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Academic Redshirting and Young Children

Source
Lilian G. KatzU.S. Department of EducationERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Introduction
The term redshirting originally referred to postponing a college athlete´s participation in regular season games for one year to give him an extra year of further growth and practice with […]

Friday, 26 March 2004
The GIMP Hits 2.0

Software: The GIMP developers are proud to release version 2.0 of the GIMP, the leading freely distributable program for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This release is a major event, marking the end of a three year development cycle by […]

Executive Summary of No Child Left Behind

OVERVIEW

Executive Summary

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These reforms express my deep belief in our public schools and their mission to build the mind and character of every child, from every background, in […]

The Initiative
Reading is the foundation for all other learning. American students perform well on international assessments of reading. However, national assessments of reading show that about 40 percent of America��s fourth graders still fail to attain the basic level of reading and 70 percent fall below the proficient level […]

Biography

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. His eight books include PUNISHED BY REWARDS (1993), NO CONTEST: The Case Against Competition (1986), THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards” (1999), and THE CASE AGAINST STANDARDIZED TESTING […]

Education Week

September 27, 2000
Standardized Testing and Its Victims

By Alfie Kohn

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies.Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the […]

N.C. At Odds with Fed Education Standards
July 27, 2003Key education officials in North Carolina are protesting the federal “No Child Left Behind Act,” saying it sets the bar too high for some schools. Jessica Jones of member station WUNC reports.

Reconsidering No Child […]

When Discriminative Learning of […]

 
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Jimmy Kim, Ed. D. Research Associate
Expertise: Diversity in K-12 Education, High Stakes Testing, State Accountability, Federal Education Policy.
Jimmy Kim is a Research Associate for K-12 Education with The Civil Rights Project. He received his doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Since […]

Inspiring Vision, Disappointing Results:Four Studies on Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act
By Gail L. Sunderman and Jimmy Kim Introduction by Gary Orfield

POLICY ACTION

Congressional Briefing

On April 23, 1999 CRP and the American Youth Policy […]

Are silent reading behaviors of first graders really silent?Wright, G.; Sherman, R.; Jones, T. B.Reading Teacher, 2004, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 546-553 INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION

Linnea C. Ehri

Dr. Joanna Williams, Dr. Linnea Ehri, and Mrs. Gwenette Ferguson (Panel members) at the April 13, 2000, afternoon meeting with U.S. Representative Anne Northup
 

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Of interest here is the children�s reactions to the training: In the pilot study, the experimenter recorded “several off-task and resistance behaviors committed by students: […]