TEACHER> Teacher Magazine Update, October 2003
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Welcome to the October 2003 TEACHER MAGAZINE UPDATE, brought to you by
TEACHER MAGAZINE on the Web:
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October 2003
In This Issue:
* Classroom Currents
* TalkBack
* Newsbytes
* Education Issues A-Z
* Periodical Room
* Reading List
* Around the Web: Editor's Picks
(NOTE: The links in this newsletter will expire on Nov 2, 2003.)
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CLASSROOM CURRENTS
The October 2003 issue of Teacher Magazine is currently online:
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(Stories require free registration.)
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Career pacifist and volunteer teacher Colman McCarthy could easily be
written off as a holdover from the '60s. There's just one catch: In
this uncertain time, his students think otherwise.
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This Time, It's Personal
Weblogs are the Internet's faculty rooms, giving teachers places to
inspire, commiserate, and, on occasion, stir things up.
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A Notion at Risk
An education writer recalls an era when teachers actually had the time
and flexibility to point high schoolers in the right direction.
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Middle Managers
A program aiming to get more low-income kids into college targets C
students rather than academic stars.
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Talking Points
Bringing students into parent-teacher conferences can give the
conversation a healthy dose of perspective.
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Interview: Attitude Adjustment
Angela Coleman helps African-American girls face the future with
confidence.
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Opinion: A Little Humility
Ronald A. Wolk offers a modest proposal: Lawmakers and education
officials should have to take--and pass-- the high-stakes tests
they're pushing on schools.
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TALKBACK
Our TalkBack section let's you speak out on issues in education and
engage colleagues in discussion.
Current topic:
Defending the much-maligned No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary
of Education Rod Paige says that for many students the current U.S.
education system is akin to that of apartheid. What do you think?
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Also read the transcript of our live Web chat with Secretary Paige,
held Sept. 24, 2003.
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NEWSBYTES
Get the latest education news from around the country in THE DAILY
NEWS. Updated daily by 12:00 p.m., EST.
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Governor Pitches Paying 'Super Teachers' Up to $100,000
>From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: October 2.
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Teachers Panel Rejects Contract, Deals Union Chief Defeat
>From Chicago Sun-Times: October 2.
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Ban Supporters Say Books Are Inappropriate for 9th-Graders
>From Des Moines Register: October 2
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Study: Homework Load Doesn't Add Up
>From USA Today: October 1.
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Cheating to Cost Chinese School
>From The Seattle Times: September 29.
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Also, see our international education news roundup, updated every
Wednesday:
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EDUCATION ISSUES A-Z
Our Issues A-Z section provides brief, research-based background
essays on key topics in education today. Each page includes Web
resources and selected archive stories.
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Student Health
Rising rates of obesity, diabetes, and asthma among adolescents are
causing schools to take a much more active role in promoting students'
physical well-being.
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School Finance
Just how are schools financed? How much per-pupil spending is enough?
And how do adequacy and equity figure into the mix?
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PERIODICAL ROOM
Reports and articles from around the Web.
(Note: Inclusion does not constitute endorsement of views by Teacher
Magazine.)
Do Students Have Too Much Homework?
>From the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy,
October 2003.
Contrary to the popular belief that students are overwhelmed with too
much homework, this new study suggests the average student's load is
actually a light one.
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Leadership and the Dave Matthews Band
>From The School Administrator, September 2003.
Effective education leaders must be able to create a story, based on
personal conviction, that "conveys a sense of purpose and captures the
minds and hearts of their followers," writes school superintendent
Bradley J. Reiger. Reiger's own motivational story revolves around the
Dave Matthews Band and the boy who introduced him to their music.
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Report on Teen Cigarette Smoking and Marijuana Use
>From the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, September
2003.
There is a strong connection between teenage cigarette smoking and
marijuana use, suggests this new survey. According to the findings,
teenagers who smoke cigarettes are 14 times more likely to try
marijuana than are their peers who have never smoked.
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Looking Inside the Classroom:
A Study of K-12 Mathematics and Science Education in the United States
>From Horizon Research, Inc., May 2003.
The average math and science lesson is "far from the ideal," according
to a study. "We do our kids a disservice by choosing one pedagogy and
using it all the time," said Iris R. Weiss, the president of Horizon
Research Inc. The study suggests teachers try a variety of strategies.
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>From 'Paperless Classroom' to 'Deep Reading':
Five Stages in Internet Pedagogy
>From The Technology Source, October 2003.
A literature professor discusses his use of technology in the
classroom--for data management, communication, and instruction
(including "deep reading.") "The specific techniques I describe may
save some colleagues from having to start from scratch," the author
observes.
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Who's In Charge Here?
Most folks agree: Kids in the United States today are the most
pampered and indulged in history. They often seem to have raised to
assume they will always get their way. But this Time story says there
are clear signs that an adult rebellion is brewing.
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READING LIST
BE THE DREAM:
Prep for Prep Graduates Share Their Stories
compiled and introduced by Gary Simons (Algonquin, 374 pp., 12.95)
This book assembles memoirs by 35 alumni of "Prep for Prep," an
intensive academic program that helps transition disadvantaged New
York public school students into elite independent high schools. The
program has had marked success. Not only do a high percentage of the
participants matriculate at independent school. They also appear to be
instilled with a vivid sense of empowerment. While a limited program
like "Prep for Prep" can't solve our nation's educational problems,
writes TEACHER MAGAZINE's reviewer David Ruenzel, "it is undeniably a
powerful program that bolsters the skills and aspirations of
disadvantaged youngsters who would have a slim chance at success
without it."
Read this and other reviews in TEACHER MAGAZINE:
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INSIDE MRS. B's CLASSROOM
Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side
By Leslie Baldacci (McGraw-Hill)
In 1999, Leslie Baldacci, a journalist with 25 years of experience,
left the newspaper business to teach in one of Chicago's toughest
neighborhoods. Here she offers, according to the publisher, a
"first-hand narrative from the trenches of the inner-city school
system. ..." Baldacci's reflects on both the unimagined difficulty of
the job--she was even put on "remediation" during her first year--as
well its surprising rewards. After two hard years on the job, she
believes in the power of teachers to make a difference in students
lives.
Read an excerpt in this book from TEACHER MAGAZINE:
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RACE IN THE SCHOOLYARD:
Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
by Amanda E. Lewis
(Rutgers University Press, 288 pages, $22 paperback.)
Described as an "ethnography," this book takes readers both inside the
classroom and out to the playground to show the ways students learn
about race in school. The author, a sociologist and African-American
studies professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, visited
three elementary schools; two she describes as multiracial urban and
one, white suburban. Over the course of a year, she discovered how
race insinuates itself into everyday life in the schools. Her analysis
shows how teacher-student and student-student interactions frame ideas
about race, helping to perpetuate some of the continuing racial
inequalities in schools.
More information on this book is available from the publisher:
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Honoring Diverse Teaching Styles: A Guide for Supervisors
by Edward Pajak
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 118 pages,
($22.95 paperback)
Do school leaders understand your teaching style? A guide for
fostering effective teacher development, this book includes
descriptions and examples of the four basic styles of teaching; tips
for matching a supervisor's communication style with the teacher's
preferred style; tools for effectively observing classroom practice;
and ideas for helping teachers build on their strengths while
exploring different ways of teaching.
More information is available from the publisher:
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AROUND THE WEB: EDITOR'S PICKS
Educational Bloggers Network
Weblogs--essentially personal online journals--have begun to surface
in the education world. As Mark Toner observes in his TEACHER MAGAZINE
Story (see "Classroom Currents," at top), teachers have taken to
blogging for everthing from collaboration on curriculum to sharing
news and resources to just plain venting. A good place to learn more
about teacher blogs is the Education Bloggers Network, "a
collaborative of teachers and organizations using Weblogs in
education." The organization's home page unfurls excerpts from
participants' work as well as links to their individual blogs. The
site also includes a directory of bloggers and variety of resources
and tools for bloggers--in the event you might want to start one
yourself. All blogs are not created equal, of course, but browsing
this site you can't help but feel that blogging has given teachers an
important new outlet for expression.
Also, take a look at two of teacher blogs featured in the TEACHER
MAGAZINE article:
New York City second-year teacher Jeanne Edna Thelwell
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3rd grade Missouri teacher Christopher Wright
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>From TEACHER MAGAZINE on the WEB. This update is provided as a
monthly service of Editorial Projects in Education, the Washington,
D.C.-based publisher of EDUCATION WEEK newspaper and TEACHER MAGAZINE.
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