NHN: 4/12/05 NETHAPPENINGS NEWSLETTER # 20
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NHN: 4/12/05 NETHAPPENINGS NEWSLETTER #21
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Dear Readers,
Net Happenings Newsletter, launched by the Educational
CyberPlayGround, features both news and resources.
Karen Ellis* Founder of the Educational CyberPlayGround,
Guavaberry Books and the National Children's Folksong
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Written by Classroom Teacher Alan Haskvitz
1997 National Teacher's Hall of Fame
All USA Today First Team Teacher
Reader's Digest Hero in Education
Cherry International Award for Outstanding Teachers
1994 National Middle Level Teacher of the Year (NCSS)
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IN THIS ISSUE
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IN THE NEWS
- NBPTS certification providing little if any advantage to students.
- The American Association for Higher Education closing down.
- When public schools go to profiteers, all of Texas loses: Republicans versus
Democrats
WE ARE NOT ALONE
- A review of possible changes with math education in Europe
- The Quality of European Education: A great read.
- Ghana students continue to have problems with math
INTERESTING SITES
- Yikes! Did you know that Children's Music & the Oral Tradition is almost
extinct? Find out what you can do to help prevent this precious resource from
slipping away and being lost to us forever.
- Recycle Solutions for getting rid of old record albums & Record you LP to CD.
- Did you submit your K12 school URL to the Hot List that started it all in
1993?
- National Teachers Hall of Fame newsletter: Look what the members are doing
and how they got there.
SITES YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED
- Free video downloads of The American Theatre Wing's "Working in the Theatre"
seminars
- EconoClass offers interactive activities to help teach basic economics. Some
simulations and studies.
- Technology Grants
QUOTES
James Baldwin and John Dewey on learning
FACTOIDS
Do boys or girls do better in civics?
How many students register to vote and how many vote?
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IN THE NEWS
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NBPTS certification providing little if any advantage to students. This book
explores the NBPTS studies and finds little to comfort those states that
have adopted the certification process that costs each teacher $2300 to be
reviewed.
http://www.education-consumers.com/Cunningham-Stone.pdf
The American Association for Higher Education, which was founded in 1969,
announced Thursday that it would shut down its operations
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/25/aahe
When public schools go to profiteers, all of Texas loses: Republicans versus
Democrats. The influence of a California conservative think tank and the
controversial Edison schools on Texas education and, of course, money.
http://tinyurl.com/6phb4
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WE ARE NOT ALONE
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A review of possible changes with math education in Europe
http://tinyurl.com/679ho
The Quality of European Education: A great read.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/educ/indic/rapinen.pdf
Ghana students continue to have problems with math
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=61432
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INTERESTING SITES
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Yikes!
Did you know that Children's Music & the Oral Tradition is almost
extinct? Find out what you can do to help prevent this precious resource from
slipping away and being lost to us forever.
UF STUDY: CHILDREN'S KNOWLEDGE GAP OF FOLK SONGS THREATENS HERITAGE
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/opportunity.html
Children's Music & the Oral Tradition is almost extinct. States are Ranked -
Study proves that children do not know their folksongs and that teachers do
not teach them.
Children in the United States aren't singing the songs of their heritage, an
omission that puts the nation in jeopardy of losing a long standing and rich
part of its identity.
How you can help Keep the Tradition Alive by asking children
to record themselves.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/NCFR.html
Recycle Solutions for getting rid of old record albums & Record you LP to CD.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/albums.html
National Teachers Hall of Fame newsletter: Look what the members are doing
and how they got there.
http://www.nthf.org/docs/nthf%20news%202.pdf
Did you submit your K12 school URL to the original Hot List that started it
all in 1993?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/
Must See Interesting Web Sites
http://tinyurl.com/4w8g3
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SITES YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED
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Free video downloads of The American Theatre Wing's "Working in the Theatre"
seminars
http://americantheatrewing.org/video-WIT.php
EconoClass offers interactive activities to help teach basic economics. Some
simulations and studies.
http://www.econoclass.com
Technology Grants
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/grants.html
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QUOTES
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James Baldwin:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they
have never failed to imitate them.
John Dewey:
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for
future living.
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FACTOIDS
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About 70 percent of the students in all three grades were at or above the
Basic level in civics performance. Female students had higher scale scores
than male students in grades 8 and 12.
In the 2000 presidential election, 70 percent of the U.S. voting-age citizen
population (18 years of age and older) was registered to vote and 59 percent
voted. Among these citizens, the more education a person possessed, the more
likely that person was to be registered to vote and to vote. For example, 52
percent of voting-age citizens who had not completed high school were
registered to vote in 2000, compared with 83 percent of those with a
bachelor's degree or higher. Thirty-eight percent of citizens who had not
completed high school voted in 2000, compared with 77 percent of those with
a bachelor's degree or higher.
Thanks for reading,
Al
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