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Clark County’s take on CCSS resources.
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The US has NEVER ranked at the top of the TIMMS study, so why is it such a hammer against teachers and education? Who knows, but the links from this article and the secondary articles are great.
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Math Students Repeating Courses Without Success | Reflections of a Second-career Math Teacher
This is something I have been thinking over and struggling with. How do we change this fact that repeating a math class doesn’t bring success in most cases?
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Grant Wiggins is an amazing author who challenges me to think deeper and harder about topics. Why is there this year after year correlation between SES and achievement? What does it mean?
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Animated Factorization Diagrams – Data Pointed
Amazing factorizations done to patterns and colors. It is pretty neat just to set the page to play and let it run and see what happens.
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Climate Change Denial: Why don’t they publish scientific papers?
Great graph on the climate change deniers and the fact they are full of hooey.
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Best Free Fonts of 2012 | Freebies
Lots of great fonts for free here.
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: Education Data and Learning Analytics
A huge collection of data links about education in 2012
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Many math students are flailing, repeating courses without success | EdSource Today
A summary of the WestEd report on retaking Algebra 1.
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What’s New: Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning
WestEd report, November 2012 on Algebra and retaking courses. They found that repeating Algebra 1 did not significantly improve outcomes.
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Archived: National Mathematics Advisory Panel
A 2008 panel on how to improve mathematics education. Lots to read and go through here. See “Reports” for a wealth of info.
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Flunking the Test | American Journalism Review
Perhaps the US educational system isn’t so bad after all? Of course it isn’t.