Best Articles for Educators Week of 8/24/14

Ferguson Teachers Use Day Off As Opportunity For A Civics Lesson

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/19/341651494/ferguson-teachers-use-day-off-as-opportunity-for-a-civics-lesson?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140819

Back to School: A Surefire Strategy for Building Classroom Community

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/back-to-school-strategy-building-community-anne-shaw 

More Important Resources On Race & Racism

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/08/23/more-important-resources-on-race-racism/

How Play Wires Kids’ Brains For Social and Academic Success

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-play-wires-kids-brains-for-social-and-academic-success/ 

Brain Study Gives a Peek at Move From Problem-Solving to Fact-Finding in Math

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/08/brain_study_gives_a_peek_at_mo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InsideSchoolResearch+%28Education+Week%3A+Inside+School+Research%29 

Get Tech Out of Schools

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/technology_in_the_classroom_patricia_greenfield_says_kids_don_t_need_it.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top



Teaching Ferguson

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/once-more-feeling/201408/teaching-ferguson

 

 

NCLB, Data, and Tech Tweets of the Day 7/28/12

The President's team is making adjustment to NCLB.

Changing focus on the national scene for how to help students to achieve.

1. States Granted NCLB Waivers Offer Varying Goals For Helping Education Reform, According To Report

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/report-examines-goals-of-_n_1711111.html 

This is a complicated piece of data.

2.  Education Olympics: How Does America Rank Compared To Other Countries? (INFOGRAPHIC)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/education-olympics-how-do_n_1707968.html 

How will this change teacher evaluations, I wonder?

3.  No Child Left Behind Waivers Granted To More Than Half Of U.S. States

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/no-child-left-behind-waivers_n_1652574.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008 

Hmmm, nature or nurture or both?

4.  Educational Achievement Could Be Linked To Three Genes, Study Finds 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/genes_n_1646691.html?1341501117&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

5. U.S. Graduation Rate, Unemployment Compared To Other Nations In Infographic 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/infographic-shows-how-us-_n_1628187.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008 

Bill Cosby and Deborah Kenny

6. Deborah Kenny, Harlem Village Academy Founder, Sits Down With Bill Cosby For Education Chat 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/deborah-kenny-harlem-vill_n_1706644.html 

Here a couple pieces of good reading from Edutopia, so they know I haven't gone over to Huffington Post Education.

7. Ten Ideas for Teaching Teachers Technology

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-teachers-technology-monique-flickinger 

Nicholas Provenzano

8.  Summer School for Teachers

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/summer-school-for-teachers-nicholas-provenzano