Nice New Infographic From “Miniature Earth”
Miniature Earth ranks prominently in The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People, and they’ve just published this nice new infographic: Explore more visuals like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.
Important New Report Questions VAM
An important new report was published today raising major questions about the usefulness of Value-Added Measurement as a teacher evaluation tool. Read about it at The Washington Post’s article, Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performance, and at Education Week’s piece, Studies Highlight Complexities of Using Value-Added Measures. I’m adding this info to
5-12-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: My Latest NY Times Post For ELLs is on Mexico, Travel & “Articles”In my latest NY Times post for English Language Learners, learn about Mexico, words that are “articles,” and how students can create reports on what they would do if they could spend 36 hours in any country. A student interactive and links to models are i
