By Graeme Paton, The Telegraph
Schoolchildren should spend at least an hour a day doing “vigorous” physical exercise to boost their exam results and cut obesity rates, a leading academic said yesterday.
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
Have you been hearing about “grit” and “character education”? Watch the TED talk by Angela Duckworth, the U Penn researcher whose work launched the grit offensive, and see what you think. Wonder why so many tech leaders say kids need to learn to code? Mitch Resnick’s simple stories will help you understand. Then, check out the list of 40 Tools that get kids coding. Delete the scoop?
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
This week news about Plan B contraception turned parenting media to topics of sex, sex education, and sexting. Get informed. ● A new survey shows parents are quite positive toward the use of mobile technology for learning in school. Yet, recent research on multitasking shows shallower learning when students shift focus from schoolwork to "blinking inboxes" on their mobile devices. Would students have the discipline to resist? Delete the scoop?
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by Roger Riddell, edudemic
What role do the mega-rich and mega-powerful play in education? Did you know that billionaires are changing education? Time to read up. Delete the scoop?
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by Sir Ken Robinson, Huff Post
What should America do about its disastrous high school dropout rate? That's the focus of TEDTalks Education, the first ever TED/PBS television special, hosted by John Legend, the award-winning musician. The program looks not only at what's going wrong in high schools, but how to put it right. As it happens, the solution is not a mystery; but putting it into practice will involve a major shift in current policies. Delete the scoop?
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by Michelle R. Davis, Education Week
Technical glitches during recent online assessments in a number of states are prompting worries about schools' ability to administer common-core testing in 2014-15. Delete the scoop?
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
This week California Governor Jerry Brown showed political grit. He announced plans to tackle the intractable problem of unequal public school funding caused by local property tax traditions. Will citizens in affluent neighborhoods allow funds from their schools to be redirected to improve school quality for other people’s children? The Governor promised opponents “the battle of their lives.” ● For parents with kids graduating from high school, read the eloquent article on parents’ love, by Adam Gopnik, writer at The New Yorker and brother of Alison Gopnik, renowned expert on babies’ cognitive development. Delete the scoop?
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by Roger Fiddell, edudemic
What role do the mega-rich and mega-powerful play in education? Did you know that billionaires are changing education? Time to read up. Delete the scoop?
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by David Siders, Sacramento Bee
"This is a matter of equity and civil rights," Brown said at a news conference flanked by local school officials. "So if people are going to fight it, they're going to get the battle of their lives, because I'm not going to give up until the last hour, and I'm going to fight with everything I have, and whatever we have to bring to bear in this battle, we're bringing it."
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by Stephanie Simon, Reuters
An investigation by Reuters finds that many charters use strict selection criteria even when kept from doing so by state or federal law.
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Two poles of ed reform: Do charters get the results because they cherry pick students, and leave the less promising to regular public schools? Delete the scoop?
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by Donna Gordon Blankinship, AP
A Washington state science teacher who helped transform his small school into a place where nearly every student graduates with some college credit was named as national teacher of the year. Delete the scoop?
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by Michelle R. Davis, Education Week
Some experts are alarmed at what they see as increasingly aggressive moves by companies, but others see those moves as the natural interplay between the private and public sectors. Delete the scoop?
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By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
California Democrats on Sunday condemned efforts led by members of their own party to overhaul the nation's schools, arguing that groups such as StudentsFirst and Democrats for Education Reform are fronts for Republicans and...
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Two articles, one from the NYT and one from the LA Times, reflect the two poles of education reform. Delete the scoop?
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by Larry Cuban, Education Week
For decades, advertising has promised faster, better, easier learning with technology, Larry Cuban writes.
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by Sol Stern and Joel Klein, Wall Street Journal
Although the two of us have disagreed about several school-reform issues, we strongly believe that the Common Core State Standards, voluntarily adopted by 45 states, is one of the most promising education initiatives of the past half century. If implemented properly, they can better prepare students for college-level work and to gain the civic knowledge that is essential for democracy to prosper. Delete the scoop?
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by Jenny Anderson, New York Times
At Avenues, the $85 million bet on for-profit schooling is meeting its first real test — parents. Delete the scoop?
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by Annie Murphy Paul, The Creativity Post
'The psychological study of misconceptions shows that all of us possess many beliefs that are flawed or flat-out wrong—and also that we cling to these fallacies with remarkable tenacity'. Delete the scoop?
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by Michele McNeil, Education Week
Not since the battles over school desegregation has the debate about public education been so intense and polarized, observers say, for rarely before has an institution that historically is slow to change been forced to deal with so much change at once.
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Good summary of the two poles of education reform, the organizations on both sides, and surprising recent events. Delete the scoop?
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by Annie Murphy Paul, Mind/Shift
Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might 
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You're welcome. This was a good one from Annie Murphy Paul, one of my favorite writers on topics about learning and education.
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by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
The National Council of Teachers of English say "no," even if there is new software that says "yes." Delete the scoop?
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by Larry Cuban, School Reform and Classroom Practice
Most often, students judge each of the model schools they have read about and we have discussed in great detail, “good.” Afterwards, I ask them to write down answers to two additional questions that cause much consternation among them. The questions are: Would you teach at the school you have said was “good?” Would you send your children to the school you have judged “good?
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There are many good schools we would not want to send our kids to. Why? Delete the scoop?
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
The most talked-about topic this week covered the feasibility of new tests used for accountability. These new high stakes tests, aligned to the academically challenging common core standards, were rolled out in NY, causing a hub bub. Delete the scoop?
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by Joseph DiSalvo, San Jose Inside I strongly believe that without the entrepreneurial dollars spent on creating high performing charters, we would not be having this conversation. The status quo must be changed for the sake of our economic and social future as a region, state and nation.
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The two poles of ed reform: the op-ed says despite Diane Ravitch's arguments against education philanthropists, their charter schools are creating healthy competition. Delete the scoop?
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Karin Chenoweth and Christina Theokas, Educational Leadership
To anyone who cares about ensuring that all children are educated to a high standard, it is depressing to look at one of those graphs that show schools by percentage of low-income students on the x axis and academic achievement on the y axis. Delete the scoop?
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Morgan Smith, New York Times
With parents and educators denouncing Texas lawmakers’ efforts to uproot the standardized testing program, legislators are critical of the tests’ developer, Pearson.
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The Texas legislature is rethinking the laws they passed about standardized tests. "Legislators may not have recognized the influence of testing companies, he said. “There is just an inertia to not appreciating the money being made by private industry in public education.” Delete the scoop?
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The Editorial Board, New York Times
Test scores will fall at first in schools where the new and more rigorous state tests have been rolled out, but the long-term payoff is what matters.
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I keep reading about studies that prove the importance of physical exercise.