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Lobato 8/16: Preschool report card | EdNewsColorado

Lobato 8/16: Preschool report card | EdNewsColorado

Lobato 8/16: Preschool report card

The Colorado Preschool Program is underfunded, sets low qualifications for teachers and doesn’t reach enough children, Rutgers University Professor Steven Barnett testified during the Lobato v. State school funding trial Tuesday.

Lobato v. State illustrationBarnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, testified as an expert witness for the two groups of plaintiffs who are suing the state,

Education Week Teacher Larry Ferlazzo: Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching

Education Week Teacher: Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching

Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching

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It's not hard to find checklists that are supposed to make it easy to improve schools and classroom instruction. What's difficult is locating checklists that you can remember and that are actually useful, as I've written about before.

My own list—while not necessarily easy to implement—is easy to remember. And it has served my students and me well. Maybe that's because my list focuses on questions rather than tips.

"Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer to the person with whom I am communicating—or will it push me further away?"

I've borrowed this question from Marvin Marshall, a well-known

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Innovator: Carnegie Mellon's Richard McCullough

businessweek.com - Through his startup Plextronics, the professor is working on conductive "ink" that could lay the groundwork for thin, flexible phones and TVsBy Karen A. FrenkelRichard McCullough (left), Andrew W. ...

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Timothy D. Slekar: Scapegoating Schools of Education

huffingtonpost.com - When did George Washington cross the Delaware?Why did George Washington cross the Delaware?Can you guess which of these questions my teacher education students know the answer to? Come on and try i...

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You Can't Waive The Reality Of Our Public Schools

dailykos.com - Cross posted from Campaign for America's Future ourfuture.org So much for the "New Washington Consensus on Education". Education policy, we were told by conservative leaders merely six months ago, ...

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Tuesday randomness. « Fred Klonsky's blog

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South Siders Revive Fight For U Of C Trauma Center (VIDEO)

progressillinois.com - Young leaders on the South Side are once again pushing for emergency care. A group by the name Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) is calling on the University of Chicago’s Medical Center to operat...

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Headlines for August 16, 2011

democracynow.org - 89 Killed in Iraq’s Deadliest Day of 2011Iraq suffered its deadliest day of the year on Monday with some 89 killed and more than 300 injured in dozens of coordinated attacks across the country. Mil...

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Top Tabloid Editors Endorsed Hacking, Letter Says

nytimes.com - LONDON — A high-profile parliamentary panel investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid released new allegations Tuesday suggesting that, despite assertion...

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Who Is More Qualified Than Ruben Brosbe?

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Harold McGraw III - The McGraw

mcgraw-hill.com - Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerThe McGraw-Hill CompaniesHarold (Terry) McGraw III is chairman, president and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a leading global f...

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After angering parents, Netflix focuses on kids

mercurynews.com - Click photo to enlarge Netflix has made it easier and more fun for kids and families to instantly watch a huge range of kid-friendly TV shows and movies with its new "Just for Kids" exper...

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Warren Buffet signals successor has been chosen

democraticunderground.com - Source: Raw StoryAmerican billionaire Warren Buffett has indicated that a successor to head his Berkshire Hathaway firm has already been "agreed on" and could step in as soon as the investment guru...

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Your Amazing Brain -- National Geographic Kids

kids.nationalgeographic.com - You carry around a three-pound mass of wrinkly material in your head that controls every single thing you will ever do. From enabling you to think, learn, create, and feel emotions to controlling e...

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Mama Bears Don’t Like Mold « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - I never thought much about mold, until my first child was born. We came home from the hospital and discovered greenish black mold covered the wall behind the family bed. With a three-day-old baby i...

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Facebook: enemigo del aprendizaje - Univision Vida y Familia

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Los padres empiezan a consternarse al saber que Facebook puede ser una ser una causa para obstaculizar el aprendizaje y hacer que los niños estén menos saludables y más deprimidos. Estudios ha enco...

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Headlines for August 16, 2011

democracynow.org - 89 Killed in Iraq’s Deadliest Day of 2011Iraq suffered its deadliest day of the year on Monday with some 89 killed and more than 300 injured in dozens of coordinated attacks across the country. Mil...

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