K2Twelve
Posts that were on my now defunct education blog, K2Twelve.
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language education, single thought
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Whenever I see an article about “pay for grades”( like the piece in the ASCD’s March 2009 newsletter) or “merit pay” like in the (Commentary in the March 11, 2009 issue of Education Week) I am reminded of a story I heard many years ago in a documentary about the communism in China. I want
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When our eldest was our only, our parents told us it was time to leave the city. One of the reasons they used was that all of the “good schools” were in the suburbs. Our parents are not alone in this belief. We also have friends who moved away because of the same belief. Last
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I’ve gotten into the habit of including a You Tube video in my posts to distract from the monotony of text. When it came to choosing a video for money, I found it harder than usual to decide on one video that would best accompany the post. I ended up selecting the Flying Lizards cover
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Starting in elementary school, my sister and I got a dollar a week in allowance. It may not seem like much now but back then it was enough for two Spider-man comics or four Hershey’s bars or a large handful of Bazooka Joe bubble gum. I know because between us, my sister was the saver.
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We should be able to look every second grader in the eye and say, ‘You’re on track, you’re going to be able to go to a good college, or you’re not,’ Right now, in too many states, quite frankly, we lie to children. We lie to them and we lie to their families. Where were
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From the outside it sounds facetious, “teaching to the brain.” Of course you teach to the brain. Teaching is expression: the telling. Learning is cognition: the synthesizing of what is being heard. Teri Cox’s presentation on the “middle school mind” at the 2008 National Middle School Association conference left a lasting impression on me. It
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