Remainders: The demand that works like a charm on students

by Philissa Cramer, at 8:38 pm

A teacher reveals a respectful demand that works like a charm on students. (Miss Eyre/NYC Educator)
Imagining if Socrates, the storied teacher, had to be measured by today’s evaluations. (ASCD)
An educator says teachers just need the right encouragement to use new technologies. (Tech Learning)
Researchers have found that children’s books have increasingly little content about nature. (Motherlode)
Gail Robinson: If the city says education is a civil rights issue, why suspend minority students? (HuffPo)
On the frequency of bell curves in education, and how efforts are underway to shift them. (Blue Engine)
Aaron Pallas: The public shouldn’t know teachers’ ratings but should know the flaws. (GS Community)
Even though teachers have found tons of problems in their data, the data won’t be revised. (SchoolBook)
A City Council bill will require all kinds of city data to be made public — by 2018. (Gotham Gazette)
A teacher is “waiting for the other shoe to drop” on Common Core implementation. (Tween Teacher)

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This blog is good and fascinating. Will check back later for more other intresting articles. Regard.
Diana Senechal

More on Socrates and teacher evaluations:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-socrates-would-fare-on-new-teacher-evaluation-plan/2011/06/13/AGGdhfTH_blog.html
http://www.filmschoolsonline.com/film-schools-in-la.html Online Film School

The university’s president told the students that propaganda from a small minority of the neighborhood that opposes the massive project, dubbed “NYU2031,” was misinforming the public about a necessary and financially responsible plan to expand the campus. The remarks, in the last half hour of a 90-minute-long town hall-style meeting in a bright classroom in Kimball Hall, came after a student asked him whether it was responsible to buy real estate while tuition kept rising.
Michael M. (parent still)

Pass the hemlock.

Overheard just now at a Common Core training: "Is this for third grade?" "Yes, but it used to be for fourth." Context: http://t.co/sToNlRp8 14 hrs ago
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For more about @OlympusAcademy, whose principal is speaking at #RTTT announcement right now, read our story: http://t.co/1Zb3JLkT 18 hrs ago
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