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The Important Lessons to Teach

By Heather Wolpert-Gawron

3/12/10

So I've become a Guy Kawasaki fan. It all started when I was searching for commencement day speeches for the students on the speech and debate team to compete with.

CoSN Day 1: Education Reformers Abroad Hitch Their Star to Technology

By Edutopia

3/1/10

Editor's Note: Don't miss David's dispatch on Day 2.

Sunday, I camped out at the 9th Annual International Symposium of CoSN, also known as the Consortium of School Networking, in Washington, D.C., and learned a ton from an A-list of international education innovators. Listening to folks from Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, as well as some of our own American leading lights, I came away understanding, with ever more precision, how essential technology will be to educating students everywhere.

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Big Thinkers: Linda Darling-Hammond on Becoming Internationally Competitive

Stanford University professor and noted researcher Linda Darling-Hammond discusses what the United States can learn from high-achieving countries on teaching, learning, and assessment -- from Finland to Singapore. More to this story.

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Release Date: 01/27/2010
Running Time: 09:12

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Webinar Teaches Lessons from Abroad

By Edutopia

11/10/09

You might say the United States is the California of countries when it comes to how our students score on international exams. We're not the worst, but we have an uncomfortably close view of the bottom.

How to Focus Lessons and Learning Goals

By Elena Aguilar

11/9/09

In the coming weeks, I'll share tips guaranteed to increase student achievement. This guarantee is based on my own teaching and experience as an instructional coach, as well as on research compiled by education experts.

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A School Commits to Academic Rigor

Project learning, integrated studies, and comprehensive assessment support a drive to achieve high academic standards.

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Teachers Should Analyze Student Work Together

By Bob Lenz

10/26/09

In my last post, "How to Make Writing Research Papers Relevant for Students," I described an expository writing task that all our students at Envision Schools must complete. In this post, I will highlight the task of analyzing literature.

The Edutopia Poll

by Laila Weir

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Low-income students perform better at schools with a middle-class majority than at those where a majority of students qualify for free and reduced lunch, research shows. One report found low-income students at economically diverse schools scored a whopping 20 to 32 percent higher in reading and math. (Download a PDF of the economic-diversity report.) So how do schools get a mixed student body? When they draw pupils from both poor and affluent areas, they have to compete with private (and public magnet) schools. When they draw from high-poverty areas alone, it's more complicated. Some districts mandate mixing by "busing" kids between poor and middle-class neighborhoods, while others try to attract affluent parents with magnet schools. Should districts take action to integrate schools, and if so, what's the best approach? We want to hear your opinion.

What's the best way to make schools economically diverse?

How to Make Writing Research Papers Relevant for Students

By Bob Lenz

9/28/09

In my last post, "Preparing High School Seniors for College," I outlined the College Success Portfolio, a performance-assessment system used at Envision Schools. We developed this system because we believe students demonstrate college readiness not only by passing rigorous courses but also by actually producing college-ready academic work, demonstrating 21st-century leadership skills, and mastering college-level work habits.

The Benefits of Taking Students Outside to Inspire Writing

By Stephen Hurley

9/15/09

The following quote is one of the first things my eighth-grade students see when they walk into their classroom in September: