Thursday, February 20, 2014

2-20-14 The Answer Sheet

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What if Google ran the college application process?
If you have ever been through the college admissions process, or your child has, or, if anybody you have ever known has been remotely connected to it, then you know how crazy it is. In this post, Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University in Chicago writes about the […]    

#ResistTFA popular on Twitter
A student-led campaign against Teach For America took to Twitter this week and has been proving to be popular, at one point more so than tweets with the Olympic hashtag. The Twitter effort is being led by Students United for Public Education, a grassroots, student-led organization founded by Stephanie Rivera, a Rutgers University Graduate School of […]    
2-19-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: How children learn to readHow do children really learn to read? Answering that question is  Joanne Yatvin, a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English who now supervises student teachers for Portland State University. She also writes books for teachers. By Joanne Yatvin A few months before my fifth birthday my parents enrolled me in kindergarten.  […]    9 by