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ListenThird Grade A Pivotal Time In Students’...
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Boosting Reading Skills: Will ‘Common Core’ Experiment Pay Off? Called the “Common Core,” a new set of state guidelines spell out what young students are expected to learn and what books they’re expected to read. Forty five states and the District of Colombia have already adopted the standards. Learning Matters’ John Merrow reports on the design and the aim of...
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“In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an...”
– Commencement speech that Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, gave this past weekend at the Loyola University Chicago School of Education.
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ursoteachable asked: I love all your cute coffee posts! I am a coffee lover too! :-)
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DSHA Openings
Come work with me at DSHA - we’re hiring for the 2012-13 academic year. Faculty openings: PT Instrumental Music FT English Support staff openings: Communications Coordinator
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theatlantic: theatlanticvideo: Ken Burns on Why His Formula for a Great Story Is 1+1=3 For a documentary filmmaker, it’s hard to imagine a more intimidating project than making a documentary film about Ken Burns. When Sarah Klein and Tom Mason set out explore the mysterious nature of story, however, they decided to do just that. In their beautiful short documentary, Ken Burns: On Story, the...
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1 in 3 autistic young adults lack jobs, education →
The study, published online Monday in Pediatrics, was based on data from 2007-08. It found that within two years of leaving high school, more than half of those with autism had no job experience, college or technical education. Things improved as they got older. Yet nearly seven years after high school, 35 percent of autistic young adults still had no paid employment or education beyond...
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“If we are to be successful as educators, than how we teach kids better involve a...”
– How We Teach Trumps What We Teach
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