A Few Final Memorial Day Resources
Here are a few final additions to The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day: How African-Americans in South Carolina invented Memorial Day is from Vox. Sacrifices Set in Adorned Stone is a photo gallery from The New York Times. A Real Story of Memorial Day is from The Atlantic.
Here Are The Eleven Sites I’m Using For My Summer School “Virtual Classroom”
Our school year will be ending in two-and-a-half weeks and, as usual, our District has little money for actual summer school. We used to have over one thousand of our students attending for at least six weeks — not because they were failing and had to retake classes, but because they wanted to get ahead. Now, we’re down to four classes for students who have failed a class and have to take it agai
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles About Education Policy
Here are some recent good posts and articles on education policy issues: Who Gets To Graduate is by Paul Tough and appears in The New York Times. He raises many useful points, but misses others. Those “misses” are pointed out in a good response in The EduOptimists titled Doing What’s Easy: Comments on “Who Gets to Graduate?” IT echoes similar points I made in a Washington Post piece, The manipula
5-25-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Dr. Walter Mischel, Creator Of Famous Marshmallow Test, Is Writing A BookDr. Walter Mischel, creator of the famous marshmallow test used by many of us in classroom lessons, is writing a book that will be published in September. It’s titled The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control. I’ve written many posts over the years