Tag: school
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Why Parents Aren’t Reading to Kids, and What It Means for Young Students (The 74) Maybe there are other reasons our kids aren’t reading as much these days, other than social media. Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Falkenberg has written about Houston Independent School District leaders frowning on kids reading…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Push for Indiana Schools to Share Buses and Buildings Ramps Up (The 74) The 74 reported this week that, “A push from Indiana’s legislature for the Indianapolis school district and charter schools to share buses and school building is raising temper, as opponents jockey over scarce resources and…
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The Best of The 74
The 74 online just released their top 2023 articles. Over the next two weeks, eight of those articles will be presented here, with commentary added. Back in April, Margaret Raymond, the founder and director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, warned us of a terrible truth – that what traditional…
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Traditional Schools Fail at Quality Learner Feedback
Experience tells me that very few parents know how their kids perform academically in school. If you would ask a mom or dad, no matter their economic status, how their child performed in math or English class, I suspect most would offer some sort of general statement like “I think they are doing ok.” This…
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Big Rocks!
I spent all my professional career teaching and leading schools in Texas. When I first arrived to the Lone Star State in 1984 the public school system had a state curriculum known as “Essential Elements”. Later, the “Essential Elements” turned into the “Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills”, or “TEKS”. A big problem with the “Essential…
A Better Path to Learning 