Archive for March, 2004

04-03-31

Tags: Original URL: http://www.kidsource.com/education/red.shirting.html
Original Title: Academic Redshirting and Young Children

Academic Redshirting and Young Children

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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 […]

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04-03-31

Tags: Original URL: http://www.gimp.org/windows/
Original Title: GIMP - for Windows

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 […]

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04-03-31

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/intro/index.html
Original Title: Introduction: No Child Left Behind
 
I am not sure what the graph shows — or rather, what they intended to show. Clearly Federal money on education does not result in perceivable improvements in reading scores, as measured by NAEP. But does it prevent it from falling? Or does it justify the attempt […]

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04-03-31

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/intro/execsumm.html
Original Title: Executive Summary of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Executive Summary of No Child Left Behind

OVERVIEW

Executive Summary

MS Word (30 KB) | PDF (13 KB)

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 […]

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04-03-31

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/resourcekit/miscdocs/initiative.html
Original Title: Archived: AmericaReads_Challenge_ToolKits

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 Americas fourth graders still fail to attain the basic level of reading and 70 percent fall below the proficient level […]

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04-03-31 Steven Stahl
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04-03-30

Tags: Original URL: http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/biography.htm
Original Title: Alfie Kohn - Teaching/Parenting - Biography

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 […]

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04-03-30

Tags: Original URL: http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/staiv.htm
Original Title: 9/27/00 — Standardized Testing and Its Victims — Education Week

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 […]

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04-03-30

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?unc=1041373352
Original Title: Ingenta: article summary — Eyeblink Activity as an Index of Cognitive Processing: Temporal Distribution of Eyeblinks as an Indicator of Expectancy in Semantic Priming
 
This is interesting — the temporal distribution of blinks. I wonder what model they used for this. I can check my data to see a baseline blink distribution. […]

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04-03-30

Tags: Original URL: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1359189
Original Title: NPR : N.C. At Odds with Fed Education Standards

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 […]

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04-03-30

Tags: Original URL: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_20880550.html
Original Title: JavaScript: DISSABLE PASTE OPTION
 
Use the onPaste()/onBeforePaste() event to block paste or to add additional info to the pasted contents, such as time/date, source URL, formatting, etc. See More… for further examples from Microsoft site.
 
The idea is the use this function to create a StandardBrains/wiki-like CMS, where I can customize copy-paste and […]

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04-03-30

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?unc=1035480746
Original Title: Ingenta: article summary — When Discriminative Learning of Bayesian Network Parameters Is Easy
 
Full text: http://cosco.hiit.fi/Articles/ijcai03.pdf
The paper finds a condition under which certain classes of Basysian networks can be related to logistic regression problems, which has known simple solutions. May be userful for my discrimination of smooth/troubled eye movements.

When Discriminative Learning of […]

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04-03-29

Tags: Original URL: http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?topic=Competitors
Original Title: WebCalendar
 
WebCalendar is a PHP based group calendar. You can view several users schedules via a layered view. It can email notify events and allows anonymous viewing. Check out this and other competetors.

 
WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of […]

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04-03-29

Tags: Original URL: http://www.phpedit.net/products/PHPEdit/download.php and http://www.php-editors.com/review/?editor=1
Original Title: PHPEdit
 
Sounds like a good choice. Will try.

PHPEdit How can we make your life easier today ?
http://www.php-editors.com/review/?editor=1

Description

This free software is currently my favourite. With almost everything you need to code PHP, including File Manager, Integrated Debugger and Code Insight you cant go wrong. It does lack some basic features […]

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04-03-29

Tags: Original URL: http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/aboutus/fullbio.php/record_id=56/
Original Title: CRP-Full Bios

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 […]

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04-03-29

Tags: Original URL: http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/esea/call_nclb.php?Page=1
Original Title: Research: Hard Work for Good Schools: Facts Not Fads in Title I Reform | Page 1

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 […]

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04-03-25

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Availability/ingenta;jsessionid=pf7f5383hpl0.circus?unc=1041273694&targetId=1080192128433
Original Title: Ingenta: article availability
 
A simple study, with a table of how individual students progress from whisper to silent reading within the first year.

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

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04-03-22

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04-03-22

Tags: Original URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Content/EdPsychology/ehri/
Original Title: Welcome to the website of Linnea C. Ehri
 
Note that Dr. Ehri has her own domain: http://www.linnea-ehri.org/

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
 

I am a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the […]

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04-03-22

Tags: Original URL: http://www.sdkrashen.com/articles/phonemic_awareness_training/01.html
Original Title: Phonemic Awareness Training: Both Boring and Ineffective? - Page 1
 
Krashen contrasted kids reactions in a PA training program and a story-reading programming, as welll as some numbers…

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

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