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gladwell dot com - the uses of adversity
interesting findings regarding the effect of good teachers
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Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a "bad" school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.
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Teacher effects are also much stronger than class-size effects. You'd have to cut the average class almost in half to get the same boost that you'd get if you switched from an average teacher to a teacher in the eighty-fifth percentile.
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"More Better Faster!": How Our Spastic Digital Culture Scrambles Our Brains | Media and Technology | AlterNet
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We now have the most remarkable tools for teaching and learning the world has ever known. How is it that we have less time to think than ever before?
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this is not a struggle we can avoid. The alternative is a jittery, jagged postmodern insanity
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Information and Inspiration for Innovative Teaching in K-12 Schools
Op-Ed Columnist - Swimming Without a Suit - NYTimes.com
Points to economic failings as rooted in education with unsubstantiated figures
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Add Sticky NoteActually, our fourth-graders compare well on such global tests with, say, Singapore.
- I'd be interested to know how fourth graders at international schools based in Singapore compare to native fourth grade Singaporean students. - on 2009-04-30
huff english
- Issues, ideas, and discussion in English Education and Technology for the English dept, lots of integration ideas, webquests
Education - Change.org: Tutorial: Two Uses of Technology to Improve Literacy and Critical Thinking
This is the screencast I was trying to find during class - Clay is the teacher that will be joining our faculty next year.
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