Donald Burkins's Public Library

"As children return to classrooms in six communities, they are benefiting from a unique effort to enhance their opportunities to pursue postsecondary education. USA Funds® has joined a coalition of organizations that are focusing services on six pilot communities in a bid to improve access to postsecondary education for low-income students. "

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"Because of the success of the Learning Community Initiative in the Sunnyside District and because of the partnerships with Pima Community College and the University of Arizona, Scholarship America has selected Tucson as the first site in the nation to pilot a new program called the Four G's. This represents a philosophy regarding college of Get Ready, Get In, Get Through and Give Back."

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Iam a Cultural Anthropologist teaching Anthropology and
Sociology courses at Community College of
Philadelphia. My research interests include Gender and Family, Dance,
Movement and the Body, and Ritual. My fieldwork on courtship and marriage
rituals was carried out in a Romanian community in northern
Transylvania
. While there, I was able to combine an interest in folk dance
with my research interests in gender, by studying dance in courtship and
marriage rituals.
I'm currently investigating gender representations in

Japanese art
.

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RFA is a Philadelphia-based, non-profit organization engaged in education
research and evaluation.
Founded in 1992, RFA works with public school
districts, educational institutions, and community organizations to improve the
educational opportunities for those traditionally disadvantaged by
race/ethnicity, class, gender, language/cultural difference, and
ability/disability.

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Elaine Simon is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research and
evaluation in the fields of education, employment and training, and community
development. She is Co-Director of Urban Studies in the School of Arts and
Sciences and adjunct Associate Professor of Education in the Graduate School of
Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Matching readers with texts. Links to reading programs, assessments that provide Lexile scores; book search aligned with student interests and lexile levels.

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FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the
original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements
from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document
lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution
photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our
conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.

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We spend a lot of time encouraging children to justify their thinking. I must
say, "How did you figure that out?" "How do you know?" "Why do you think
that?" 100 times a day. When we hear kids explain how they found their
answer we get a true picture of their abilities.

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Sometimes I think in all the push of new initiatives we lose the attitude that we're collaborating together for the students and we begin to think we're on islands alone, trying to show everyone else that we're awesome teachers too.

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It’s time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now?

The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found.
Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the
peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as
potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline.

To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world!

Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components – new media literacy and digital citizenship – are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders.

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"Every now and then, we like to remind readers of the audio/video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players. When you add it all together, you will find thousands of hours of free educational content here from quality sources. "

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Planning and implementing differentiated instruction builds upon generosity of spirit - not unlike planning for and addressing the diverse food needs and likes of the extended family arriving for the annual Thanksgiving Dinner.

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"Go ahead: Laugh if you want (though you’ll benefit your brain more if you smile), but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience."

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Garr Reynolds' blog on issues related to professional presentation design. This Nov 26, 2009 issue features links to a TedIndia talk by Hans Rosling (Reynolds has previously highlighted other wonderful Rosling presentations about "storytelling with statistics." It also features a web-tool called GapMinder - making international development comparisons visual.

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We invited some of the smartest people we know to consider four of the toughest questions around. Fast Company celebrates its second anniversary with the ultimate business roundtable.

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"Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not. "

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Edge presents a brief excerpt from the first chapter, and the
nonfiction appendix from 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A
Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (21,250 words)

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Emotional Intelligence concludes with a series of appendices. The first three of these, “What Is Emotion?”, “Hallmarks of the Emotional Mind,” and “The Neural Circuitry of Fear,” summarize the current state of scientific knowledge of the emotions. This material is excellent. Goleman would have done better to publish the appendices and throw the rest of the book away, or at least drastically shorten it.

When I was halfway through writing this review, I found Goleman’s Web site, which contains an “Emotional IQ Test,” consisting of ten multiple-choice questions. Each question presents a hypothetical situation and four possible responses. My score on this test was 80. Whether this result reflects my deficiencies or Goleman’s is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Talk is the engine that drives learning in any classroom. By focusing on
conversation, colleagues and coaches can assist their peers by teasing out some
of those patterns that are most helpful to (or most inhibit) the growth of the
learning community.

Observing talk in classrooms is the first step toward helping teachers
understand the language they use automatically. It's one thing to acknowledge
talk is crucial in classrooms; far harder to analyze, reflect upon, and move
toward changing talk patterns.

Here are some possibilities for classroom observations focused on talk.

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