Archive for the 'Education' Category
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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07-09-25
Tags:Education Teaching The Nation’s Report Card - National Assessment of Educational Progress - NAEP NAEP provides a number of useful ways to view data on their newly designed web site. Washington DC was the dead last in 4th grade reading. But did you know that DC While student out performe the next best state […]
State performance:
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07-09-21
Tags:Education NCLB Teaching Stacey Anderton, a teacher at Saegertown Junior-Senior High School, Meadville, PA, wrote in to protest an earlier article critisizing NCLB. Meadville Tribune - LOCAL COLUMN: Teachers, students demoralized? Local school says ‘No!’
As an award-winning teacher myself, I read with dismay Miller’s account of the teacher who wept because his ability […]
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07-09-21
Tags:Education French Linguistics Paperville MoDyCo Villejuif - CNRS Jaffré, Jean-Pierre > version […]
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07-09-21
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? - New York Times In a series of recent articles and a book, “The Happiness Hypothesis,” Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been constructing […]
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07-09-18
Tags:Education statistics Teaching Some interesting statistics. Nothing new, but still useful. How one interprets the data, though, is often up to the reporter. The original is (should be, not working as of now) at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2007 The annual Education at a Glance Report said that of all […]
FT.com / World - OECD criticises waste in education spending
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07-09-08
Tags:Computing Education literacy Teaching International Literacy Day - 8 September. Yes. It’s today, gone mostly unnoticed. International Literacy Day
8 September
Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now close to four billion literate people in the world.
In its resolution A/RES/56/116, the General Assembly proclaimed […]
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07-09-06
Tags:Education This is a clear case where the copyright law is good for nobody. [by the way, is wikipedia down today?] ERIC Microfiche Digitization Project
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
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07-08-14
Tags:Education math symbol system Tried to explain 3-(-5)=8 to my daughter today to no avail. Where I went wrong was to try to explain the whole thing on a number line, but I confused myself before confusing Jessie — I guess she was not bothered by the math challenge at all; she just watched […]
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07-07-22
Tags:Education
NHLBI has a Portion Distortion game, which compares the size of common food items 20 years apart. Here’s a question for you.
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07-07-18
Tags:Education Linguistics
Bill Poser revealed connections among literacy, linen rags, and goat skins in Language Log: The Relationship Between Underwear and Literacy.
July 08, 2007
The Relationship Between Underwear and Literacy
Although the invention of printing with movable type is often taken to be the technology that led to greatly increased literacy, a recent paper argues that […]
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07-06-24
Tags:Education History reading Teaching History of the horn-book was the Book of the Month of King’s College library last month.
Andrew W. Tuer. History of the horn-book. London: Leadenhall Press, 1896. [Rare Books Collection Z1033.H8 T8] When little children first are brought to schooleA Horne-booke is a necessarie toole. William Fennor, Cornucopiæ; […]
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07-06-21
Tags:Education policitcs reading Teaching Education Week reports: The Senate measure, approved 26-3 by the Appropriations Committee, would cut nearly $230 million from Reading First, a 22.3 percent decrease from the $1.1 billion it is receiving in fiscal 2007. Lawmakers want to make sure management problems cited in a series of reports by the Education […]
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07-06-08
Tags:Education Linguistics OT Paperville phonological awareness reading Teaching "I had learned symbols … 1 and 2 and 3 … so I wanted that for five-letter words … I had this idea that … I was going to know just by looking … But there’s no way you could possibly take […]
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07-06-01
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Watch List
I am listening to Historical Jesus by Thomas Sheehan on iTunes U
It’s wonderful. Even though I don’t have an iPod, I can imagine myself walking to and from my parking lot or working out in the Y, while listening or even watching great lectures and talks that […]
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07-05-09
Tags:Education NCLB reading Teaching KENNEDY REPORT ON READING FIRST INVESTIGATION can be found here.
May 9, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released a detailed report regarding the conflicts of interest found within the Reading First program. Kennedy […]
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07-05-07
Tags:Education psychology reading Research Historical Textbooks Collection […]
Special Collections at Harvard Graduate School of Education Library has several special collections on education history:
Special Collections include:
Public School Reports
Private School Catalogs
History of Education and Teacher Training Collection
Action for Children’s Television Collection
Other manuscript and book collections
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07-04-29
Tags:Education Paperville statistics Teaching Richard A. Berk at UCLA Stats dept published a paper entitled Randomized Experiments as the Bronze Standard
ABSTRACT:In this paper, the strengths and weakness of randomized field […]
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