"Dear Secretary Duncan, I’m worried about the direction you’re taking education policy. In a recent interview with NEA Today, you said you read my book “36 Children” in high school and wrote an essay about it in college. “The book had a big impact on me,” you said, adding that it gave you “tremendous hope” to address the “challenges that teachers in tough communities face.”But I’m afraid…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on August 14, 2009 at 11:33am —
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"Pity the culture snob, as Kindles, iPods, and flash drives swallow up the visible markers of superior taste and intelligence. With the digitization of books, music, and movies, how will the highbrow distinguish him- or herself from the masses?"
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on August 4, 2009 at 4:43pm —
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“Remember your humanity and forget the rest” -Einstein
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 29, 2009 at 11:18am —
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"Among the "horror stories" Rosemary Feal has heard: Assistant professors who work in digital media and whose tenure review panels insist on evaluating them by printing out selected pages of their work. "It's like evaluating an Academy Award entry based on 20 film stills," said Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association. Such horror stories abound.…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 26, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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"Benjamin Nugent describes nerd history and the different nerdy subcultures. Dan Lamoureux produced and directed the documentary film “Nerdcore for Life.” David Anderegg thinks we need more nerds. Holly Black says that girl nerds and geeks definitely exist. Gary Brecher explains what it means to be a war nerd. Benjamin Nugent is the author of "American Nerd: The Story of My Pe…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 23, 2009 at 11:20am —
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"Baby boomers grew up skeptical of authority, so it's hardly surprising that some of them doubt the government will deliver the full Social Security and Medicare benefits it has promised. Bruce Benton, who turns 62 on Bastille Day, July 14, is one of them. He plans to file for early Social Security payments rather than wait till age 65 to draw a larger…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 15, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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"The Supreme Court has reversed some ten or twelve of the New Deal major enactments. Many of these acts were a violation of the rights of men and of self government. Despite the sworn duty of the Executive and Congress to defend these rights, they have sought to take them into their own hands. That is an attact of the foundations of freedom.
More than this, the indepedence on the Congress…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 15, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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"Duncan said that might mean firing an entire staff and bringing in a new one, replacing a principal or turning a school over to a charter school operator. The point, he said, is to take bold action in persistently low-achieving schools."
Are teachers to blame for American public schools failing? According to Arne and Obama...yes!! What's up with that?
Also, like the previous Sec of Ed Ma…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 12, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 10, 2009 at 1:18pm —
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"Federal funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program would drop from $270 million to $100 million, a 63 percent cut, under President Obama's proposed $3.4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010. Four leading ed-tech groups expressed "great disappointment" in the Obama Administration’s proposed cut. On May 7, the Consortium for School Networking, International Society…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 8, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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"Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on March 16, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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As you may know,
HASTAC III .is right around the corner!! This year's theme is
Transversing Boundaries. I'm excited to learn more about the conversations that will evolve around this topic!!
I've been thinking of the whole idea of transversing boundaries and what it means to K-12. Yes, I could talk about the us…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on February 16, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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Here is an Interview with Temple Grandin with NPR aired on Jan. 5th, 2009.
"In her new book, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among othe…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on January 11, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''” -W.H. Auden
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on December 14, 2008 at 10:00am —
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"1968: Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration that is so amazing it inspires a generation of technologists. It will become known as "the mother of all demos."
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on December 9, 2008 at 9:00pm —
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"The Hubble Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside of the solar system, a significant step in the search for extraterrestrial life. Though the planet is more similar to Jupiter than Earth and is too hot to harbor life, the ability to identify organic compounds on other planets is key to being able to find other habitable worlds, and potentially life."…
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on December 9, 2008 at 8:30pm —
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"To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble the familiar and bring the old into new juxtaposition.” -Gordon Webber
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Added by Mechelle De Craene on November 30, 2008 at 5:19pm —
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Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Spending time with family and friends without all the hoopla...just enjoying each other's company with great food. Speaking of good food...Here's a recipe for
Bailey's Irish Cream Marble Cheesecake! You can also mix it up with Baile…
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