Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Focus on interests to result in more learning

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Published in the Straits Times, Singapore (January 2, 2017). I predict that Singapore's move toward helping students develop their in...
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Bill Nye, The Science Guy shouldn't believe everything he reads about the Common Core.

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Stephen Krashen http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=6623&section=Article On Big Think, Bill Nye (The Scie...
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Literacy: The problem is not professional development. The problem is poverty and lack of access to books.

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Sent to the Washington Post, Dec. 23. As Ellen O'Neill notes in her letter (December 23, 2016), professional development for teachers...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Everything but what works: A comment on "Helping English-Learners Break Through Language Plateaus.

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Stephen Krashen published in Education Week, posted at http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2016/12/16/helping-english-learners-...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The Empire strikes back: Testing all the time

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Sent to the Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2016 As Lois Guisbond suggests (The Answer Sheet, 12/19/16), the opt-out movement's effort to r...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

What about classic comics?

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Comment published in NY Times comments section on " Forget ‘Pat the Bunny.’ My Child Is Reading Hemingway" (D...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Does Latin study help with the study of other Romance languages? Maybe. but is it efficient?

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Stephen Krashen, December 2016   DRAFT The goal of this paper is not to discourage the study of Latin. It is, rather, part of...
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