November 2011
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“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth...”
– Andy Rooney
September 2011
4 posts
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“Education is about making people think. It’s about interesting people in a...”
– Jonathan Osborne, Framing a New Vision for Science Education
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“I hear too often that educators want to harness the technology, but I think...”
– 21st-Century Learner
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“Learning environments aren’t revolutionized by installing a few cool gadgets...”
– 21st-Century Learner
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“For whatever it’s worth, the three policy measures that are currently...”
– West Virginia learns Finland’s ‘most honorable profession’: Teacher
August 2011
4 posts
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“…cheating is hard to detect because despite recent scandals, it is still...”
– States Search For Answers To Cheating Scandals
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“if your students can study for all your exams with flash cards, you are at too...”
– Rhett Allain
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“It’s tremendously helpful to understand what they’re getting from that game, so...”
– Super Girl
July 2011
7 posts
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“Maybe it’s time to think more carefully about how we want to educate in the...”
– Want to stop teachers from cheating? A history lesson from corporate America
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“…the price of a robust legal defense system is, on occasion, letting some...”
– Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
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“bad mathematics is being used to deny our citizens — mostly our minorities...”
– Proofiness: the dark arts of mathematical deception by Charles Seife
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“If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”
– Jon Ronson (The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry)
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“the goal is not to get good at school and prove through assessment that you...”
– Moving to Modern Assessments by Grant Wiggins
June 2011
8 posts
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“If we want to keep learning about how to improve our real quality of life, we...”
– Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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“It’s not really about a technology plan, it’s about an innovation...”
– This Is Not Your Father’s Tech Plan
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What should we flip? →
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High-tech medical exam cheating alleged →
May 2011
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“If we do not heed Ravitch’s warning, a generation of children who do not value...”
– The Cutthroat Curriculum
April 2011
8 posts
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“When governors mock teachers as lazy, avaricious incompetents, they demean the...”
– Pay Teachers More - NYTimes.com (via barteleye)
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“A disturbing bipartisan consensus is emerging that favors a market model for...”
– The Nation: Teachers Are Not The Enemy : NPR (via barteleye)
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The Horizon Report Says Education Is Going Mobile →
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When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were... →
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“We must always make it clear that in our society there is a violence of poverty,...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has...”
– Race to Nowhere
March 2011
13 posts
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Battlestar Galactica Viewing Order →
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“In one case, they concealed teensy messages on microscope slides disguised as...”
– How Games Make Work Seem Like Play
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“The people who continue to write off games will be at a major disadvantage in...”
– Reality Is Broken
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“No one is going to sneak something by us anymore. Every bill is being closely...”
– To All My Friends
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“…the more we focus on all the clever ways youngsters can cheat, the more...”
– Cheating Isn’t the Problem by Michael Josephson (Character Counts)
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“Some children and their parents have convinced themselves that they have to be...”
– Who Says Cheaters Never Win?
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“Some children and their parents have convinced themselves that they have to be...”
– Who Says Cheaters Never Win?
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“It’s not the dumb kids who cheat… it’s the kids with a 4.6...”
– Everybody Does It
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“Schools fail to reward, and in some way discourage, good behavior on the part of...”
– Denise Clark Pope (Doing School)
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“28 of 118 Piper High sophomores had stolen sections of their botany project off...”
– School Cheating Scandal Tests a Town’s Values
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“Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages,...”
– John F. Kennedy
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February 2011
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“…anyone who believes that we need some counterweight to the political...”
– Wisconsin Power Play