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Many North Country school districts are facing uncharted territory. They're going bankrupt, and at the same time have more mandates to fulfill.
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Thoughtful piece on what is happening to rural districts in New York. An important consideration for rural districts across the nation. Delete the scoop?
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Can Technology Disrupt Education?
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Forbes responds to new practices in education, from the flipped classroom to social media. Delete the scoop?
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Disrupting Education With Competent Kids, the Internet, and Experimentation
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Author wonders, "What if, instead of transferring content from teacher to student, the role of the teacher was to provoke students with questions and to encourage but not directly instruct? What if learning took place primarily in groups, as students worked together to uncover content and solve problems using the Internet? What if the teacher, rather than evaluating learning, focused on admiring findings? Moreover, since we live in an increasingly broadband connected world, what if the teacher sat in New York while his students sat in rural India?"
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Equity and excellence in US education policy
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We are at a formative moment in American education, and this report reflects the gravity of the moment. We must all work together tirelessly to make public education thrive in every community in this great nation. By rising to meet this moment, and by guaranteeing that each child is inspired and equipped to succeed, we safeguard America’s founding values and advance our competitiveness, our prosperity and our security. When public education is equitable, the dream of America endures. Delete the scoop?
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Susan Ohanian Very thorough explanation of whose money and what forces are behind Common Core:
I scream about the topic sentence requirement in kindergarten and assigning As I Lay Dying, with its 15 narrators, in 11th grade; I mock the notion of such “informational text” as “Invasive Plant Inventory” and Euclid’s Elements (listed in Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, Appendix B) supplanting To Kill a Mockingbird and “Macbeth” as vehicles for conveying to students the world knowledge Common Core thugs insist is necessary to compete as workers in the Global Economy. And I’d scream just as loudly if every required text was a book I loved. All this arguing about the percentage of fiction allowed and what that fiction should be is a deliberate distraction thrown up by the power brokers. They do it with school reform; they do it with social issues. They want us to wage battle with each other–over the content of national standards–so we’ll have no breath left over to ask Who decides? Who’s in charge of public schools? And for whose benefit do they operate? Delete the scoop?
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We call on educators, policymakers, business leaders, families, and community members to work together on a whole child approach to education.
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Hurray! Making the point that without safety, learning doesn't happen! Also cautions against too much protection that also might detract from teaching and learning. Delete the scoop?
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What Do We Know About Civic Education? Not Enough Huffington Post (blog) If you ask the average person in the United States today to describe how much civic education our students get in an average day, what students view as their role as citizens...
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"And if there is hope that civic education will get the attention it deserves in the nation's schools, then perhaps the body of research that looks at civics achievement and instruction and civic engagement in all schools will become more robust too. The current lack of research leaves the nation at a real disadvantage if we hope to understand and improve civic knowledge and engagement among students." It's time for this conversation.Delete the scoop?
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S.T.E.M. education inspiring girls nationwide
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Watched the entire segment. what welcome news in an era of bad news in education. Delete the scoop?
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For the last year a revolt against high-stakes standardized testing has been growing around the country, with teachers, principals, superintendents, parents and students speaking out about the negative impact on education of this obsession.
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Huffington Post
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"Multiple-choice questions require the ability to recognize a painting. In comparison, performance tasks require the student to paint. Definitions of learning have shifted to the ability to apply what one knows to new situations. Performance assessments capture this change. "
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Progress Illinois
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Last two paragrgrahs: Education is overwhelmed with an allegiance to mandated curriculums and standardized testing. Students are tired and weary. Teachers must not think and create on their own -- they must follow the mandated path. Many teachers, parents, and students are looking for someone to rescue them. There is a better way -- a way that cherishes the processes of learning, interests, talents, and developmental needs in physical, social, emotional, and intellectual realms. This way allows students to love their studies and become engaged in ways that motivate them from within. We must present this paradigm and begin the rescue. Delete the scoop?
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WBUR Education Lessons From Top-Ranked Finland And South Korea WBUR The Huffington Post “The study notes that while funding is an important factor in strong education systems, cultures supportive of learning is even more critical — as evidenced by...
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Not so much method, but public support That is critical. Delete the scoop?
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Lots of people believe that a single individual can’t make a difference in an organization. Lots of people, it turns out, are wrong. Take the case Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson 
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All Things Digital
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Because of my interests, I want to include voices outside education. I don't believe that we need to require all students to take computer programming. I do think it is interesting that the author uses Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg in the same breath as Ashton Kutcher and Will.I.Am. So important for us to know what is being said. Delete the scoop?
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Who Owns Student Data? InformationWeek FERPA explicitly prohibits disclosure of information contained in student education records absent consent from parents, or from students age 18 or older, if they are enrolled in any post-secondary educational...
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Important consideration, especially as schools move to centralized student data warehouses. Delete the scoop?
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Fortune (blog)
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"I'm a big fan of learning online. But we aren't being ambitious enough. If children in the developed world fall off the educational track, giving them computers is not going to help most of them. Education is more than lectures, assignments, and exams. It's a means to envision a different life from the one you're living. Let's give every student a shot at that." Amen.Delete the scoop?
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Next steps toward achieving equity in education Washington Post (blog) for each I reported earlier this week on a new report on equity in education that was released by a congressionally mandated commission, and noted that it had some important...
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If the American public sees education as an investment in children and communities, then the educational policies of our nation must place a high value on a skilled and committed teaching profession. Americans must view teaching not only as a noble vocation, but one for which the preparation and compensation are commensurate with the challenges teachers and our children face. Just as our society expects the highly able, intensively-trained people to go into important professions such as medicine, so too should we expect the best and brightest to be the well-prepared teachers to whom we entrust our children. Our investment in this critical cause will ultimately contribute to a thriving 21st century economy that is driven by the graduates of excellent and equitable public schools. Delete the scoop?
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The teacher voice is not heard at the policy-making table, because teachers speak in their native tongue. Policy makers have a language that loves "shovel-ready bullet points." Teachers know that issues around teaching and learning are more than test scores and dollars spent. Delete the scoop?
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It's five minutes before the bell. My psychology students are reaching for their smartphones after our mini-field trip to the main campus library for an introduction to online reference materials.
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This is such a great departure from the Common Core push. It teaches students to make solid arguments, evaluate claims made. I appreciate how it will help students as they are faced with the Common Core and as they proceeed through life. Delete the scoop?
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Disruptive Innovation Needed in Higher Education Delete the scoop?
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Why Inquiry Learning is Worth the Trouble ... Delete the scoop?
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It's Time to Take On Concentrated Poverty and Education Delete the scoop?
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Why education 'research wars' leave no winners Washington Post (blog) In a recent post, Kevin Drum of “Mother Jones” magazine discusses his growing skepticism about the research behind market-based education reform, and about the claims that...
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"But, one useful first step, at least in education, would be to stop pointing fingers and acknowledge two things. First, neither “side” has anything resembling a monopoly on the misuse of evidence. And, second, such misuse has zero power if enough people can identify it as such." Delete the scoop?
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Parental Involvement in Education: What Kind? To What Ends?
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It's not how parents are involved; it's HOW they are involved. Delete the scoop?
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Identifying Education Job Opportunities in Times of Economic Downsizing
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This could spark a lively conversation- the promise of private ed jobs... Delete the scoop?
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Wondering how this university and students are using newer social media.