Archive for the 'Education' Category

07-03-11

Tags:Education google india reading Teaching TV Google.org was established about a year ago. According to its frontpage:
Welcome to Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google […]

">Google.org, PlanetRead, and Same Language Subtitling
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07-03-03

Tags:Education Linguistics Research Mark Liberman speaks today on Whole Language — a bit late in the game but nonetheless informative. I said he’s late because, with NCLB and Reading First, it’s hard to find folks who identify themselves as WL practioners. The current buzz word is "balanced approaches," as if a combination of WL […]

">Linguists on reading and writing
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07-02-18

Tags:Education Linguistics psychology Research  William Gray (1956) concluded that:
“These studies demonstrate that the general nature of the reading act is essentially the same among all mature readers. … The mature reader, as he seeks the meaning of the passage, follows the lines in an alternation of short eye movements and pauses. At […]

">Gray (1956): Reading eye movements in 14 languages
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07-02-06

Tags:Education Linguistics punctuation English Language History, with excursus on Technology

>Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince >me that technology was a factor, but not that it was the MAIN factor. >Can you elaborate?
What else could it be but technology? Writing is […]

">English Language History, with excursus on Technology

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07-01-30

Tags:Education eye movement Japanese Linguistics OddsnEnds reading Research word
Nobuyuki did some digging on the topic of using white spaces in Japanese elementary textbooks. See his posts here and here.
It all started with a simple question a couple of years ago when I visited RIKEN BSI. We grabbed […]

">Word parsing in Japanese Elementary Textbooks
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07-01-29

Tags:Education Teaching
Open CRS Network - CRS Reports for the People has a Jan 20, 2006 report on the Reading First controversy.
RL33246 Reading First: Implementation Issues and Controversies January 20, 2006
Download Locations:

Open CRS (User submitted)

Summary:

The Reading […]

">Congressional Report on Reading First

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07-01-26

Tags:Education Profiles Research Sam Odom gave a very interesting talk today on peer acceptance and rejection among preschool children with disabilities. They used a mixed method approach based on
Caracelli & Greene (1997). Crafting mixed-methods evaluations design. In Caracelli & Greene (Eds.), Advances in mixed-method evaluation: the challenges and benefits of integrating (pp. 19-32). SF: […]

">Sam Odom: Mixed methods
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06-11-30

Tags:dyslexia Education policy Teaching With the 2004 IDEA reauthorization, the IQ-reading discrepancy is no longer a criterion for dyslexia/reading disability.  This is what Linda Siegle and others have advocated for over a decade.
What, then, is the diagnostic criterion now? 
(A) In general.–Notwithstanding section 607(b), when determining whether a child has a specific learning […]

">Dyslexia: Discrepancy Definition Abolished
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06-11-16

Tags: Report: No Child Left Behind is out of step with special education

Report: No Child Left Behind is out of step with special education
Survey reveals conflicts for school administrators
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE […]

">Report: No Child Left Behind is out of step with special education

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06-11-16

Tags:achievement gap Education NCLB Teaching NPR : The ‘Achievement Gap’ Gets Wider, Despite Changes

 
Education
The ‘Achievement Gap’ Gets Wider, Despite Changes
by Larry Abramson 
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">NPR : The ‘Achievement Gap’ Gets Wider, Despite Changes

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06-11-09

Tags:Education Teaching I got a letter from Pearson Education protesting against the May 2006 report from NCTQ
What Education Schools Aren’t Teaching About Reading–and What Elementary Teachers Aren’t Learning. In this groundbreaking report, NCTQ studied a large representative sampling of ed schools to find out what future elementary teachers are–and are not–learning about reading instruction. […]

">NCTQ report on Literacy Teacher Education
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06-10-19

Tags:Education policy Teaching EdWeek hosted an on-line chat forum on educational policy.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Changing Role of the U.S. Department of Education

Oct. 18, 2006
Guest: Christopher T. Cross, author of Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age and former assistant secretary for educational research and improvement under President George […]

">The Changing Role of the U.S. Department of Education

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06-10-05

Tags:Computing Education google literacy Teaching Watch List Funny that I was thinking about how Google could help with learning to read last week, and today Google launches literacy project to link resources

The project, at google.com/literacy and google.de/literacy, also serves as a fresh way for Google to expand and differentiate its […]

">Google Literacy

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06-10-02

Tags:Education Profiles psy145 Teaching
Josh Benton, Dallas Morning News Education Columnist wrote a series of interesting articles about recent trends in the for-profit education world. This was back in May.

05.30.06 Low-cost education providers see a world of opportunity; With focus on poor, firms vie for piece of global market […]

">Josh Benton

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06-09-29

Tags:Education NCLB Teaching From Hoover Institution’s Hoover Digest earlier this year. The reference to CA’s Whole Language saga confuses me, although the main point has been made abandontly clear. The original Koret report is available at School Accountability: An Assessment by the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.
No Child Left Behind: The Bad […]

">No Child Left Behind: The Bad and the Good by Chester E. Finn Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli
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06-09-28

Tags:Education eye movement psychology reading An older news featuring Eric Reichle and his mindless reading studies; typical for how the media present research and researchers.  

USATODAY.com - Mindless reading seen as fundamental
 

 
Mindless reading seen as fundamentalPosted 7/3/2006 2:24 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a […]

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06-09-28

Tags:Education Japanese Paperville preschool reading Research
In a recent paper Early Childhood Research Quarterly : Maternal involvement in preschool children’s education in Japan: Relation to parenting beliefs and socioeconomic status Y.  Yamamoto and colleagues from UC Berkeley reported educational beliefs and practice of Japanese parents of preschool children. Here is the […]

">Japanese parents reading to preschoolers 2.5 days per week
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06-09-19

Tags:culture dyslexia Education medicalization psychology Teaching In the latest issue of Society (Vol 43, issue 6, Sep/Oct, 2006, SocietyTOC-SeptOct.pdf for ToC, no online access) there is a paper symposium on medicalization.

Frank Furedi argued that medicalization in modern America is no longer dominated by the interests of physicians. A combination of forces, […]

">The American way of medicalization

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06-09-19

Tags:Education Teaching Phonics in Proper Perspective (10th Edition): Books: Arthur W. Heilman

 
Some interesting quotes from the 2nd edition:
"… each [of the new approaches to teaching beginning reading] has the redeeming humanitarian virtue of attempting to temporarily protect the child from the vagaries of English spelling. … Each of the code cracking methods is in essence […]

">Amazon.com: Phonics in Proper Perspective (10th Edition): Books: Arthur W. Heilman

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06-09-14

Tags:Chinese dyslexia Education Japanese media Research Teaching A student in my class dug out some pretty interesting news report on the rate of dyslexia in East Asia. According to: 

TIME Asia Print Page: Minds at Risk — September 8, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 9

Dyslexia is universal, […]

">TIME Asia Print Page: Minds at Risk — September 8, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 9

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