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Celebrated actor Hal Holbrook on a lifetime of playing his iconic alter ego Mark Twain. 
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What happens when you take three American kids and throw them in a classroom 5,000 miles from home where they can’t speak the language?
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Imagine that you worked in a university Educational Leadership program with no limits or barriers regarding time, distance, money, personnel, past history, or bureaucracy. Now imagine that you were revising your principal preparation program.
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What are we learning about the teaching and learning of digital writing? The National Writing Project provides this portal to resources organized by topic.
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@nassp supports Banned Websites Awareness Day See @PrincipalDiff 's post on the @aasl blog http://t.co/OFfwI5Uz #cpchat #edchat #bannedsites...
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Teachers do not operate in a vacuum. The environment in which they work impacts their perception of their own level of competence. Having the support of peers, principals, and central-office administrators has an impact on how well they believe they can perform.
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The Republican-controlled House passed a bill to repeal federal rules barring Internet service providers from blocking or setting different prices for some uses of their networks.
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We therefore applaud the goals of the recently released Common Core State Standards, already adopted in most states, which articulate a much clearer vision of what students should learn and be able to do as they progress through school. For our nation, this represents a major advance toward declaring that "equal educational opportunity" is a top priority — not empty
rhetoric. To be clear, by "curriculum" we mean a coherent, sequential set of guidelines in the core academic disciplines, specifying the content knowledge and skills that all students are expected to learn, over time, in a thoughtful progression across the grades. We do not mean performance standards, textbook offerings, daily lesson plans, or rigid pedagogical prescriptions. We also caution that attaining the goals provided by these standards requires a clear road map in the form of rich, common curriculum content, along with resources to support successfully teaching all students to mastery. Shared curriculum in the core academic subjects would give shape and substance to the standards, and provide common ground for the creation of coherent, high-quality instructional supports — especially texts and other materials, assessments, and teacher training. Click on the title to read more.
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Nearly a year after the first Race to the Top grants were awarded, the dozen winners in the federal competition for school reform aid are slowly starting to spend their money, ramp up the capacity within their own state education departments, and, in some cases, ratchet down expectations from plans that may have promised too much, too fast.
The U.S. Department of Education has approved changes to Race to the Top plans in six states and the District of Columbia, as winners seek to push ambitious project timelines back. The changes range from a delay in implementing Massachusetts’ tiered licensing system for principals to North Carolina’s plan to scale back a new teacher-retention bonus program in its low-performing schools. Click on the title to read more.
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Science offers some help in the everyday as we navigate the currents of this world.
The good folks at Edge.org organized a symposium, and 164 thinkers contributed suggestions. Click on the title to read more.
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Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago.
President Evo Morales said Chile had failed to respond to a deadline he had set for progress in negotiations. Bolivia's loss of the sea was an "open wound" that must be healed, he added. Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has rejected the remarks, calling them a "serious obstacle" to relations. Click on the title to read more.
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China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 - far earlier than expected.
That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy. The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback. Click on the title to read more.
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On Point: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joins us. We'll talk democracy, Citizens United, and life on the high court.
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Why our children’s success — and happiness — may depend less on perfect performance than on learning how to deal with failure. (What is the Secret to Success?Zest, Grit, Self-Control, Social Intelligence, Gratitude, Optimism and Curiosity?)
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As I said in my previous post about TEDxLondon, I spent Saturday listening to and watching sixteen thinkers and doers talk about an education revolution. Their talks were divided into three parts: What's Wrong? What's Right? What's Next?
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The Google+ project has been in field trial for just under 90 days, and in that time we’ve made 91 different improvements (many of which are posted here). Google+ is still in its infancy, of course, but we’re more excited than ever to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. Today we’re releasing nine more features that get us that much closer.
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In the digital age, kids need to have an understanding of what it means to be a responsible digital citizen http://t.co/n2XoComH #MASCD...
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Readers respond to a Sunday Review piece on why the quality of homework matters more than the quantity.
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford
I have vivid memories of learning to ride my bike.
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Gender? | Adults? | Countries? | Age? | Social Networking? | Individuals: 2007->2009? | Online vs TV? | Americans: 2004->2009? | Adult Americans: 2001->2009? | Workplace?
Thanks to ScoopIT > Infographics http://tinyurl.com/6ebqa7z Click on the title for the whole graphic.
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Here is an alphabetized directory of instructional strategies.
Click on the title to access the directory.
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The ongoing nuclear crisis is one of many major disasters Japan has experienced over the past century. Cases of great tragedy and trauma have been a driving creative force behind much of Japan's classic and modern literature — writing that reveals insights into the country's people and character.
Click on the title to read more.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Having already done the Civil War and World War II, Ken Burns is working on a documentary about the Vietnam War.
PBS said the 10- to 12-hour film by Burns and longtime partner Lynn Novick will be broadcast in 2016. Burns said his film will tell the human stories of Americans and Vietnamese affected by the war, along with those of Americans who protested against it. He said that four decades after the war's end, most people have opinions about it but few truly know its history. PBS is rebroadcasting Burns' "The Civil War" next week to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of that conflict.
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The long-held theory of how humans first populated the Americas may have been well and truly broken.
Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of stone tools that predate the technology widely assumed to have been carried by the first settlers. The discoveries in Texas are seen as compelling evidence that the so-called Clovis culture does not represent America's original immigrants. Click on the title to read more.
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