Quote Of The Day: “Why Paying Kids to Do Homework Can Backfire”
Why Paying Kids to Do Homework Can Backfire is an article published today at TIME. It doesn’t offer anything particularly new to longtime readers of this blog or my books, but it does provide a good summary of research. Here’s an excerpt:
The Late Educator Paulo Freire Was Born On This Day
Image via Wikipedia The late educator Paulo Freire was born on this day in 1921. You can read more about him at The Zinn Education Project’s Facebook page. You might also be interested in a New York Times post I wrote that includes a lesson building on his work, and a post that appeared on this blog awhile back, What Would Paulo Freire Do If He Was A School Superintendent?
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: September’s (2013) Best Tweets — Part ThreeEvery month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I