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Khan Academy to Focus on Common-Core Math With Private Grant

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Erik Robelen -- Fueled by a $2.2 million grant, Khan Academy will develop online content and tools over the next two years to help teachers and students meet the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.

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Arizona ELL Dispute Continues, Despite Federal Ruling

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Lesli A. Maxwell - Disputes over Arizona's approach to educating English-language learners show few signs of abating as the plaintiffs in a 2-decade-old lawsuit continue to challenge the state's requirement that such students spend more than half their school day learning English, with little access to other academic content.

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40 States Probed Alleged Cheating on Tests, Federal Report Finds

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Catherine Gewertz -- A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office has found that most states have looked into allegations of cheating by school officials on state tests in the past two years. The study, released this week, found that 33 states confirmed at least one such case of cheating, and 32 reported invalidating test scores as a result of cheating.

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Is a MOOC a Textbook or a Course?

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Justin Reich -- What exactly is a MOOC? Like most interesting things in this world, the term avoids simple definition. For instance, what constitutes a course? A particular body of knowledge to be delivered? Except maybe in the case of skill-based classes, like a writer's workshop. A start and end date? Except maybe in the case of self-paced, on-demand online courses. Interactions between students and instructors?

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Uri Treisman’s Magnificent Speech On Equity, Race, And The Opportunity To Learn

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On April 19, 2013, the third day of NCTM's annual meeting in Denver, Uri Treisman gave a forty-minute address on equity that Zal Usiskin, director of the University of Chicago's School Mathematics Project, called the greatest talk he'd ever heard at the conference in any year. Stanford math professor Keith Devlin would later call it our "I have a dream" speech. At least one participant left in tears.

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Has anybody told Obama about the problems his education policies have caused?

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Valerie Strauss -- How much has the president been told about the unfortunate effects his education reform policies are having on public schools?

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Twisters Rip Through Oklahoma, Killing Elementary School Students

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Nirvi Shah -- The deadly, churning tornadoes that cleared a path through Oklahoma on Monday killed at least seven children at a Moore, Okla., elementary school, multiple media outlets are reporting. They were found drowned at Plaza Towers Elementary school in Moore, where rescuers searched through the night for survivors, NBCNews.com reported. According to the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's Office, they were found in a pool of water at the school.

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Education Publishing Associations to Merge

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Sean Cavanagh -- The Association of Educational Publishers and the school division of the Association of American Publishers are planning to merge operations, marking the union of a pair of leading voices in the K-12 industry.

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MOOCs Provider in Higher Ed. Targets K-12 Teacher PD

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Sean Cavanagh -- In attempting to bring "MOOCs" to the world of teacher training, the Silicon Valley company Coursera and its partners at universities and other institutions are courting a new and potentially vast audience, one that is becoming increasingly accustomed to receiving professional training via the Web.

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Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students

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Cindy Long -- As the Common Core debate heats up, we’ve heard a lot from policy makers, politicians, and even TV talk show hosts about the challenges posed by the new standards and whether they’ll help or hurt education. With all the chatter, the voices of the professionals who are actually responsible for implementing the Common Core have been all but drowned out in the mainstream media.

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The Academic Benefits of Twitter

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Why Twitter? What value does Twitter offer to an academic? And, are you missing out if you are not on Twitter?

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Incenter of a Triangle

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This page shows how to construct (draw) the incenter of a triangle with compass and straightedge or ruler. The Incenter of a triangle is the point where all three angle bisectors always intersect, and is the center of the triangle's incircle

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The Common Core Needs a Common Curriculum

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 11, Clicks: 4)
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Lisa Hansel -- What is a content-rich curriculum? And who should pick the content? I argue that we should all come to agreement on the content. But first, we must understand the cognitive science that explains why content is important.

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Children's Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math Learning

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Sarah D. Sparks -- Preschools and kindergartens long have taught children "task skills," such as cutting paper and coloring inside the lines. But new research suggests the spatial and fine-motor skills learned in kindergarten and preschool not only prepare students to write their mathematics homework neatly, but also prime them to learn math and abstract reasoning.

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Delaware Raises Teacher-Prep Admissions Requirement

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Stephen Sawchuk -- Delaware lawmakers have passed a bill that would raise admissions standards for entry into the state's teacher-preparation programs, among other changes. Gov. Jack Markell, a Democrat, is expected to sign it.

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Khan Academy to Focus on Common-Core Math With Private Grant

Arizona ELL Dispute Continues, Despite Federal Ruling

40 States Probed Alleged Cheating on Tests, Federal Report Finds

Is a MOOC a Textbook or a Course?

Uri Treisman’s Magnificent Speech On Equity, Race, And The Opportunity To Learn

Has anybody told Obama about the problems his education policies have caused?

Twisters Rip Through Oklahoma, Killing Elementary School Students

Education Publishing Associations to Merge

MOOCs Provider in Higher Ed. Targets K-12 Teacher PD

Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students

The Academic Benefits of Twitter

Incenter of a Triangle

The Common Core Needs a Common Curriculum

Children's Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math Learning

Delaware Raises Teacher-Prep Admissions Requirement

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