Educational Links 7/28/18

5 Books for Understanding Reading Difficulties

https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-books-understanding-reading-difficulties?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter

Ed Tech Digest

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/07/26/ed-tech-digest-85/

Best way to improve student math scores? Change teachers’ attitudes, study says

https://edsource.org/2018/best-way-to-improve-student-math-scores-change-teachers-attitudes-study-says/600527?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=math-726-18

How Can We Successfully Land a Rover on Mars?

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-can-we-successfully-land-rover-mars

Why Teachers Must Fight Their Own Implicit Biases

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2018/07/25/why-teachers-must-fight-implicit-biases.html/?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB-TM

Social Creativity and ASD – Challenging the Assumption that Autistic People are Not Social

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/07/social-creativity-and-asd-challenging.html

Private schools aren’t better at educating kids than public schools, study concludes

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/07/26/private-schools-aren-better-educating-kids-than-public-schools-study-concludes/o5pZEiiuupGlKbilDfvxBN/story.html

Despite evidence showing otherwise, it remains conventional wisdom in many parts of the education world that private schools do a better job of educating students, with superior standardized test scores. It is one of the claims that some school-choice supporters make in arguing that the public should pay for private school education.