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Last night I did something I have not done in years. I attended a rock concert at a major-arena venue. Back in the day, one of my favorite activities was going to concerts, but since the advent of children, I have not been to one for a very long time.
My last full day here in Australia before the long trip home tomorrow. I get my day back, but who knows how long it will be before I get my body clock back. Last summer it took almost two weeks for me to get straight. Tips anyone? [...]
To make up for a horribly depressing spring. Last week we had our staff development week in which we started planning for next year. There was something so energizing about taking a break from thinking about all of my "failures" from this year and starting over, [...]
A new paper by Joseph G. Antolji, Prashant Bharadwaj, and Fabian Lange looks at whether or not American youth have responded to increasing economic rewards for skills and education by investing more in skills and education:
We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s [...]
Sometimes, my colleagues groan when I propose new uses for technology. "That's just Bill being Bill," they say, "Where there's a will, there's just gotta be a digital way with that guy!"
And while their groans drive me a bit crazy sometimes, I really am [...]
Over the past decade, the UK has spent billions of pounds to install and monitor closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras on tens of thousand of street corners around the country.
It’s a system that many homeland security fanatics hold up as an example of what should be done here in the US [...]
Tuesday: Pinellas School Board, 10 a.m.
Wednesday: Hillsborough School Board, workshop, 10 a.m.; Commission for Independent Education, 9 a.m., Orlando
May 20: Hillsborough School Board, 3 p.m.; Pasco School Board, 6 p.m.; Hernando School Board, 7 p.m.
May 27: Pinellas School Board, 5 p.m.
June 3: Last [...]
This introduction to OERs is available at Connexions. It was prepared by Dr. Judy Baker of Foothill College to assist instructors in using open textbooks and other online educational resources. I highly recommend this tutorial for teachers new to OERs and as a review for professionals who are already familiar [...]
We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the third annual “K12 Online Conference” for educators around the world interested in the use of web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled for October 20-24 and October 27-31 of [...]
John Norton on TLN threw out an interesting challenge around a six-word memoir. Someone on the list called this game a limited-word writing
activity "American haiku". I found the activity so interesting I tossed it to my Twitter community. The results were delightful!
I [...]
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Sue Fraser
Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community
for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has
revised its copyright policy to allow authors to retain the rights to
work published in its three journals. The policy, which became
effective May [...]
TOUGHER TO FIND THE TIME: Florida's elementary school teachers thought it was hard to fit 30 minutes of daily P.E. into their students' already busy schedule. So some gamed the system. The Legislature responded by requiring the minutes be "consecutive," making the requirement even more challenging. [...]
Philadelphia schools are dangerous, concludes the district’s safe-schools advocate.
In a blistering 72-page document obtained by The Inquirer, Jack Stollsteimer describes a district where students who assault teachers or come to school with guns are not removed from classrooms, a violation of federal and state law.
School crime, he says, [...]
