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Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Di Blog Kesayangan Anda Dan Selamat Membaca bandarq terbaik This past Sunday the New York Times offered its list of 100 notable books of the year, and on it there were a couple of great nonfiction works on teaching, including Dana Goldstein’s The Teacher Wars , which I loved and highly recommend. That list got me thinking of the many books I’ve read this year and which ones I might strongly recommend.   One of the best books on teaching I’ve read this year just came out.   It’s Tom Newkirk’s new book, called Minds Made for Stories .   It’s excellent, of course, as is most of the stuff Tom Newkirk writes.   I often found myself stopping to write exclamation points in the margins, thinking to myself, ‘Yes! I feel exactly the same way!’ or, ‘Yes!   I have been saying that for years!’   Too bad I didn’t get to this first, but nonetheless I’m glad these ideas are in print. The book has many...

Jejak Panda Hallo Ketemu Lagi Di Situs Kesayangan Anda daftar bandarq The other day, the Connecticut State Department of Education released the student results of the first SBAC test, and we learned, well, nothing we didn’t already know.   The tests were a little harder than the CMTs or CAPT, especially in Math.   But otherwise, the students in the wealthiest towns did well and the students in the poorest towns did poorly. I shared the results with the students in my Pre-Teaching course, showing them the range, from students at New Canaan High, where 82% of 11 th graders were proficient in Literacy, to Bridgeport, where 17% and 15% of 11 th graders at Harding and Bassick, respectively, were proficient. My students were shocked, but they shouldn’t be.   Standardized tests have revealed similar discrepancies since their inception. There are many ways to look at these results.   Some would praise the tests for shedding light on the achieve...