Archive for the 'Education' Category
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 politics 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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07-04-28
Tags:Education English Linguistics Paperville spelling Teaching Among the many treasures there is Webster’s enomoursly popular speller, said to have sold a million copies a year in the […]
In searching for Noah Webser’s "The American Spelling Book" I was directed to this site Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
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07-04-26
Tags:Education English History Linguistics Paperville spelling Internet Archive Search: spelling AND subject:"English language — Orthography and spelling"
Internet Archive has a number of books on spelling and orthography of English.
English spelling and spelling reform - Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, 1838-1915Includes indexesKeywords: English language — Orthography and spelling; Spelling reform
Proposals for a simplified […]
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07-04-23
Tags:Education statistics Teaching Department of Ed released this report on Apr 19, 1 day before the Reading First hearing: Reading First: Student Achievement, Teacher Empowerment, National Success Reading First is working. Reading First is the largest and most effective federal early reading initiative in our nation’s history.
The report (PDF (128 KB)) states:
New achievement data reported by the […]
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07-04-20
Tags:Education politics reading first Teaching We discussed Reading First a couple of weeks ago in my seminar on reading development. In one of the assigned readings, Rudalevige (2003) predicted that make it or break it issue in NCLB is the implementation, because the law itself is essentially a massive bundle of compromises and […]
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07-04-06
Tags:Computing Education reading Teaching technology Report to Congress […]
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07-04-06
Tags:Education evidence based reading Teaching What Works Clearinghouse Intervention: Reading Recovery®
Developer: Dr. Marie M. Clay, University of Auckland, New Zealand and distributed through the Reading Recovery® Council of North America (RRCNA)
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Reading Recovery® is a short-term tutoring intervention program intended to […]
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07-03-16
Tags:Education Linguistics OT phonological awareness reading Research
Reading Acquisition (1992) by Philip B. Gough,Linnea C. Ehri,Rebecca Treiman has a number of papers that are quite revealing, 15 later.
Ch1. Brian Byrne summarized ove 10 small studies on various attempts to teach prereading children simple words and to test transfers. It is […]
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07-03-13
Tags:Education reading Research Teaching
ExpectMore.gov: Reading First State Grants from Office of management and Budget at the White House rated Reading First as Effective. It’s the only part of NCLB that got this rating.
Related, or may be unrelated, Mark Liberman at languagelog posted a message from Ken DeRosa, who dismissed ReadingFirst’s exclusion […]
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07-03-11
Tags:child Education Japanese kana Linguistics phonological awareness Research This paper studies how learning kana may change children’s segmentation skills — the shift from syllable-based to mora-based. Inagaki, K., Hatano, G., & Otake, T. (2000). The effect of Kana literacy acquisition on the speech segmentation unit used by Japanese young children. Journal […]
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