Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The best book I've read this year

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The best two books I've read in the past several months were both historical fiction: first The Radetsky March , Joseph Roth's amazi...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Informing parents about missing student work raises GPA and raises test scores for Math--but not for English

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I read an interesting study yesterday. Here's my take: The Study A New York Times article yesterday referred to an interesting study ...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The new Common Sense Media report on reading

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(I have been taking a year off from blogging while I think things through on (maybe) a deeper level, but I wanted to record a quick take on...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Fancy math in educational research

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I was reading an economics blogger who sometimes writes about inequality, and a post of his ( http://owenzidar.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/what...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Death of Theory in Education?

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In literary studies, the age of "theory" was coming to its end when I was in college, twenty-some years ago.  I took a class or tw...
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

ETS calls for Graduate Schools of Educational Public Health and more attention to poverty

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ETS (!) has sponsored an excellent report on poverty and education.  Written by Richard Coley of ETS and Bruce Baker of Rutgers (and school...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Atul Gawande's recent article is relevant to education, too!

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There is an excellent Atul Gawande piece in the New Yorker this week about improving medical practice.  There are two main ideas in the art...
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Why do we need MOOCs when we have books?

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Over the past few years I've gotten interested in economics, and this summer I decided to finally go through an introductory econ textbo...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Moving to a free market in education could lead to much higher costs

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In between dealing  with personal business this summer I've been teaching myself economics and reading a bit in the socioloy of educatio...
Monday, July 1, 2013

What might the new NAEP scores mean?

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The "Nation's Report Card," otherwise known as the report on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, or N...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Results of a survey on independent reading

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I asked one of my ninth grade classes to write my a quick note about how independent reading went for them this year. I asked specifically a...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

NOLA schools "improvement": Ed Reform is likely less important than time, funding and demographics

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The NYT has a post up about Ed reform in New Orleans that's getting a lot of attention.  The post basically says that ed reform is help...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Waldorf Schools are an interesting natural experiment showing that explicit reading instruction in the very early grades may be unnecessary

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We have some family friends whose kids used to go to a (private) Waldorf school nearby.  The kids were wonderful, but I didn't know much...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Summer Reading Redux

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I've been so busy that I haven't followed up on some stuff I posted about a long time ago and meant to come back to.  Here's a q...
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When shown that there's no solid evidence for their side, literacy gurus demand evidence for the other

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Over the past month or so, Tim Shanahan and I have been having an interesting discussion in the comments section to one of his blog posts.  ...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

NYT sees no evil in ability grouping; but I wonder if it enables boring curriculum

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According to a piece in yesterday's New York Times, ability grouping in elementary school is seeing a resurgence.  The article gives ve...
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