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In Education Reports There Would Always Be False Negatives And False Positives
There is not doubt the teaching career as it is now was originated as a slavery profession back in history. Anywhere I have been, the problem for teachers seems to be the same, no value in regards of their the time, effort, sweat, and even tears that...
A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation
A recent report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for American Progress identifies what it describes as “leaders and laggards” in efforts to reinvent our nation’s public schools. As a backdrop to the federal government’s $4 bil...
How Teachers Are Isolated to Find Solutions to Adolescent Literacy Problems
Educators at any level are quite familiar with reading problems, corrective reading and educational research on this field. A few days now, we posted on Twitter a post asking why cursive writing is not taught in schools anymore. Responses were from,...
Guidelines: How to Protect Your Children Online
Typically we keep reading online and offline on a daily basis. This week we started reading What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know by Debra W. Haffner. While she isn't afraid to tackle the big questions, including drinking, drugs and teen sex, ...
How to Find Authoritative Web Resources for Scientific Research
Instructify:The following is a fragment of the original under the title: Beyond Wikipedia: Locating Authoritative Web Resources for Scientific Research, and reproduced under Creative Commons license.Check Your SourcesWhere your information is coming ...
CEP: NCLB Focus on Proficiency Is Shortchanging Students
CEP (Center on Education Policy) has released an analysis to answer: Is the Emphasis on “Proficiency”Shortchanging Higher- and Lower-Achieving Students? (pdf doc). The study shows good news for the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) policy. Sean Cavanag...
Impacts of a 2008-2010 Recession in Children's Well Being
The Early Ed Watch Blog:A report released this morning, shows that children's well-being started to decline last year and is expected to dip to its lowest point in 2010, when many economists believe the full impact of the recession will be felt.It pr...
Self-representation And Self-exposure Through Online Networks
During May, Kerry Mallan, a Professor in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, published an article at the Digital Culture & Education online journal. The author has published wide...
Teachers Afford to Work for Less Money in Exchange of Better Working Conditions
If teachers are so important, why do we treat them like widgets? Public school teachers burn out because of poor working conditions, writes Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation on Pajamas Media.The study found that public school teachers have -som...
Research Book on Neuroscience And Learning
This post is originated after a tweet that was posted by @edtechcowgirl. We were checking our subscriptions and we found a book recommended by Clark Quinn that would fit Donna Feledichuk's necessities.The book title is Why Don’t Students Like Schoo...
School: Childhood Bullying Linked to Teen Psychosis
Today on my way to work, I was listening The Takeaway aired at NPR. The guest was PhD Dieter Wolke, a professor of developmental psychology and individual differences at the University of Warwick, England. Scientists reporting in the May issue of th...
The Notion of Neo-liberalism as Public Pedagogy
We came across to CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) blog where Joyce Middleton writes about Vorris Nunley's work. Professor Nunley is interested the intersections of rhetoric, space, and episteme. He works as an assistant pro...
The Most Frequently Identified Barriers to the Use of Web 2.0 Technology
A survey, commissioned by Lightspeed Systems and Thinkronize Inc., creator of the kids’ search engine netTrekker, shows that online communication tools for parents and students have caught on quickly, but online social networking for instruction ha...
Teenagers: Inequality Being Reproduced by Social Media
Teens are using social network sites as a social hangout with their pre-existing network.Researcher Danah Boyd over the weeken was participating at Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. There she spoke about Living and Lea...
Teaching Students How to Handle Failure
During this weekend I was reading the print edition of ReaderDigest, May edition, and I found an interesting article about how parents are growing kids "defenseless against failure."The article supports the investigation realized by Carol Dweck a PhD...
2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
After reading that Stephen Downes is likely the most prominent voice in evaluating both the nature of learning changes and the future impact of ed tech, we have to adhere to G. Siemens appreciations.Downes has unintentionally collaborated to the futu...
Teaching Basic Concepts Behind Math Problems Are More Useful Than Teaching Children Procedures for Solving Problems
Scientific BloggingNew research from Vanderbilt University has found students benefit more from being taught the concepts behind math problems rather than the exact procedures to solve the problems. The findings offer teachers new insights on how bes...
Illiterate Teachers: Is it Ok to Stay That Way?
In a commented post, Pat explains the results of a Survey of the American Teacher, conducted by MetLife. It is an important piece you should read especially that section where the survey (pdf doc) says "teachers just plain haven't embraced digital fo...
Call for Papers on Applied Research in Workplace E-Learning
The new Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-Learning is based in Australia, reports Will Thalheimer, the online journal will publish both refereed and non-refereed articles "from both researchers and practitioners relating to the design, imple...
Studies Showing How Thoughts And Memories Are Represented
I had to be offline for quite some days but thanks God, we are back and fresh to keep up with our readers, subscribers and fellow educators who happen to read Education & Teach.Donald Clark, in his post Mind Reading and Learning takes issue with bra...
School Buses and Podcasts Are Incorparated As/In Classrooms
Pay attention to innovators. We always appreciate colleagues that jump from the traditional method of learning and teaching and look beyond horizon to give kids a new opportunity. Now two researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville are looking ...
Science: American College Freshmen Compared to Their Chinese Counterparts
All time we hear complains about math exercise of knowledge, but few comment on math experiences, or the meanings of symbolism in math. We even were told that U.S. struggling with a shortage of math and science teachers.But what's happening with all...
Gates Foundation Still Has a Lot to Learn About Education
Our goal as a nation should be to ensure that 80 percent of our students graduate from high school fully ready to attend college by 2025.This is the goal this fascinating article and worth reading discuss on why Bill Gates Foundation should "never tr...
PhD Research on Teens and Online Social Networks
Blogger, speaker researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Danah Boyd recently finished her PhD. at University of California, Berkeley, and for those interested in youth culture...
Virginity Pledges Are Not a Marker for Less Sexual Activity
This study compares the sexual activity of adolescent virginity pledgers with matched nonpledgers by using more robust methods than past research. Research was conducted by Janet Elise Rosenbaum, PhD., and published this month in Pediatrics. What Ms....
