Wednesday, February 27, 2013
For as long as there have been schools, teachers have given homework to students for them to complete out of class. However, it is clear that homework, especially when teachers give it in excess, is unnecessary for the students. Recent studies performed by experts at Penn State University as well as the Curry School of Education have pointed to the fact that more homework does not correlate with better grades. In fact, some studies showed that homework is useless because of all the stress it puts on the young students that it is given to.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
My graduate research and my teaching interests have focused primarily on the intersections of public writing and rhetorical theory. Specifically, I am interested in the disconnect between school writing and public writing and how our students and off-campus communities can …
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Friday, November 2, 2012
I was cautiously optimistic when I first read this headline, America’s Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong, on NPR.org. The post was a synopsis of a recent study by the Pew Research Center, the summary of which can be …
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Monday, October 1, 2012
A few days ago the College Board released the SAT Report on College and Career Readiness: 2012. It makes for some interesting reading. The big news, as touted in their press release, was that only 43% of college-bound …
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Friday, January 6, 2012
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when …
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Monday, October 17, 2011
It’s been a while since we’ve posted a Resource Round-Up here on Learning Diversity, so we figured what better time than now to present you with the best links on the web to help your student, child, or yourself!…
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Some readers of earlier posts about reading comprehension understandably have trouble wrapping their heads around the notion that interpretation and comprehension can be considered one and the same. I think it would be helpful to consider verbal conversation. When we …
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Jason, thank you for sharing with us ideas that do challenge me to explore and clarify my own views more thoroughly than before. We are dealing with a complex problem, so, for the sake of simplifying our discussion, I am …
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Imagine yourself getting to the beach on a hot summer day (Yeah. Take a deep breath. The day is coming!) You greet the lifeguard who, in turn, replies by saying, “The waves are unusually high today.”…
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
A couple of recent posts (Interpeting Comprehension, Reading is a Cultural Activity) on LearningDiversity.org have rested on the assertion that reading is a cultural activity and that we teachers should encourage students to read creatively. My worthy …
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
I’m still a relatively new teacher, but based on my experience and in reading quite a bit (for better or worse) about models for reading, I am concerned that many models of reading comprehension focus on certain aspects of reading …
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