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Saturday, July 31, 2010

PostRank’s Top Posts For July From This Blog | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

PostRank’s Top Posts For July From This Blog | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

PostRank’s Top Posts For July From This Blog

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I regularly share my picks for the most useful posts of each month. I also publish a list of the month’s most popular posts, based on the number of times they are “clicked-on.”
I also share a list of Post Rank’s analysis of each month’s top posts.Post Rank uses a variety of ways to measure level of “engagement” that readers have with specific blog posts. I have a constantly updated “widget” on my blog’s sidebar that lists these posts, but I thought a monthly post would be helpful/interesting to subscribers who don’t regularly visit the blog itself.
Here are their rankings for the month of July:

My Best Posts On Classroom Management

Useful Bloom’s Taxonomy “Pie” Chart

What Does PostRank Say Are The Top Ten “Most Engaged” Education Blogs?

The Best Resources For Learning About Effective Student & Teacher Assessments

When & Why Is It Important To Have Silence In The Classroom?

“Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality”

The Best “When I Say Jump” Online Sites For Practicing English

Easily Create Activities With “Docs Teach” From The National Archives

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Summer engineering program fosters genuine interest for some students

Summer engineering program fosters genuine interest for some students

Summer engineering program fosters genuine interest for some students

Shiesha McNeil, left, 16, and Janay Harrison, 16, prepare to test the strength of their bridge during the Engineering Innovation summer course at UDC.
Shiesha McNeil, left, 16, and Janay Harrison, 16, prepare to test the strength of their bridge during the Engineering Innovation summer course at UDC. (Jahi Chikwendiu/the Washington Post)
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

High school students Aszurtoine Gunter-Fields and Terrell Ford built a bridge that just wouldn't break.
Using only spaghetti, epoxy resin and glue, the rising seniors at Washington Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High School engineered a bridge Friday that withstood nearly 58 pounds before collapsing.
The project was the culmination of a four-week Johns Hopkins University program for high school students held at the University of the District of Columbia. Aszurtoine and Terrell were among 10 District students who participated in the program, in which professors compact a semester-long freshman


School reform on two tracks: fast and slow


Education Secretary Arne Duncan talks about the federal Race to the Top grant competition at the National Press Club. (Drew Angerer/AP)

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1st high school stem cell curriculum offered

1st high school stem cell curriculum offered

1st high school stem cell curriculum offered





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California is home to some of the world's most promising stem cell research, but to sustain the industry, the state will need an ever-increasing army of trained workers - from lab technicians to top-level researchers - and a healthy backbone of nonscientists who understand the issues at stake, say stem cell research advocates.
With that in mind, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has developed the country's first high-school stem cell curriculum, which will be pitched to science teachers this fall. It is already being taught at a handful of Bay Area high schools.


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1st high school stem cell curriculum offered

California is home to some of the world's most promising stem cell research, but to sustain the industry...

Oakland school board puts parcel tax on ballot

Oakland school board puts parcel tax on ballot
Oakland voters will decide a $195 parcel tax on the November ballot, a measure approved by the school...



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Schools Matter: In Detroit Schools News It's Democracy 1, Oligarchs 0

Schools Matter: In Detroit Schools News It's Democracy 1, Oligarchs 0

In Detroit Schools News It's Democracy 1, Oligarchs 0

by Jim Horn
How refreshing it is to see publicly elected officials responding to demands by the public. From the Detroit News:
DARREN A. NICHOLS
The Detroit News

Detroit --The City Council voted 6-3 this afternoon against asking voters in November if they want to authorize mayoral control of the Detroit Public Schools.

Dozens in the audience erupted in applause and shouts of "it's all over."

The council rejected a proposal fine-tuned this afternoon from Council President Pro Tem Gary
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Arne’s Message to Nation’s Teachers � InterACT

Arne’s Message to Nation’s Teachers � InterACT

Arne’s Message to Nation’s Teachers

by Martha Infante

Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education (image from dailybeast.com)
Conscientious educators took time out of their summer vacation to listen to the messages from Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and the President himself, at speeches made at the National Press Club and the National Urban League. Vast amounts of commentary, critiques, and position papers have been written about
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Friday, July 30, 2010

School Tech Connect: I Refudiate The Status Quo!

School Tech Connect: I Refudiate The Status Quo!

I Refudiate The Status Quo!

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
I saw the word "frumious" come up in some @fklonksy traffic, and I've found the original link. Sure enough, it's from


Recapping The President's Education Priorities

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
When you come right down to it, it's about this: the currently in-power reform people want to spend less money on education. As for President Obama's recent comment that he wants to give more money to teachers (for test scores), well, that's not really what his coalition is about. You cannot be in a coalition with people whose domestic policy starts and ends with tax cuts for the wealthy and expect to give more money to public school teachers. It's a self-delusion that he's under, this President.

It's Not Change... It's Stupidity

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Well, you have to give the President credit: he's standing by his positions and not trying to make everybody happy. My hat is off to him; he's declared war on teachers and is probably going to win. He sees the widespread criticism of RTTB as "natural resistance to change."
What he doesn't see is that it isn't change teachers and civil rights groups are opposing, it's the intensification of the same old thing: the preeminence of high-stakes bubble testing in every aspect of policy. He appears to be
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Obama Vows, 'I'll ... Fight for Race to the Top with Everything I've Got' -- THE Journal

Obama Vows, 'I'll ... Fight for Race to the Top with Everything I've Got' -- THE Journal

Obama Vows, 'I'll ... Fight for Race to the Top with Everything I've Got'

Just two days after his administration announced phase 2 Race to the Top finalists, President Obama was on the defensive about the controversial reform program operated out of the United States Department of Education. Speaking Thursday at the National Urban League Centennial Conference in Washington, DC, Obama vowed he would fight to defend the program and would resort to using the veto, if necessary, to maintain its integrity.

Race to the Top is a federal program whose stated purpose is to drive reform in public education. It's designed to shape states' education policies by offering state governments part of a $4.35 billion pool to tackle some of the priorities of the current Department of Education, priorities that depend in no small part on continued, even expanded reliance on high-stakes testing, such as holding teachers accountable for their effectiveness in driving increases in measures of student achievement and encouraging states to develop programs to turn around "underperforming" schools, as well as developing new data systems for tracking progress.

The program has come under attack by organizations that have traditionally been advocates of education and have largely supported Democratic policies, including the 3.2 million-member National Education Association (NEA). NEA earlier this month gave the program a symbolic vote of "no confidence." The group also opposed extending funding for Race to the Top after the administration asked for another

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As school transformation begins, some principals are let go | GothamSchools

As school transformation begins, some principals are let go | GothamSchools

As school transformation begins, some principals are let go

by Anna Phillips
The city is removing principals of some schools the city is overhauling with federal funds but keeping others in place, according to an email from a principal today.
In an email obtained by GothamSchools, the principal of William Grady CTE High School told his staff that the city had decided to replace him and several other unnamed principals next year. The announcement was not a complete surprise, as principals of the eleven schools set to begin a new turnaround strategy next year have known they could lose their jobs for over a month.
The new strategy, known as the transformation model, is part of a federal program to improve some of the

Remainders: Do principals know good teaching when they see it?

by Elizabeth Green
  • Some principals have frighteningly few thoughts about good instruction. (John Thompson)
  • Klein complained the Times’ test score coverage was “outrageous.” (NYC Public School Parents)
  • New Cleveland contract saves jobs, cuts training days, expands peer review. (Catalyst Ohio)
  • Colorado seemed certain to pass common core standards. Not anymore. (Ed News Colorado)
  • Having a working mother won’t harm children after all, study says. (Washington Post)
  • Rick Hess liked Obama’s speech, but doesn’t want words to lead to “over-reach.” (Hess Straight Up)
  • Randi Weingarten found something to like about Race to the Top, too. (Teacher Beat)
  • A Bronx Prep educator took part in a Capitol Hill briefing urging cross-discipline work. (ACSD In Service)
  • A new paper on teacher pensions finds that unions aren’t the only ones to blame. (Eduwonk.com)”>Eduwonk)
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300 rally at Cook County Jail against AZ law. � Fred Klonsky's blog

300 rally at Cook County Jail against AZ law. � Fred Klonsky's blog

300 rally at Cook County Jail against AZ law.

by preaprez

Photo: Fight Back News
Thursday 300 people rallied at the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago. The rally was part of national demonstrations that opposed SB1070, Arizona’s racist, anti-immigrant law.
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