K-12 teachers of history need close-reading skills
Over the weekend, the American Historical Association Council Endorsed the National Council for History Education’s Statement on Teacher Qualifications. Among the better parts of the statement is developing historical “habits of mind,” including an understanding of how to read and utilize primary sources. That phrase came from the K-5 teacher guidelines. (The 6-12 guidelines insert in […]
No one knows NCLB’s effects
In its new report, Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?, the Center on Education Policy provides the obvious answer: No one knows. There is some evidence of increasing achievement on some [later: many state test] measures, but attributing that to NCLB is foolhardy. With such ambiguous […]
Whew!
Just got done with hours of close editing of an article manuscript that I am accepting. I have discovered that giving editorial advice to authors of accepted manuscripts with the acceptance saves considerable time on the other end, since the final manuscripts that come in are usually coming in with fewer problems. (There are still […]
Kindergarten ages
Quick response to the New York Times piece on when children start kindergarten: There’s a big difference between the policy issues here and the family decisions involved, and as in many cases, they don’t always have that much to do with research on learning. Policy decisions for states: if you try to push the deadline back […]
Bankrupt my pants and tags, NCLB news, and old-fashioned American ambivalence
By Sherman Dorn on June 2, 2007
One of my English friends created a not-quite-acronym in spring 2006 that adequately describes the phenomenon of having been too busy to read one’s blog roll, a translation from been away, not catching up on the flist [friends’ list, one’s blogroll on Livejournal], point me at it if there’s anything you need me to see […]
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