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Are school zero-tolerance policies too harsh?

Posted on December 11, 2011 by edfivecs90

Perhaps an answer to the query we frequently get, “How come you’re giving that child another chance?”

Lindsey Tanner was a typical 14-year-old who enjoyed hanging out with friends and shopping. In May 2007, the eighth-grade honor student was making plans for the summer and excited to soon be a high school freshman.

But after offering a single Midol pill to a fellow student, Lindsey saw her friends disappear and was subject to public ridicule.

“My life changed completely,” the now 18-year-old said. “I lost friends. I was picked on. Anything you can imagine happening, happened.”

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Post Source: USA Today

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A ‘Moneyball’ Approach to College

Posted on December 11, 2011 by edfivecs90

You know those “clickers” some of your colleagues have been using for objective tests or quizzes?  What if the system could also give you data to decide which students should be partnered up? In real time?  And could we learn something from “Moneyball?”

Educators have long held that the interactions between students and professors defy simple reduction. Yet in several areas of campus life, colleges are converting the student experience into numbers to crunch in the name of improving education.

Think of it as higher education meets Moneyball. In the movie, Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane reinvents his struggling baseball team by analyzing statistics in new ways to predict player success. In education, college managers are doing something similar to forecast student success—in admissions, advising, teaching, and more.

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Post Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed via Alltop

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World AIDS Day 2011

Posted on December 4, 2011 by edfivecs90

World AIDS may have passed you by (December 1st), but it’s not too late to join “The One Campaign” to create a digital quilt….

HIV/AIDS is a very real condition of our human population on Earth and thus an important part of our geographic education. Please take a couple minutes to educate yourself about the global impact of this devastating disease. The following are some basic facts from aids.gov that I encourage everyone to deeply consider on this day of observation.

  • More than one million people are living with HIV in the U.S.
  • One in five living with HIV is unaware of their infection.
  • By race, African Americans face the most severe HIV burden.
  • Every 9 1/2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV.
  • 33.4 million are currently living with HIV/AIDS worldwide.
  • More than 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide since the first cases were reported in 1981.

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Post Source: My Wonderful World Blog (National Geographic Education)

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“I am not Asian”

Posted on December 4, 2011 by edfivecs90

Whatever your stance…this is one that’s sure to generate some more conversation. Within admissions circles, it already has…

Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white.

“I didn’t want to put `Asian’ down,” Olmstead says, “because my mom told me there’s discrimination against Asians in the application process.”

For years, many Asian-Americans have been convinced that it’s harder for them to gain admission to the nation’s top colleges.

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Post Source: Huffpost Education

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Instructables—Make, How To, and DIY| The Committed Sardine

Posted on November 29, 2011 by edfivecs90

Jason Ohler posted this at the 21st Century Fluency Project.  If you’re looking for a creative way to give students a chance to apply knowledge, read on…

I just spent way more time than I have absolutely riveted to this site: Instructables. As the name implies, it instructs readers, but not on how to know stuff, but on how to make stuff. In the virtual age we have adapted to, actually doing something sticks out like a flashing neon sign.

What can you make? Thousands of things. What kinds of things? You name it. Cool clocks, cheap robots, plastic from scratch—even brain controlled wheelchairs. And before you say to yourself, “these people have too much time on their hands,” check it out. I see dozens if not hundreds of cool, low cost school projects here. This is a genuinely user-driven site aimed at educating and empowering the innovator within on a limited budget.

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