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California LiveWire: Teaching in the Golden State: August 2006
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California LiveWire: Teaching in the Golden State. Welcome to LiveWire, the voice of California teachers. We vary in age, grade level taught, location, and political persuasion, but we are all united in one common goal: to educate the public on the changing nature of American education by giving a day-to-day picture of what life is like in a California classroom. If you would like to join LiveWire's staff, please email us at californialivewire@yahoo.com. Posted by ms-teacher @ 7:09 PM. Links to this post.
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EduInsights: The Highly Qualfied Physical Science Teacher
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Thursday, August 10, 2006. The Highly Qualfied Physical Science Teacher. What content knowledge is needed to be an effective science teacher? If you have been following my earlier posts, you can guess how NJ got the physics people to pass chemistry and the chemistry people to pass physics. It just set very low standards. To earn physical science certification NJ required three tests. For physics, they used the one-hour Praxis II (...How low t...
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EduInsights: AEI Conference on Black-White IQ Gap
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Thursday, November 30, 2006. AEI Conference on Black-White IQ Gap. Video, Audio, slides and relevant papers on the November 28. 2006 AEI conference on The Black-White IQ Gap: Is It Closing? Will It Ever Go Away? Rarely have I seen such a contentious issue discussed so civilly and scientifically. The conference left me with a lot of new information to think about. My TERC site has changed its URL from. Http:/ www.squidoo.com/beyondterc.
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EduInsights: Standards So Low a Caveman Could Meet Them
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Monday, November 27, 2006. Standards So Low a Caveman Could Meet Them. If 100 cavemen wanted to become high school mathematics teachers, how many could pass the licensure test? The answer appears below. Teachers in core subject areas are required by the No Child Left Behind. For secondary mathematics teachers, the Praxis II (10061) test is currently used by a majority of states for the purpose of proving sufficient mathematics content knowled...
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EduInsights: Physics or Social Justice
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Monday, June 25, 2007. Physics or Social Justice. Almost a year ago I ran a piece entitled Math or Social Justice. That post described the trials and tribulations of someone holding un-PC views in becoming a math teacher. Recently I ran across a post from a UK physics teacher. His open letter. Shows what happens when the PC-mindset invades the physics curriculum. The entire post is well worth the read, but here is sample:. None of this materi...
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EduInsights: June 2007
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Monday, June 25, 2007. Physics or Social Justice. Almost a year ago I ran a piece entitled Math or Social Justice. That post described the trials and tribulations of someone holding un-PC views in becoming a math teacher. Recently I ran across a post from a UK physics teacher. His open letter. Shows what happens when the PC-mindset invades the physics curriculum. The entire post is well worth the read, but here is sample:. None of this materi...
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EduInsights: Reflection on the President’s Proposals
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Monday, November 13, 2006. Reflection on the President’s Proposals. The president has proposed two new programs. One would train 70,000 high-school teachers to lead Advanced Placement courses in science and math. A second would bring 30,000 math and science professionals to teach in classrooms and give early help to struggling students. This is far more about pedagogy than it is about content knowledge. If their current teachers do not ha...
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EduInsights: November 2006
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Thursday, November 30, 2006. AEI Conference on Black-White IQ Gap. Video, Audio, slides and relevant papers on the November 28. 2006 AEI conference on The Black-White IQ Gap: Is It Closing? Will It Ever Go Away? Rarely have I seen such a contentious issue discussed so civilly and scientifically. The conference left me with a lot of new information to think about. Links to this post. Monday, November 27, 2006. The answer appears below. How hig...
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EduInsights: Studies Prove
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Saturday, August 19, 2006. Thomas Sowell recently wrote a series of articles entitled “Studies Prove” ( I. He gives examples, some from personal experience, about how stakeholders will selectively use data that bolsters their theory and suppress other data that doesn’t. A few salient points:. In part III, he discusses a study. That “proved” the effectives of affirmative action policies at universities. However, the study autho...Back in the 1...
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EduInsights: Save the Data
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An archive of links and musings on science and math education. Friday, August 04, 2006. In my previous posts I’ve presented evidence for how much (or really how little) mathematics our secondary math teachers need to know to be annointed “highly qualfied”. The Reader’s Digest. In this post I will look at a related question: “How Much Math Should Math Teachers Know? Rdquo; that is, what evidence is there for a correlation between teacher math knowledge and student math achievement? They reviewed no such s...
