Refugee Resources Here are some new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day (it’s not until June 20th but, obviously, the resources can be used at any time): Faces of the displaced is a series of photos from The Boston Globe’s Big Picture. ...
March’s “The Best…” Lists Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted in March (there were quite a few): The Best Sites For Seeing “Pictures Of The Year International” Winners — March, 2011 The Best Resources Documenting The Effectiveness of Free Voluntary ...
“Idioms 4 You” Idioms 4 You provides explanations of numerous English idioms. It provides them in various scenarios — all with audio support. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide any visual clues, but I’m still adding it to The Best Sites To Help ELL’s Learn Idioms & ...
Not Everything Will “show up in each semester’s test scores and statistics” — A Must-Read NY Times Column What I Learned at School is an op-ed in today’s New York Times. It’s written by novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee. Here’s an excerpt: *I can now appreciate how much courage it must have taken for those teachers to let me deviate so broadly from the lesson ...
Take Virtual Field Trips With Google Street View Google has just created a gallery where you can visit historic areas around the world using its Street View feature. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Finding And Creating Virtual Field Trips.
New Marzano Study On “Effort & Recognition” The Marzano Research Laboratory has just published a “meta-analysis” of twelve studies on the impact of “effort & recognition” on student achievement. It says it results in a very substantial gain. This is their definition of “effort and ...
The Best Posts & Articles About “Erase To The Top” The Washington, D.C. testing scandal, and Michelle Rhee’s clumsy (she eventually called it “stupid”) attack on U.S.A. Today’s discovery of it, has been in the news the past few days. Robert Pondiscio has come-up with a catchy phrase to describe it — ...