This Is What's Happening In Education?

 

The Problems with the Common Core

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/28_02/28_02_karp.shtml 

Expansive Survey of America's Public Schools Reveals Troubling Racial Disparities

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/expansive-survey-americas-public-schools-reveals-troubling-racial-disparities 

State Digital Education Programs Grow, But Disparities Persist

 http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2014/11/state_digital_education_progams_grow_and_disparities_persist.html?cmp=ENL-II-NEWS3

Report: Changes Fail To Curb Restraint, Seclusion

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/11/03/report-changes-restraint/19809/ 

Think Big: How to Jumpstart Tech Use In Low-Income Schools

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/think-big-how-to-jumpstart-tech-use-in-low-income-schools/ 

Five Ways to Get Girls into STEM

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-ways-girls-involved-STEM-karen-purcell 

Of Carrots And Kids: Healthy School Lunches That Don't Get Tossed

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/02/364712994/of-carrots-and-kids-healthy-school-lunches-that-dont-get-tossed?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education 

Study Finds The Average School Lunch Is Healthier Than Home-Packed Lunches

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/28/healthy-school-lunch_n_6219378.html 

 

 

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 7/16/14

 

Fixing Detached Schools Via Tech

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/fixing-detached-schools-via-tech-terry-heick 

5 Essential Insights About Mobile Learning

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/5-essential-insights-about-mobile-learning/ 

Storyboard That Releases New Teacher Guides

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/07/storyboard-that-releases-new-teacher.html#.U8XjTrGmV5M 

My Beef with the Gamification of Education.

http://www.teachingquality.org/content/my-beef-gamification-education

Before Buying Technology, Asking 'Why?'

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/18/gp-definitions.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Kid Archaeology

 http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/62a10a53-e7ac-4fd2-84db-e13b19eebf74/62a10a53-e7ac-4fd2-84db-e13b19eebf74/?utm_source=SocialMedia&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=mktg_2014

Why Aren’t More Girls Attracted To Physics?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/08/why-arent-more-girls-attracted-to-physics/ 

 

Best Articles for Educators Week of 3/30/14

 

1. One Size Does Not Fit All: The Need for Variety in Learning

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/one-size-does-not-fit-all-the-need-for-variety-in-learning/

2. The Difference Between Praise and Feedback

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/the-difference-between-praise-and-feedback/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

3. 10 Things to Know About New Autism Data

http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsautismdata/

4. The Key To Innovation: Making Smart Analogies 

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2014/03/the-key-to-innovation-making-smart-analogies/ 

5. 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month

 http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/94

6. Five Ways to Get Girls into STEM

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-ways-girls-involved-STEM-karen-purcell?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-5-ways-stem-girls-shared

7. The Science of Character: Developing Positive Learning Traits

 https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1441644043303616609#editor/target=post;postID=1940422579936548005