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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Reading Free

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Dina Strasser and I have begun a joint blogging venture, comparing notes on our reading classrooms this year. We set up a project blog called Reading Free, and plan to exchange posts there. I’m interested in this from a couple of different angles, one of them being the use of social media to support collaborative [...]

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Acknowledgments

Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Borderland blog passed its fifth anniversary this month, and I want to recognize some people. Five years is a long time to work on something. For me, at least.
I started writing here just after GW Bush’s second term election. I had not read any blogs at all before that, and I had no ambition [...]

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Inspired

Thursday, November 26, 2009

The corporate perversion of public schooling is making inroads here through what we are all coming to know as “progress monitoring,” delivered locally through an expensive corporately packaged iteration of RTI, which tracks meaningless data (counting words read correctly in a timed reading) and churns out pretty graphs, while doing nothing to increase the professional [...]

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Alaskan Educators Discuss Common Core Standards

Monday, November 16, 2009

Although Alaska did not participate in the development of national education standards initiative, it seems that the professional community will have an opportunity to review the proposed standards and render an opinion according to the following message I just received from the Alaska EED:
IMPORTANT COMMITTEE RECRUITMENT
Common Core Standards Comparison
Purpose:
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