Saturday, November 28, 2015

The Performance Gap

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Published in the Los Angeles Daily News. December 10, 2015 The gap between test scores of students living in poverty and those from highe...
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Friday, November 27, 2015

Lift kids out of poverty before expecting higher test scores

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Published in the Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2015 No Child Left Behind gets undeserved credit for making schools pay attention to stud...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Why are college graduation rates declining?

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Comment on “Despite efforts to increase them,  university graduation rates fall.” Hechinger Report, 11/17 (by John Marcus) Published at: ht...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Time spent reading is a valid predictor of reading achievement; should we force students to read more complex texts?

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Response to the claim that reading an extra 4.7 minutes a day, using Accelerated Reader, helps struggling readers catch up.  Based on ten m...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

"I just have no talent for languages."

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Lots of people think they have no talent for languages. The reason, I think is that they have been in classes that provide very little comp...
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Invest in School Libraries

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Sent to the Philadelphia Inquirer,  November 13 "Push to narrow the digital divide" (November 12) argues that we need to invest...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The White House summit backs the wrong horse

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Stephen Krashen Comment on: White House Announces $375 Million for High School Redesign (Education Week) At the time of the White House su...