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Sunday, May 13
Middle School Manages the Mayhem of the Tween Years
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MFB
on Sun 13 May 2007 02:00 PM EDT
The New York Times has complete an excellent series on the challenges of middle school education. Read the last article ... more »
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Friday, March 30
Elementary Education is Mediocre at Best
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MFB
on Fri 30 Mar 2007 10:30 AM EDT
A University of Virginia researcher has published a major study on the quality of public education and the results are not good.
"Any given child has less than a 20 percent chance of having a rich classroom experience consistently through elementary school," says Robert C. Pianta, lead researcher and Novartis US Foundation Professor of Education in the University of Virginia Curry School of Education. And for low-income children, the percentage is even less. "If you asked educators what's the most effective way to teach in a classroom, they would probably include small-group instruction, for example, but we found it occurred less than 10 percent of the time in those three grades." For fifth grade, the occurrence is 7 percent. The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development study was published in the March 30 issue of Science Magazine. |
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