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RT @: The real significance of “Mad Men”: Draper's kids would be 56 today. Look around.
about 15 hours ago
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D.Ravitch: “Obama ed. vision…is a business plan, designed by people who know 0 about schools and care 0 about evidence -
5:12 AM Nov 14th
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Study: PowerPoint induces boredom (), maybe b/c it just tarts up lectures. Still transmitting info to passive recipients
5:45 AM Nov 13th
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Have been searching – so far in vain – for any data to confirm conventional wisdom about “overparenting” being more common now than in past
6:03 AM Nov 12th
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In 1 of his last arts., Bracey took 5 pars. to demolish the canard that stud test scores predict a nation’s eco health:
5:42 AM Nov 11th
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We know it doesn't help learning, but here's more evid. that merit pay doesn't even raise test scores: (RT @)
6:16 AM Nov 10th
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My short published response to the school librarians’ assn’s “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner”:
5:27 AM Nov 9th
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State NAEP scores unrelated to supposed quality of state standards or stringency of state tests:
6:25 AM Nov 7th
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Making kids read x pgs, or for y mins, a night turns reading into a chore. Former book lovers now ask “How many more mins do I have to...?"
6:40 AM Nov 6th
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We want toddlers to walk, use the potty, do more on their own. Yet we don’t push teens to grow up: C’mon! Start driving & have sex already!
4:39 AM Nov 5th
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"Be patient": Interesting reflections on Maine’s repeal of a law saying everyone, not just straight people, can marry:
7:59 AM Nov 4th
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The country that right wingers ‘want back’ is a white one where their exclusive entitlemt to the exercise of power is unchallenged –G Younge
5:07 AM Nov 4th
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11 states cutting open-response test Q’s to save $, adding more mult.choice while acknowledging its inadequacy –GAO via Ed Week
5:08 AM Nov 3rd
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From the archives: “Feel-Bad Education: The Cult of Rigor & the Loss of Joy” --
4:32 AM Nov 2nd
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Young women ask me how to balance work & family; we’ll have made progress when young *men* ask me –Gloria Steinem…in 1979
5:35 AM Nov 1st
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Not just merit pay for tchrs: revw of 57 studies reveals failure of incentive-based compens throughout the publ sector:
5:28 AM Oct 31st
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Why do people think public ed is bad, but like THEIR kid’s schl? A. Duncan: b/c “too many don’t understand how bad their own schls are”!
4:28 AM Oct 30th
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Onion headline: "Obama's Declaration of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response"
12:19 PM Oct 29th
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What should high school be like? The wisdom of the late Ted Sizer in this 2000 podcast interview:
5:05 AM Oct 29th
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Headline in Harvard Lampoon’s parody of USA Today: “Chromium Is Heaviest Metal, Poll Finds”
4:58 AM Oct 28th
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- Name Alfie Kohn
- Location Boston area
- Web http://www.alfiek...
- Bio author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavior
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