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State Investigation Reveals Widespread Cheating in Atlanta Schools
By Christina Samuels on July 5, 2011 6:50 PM
Beverly L. Hall, the former superintendent of Atlanta schools, knew about cheating allegations on state standardized tests and either ignored or tried to hide them, the Associated Press reported after obtaining a copy of an 800-page state investigation report….FULL STORY
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Tags: Cheating, public, Testing
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Taking a Stand: Models of Civic Participation
“What does it take to stand up for an idea? Why do some people choose to take action to address a wrong, while others choose to standby and watch? This lesson outline invites students to reflect on several episodes when individuals chose to take stand, and to also consider how these examples relate to their own lives. Readings are drawn from the Choosing to Participate study guide, and from the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book.”
A Lesson Plan from the website Facing History & Ourselves.
Attention Basics
“Paying attention refers to the brain’s ability to take all of the stimuli around us, immediately categorize and organize information as relevant or irrelevant, and focus the mind on one thing. For a child in a classroom, paying attention to the teacher means filtering out as many as 30 other students and the dynamics between them, visual or outside distractions, noises, and more…”
Check out the PBS website’s section about Attention through their “MisUnderstood Minds” project.
Turning a teen boy into a bookworm
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a teen boy in possession of a free summer must be in want of anything but a book.
But those who live and work with them say it’s not that teen boys don’t like to read, it’s that typical Young Adult novels don’t appeal to them.”
Kathy Ceceri, of Albany Times Union, reports on Colleen Mondor’s efforts to overcome that obstacle….
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