latest report

see the latest report on education ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/education/20girls.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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reading article

An interesting article about progress at the federal level...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/education/02reading.html?th&emc=th

Math problem problem

Are word problems not the answer?

A Nation at Risk

A good review article can be located here : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/opinion/25fiske.html?th&emc=th

monty hall meets psychology

Is there a flaw in cognitive dissonance theory?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html?th&emc=th

Testing

another article on testing results that may be of interest to my readers :
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/education/04writing.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

NCLB Blog

Some discussion on NCLB .....

http://morethanascore.org/

FYI, The Author, Bob Murphy, who recently served as Director of Policy and Professional Practice for the Connecticut Education Association. He has recently retired from full time employment.

The Connecticut Education Association appears to be the sponsor of this blog. I am a bit new to blogging, but I am sure that many of the comments on this blog would be good starting points for thought or discussion.

dropping out

a very disturbing artricle on dropping out ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_re_us/high_school_grad_rates

focus and behaviorism

This article talks mostly about baseball, but the underlying psychology would be of interest in any field of endeavor .....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/opinion/01brooks.html?th&emc=th

Visual attention

The attached artice was just very, very interesting on how the brain is able to weed out what is important and what is not. Like note taking or memorization, we can only accept and process a certain amount of information as shown so visually here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01angi.html?th&emc=th

No child left behind

“We need triage,” said Margaret Spellings, the secretary of education. see full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/us/19child.html?th&emc=th

New Orleans education site

This site is an overview of many aspects of the rebuilding of new orleans. After having been down their for a week, all of the issues and problems of the city really hit home. I ahve followed the "Starting over blog for a while and it has been very interesting and informative. http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/nola/index.html

Math wars anew

Here is an interesting article about revisions proposed for the teaching of mathematics ... http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/03/19/28math_ep.h27.html?tmp=257090407

Waterbury principle under fire

From my perspective, this situation was just so interesting because they could speak out like this. In most industries, an employee who speaks out like this could be well assured of being on the next lay off list. Hope that this gets resolved one way or another for the kids sake.

Education week talks about Iraq

This article is an overview of some of the highlights of Iraq and education after the invasion. http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/iraq-five-year/index.html?levelId=1000&rale2=KQE5d7nM%2FXAYPsVRXwnFWYRqIIX2bhy1%2BKNA5buLAWG22nDRZWXXULaq9bwrGQA%2Bakk2rlaNZNN2%0AUEL6asgoqkzee7wh3wmw6Db7ApLSxaBZ6GSEFRwBWCVvOe0sqsPvVI2zBGZWBWNW6EcvM0Mhz4Yq%0Al8TU4sMIYuUswihb4mINQRU%2FT2ded93ba1kCCENcd1i1zsWfxUxlvkk9Ejm%2FKwxy2EGrEogmOM1o%0A7kTlNfBdADbFgJIZ9MWbK%2B%2Fy7BYapYqvmMz9Ra%2FqEZv%2F%2BQnhgFxT9zO0uM2v2gZF7i8wtaVssAK9%0A1WvYvXr%2BEknleMOx4f%2FQRRGpFO2RyCP5rtNQlB5iY0VecewBQkoZLUyI%2Fzm3LtbNWil5MT7c4KP6%0A87zfWz2mhgFK81zJcl9NKOZImdJ3Tvsw7lLPB06zUG5EHEhlGmAb4sQCLIf43KR6EDEuU2SwyHiY%0AsRkQvFo3KVYJannDz5%2BuDf3XSD02Zq49ly66r9gSF3W5aJHII%2Fmu01CUZCaisqSNJ4pQafZGazFP%0A9mI8AMfr4Wq46hGb%2F%2FkJ4YCftabgXGegnsU%2B%2FC1acjMeYjwAx%2BvharjqEZv%2F%2BQnhgF2HGxqSbfJe%0AvDU7x8V1YZ9UjbMEZlYFY1boRy8zQyHP%2FRsk4tLIgega9dPXjDLnIqr4fnU6%2BjHZaWIs7W94DJIa%0ACfUmHk64s6A8i0eXniwiQWOdxJ8cMxsyb9MQZ9Oe8b2SAxxsAEIoYw0RSPzBxmb6ewGJ%2B%2BewBo1O%0Aw7FHE%2BvYAid358vxF4DVnmpVkDdyscQeci%2B0MiisJtnRA5%2BZQB25hX%2B1rpCeyczS28jxyqNGenOk%0A5pJ0nO0%3D

autism and vaccine

Another statement on the ongoing debate of Autism spectrum disorder ....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/us/08vaccine.html?th&emc=th

Charter School and higher salaries

Article about paying teachers higher salaries, but with larger classes and fewer curriculum choices.

Evolution in Florida

An interesting article on the addition of the theory of evolution in Florida schools.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/opinion/06thu3.html?th&emc=th

Paying for performance

An interesting article about using financial incentives in school:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/nyregion/05incentive.html?th&emc=th

Biological Basis of Social Intelligence

The following article was very interesting. It shows that there is a relationship between social intelligence and brain size and that social intelligence is not just the domain of primates. As I have noticed here at our farm - you can learn a lot from observing animals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/science/04hyen.html?th&emc=th

Single Sex Education

A very interesting article about splitting the sexes fr education .....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html?em&ex=1204693200&en=7a79845aa09f55c0&ei=5087%0A&exprod=myyahoo

A very interesting article about the power of play

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/magazine/17play.html?ex=1204434000&en=009ea2f9099ba836&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Medication blog entry

Thought that this was very interesting ......

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/the-med-scare/?ex=1204434000&en=3408554c2c920f83&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Back to the Blog again!

Hi folks, back at the blog again as a break from midterm madness at the University of Bridgeport!

Please see the following link for a really good article about the psychology of the free lunch program. As a former free lunch kid I can empathize.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/education/01lunch.html?scp=1&sq=school+lunch+&st=nyt