who do it. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 5.
Selective Mute Student. 4 Replies
Last year for one of my college courses I took a class in teaching reading to elementary school children. For this class we needed to do atleast 15 hours of tutoring in reading that semester. I was...
Started by Sarah Summey in UNCATEGORIZED. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 5.
Can mobile phones become classroom tools? 1 Reply
A recent experiment conducted by the Haifa University claims it's possible. I invite you to share your opinion: http://www.math4mobile.com/ Read more here.
Tagged: learning, techniques, tools, teaching, phones
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati in Educational technology. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Nov 5.
Soul-Soaring Performance — by a Teacher 2 Replies
Always a thrill to witness full-out, high-spirited expression from a performer. This is a first audition on a UK talent show (the X Factor). His profession? Teacher! Wonderful that he gets a big ch...
Tagged: teacher-performs-in-UK-tale..., inspiring-performance, Danyl-Johnson
Started by Anna Billings in Worldchanging and the good people who do it. Last reply by Or-Tal Kiriati Nov 1.
Blog Posts
Marion Brady's article in Washinton Post on Nov 17th
MEMO TO THE MEMBERS OF MY PROFESSION
"We have met the enemy, and he is us," said Pogo.
We educators should make the wise little opossum from Walt Kelly's comic strip our mascot.
The single, worst, shoot-yourself-in-the-foot act that contributed to our loss of control of education reform happened about 20 years ago. That's when leaders of business and industry, convinced that educators either did… Continue
Posted by cindy fadel on November 22, 2009 at 10:04am
Mind, Brain, and Education, Kurt Fischer
Can the Differences Between Education and Neuroscience be Overcome by Mind, Brain, and Education?
A stunningly meaty article on the rise of a new field. Neuromyths; the history of education's relation to use of science to inform practice; philosophy, epistemology, a transdisciplinary collaborational framework..… Continue
Posted by Connie Weber on November 21, 2009 at 4:37pm — 1 Comment
Here at the Learning and the Brain Conference...
"An External Hard Drive for the Brain
As a neuroscientist who spends time thinking about how people’s brains process information, this technology—and the information overflow it brings—are without a doubt changing the way human beings make decisions. Neuroscientists have increasingly come to understand memory as a fun… Continue
Posted by Connie Weber on November 21, 2009 at 3:35pm
may be the best speaker on education I've ever heard (and heaven knows I've heard a lot): Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Posted by Connie Weber on November 20, 2009 at 8:00pm
My Beautiful Life
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Posted by Ellen Pham on November 17, 2009 at 4:11am — 1 Comment
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