Thursday, May 23, 2013

Students on the Fringe

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Jean Ann W. Guliano : With 83% of the state’s special needs students and 90% of the state’s limited English students scoring substantially b...

Sometimes School "Choice" Means Choosing to Site Your School on Toxic Waste

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Steve Ahlquist : Last year the General Assembly unanimously passed the “ Environmental Cleanup Objectives for Schools ” sponsored by Senator...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

There's No Spinning Away the Ratliff Victory

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Russo : Underdog LAUSD classroom teacher Monica Ratliff has won a surprising upset victory in her school board runoff agaainst rival Antonio...

Dumping Gist and Heightening the Contradictions

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Bob Plain at RI Future has a good rundown on the state of play leading up to the likely renewal of ...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Comments Which Don't Inspire Responses

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Me , commenting on Grant Wiggins On close reading, part 2 : The CC standards do not call generically for close reading as it is broadly defi...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

For a Polarized Debate, a Lot of People are on Both Sides

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Dan Meyer has called our attention to the recent NCTM keynote by Uri Treisman : This is the core of Treisman's critique: So the notion w...

Comment Liberation

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Robert Shepherd : I think that two things are being confused here. What the Common Core State Standards (more exactly, the Publishers’ Crite...

Going Into the College Readiness Weeds

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I'm somewhat suspicious about all the statistics and rhetoric about "college readiness," not so much because I believe all our...

What's the Rush?

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Erik Robelen : Rhode Island may prove to be the first state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards issued in final form last month. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Skate Providence

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A little tour with some legends, starting at my beloved Neutaconkanut.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Student & Task Models in the Common Core Revisited

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I tried using the basic psychometric concept of student and task models to look at the structure of the Common Core ELA standards. My prem...
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Unfortunately, Not Out In Time for Teacher Appreciation Day

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Providence Grays 2013 Brochure

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Enjoy .

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First Murdoch, Now Bloomberg

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Natasha Lennard : Following revelations that Bloomberg News reporters had used the Bloomberg terminals — ubiquitous in the finance sector —...

What Jobs Are These Kids Going to Get? WHAT JOBS, WHERE, PAYING WHAT?!?

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Mike Petrilli : Let's imagine that our schools can help the average child born into poverty do somewhat better. Let's say that with ...
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