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October 2008
Voter's Guide
October 29, 2008
The Center for Education Reform has established a Voter's Guide page on their website. Here is their explanation of the page and its information: "The Center for Education Reform's election year analyses are typically limited to taking the temperature - and comparing the positions - of the... Read More ⇒
Students, Reading and the Content Areas
October 29, 2008
Professors William and Sutton Flynt address the issue of motivating students to read in science, social studies and math. <“Motivating Students to Read in the Content Classroom: Six Evidence-Based Principles” by William Brozo and Sutton Flynt in The Reading Teacher, October 2008 (Vol. 62, #2, p.... Read More ⇒
Leadership
October 27, 2008
In an October 15, 2008 Education Week article, author Lew Smith writes about observations he made regarding successful school principals. He identifies 9 characteristics shared by these principals. He writes: “From 2000 to 2008, I had the chance to ponder these questions and look for answers in a... Read More ⇒
Teacher Leadership
October 25, 2008
Information for this blog was taken from “Transforming Teacher Leadership: A Conversation with Douglas Reeves” by Patti Kinney in Principal Leadership, October 2008 (Vol. 9, #2, p. 20-24). Here are some of the main points made in this interview by Mr. Reeves: § Teacher leadership coupled with... Read More ⇒
A Measured Approach
October 23, 2008
The Fall 2008 issue of the American Educator contains an article by Professor Daniel Koretz, “A Measured Approach.” Professor Koretz provides a clear and concise analysis of value added models for measuring teacher effectiveness. He believes that the value added model is superior to the other... Read More ⇒
ELLs benefit as much as EFLs from struggling reader interventions
October 22, 2008
A recent study in the Journal of Learning Disabilities indicates that English Language Learners benefit just as much from reading interventions as struggling readers who speak English as a first language. You can read more about this study by clicking on thefollowing link and accessing an article... Read More ⇒
DI & The What Works Clearinghouse
October 15, 2008
If you are part of the Direct Instruction world you were a bit shocked when What Works Clearinghouse issued a report that despite over 40 years of research (40 years of research that has been accepted and published), they could not identify what they labeled as strong research that supported DI.... Read More ⇒
DI & The What Works Clearinghouse
October 15, 2008
If you are part of the Direct Instruction world you were a bit shocked when What Works Clearinghouse issued a report that despite over 40 years of research (40 years of research that has been accepted and published), they could not identify what they labeled as strong research that supported DI.... Read More ⇒
