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Tackling the challenge of making homework relevant
Brian Stack EducationLate afternoon on a school day means only one thing in my house — it's time to put on your game face and prepare for the inevitable. The bus is about to drop off my three elementary-aged children, and my wife Erica will transform into an after-school teacher and tutor.
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Education groups making sure ESEA reauthorization doesn’t get left…
Bambi Majumdar EducationNational education organizations have launched an intensive social media and digital ad campaign to push Congress to act on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Their pointed message stresses creating opportunity for all students, despite their locations — legislation that has already seen much development and simply needs that final push towards the revised law.
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Modifying traditional ESL materials for classroom use
Douglas Magrath EducationThis article provides some helpful hints and suggestions to ESL instructors who wish to use modern techniques in teaching even though the class texts are of a more traditional nature. The learners need to move from language form (i.e. "perfect verbs") to language function (i.e. "asking directions" or "a visit to Chicago") as soon as possible.
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Reflections from the 2015 iNACOL Symposium
Brian Stack EducationThis week, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is playing host to 3,100 of the country's most promising innovators in education. The annual Blended and Online Learning Symposium, sponsored by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), advertises this event as "the industry's leading event for K-12 online, blended and competency-based learning," adding that it is a place where "experts, practitioners, educators, policymakers and researchers gather and work to transform education."
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Improved library facilities for K-12 schools on the horizon
Bambi Majumdar EducationK-12 school libraries across the country are gearing up for some big changes, according to Education Week. As the haven for student knowledge, they are now becoming more interactive and engaging. School libraries will be offering intense learning environments to all students that will be focused on enhancing the regular student workload and improving student performance.
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Electrical soil: Integrating music and art across disciplines, courses
Debra Josephson Abrams EducationAs an experienced educator new to a decades-old university-based ESL program, I quickly found a curriculum moribund from decades of inattention and lacking best practices. The program, whose primary mission is to prepare students for university matriculation, had lost its CEA accreditation and was trying to regain it.
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Drawing is an integral learning tool
Pamela Hill EducationIn schools, the act of drawing is often pigeonholed to specific areas of academics and instruction. It is observed in lower elementary grades as a constant, but less and less as students progress through higher level grades.
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Fostering reading through student choice in high school
Brian Stack EducationLike many Generation Xers and millennials, my high school English classroom memories stem from my experiences reading popular required readings such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye.
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How exactly does the brain handle our complex multitasking?
Dorothy L. Tengler Science & TechnologyHow many windows are open on your computer right now? Most of us are running a few websites, not to mention our email, Facebook, Twitter, a word processor, a spreadsheet and maybe a few other random software applications. Then, close by we might have a cellphone and maybe an eBook reader and an iPod or iPad.
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Close reading with English learners: Strategies
Erick Herrmann EducationIn this era of more demanding standards for all students, close reading has become a common exercise for students in various grade levels. For English language learners — generally defined as students who are not achieving academically due to the level of English language proficiency —accessing complex, grade-level text can be especially demanding.
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