Archive for the 'Education' Category
08-06-13
Tags:Computing Education Watch List Abby Brown at the Rorrey Pines High School MathematiClub created a bunch of Mathematica notebooks for middle/high school math. And for fun. Let’s see if I can get Jessie interested in this.
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08-05-26
Tags:Education psy145 spelling spelling bees Teaching
Get ready for the most intense sport for kids under 15 — Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Broadcast Times
The Quarterfinals air live on ESPN360.com from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 29.
The […]
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08-05-16
Tags:Education English psy145 reading Teaching A number of reports from The Primary Review are quite interesting.
May 16, 2008 Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools: processes and contexts Press release: Teaching matters: the last three interim reports from the Primary Review start the countdown to the final report
Overview briefing document: […]
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08-05-06
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching Sara Mead took a more careful look at the latest Reading First report on her blog Early Ed Watch. The discussion focused on the curious finding that late-awardees did better than the earlier cohort.
A Second Look at Reading First | New America Blogs
… researchers found evidence of both increased instructional time […]
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08-05-05
Tags:Education NCLB psy145 reading reading first Teaching
The study of Reading First is not complete, but the early results are not promising. Not at all.
If the program continues to do nothing, it should be abandoned. There’s more than one way to teach a kid to read. Let’s try […]
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08-05-03
Tags:Education NCLB psy145 reading reading first Lots of talks after the news broke that Reading First failed the midterm exam. The final prospect doesn’ look good either. I have more than once expressed my marvel over how everything education is politics in the US.
Among the 200+ news stories on this topic […]
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08-05-01
Tags:Education NCLB Paperville politics psy145 reading first Teaching It’s on the news: Reading First is this much effective. Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report - Introduction PDF: Full Report (1.64 MB) Created under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, the Reading First program provides assistance to states and districts […]
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08-03-31
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching Here again is a news story about reading that ends with an advertisement in disguise. Compare this scien-fo-mercial to the poli-fo-mercial. See for yourself how the same tactics were used.
Researcher believes early exposure to the written word can help toddlers read
A U.S. infant researcher says your baby or […]
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08-03-30
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching
The new curriculum is passed today without the suggested reading list. Here are some of the books mentioned in the March 19 draft.
Star-Telegram.com: | 03/25/2008 | New curriculum plan for English includes suggested reading list Suggested readingHere are some of the books that the proposed curriculum says students should "consider" […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Education eye movement Japanese Linguistics Research Nobuyuki and I are workign on a couple papers looking at word/phrase spaces in Japanese reading. Japanese typically do not put in spaces between words, although it’s standard practice before 2nd grade. How do they decide where to put in spaces in elementary texts?
nobuyuki’s research blog: […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Education NCLB Teaching David Hoff of NCLB: Act II reported:
… Kati Haycock of the Education Trust is looking to create education’s version of the National Institutes of Health. "What passes for evidence [in education] is pathetic," she said. She’s also trying to find ways to get teachers the curricula and materials they say they need, citing […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education psy145 reading Teaching At the end of the YouTube Reading story, the question was the Minnesota reading instruction competence assessment was. From the statute page:
4.14 Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 122A.18, is amended by adding a subdivision 4.15to read: […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching A classic example of PR around reading politics. Watch how the reporter baits with YouTube and switch to promote a piece of legislation.
Woodbury Bulletin | Mother uses YouTube to help convey literacy message
A Woodbury mother has turned to the website YouTube to spread the word about […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education math Teaching Like the Reading Panel back in 2000, this Math panel report is likely to have significant impace on math education in the US. The goals, though, are moderate: Benchmarks in Math Education Fluency With Whole Numbers
1 By the end of Grade 3, students should be proficient with the addition and subtraction of whole […]
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08-03-07
Tags:Education Linguistics Teaching Watch List
UCTV–University of California Television has lots of back programs online, via YouTube or podcasts. Here are a couple of interesting ones:
http://uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=11187
Grey Matters: Understanding Language (#11187; 58 minutes; 7/19/2006) Why are humans the only species to have language? Is there […]
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07-12-17
Tags:Education Paperville reading Teaching Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
Twilight of the Books
What will life be like if people stop reading?
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07-11-28
Tags:Education Teaching PIRLS 2006 International Report: IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study in Primary School in 40 CountriesNovember 2007. Ina V.S. Mullis, Michael O. Martin, Ann M. Kennedy, and Pierre […]
PIRLS 2006
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07-11-14
Tags:Education English reading Teaching UK beat the US in admitting failure of reading reform … that would have been a catchy news article title. The truth is, neither government will admit anything. Billions of pounds or dollars were spent and little is gained. That’s all.
Ten years of bold education boasts now look […]
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07-10-17
Tags:Computing Education Watch List StarLogo TNG released Beta 1 today. It’s multi-agent, 3D logo with graphic syntax. Hard to describe, but it’s supposed to be intuitive to children.
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07-09-30
Tags:Education eye movement google Profiles psychology Teaching Watch List
Tried "eye movements" subject:"Reading, Psychology of" - Google Book Search today and I was impressed with what Google offers. They do not offer PDF downloads, but google’s fulltext search is better than Acrobat.
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