I’m beginning to republish posts that made it onto my A LOOK BACK: 2019’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART TWO list. Kunnasberg / Pixabay The American Institutes of Research just released a study finding that a program called Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) was very effective at improving academic progress for ninth-graders and enhancing their connection to school. Here’s how Ed Week summa
I’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE TWELFT
This is another end-of-year “Best” lists. I’m adding list list to ALL MY 2019 “BEST” LISTS IN ONE PLACE! You can find previous editions of this list, along with all “Best” lists related to ELL instruction, here. Here are my choices: To start off, you want to follow all these folks on Twitter and, if you’re not on Twitter, go to their Twitter page and then click on links to their blogs. They share
I’m beginning to republish posts that made it onto my A LOOK BACK: 2019’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART TWO list. TuendeBede / Pixabay If You Want Engaged Employees, Offer Them Stability is an interesting new article in The Harvard Business Journal. The author, Marla Gottschalk, makes lots of points that are directly applicable to the classroom. She highlights three main features, based on res
waldryano / Pixabay Check out this video from CBS This Morning. You might also be interested in this three-part series Dr. Terri Watson guest-hosted at my Ed Week column on this very topic , as well as this previous post: Good USA Today Feature On How Black Girls Are Treated Unfairly.
U.S. has world’s highest rate of detained kids; should be ‘last resort,’ says U.N. is a depressing article appearing at NBC News. It says: The United States detains an average of 60 out of every 100,000 children in its justice system or immigration-related custody, Nowak said, the world’s highest rate, followed by countries such as Bolivia, Botswana and Sri Lanka….The U.S. rate compared with an a
Student Differences Are Not Deficits is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Today’s commentaries on the difference between treating students “equally” and “fairly” come from Kelly Capatosto, Gina Laura
