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gwen mueller

#iam an IT Professional, Strategist, Creative Thinker, Gamer-girl, Geek in Secondary Education

#thisis a personal blog curating technology and education resources to inspire lifelong learning, with 1/4 cup of fun.

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Most New Graduates Would Take a Pay Cut to Make a Difference

Ask any new college graduate about her immediate goals, and chances are she’ll tell you she wants a job. But it turns out today’s students aren’t going to be satisfied with any job. According to the latest survey from Net Impact, making a difference through their work is essential to young people’s happiness.

photo via flickr:CC | USAG-Humphreys

Most New Graduates Would Take a Pay Cut to Make a Difference

Ask any new college graduate about her immediate goals, and chances are she’ll tell you she wants a job. But it turns out today’s students aren’t going to be satisfied with any job. According to the latest survey from Net Impact, making a difference through their work is essential to young people’s happiness.

photo via flickr:CC | USAG-Humphreys

Tags education employment economics students college service survey link

 Source GOOD

Geniuses: born or made?

Jack Andraka is a 15-year-old kid from Maryland who just won the world’s largest and most important high school science fair by devising a new way to detect pancreatic cancer in its early stages. 
And then there’s Lori Anne Madison, the 6-year-old Virginia girl who is the youngest student ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
It all makes you wonder about the nature of genius…
photo via flickr:CC | mrsdkrebs

Geniuses: born or made?

Jack Andraka is a 15-year-old kid from Maryland who just won the world’s largest and most important high school science fair by devising a new way to detect pancreatic cancer in its early stages.

And then there’s Lori Anne Madison, the 6-year-old Virginia girl who is the youngest student ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.

It all makes you wonder about the nature of genius…

photo via flickr:CC | mrsdkrebs

Tags education science psychology creative leadership

 Source Washington Post

Active Friends Key to Combating Childhood Obesity, Study Suggests

A child’s group of friends holds the greatest influence on determining how physically active that child will be, suggests a study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
Want your child to become more physically active? Pair him or her up with a group of physically active friends, the study suggests.

photo via flickr:CC | alfstorm

Active Friends Key to Combating Childhood Obesity, Study Suggests

A child’s group of friends holds the greatest influence on determining how physically active that child will be, suggests a study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Want your child to become more physically active? Pair him or her up with a group of physically active friends, the study suggests.

photo via flickr:CC | alfstorm

Tags students parents health wellness medical news science

 Source blogs.edweek.org

Are You Enabling ‘Academic Entitlement’ in Students?

Students’ sense of academic entitlement can reduce their effort in class and lead to irritating (or even aggressive) confrontations with teachers, according to research by Tracey E. Zinn, a psychology associate professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. Moreover, teachers may be unintentionally feeding that sense of entitlement, she said at the Association for Psychological Science conference here this weekend. 
Zinn and James Madison colleagues Jason P. Kopp, Sara J. Finney and Daniel P. Jurich are researching ways to measure academic entitlement and how it develops. Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found the college students they studied were most likely to show “serious instances of incivility” right after academic assessments, be they test results or mid-term grades. 

photo via flickr:CC | frotzed2

Are You Enabling ‘Academic Entitlement’ in Students?

Students’ sense of academic entitlement can reduce their effort in class and lead to irritating (or even aggressive) confrontations with teachers, according to research by Tracey E. Zinn, a psychology associate professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. Moreover, teachers may be unintentionally feeding that sense of entitlement, she said at the Association for Psychological Science conference here this weekend.

Zinn and James Madison colleagues Jason P. Kopp, Sara J. Finney and Daniel P. Jurich are researching ways to measure academic entitlement and how it develops. Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found the college students they studied were most likely to show “serious instances of incivility” right after academic assessments, be they test results or mid-term grades.

photo via flickr:CC | frotzed2

Tags education classroom-management teaching idea link

 Source blogs.edweek.org

More High School Students Are Going to College Than Ever Before

Today’s high school students are taking more math and science courses and more are going straight to college after graduation than their peers from a generation ago. That’s the finding of “The Condition of Education 2012” a just-released report from the National Center of Educational Statistics, which covers all aspects of education, from preschool through through college.

photo via flickr:CC | hharryus

More High School Students Are Going to College Than Ever Before

Today’s high school students are taking more math and science courses and more are going straight to college after graduation than their peers from a generation ago. That’s the finding of “The Condition of Education 2012” a just-released report from the National Center of Educational Statistics, which covers all aspects of education, from preschool through through college.

photo via flickr:CC | hharryus

Tags education students college

 Source GOOD

Getting down to facts: five years later

This report commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Getting Down to Facts project, which sought to provide a thorough and reliable analysis of the critical challenges facing California’s education system as the necessary basis for an informed discussion of policy changes aimed at improving the performance of California schools and students. The report focuses on the four key issues that received emphasis in the Getting Down to Facts studies: governance, finance,personnel, and data systems.

Summary? Budget problems in CA have gotten worse, and in education per-student funding dropped $522 over 4 years. The state’s dismal finances have greatly impacted the other three key issues.

“California’s school finance system is in disrepair to the point that it no longer meets the needs of the state or its students.”

Getting down to facts: five years later

This report commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Getting Down to Facts project, which sought to provide a thorough and reliable analysis of the critical challenges facing California’s education system as the necessary basis for an informed discussion of policy changes aimed at improving the performance of California schools and students. The report focuses on the four key issues that received emphasis in the Getting Down to Facts studies: governance, finance,
personnel, and data systems.

Summary? Budget problems in CA have gotten worse, and in education per-student funding dropped $522 over 4 years. The state’s dismal finances have greatly impacted the other three key issues.

“California’s school finance system is in disrepair to the point that it no longer meets the needs of the state or its students.”

Tags education report reform link

 Source stanford.edu

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend is pretty special because my sister is getting married.

I’m gonna do my best to spend every minute enjoying her awesome event, so y’all, I hope you don’t mind me taking a few days off? I’ll be back-at-cha on Tuesday!

You go out there and enjoy the heck outta your holiday/weekend too! :)

Tags self holiday raise your glass!