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The United States has experienced many changes in the last 11 years. Most schools and school districts in America have seen drastic changes in their funding, their students, and in the requirements placed upon them by NCLB.
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Students celebrate a novel they have read and get hands-on experience with technical writing by creating a board game based on the novel and writing the instructions for it. Delete the scoop?
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Twenty-three colleges tackle a challenge from Florida Gov. Rick Scott to deliver degrees for less than $10,000. Delete the scoop?
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Even if universities may look well on the surface there is an increasing (and justified) concern that all will change soon. New data and analysis increase the anxiety that the current monopoly of h... Via Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 
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Interesting perspective: Michael Sandel, professor of Government at Harvard University and one of the best known intellectuals around the world recently noted: “The most fateful change that unfolded in the last three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.” Universities are set to learn that this is not only true, but see the serious consequences of ignoring implications of this on their sustainability. Delete the scoop?
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How the mind works, the dark side of creativity and how to be a great leader: these and more… Delete the scoop?
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There are endless articles, blogs, essays on the difference between good and bad teachers. All the frameworks for …Continue reading »
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This is an excellent article that should help us to see that our system often chooses good teachers over great teachers...and compliance over effectiveness. Delete the scoop?
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Written by an ex college student, who explains very eloquently how educators must change. If the message in this video resonates with you feel free to send it to any teachers, principals, professors, university presidents, boards of regents, board... Via Donna Browne, Community Village
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Fellow educators, this is worth your viewing. I promise. :-) 
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December 27, 2012 6:50 AM
It is good to hear how students feel and for sure teachers need to adapt their approach... 
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December 28, 2012 12:03 PM
Written by an ex college student, who explains very eloquently how educators must change. If the message in this video resonates with you feel free to send it to any teachers, principals, professors, university presidents, boards of regents, board... Delete the scoop?
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80 Online Tools, References & Resources for Educators http://ow.ly/5c7PS #k12 #edchat #education (via @edutopia)... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Dennis T OConnor Delete the scoop?
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Tom Vander Ark is an education advocate, advisor, and author of Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom is Founder and Executive Editor of Getting Smart and a partner in Learn Capital. Via DT Hernandez |
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Some states have slashed per-student spending by as much as half. Delete the scoop?
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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Delete the scoop?
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Educational leaders have to have the courage to reinvent our schools for real this time. And our teachers must be teachers of children as well as teachers of their subject area. Delete the scoop?
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We have such opportunities as no generation has ever experienced. Will we make the best of it? Delete the scoop?
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Dr. Richard NeSmith's insight:
Critical thinking is a skill that we can teach to our students through exercise and practice. It is particularly a skill that contains a plethora of other skills inside it. Critical thinking in its basic definition refers" to a diverse range of intellectual skills and activities concerned with evaluating information as well as evaluating our thought in a disciplined way ". 
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Brief but pithy examples we can all relate to. Delete the scoop?
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Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. Delete the scoop?
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If the 20th century model was to measure the accuracy and ownership of information, the 21st century’s model is form and interdependence. The close thinking needed to grasp this is not beyond the reach of a typical middle school student, but it may be beyond their thinking habits. Via Nik Peachey, Tibshirani, Cecilie, Faiz A.H Delete the scoop?
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Lucy Georges's comment,
November 27, 2012 10:04 PM
Great content, but really could benefit from a better graphic design.
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November 27, 2012 10:04 PM
Great content, but really could benefit from a better graphic design.
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