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Common Core 101: Why, what and how
CURTIS LINTON | 11/27/2011
(Editor’s Note: This is Part One of a three-part series on Common Core State Standards.) How does educational inequity impact individual students? A college preparedness study analyzed which California high school students went on to receive four-year college degrees (“Removing The Roadblocks: Fair College Opportunities For All California Students.” To access this report online, please visit http://ucla-idea.org ). Despite evidence that most all students and their families initially desired a college education, Asian and white students went on to graduate from college at two to three times the rate of their African American, Latino, and Nati... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Curriculum Choices, common, core, standards, college, students, education, school, career, grade, common core, college career, career readiness, core standards, high school, core state
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Bridging the gap between technology integration and common core standards in the classroom
ED MURPHY | 11/27/2011
Google. YouTube. Wikipedia. All are household names, all are online staples that aren’t going away anytime soon and all are new faces of academic research in the last five years. Could the phrase “hit the books” actually be heading into obscurity? Has the “reference” section of the library become a virtual non-entity? What many teachers, especially veterans, have feared for academic research since the advent of the Internet has become an unquestionable reality: technology has infiltrated the education realm. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Curriculum Choices, technology, students, standards, teachers, education, classroom, common core, core standards, technology integration, use technology, bridging gap
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Taking curriculum into the 21st century
LEE CROCKETT, IAN JUKES, and ANDREW CHURCHES | 11/27/2011
Literally dozens of books have been written about the effects of technology on business today: Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat,” Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind,” Jeremy Rifkin’s “The Future of Work,” Donald Tapscott’s “Wikinomics,” and our book, “Living on the Future Edge,” just to name a few. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Curriculum Choices, students, curriculum, problems, education, 21st century, real world, world problems
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The importance of providing quality art education for all students
F. ROBERT SABOL, Ph.D. | 11/27/2011
Art is one of the universal languages all human beings understand and use to communicate. We use art to understand who we are, our places in the world, and the meaning of our lives. We use art to express ourselves and to speak to others across time and place. Human beings have an essential drive to create and understand visual imagery. This drive is one of the basic traits that make us human. The power of the visual arts to enrich human experience and society is recognized and celebrated throughout the world. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Art Education, education, arts, visual, national, naea, students, visual arts, arts education, education programming
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What works in technical jobs, career mapping and online education
SUSAN KANNEL | 11/27/2011
Workforce preparation for the “evolving information industry” is both complicated and critical. It involves two equally challenging questions which need to be continually answered: Where is the industry headed? And what workforce skills are required to get there? Just 10 years ago, telecom innovation included a fax machine — second phone line — in every home and an exorbitantly expensive cell phone the size of a brick. Today consumers expect to be connected at all times to phone, text, movies, shopping, social media and music, using a growing variety of interchangeable devices — all available at competitive prices. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Technical Career Options for Students, industry, education, nactel, workforce, vividfuture, career, product, jobs, career mapping, pace university, online education, job board, mapping tool, project management, nactel program
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A team building revival: How to produce real change in students
Monnie Leigh S. Meads | 08/09/2011
Imagine you are precariously balanced on the edge of a high platform, and behind you, with arms laced together, stand a group of people that have been instructed to catch you. Your heart beats faster as you shut your eyes, cross your arms over your chest, take a deep breath and tip backwards, hoping that group of people who say they will catch you really know what they are doing. If you have ever been in a Team Building experience you might be familiar with this activity. It is called the Trust Fall, and it has the potential to be either one of the most influential developmental experiences or, unfortunately, one that has faint impact and is ... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Educational Resources, team, students, experience, learning, experiential, education, team building, experiential learning, group people, learning cycle, building revival, monnie leigh
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Multi-modal learning strategies for all students
David D. Lutz, M.A.T. | 08/09/2011
It is no news to anyone—not all learners are the same. Each student in a classroom has a unique and complex system of thinking and learning. So why would we think that we should teach them all alike? Effective teachers want to know better ways to reach their students because they have come to realize that cookie-cutter education usually spells disaster for many learners. Is there a more effective plan of action so that students want to learn? Read More...
Relevant Tags: Learning Strategies, learning, students, memory, cooperative, education, model, cooperative learning, memory model, learning strategies, learning memory, direct instruction, new knowledge, teaching models, multi modal
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In biology lab, do computer simulations really cut it?
Celia Clark | 08/09/2011
The current state of computer technology allows developers to simulate almost any experience from the horror of wars to idyllic getaways. This technology is being harnessed for the creation of experiential learning tools. Some might question the value of electronic vs. real-life experiences. Nowhere does the debate rage more hotly than in high school biology labs, where simulations are now a viable alternative to wet lab dissections. Many students are reluctant to cut up animals in the pursuit of learning – and many educators insist that cutting up preserved specimens is the only way to effectively learn anatomy and physiology. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Science, computer, dissection, learning, education, lab, computer simulations, anatomy physiology, wet labs, preserved specimens, cutting preserved, field trips, biology lab
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Education products you can use in your classrooms
| 08/09/2011
Book Jam Now you can teach the Common Core State Standards using popular, engaging, and classic Young Adult books like Twilight , To Kill a Mockingbird , and Diary of a Wimpy Kid . BookJam’s standards-based lessons and innovative, accessible tech activities will help raise test scores and confidence in your classroom. This program was created by an award-winning teacher with real classrooms in mind. www.rbeducation.com Read More...
Relevant Tags: Product Spotlight, education, product, reviewsvolume, assessment, standards, riverside, reviewsvolume product, product reviewsvolume, state standards, education products, balanced assessment, riverside balanced, common core
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Preparing for excellence in Mathematics
Jill Rosenblum | 03/21/2011
The Challenge Among the 13 southeastern states, 10 currently have an Algebra I graduation requirement, and two more will have one in the 2011–2012 school year. This means that every student graduating from high school will need to succeed in algebra. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Mathematics, students, algebra, mathematics, math, school, course, support, instruction, high school, pre requisite, math support, support class, preparing excellence, graduation requirement
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