Monthly Archives: November 2009

aLEAP Toward Automatic Learning Analysis with Tablet PCs:

This installment describes another step toward a proof-of-concept narrative of a Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm (aLEAP). It describes the kind of scientific data used to assemble an infrastructure of behavior pattern choice points and options learners use to meet learning … Continue reading

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From Teacher Training to Educational Leadership Through Research

H. Carl Haywood offers useful commentary about how to move a teaching institution to educational leadership that influences instruction and learning internationally. He describes his view of how, through empirical experimental research, administrators and faculty of Peabody College for Teachers … Continue reading

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UT – Dallas Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies

Here’s a B.A. and B.S. program that requires students to exercise initiative, personal discipline and intellectual self-sufficiency. It draws upon faculty experiments in classic higher education of the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Major in Human Behavior at Peabody College in the early … Continue reading

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‘Unlock’ the Brains of Coma Patients

Celeste Biever reports that brain scientists have discovered with functional MRIs that up to 40 percent of people diagnosed as comatose aren’t. They’re paralized, and thus trapped in their bodies, feel pain, and can learn. It’s never going to be … Continue reading

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Why It’s Worth It To Send My Kid to Yale

Eric Schurenberg describes in this moneywatch.com article why he does not believe the recent studies that challenge the axiom that it doesn’t pay to attend higher education. It’s worth a browse. Why It’s Worth It To Send My Kid to … Continue reading

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Family Health "Distraction"

Thanks for checking back at this blog site. I’ll start posting again soon. A family health distraction has absorbed my and other family members’ time. All’s progressing from a major problem to initial stages of recovery. That’s good news to … Continue reading

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Thanking Influencial Teachers

Out of the blue, I received an email from a former student, now dean of undergraduate studies at a major university. He was an excellent student, a former professional musician, and an exceptionally talented golfer who could have gone pro. … Continue reading

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Jim’s Top Three Tips for Writing Successful Grant Proposals

Jim Vanides offers three tips grant proposals writers use to increase chances of receiving funding. He oversees the HP innovations in education grant program for schools. (Here’s the formal stuff about him: Worldwide Education Programs HP Global Social Investment, Hewlett-Packard. … Continue reading

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School Choice & School Improvement: What have we learned?

Join the continuing conversation about school choice and school improvement begun at Vanderbilt University’s recent National Center on School Choice Conference. This online session will review the effectiveness of vouchers and scholarships, parent choice, urban district choice, the competition effects … Continue reading

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Learning Groups Compete in Math Chapter Test

Big Ideas Learning offers a way for groups of middle school learners to compete as they take math chapter tests. I’ve used versions of such group testing with my fifth grade students. Worked great. While you’re on their site, check … Continue reading

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