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prelude to heresy

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Decline in student performance is easily documented. Average SAT scores, which rose in the 50s and 60s, began slipping in the 60s and have been in free fall ever since. Decline in scores shows no preference for gender or high and low performer. Surprisingly, not everyone worries about this trend.
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documentary blue

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

I would like to have my students write, film and edit video documentaries this year. Last year, I didn’t get it done, in part because NCLB is such a prominent feature in our district that the time gets too chopped up. But, mostly, I didn’t do it out of rational fear…. not the […]

teach a man to fish…

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

David Warlick’s got a good point. He talks about independent learners and preparing students for their futures. And he’s right. Learning how to be an independent learner is not just an essential skill… it’s the essential skill. David talks about it in terms of preparing students for […]

Comment Goodness

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

It’s good to get comments. I’ll have to remind my students that commenting on each other’s blogs (in a respectful manner, of course) really stimulates the writer to think and write again. So…thank you to Gayle Burnett (whose comment got lost when I inadvertently deleted the blog entry she commented on), Dean […]

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