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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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07-09-11
Tags:psychology Research Teaching Reviewing a manuscript using Structural Equational Modeling, I was reminded an old idea that I haven’t revisited for a long while. The Nomological Network The nomological network is an idea that was developed by Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl in 1955 (Cronbach, L. and Meehl, P. (1955). Construct validity in […]
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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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07-08-29
Tags:economics modeling rationality reading Research Teaching I generally do not read newspapers, but this one strikes either a chord or a dischord, something I am still trying to figure out. Steven Pearlstein - On Poverty, Maybe We’re All Wrong - washingtonpost.com
… after doing lots of reading and giving it extensive thought, […]
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07-08-02
Tags:Linguistics phonological awareness Research Sanskrit Teaching writing system Richard Sproad mentioned in the following chapter the possibility that inventers of the Brahmi script prepared themselves for the segmental challenges through the practice of the Ghana-patha.
Richard Sproat, "A Formal Computational Analysis of Indic Scripts", International Symposium on Indic Scripts: […]
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07-08-02
Tags:health media Paperville reading statistics Teaching
Hardly a day goes by without some sensatinoal claims about what reading does for the mind, or brain. Some turn out to be true, but many skeptical. Here’s a recent news piece from HealthDay that circulated among national newspapers such as the Washington Post.
Lead […]
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07-07-19
Tags:Teaching Watch List Wellcome Library opens an image bank of historical and contemporary images for free access (Creative Commons licenses). It’s wired mixture of medical, realistic, and artistic images, such as this one, published in the 15th century: ImageIndex+ Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290
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07-06-28
Tags:eye movement OddsnEnds reading Teaching Mark Liberman has a post on Language Log: Reading two pages at once that goes back to Barbara Partee. Reportedly ("A genius explains", 2/12/2005), Kim Peek, the real-life Rain Man, was able to do this feat. I […]
"Peek can read two pages simultaneously, one with each eye."
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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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07-06-06
Tags:evolution language Linguistics OED Research Teaching While we are on evolution, I might as well add some etymology to the mix. It turned out that my folk etymology of the word had a big hole. evolving, as in turning […]
The word Evolution used to bring up the following thoughts in my mind.
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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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07-05-10
Tags:Teaching Two days before graduation, this is a fitting paper to read — if you have access to this journal, that is. Sand-Jensen, KajHow to write consistently boring scientific literature.Oikos 116 (5), 723-727.doi: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.15674.x Fig. 1 "Congratulations, you are now capable of writing technical, impersonal and boring papers like myself […]
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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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07-04-29
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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07-04-23
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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07-04-19
Tags:Linguistics reading spelling Teaching The source of this story is attributed to Phil Gough. I am guilty of not reading Phil’s work carefully, but I believe this is the first time I heard this story. What strikes me is that the author — possibly Phil? — assumes that the Latin, Greek, or Hebrew […]
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