Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I have to tell you I like the name of the Department of Education's recently launched web site, Doing What Works. Their recently added focus on Girls in Mathematics is not a bad place to start.
It is conventional wisdom that girls do better than boys in all areas up until ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Some students at Oregon’s Centennial High School have been ordered to shave off their eyebrows or go home, after sporting shaved vertical lines in their brows. Apparently this "cool" new trend was fashioned by hip-hop artist, Soulja Boy and has been copied by many of the school's male students.
Assistant Principal Mark ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The NY Times ran a story on elite Korean schools. In Daewon School the average SAT was 2203 in 2008. Classes at Daewon are taught in English, but students are also expected to study a foreign language in addition to English. Often students at these schools have their choice of ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
A student has been arrested at Mount Tahoma High School today for bringing a loaded handgun onto school property. Fortunately, the student was taken into custody before any shots were fired and the school was placed on lockdown while the situation was handled.
The school was still in lockdown mode as ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Part three in the Quality Education series.
Last week I talked about how children and students learn best as independent learners. This week we want to create opportunities to teach students to to be independent learners.
The most common piece of advice I get as a parent is “Starting with young children ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Can you imagine 400,000 people staying home from work?
As a teacher I am often asked how I would fix schools in America. I always say the easiest way is to raise starting salaries to about $60,000 a year then wait seven to ten years. I figure the raise in pay ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
A black bear was spotted roaming the vicinity of Paramus Catholic High School this morning around 8am EST. Officials from the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife were tracking the bear through a wooded area north of the school’s campus and allegedly have taken the bear down with tranquilizer ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I walked to school everyday until high school. Then I was lucky and got the cool bus driver who built a shelf at the front of his bus to hold his boom box. Probably, a lot like that guy on the Simpson's cartoon. In Connecticut they decided on a much ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I don't know many teachers who support NCLB. Most good teachers assess their students informally everyday, with activities like warm-up, and class discussions. We then use formative testing in the form of quizzes or tests as often as every week. To have a year or more of education be crammed ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
While there will always be some who feel education should concentrate exclusively on Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic there will also be those who believe that the Arts are just as important if not even more so. Now it seems some researchers have proven the connections between Geometry and Music. According ...
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