Monthly Archives: August 2009

Two Public School Programs Each View 1 Million Streaming Videos

Texas’s Northside Independent School District (NIS) and Maryland’s Prince George’s County Schools (PGCS) each viewed one million videos using Discovery Education streaming. Discovery Education Press Release, July 19 2009. Northside Independent School District and Prince George’s County Schools View One … Continue reading

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Teachers’ Conflicts of Interest Ration Learning: NESI Conversation 11

This 11th conversation with Dr. W.E. Doynit describes how teacher choices can result in conflicts of interest and other “schoolhouse corruption” that reduce student learning. It details use of the learning code as part of academic performance management with and … Continue reading

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Deasy on Students’ Gains from Fixing School Strains

John E. Deasy answers National Press Club questions on C-SPAN 2 about how George’s County, MD, public school K12 students improved academic performance by holding educators and their staff immediately accountable through their Children Come First program. The Board of … Continue reading

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Learn Chinese with Tablet PC

Ray recommends My First Chinese Reader for young people. He calls it “a good chinese learning textbook for kids. Really Helpful.” He says this on my post about learning Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian online. The link on that post broke … Continue reading

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Good Time to Teach

“Odd as this may sound, (the middle sixties) was a wonderful time to be teaching. Students were interested, grade mania and the resulting grade inflation had barely emerged, the curse of political correctness had not yet paralyzed deans and department … Continue reading

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Adverb Enemy of Verb

“The adverb is the enemy of the verb. If you need one, you chose the wrong verb. You put ‘slowly’ after ‘walked’ when you should have said ‘trudged’ or strolled’ or ‘ambled.’” Every word must be a necessary element in … Continue reading

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School Test Scores Count to Beat Rationed Opportunity

Post secondary education rations opportunity (presumably including the top 10 percent of income earners), suggests Anthony Carnevale of the Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University. He uses data from the National Education Longitudinal Study. Carnevale reports that 82 … Continue reading

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A Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm Abstract

This installment of aLEAP offers the abstract draft of this project that leads to an automatic learning analysis with Tablet PCs. Abstract: A Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm (aLEAP) illustrates relationships among ways people learn and reasons some instruction yields more … Continue reading

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