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• Telling Stories

  
  I.N.K. — Authority: 133
  So, for one thing, Ann Bausums splendid post this past Friday, inspires me to show you all my 5th grade picture. Its inspired giggles from many an audience of tactless schoolchildren, bless their hearts.  For another, Im compelled to inform you that on this day in A.D. 526, a big whacking earthquake in Syria ...
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• 5 Mobile Apps To Help Teachers & Students Adapt To The Common Core Standards

  
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  5 Mobile Apps To Help Teachers & Students Adapt To The Common Core Standards It’s easier to get where we are going if we are all working off the same map. At least that’s the... The post 5 Mobile Apps To Help Teachers & Students Adapt To The Common Core Standards appeared first on TeachThought . ...
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• Chaos Theory, Twitter and the Common Core

  
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  Yeah, Im pretty sure thats a blog post title that hasnt been used before. And wont ever be again. Ive read a little bit about chaos theory , although I dont pretend to really understand it. My very simplified understanding of it is that very small changes in initial conditions can result in very different outcomes ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: President Obama Visits New Tech School Known for Deeper Learning

  
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  Utah’s State School Board supports the Common Core State Standards and has asked the Governor, along with state lawmakers, to do the same. In a series of passed resolutions, they outlined their support of the new Standards. “There seems to be some confusion surrounding the Common Core so the intent was the help ...
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• Everyones Getting Straight As: Fewer High School Grads Enrolling in College

  
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  The Alliance for Excellent Education’s newest e-newsletter, “Straight A’s” is online . You can read the full articles from this issue here , or short synopses below. As always, if you would like to receive Straight A’s in your inbox, please email jamos@all4ed.org . Sixty-six percent of high school ...
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• First additions and subtractions made easy on iPad

  
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• Sixteen Billion Dollar Educational Scam

  
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  The government is planning to spend about 16 BILLION dollars to implement programs that are basically the same as those paid for in the 1950s. Many have been given the false impression that Common Core State Standards and the International Baccalaureate programs will reform and improve education. However, these two ...
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• Congressional Candidate Rod Blum Blasts Common Core

  
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  Rod Blum, candidate for Congress in Iowa’s 1st Congressional district, says the Common Core Standards were poorly designed and testing students at a national, one-size fits all manner can’t produce reliable results. “This is not a left versus right issue or a Democrat versus Republican issue – this is about ...
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• Common Core test is on track, State Board told - by John Fensterwald

  
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  By John Fensterwald Four states have encountered serious glitches and system meltdowns over the past several weeks as they have moved their own state assessments online. But the head of the state-led consortium creating the Common Core tests for California and two dozen other states expressed confidence Wednesday ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: TEDTalks Education

  
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  Coursera, a well-known provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), announced this week that they’ll be partnering with several publishers to provide some textbooks for free for student-use while taking the courses. The textbooks would be available on e-readers. Washington Post A one-hour TED Talks ...
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• No Expectations: Harmful Treaties in Community Colleges

  
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  In his classic book, Horace’s Compromise , the late educator Ted Sizer wrote that high school teachers and students enact “treaties” with one another: the students agree not to cause trouble, and the teachers agree not to push the students too hard. The result, all too often, is that students don’t learn very ...
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• Teachers hit computer-scored writing exams

  
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  New tests aligned to the new common standards will ask students to do more writing and provide quick feedback to teachers on their students’ skills. But that’s only cost effective, if students’ writing is scored by computers, writes Catherine Gewertz on Ed Week ‘s Curriculum Matters. Not surprisingly, the ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: An Argument in Favor of Gap Years

  
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  Many countries have long touted the usefulness of a “gap” year spent living abroad between finishing high school and entering college, but the U.S. has never been one. That thinking may be changing as more students take a year off and extoll the virtues of learning more about themselves and their interests before ...
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• English-Language Learners, Common Core, and Literacy

  
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  Tomorrow afternoon, two prominent language-acquisition scholars will be my guests in an edweek.org webinar that will focus on helping educators prepare for teaching the Common Core State Standards to English-language learners. Kenji Hakuta, a Stanford University education professor, and George C. Bunch, an ...
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• Believe It Or Not: The Common Core Standards Can Make Your Job Easier

  
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  The Common Core State Standards have changed my life.  I know that’s a bold statement to make, but armed with simple resources and the confidence that I really am integrating the curriculum and assessing academic impact, working as a school based speech-language pathologist is suddenly more fulfilling. And yes, we ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: 18 Myths About Education

  
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  A new infographic debunks 18 popular myths about education. Open Colleges College graduates have endured the recession better than most individuals, data from the Labor Department reveals. The unemployment rate for college graduates in April was 3.9 percent, compared to 7.5 percent for the work force as a ...
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• Govs. Huckabee and Engler Praise Common Core State Standards

  
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  Amid misinformation campaigns against the Common Core State Standards, former Republican governors Mike Huckabee (Arkansas) and John Engler (Michigan) repeatedly praised the Common Core State Standards as good for the country and rebutted criticism of the standards during a May 1 radio broadcast of the Mike Huckabee ...
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• 9.7 Million Twitter Users Reached During #StopCommonCore Twitter Rally

  
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  Parent Led Reform , in collaboration with Truth in American Education , hosted a second rally via Twitter Thursday May 2nd. The #StopCommonCore Twitter Rally shared research diligently collected by parents, citizens, and education professionals concerned about the government’s push for national common standards ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: MRIs Can Predict Student Receptiveness to Math Tutoring, Study Finds

  
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  Indiana’s NCLB waiver eligibility is under question now that is has announced a ‘pause’ on implementing the Common Core State Standards. The state filed for its waiver saying it had adopted the Standards and joined a consortium developing aligned assessments. Politics K-12 The newest group of critics ...
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• Science in the Rockies Teacher Training Now Aligned to Next Gen and Common Core

  
  Steve Spangler's Blog — Authority: 126
  As many of you know, the final version of the Next Generation Science Standards were just released in early April. Over the past few weeks, our team has been working feverishly to align Steve Spangler’s hands-on science curriculum from  Science in the Rockies  with these newly released standards. In addition to ...
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