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Category: Good Read

  • NCES Report | Most New Teachers Stay in the Classroom

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    October 27, 2015 | By Guneev Sharma & Kristin McCabe A new study out of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) helps debunk the oft-repeated assumption that half of new teachers leave the profession in the first 5 years. Overall, some 77% of participants in the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study continued teaching for 5…

  • TNTP Blog: A Two Percent Cap on Testing Misses the Point

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    October 26, 2015 | By Kelly Zunkiewicz Isabel is a senior at Lennard High School in Hillsborough County Public Schools, and a member of my AP Calculus AB course. In the process of writing her a recommendation letter, I reviewed her student summary: a list of her scores on all the district, state, and national…

  • The Kitchen Community Appoints Former Teach For America Executive Sean VanBerschot as President

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    The Kitchen Community CEO and Co-Founder Kimbal Musk today announced changes to the organization’s executive team to further support rapid expansion of Learning Gardens in schools across the United States. Sean VanBerschot is now President of TKC. He will join Kimbal in continuing to build strategic relationships, funding partners and community engagement while focusing on…

  • Dr. Ritu Chopra & PARA2 Center Featured in Education Week!

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    To view this article on the Education Week webpage, please click here. Training Gains a Toehold for Instructional Aides in Special Education By Christina A. Samuels By the hundreds of thousands, the instructional aides known as paraeducators, paraprofessionals, or simply “paras” help enable students with disabilities to take part in the general education classroom through…

  • The MicroMaster's Degree

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  • High School is Old School (read/listen)

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    #goodread from Marketplace submitted by Brad Hinson Laurene Powell Jobs is launching a $50 million crowd-sourcing campaign to rethink the American high school. Teams from around the country will compete for funding and support to turn their ideas into new “super schools.” Powell Jobs is best known in most circles as the wife of the late…

  • What is EDU?

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    View the presentation at the link below to find out more about the options and support EDU provides for educators. https://www.emaze.com/@AIOIRLWW/welcome-to-edu

  • Are College Lectures Unfair?

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    #GoodRead from the NYTimes / submitted by Brad Hinson DOES the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent? The notion may seem absurd on its face. The lecture is an old and well-established tradition in education. To most of us, it simply is the way college courses are taught.…

  • Taking My Parents to College

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    #GoodRead from the NYTimes / submitted by Nancy Commins  IT was a simple question, but we couldn’t find the answer in any of the paperwork the college had sent. How long was my family supposed to stay for orientation? This was 1999, so Google wasn’t really a verb yet, and we were a low-income family…