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nepc.colorado.edu
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| | | | | Suppose one tries to debate the Science of Reading (SoR) and what it is precisely. They will likely be met by cognitive psychologists, parents, and educators who are insistent about the importance of neuroscience. Trying to understand how the brain works and why some children have learning disabilities has existed for decades. I'm staring at an old textbook special education teachers used: Alexander Bannatyne's 1971Language, Reading, and Learning Disabilities: Psychology, Neuropsychology, Diagnosis, and Remediation. | |
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dianeravitch.net
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| | | | | When an education policy is tried and failed, then tried again and continues to fail, that policy may justly beee called "zombie policy." It survives despite experience.. Tom Ultican, retried teacher of physics and advanced mathematics in California, here describes such a policy. It is called "grade retention," but is more commonly known as flunking... | |
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dangerouslyirrelevant.org
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| | | | | The Iowa Department of Education (DE) was quoted recently as saying, "We really aren't looking at [3rd grade retention] as being punitive." The problem, of course, is that it doesn't matter how we as adults perceive retention. What matters is how the retained 8-year-olds perceive retention. And four decades of research is very clear that... | |
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danielkwest.wordpress.com
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| | | TLDR; to improve your teaching and learning using evidence based techniques, see my top ten tips at the end of this article. Ever since I was introduced to the ideas of learning styles back in my initial teacher training years, I have always been extremely sceptical of any new teaching and learning strategies that come... | ||
