September 2010
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Should We Pay Kids To Go to School? - GOOD... →
One of the ideas kicking around is cash incentives for both students and parents.
In St. Louis, a neighborhood school competing against charters and magnets, needing to boost its enrollment as much as its test scores, isoffering $300 per child per semester to parents who send it their kids there (provided the student has exemplary attendance and that the parent attends three parent-teacher...
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thepaperdollspeaks:
only covers. she thought, i have all of these journals but nothing to say.
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Education Week: State Group Piloting Teacher... →
ladyprice:
This pre-licensing exam will model the standards and process the National Board for Professional and Teaching Standards use to assess and certify teachers!!!
August 2010
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The End of Human Specialness →
infoneer-pulse:
The defining idea of the coming era is actually the loss of an idea we never had to worry about losing before. It is the decay of belief in the specialness of being human.
As an example of what that would mean, consider the common practice of students blogging, networking, or tweeting while listening to a speaker. At a recent lecture, I said: “The most important reason to stop...
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“Your library is your paradise.”
– Desiderius Erasmus (via librarianista)
A Book Picnic
dreamcamera:
As summer winds down, I look back at my favorite warm-weather activity: the book picnic. All I need to be happy is a spot of grass, a blanket and books to devour.
I took these photos earlier in the summer. I need to get back out there before it starts snowing again in Chicago.
{taken with Minolta XG1, Fuji Superia 400}
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She has learned over the years that sanity... →
She has learned over the years that sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband & servants but for the sake, first & foremost, of one’s own convictions. She is the author; the others are the readers. This particular novel concerns a serene, intelligent…
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“No ending can be right, because it shouldn’t be over at all. The magic is not...”
– Stephen King (via xmadeleineanniex) (via readgeek)
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Social and Emotional Learning and the Start of... →
The director of the Social-Emotional Learning Lab at Rutgers University offers several tips for teachers on how to excite students and make them feel comfortable as the school year begins. In this blog post, Maurice Elias writes that teachers should greet students in a positive way, focus on the good things the class will be doing and allow students to share what they did over the summer.
Elias...
“But it’s a mistake to think that casual, social network-based games are just for...”
– 56 Million Americans Are Playing Social Games [STATS] (via world-shaker)
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“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the...”
– Guy Browning (via librarianista)
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“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
– George Scialabba (via libraryland)
Things for Teachers: SMARTBoard resources:... →
Tumblr teachers coming through again! Thanks for the great responses, I’ve bookmarked all of them and plan to play around when/if this SMARTBoard comes to fruition. Here are the resources shared with me:
From nishashireen: pbs.org/history
From world-shaker: smartboardgoodies.com, …
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