Thursday, April 30, 2015

Good thinkers know when to work, when to relax.

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S. Krashen, April 2015 Csikszentmihalyi, Rathunde, and Whalen (1993)   monitored concentration among "talented" tee...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

Standardized tests versus grades

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Sent to the Seattle Times, April 27. Randy Dorn claims that "Testing can tell if students need help before college and career,"...
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No need to test every student

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Sent to the Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2015 The House version of the new education law will continue annual testing of reading and mat...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

Reading for Pleasure Can Close 'Vocabulary Gap' at Any Age

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Published in Education Week, May 13, 2015 Children of poverty clearly have slower vocabulary development, and this appears to be related no...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Reading aloud to dogs: What it does and what it doesn't do

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Published in American Libraries, March/April 2015, vol 46 #3/4: 5-6 (submitted November, 2014) Appeared with this title: Indirect...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Accelerated Reader research misses the point, again

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Accelerated Reader research misses the point, again Stephen Krashen April, 2015 Still another study has been pub...
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Monday, April 13, 2015

Opt out - NOT anti-testing

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Sent to the New York Post, April 13, 2015 David Bradford ("Opt out of tests – kids will suffer," April 13) thinks that parents wh...
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