TEACHER> Teacher Magazine Update, November/December 2003
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Subject: Teacher Magazine Update, November/December 2003
Dear Gleason Sackmann,
Welcome to the November 2003 TEACHER MAGAZINE UPDATE, brought to you
by TEACHER MAGAZINE on the Web:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a30
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November/December 2003
In This Issue:
* Classroom Currents
* Forthcoming
* TalkBack
* Newsbytes
* Education Issues A-Z
* Periodical Room
* Around the Web: Editor's Picks
(NOTE: The links in this newsletter will expire on Dec. 12, 2003.)
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CLASSROOM CURRENTS
The November/December 2003 issue of TEACHER MAGAZINE is currently
online:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a30
(Stories require free registration.)
Reconcilable Differences
Frustrated by decades of strife and separation, Protestant and
Catholic parents in Northern Ireland found a different path to peace
by starting a new school open to all.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a13
Stage Directions
The Broadway Teaching Lab reminds drama educators of the importance of
being earnest.
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Sign of the Times
Activists for the hearing impaired give voice to the idea that signing
is part of a distinctive language and culture.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a19
Rags to Riches
Twenty-six years ago, Jack Yates began his career in education as a
janitor. Today, he's an elementary school principal.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a11
Building Blocks
Set in corrugated metal and concrete, two schools on opposite sides of
the country represent architectural flights of fancy.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a10
We Have the Technology
How do you reach students of the Nintendo Generation? Give them tools
they recognize, suggest researchers at the National Academy of
Sciences.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a20
Opinion: Buy the Book
Librarians find reading a tough sell for today's teens.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a15
Also:
Letters to the Editor
Readers react to last month's story on peace educator Colman McCarthy:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a12
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TALKBACK
Our TalkBack section let's you speak out on issues in education and
engage colleagues in discussion.
Current topic:
What do education schools teach?
A recent study charges that 14 of the nation's most prestigious
education schools offer teacher preparation that is at best uneven and
at worst intellectually thin and ineffectual, reports EDUCATION WEEK.
What's your experience with schools of education? Just how influential
are they in forming teachers' ideologies and teaching styles? Are
education schools teaching students what they need to know? Weigh in
here:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a18
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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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Teachers Give Review Site Mixed Grades
>From The San Diego Union-Tribune: November 9.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a5
Opinion: Terrible Teachers
>From The Washington Post: Nov. 9
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Teachers Fight Hiring Proposal
>From The Dallas Morning News (requires free registration): November
6.
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School Districts Struggle With English Fluency Mandate
>From The New York Times (requires free registration): November 5.
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High-School Portfolios Go Online With Students' Efolio
>From The Seattle Times: November 5.
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Mich. 'Verbal Assault' Law Tossed
>From The Detroit News: November 4.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a17
New Exam for Young Pupils Raises Teachers' Ire
>From The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer: November 2.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a2
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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 archived stories.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a27
High School Reform
School size, access to rigorous classes, core curriculum, virtual
schools. Read more about the continuing debates over what's best in
the world of secondary education.
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=115
Technology in Education
Computers in schools have become ubiquitous. A look at what the
research says about access to, capacity for, and use of technology in
schools.
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=96
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PERIODICAL ROOM
Highlights from other publications:
(Note: Inclusion does not constitute endorsement by TEACHER MAGAZINE.)
The Pledge's Creator
>From Smithsonian Magazine, November 2003.
A look at the the man who composed the original pledge 111 years ago,
and some guesses at how he might react to the current hubbub over
reciting it in classrooms.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a4
Teacher's Journal: Wearing the 'Mean' Badge With Pride
>From The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2003.
English teacher Melissa Jones keeps a journal of her experiences at
the New York Harbor School, part of a reform movement looking to
replace large, troubled high schools with smaller, specially themed
schools.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a6
Part of the Journal's series
"Testing the Waters: New York's Harbor School Experiment":
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a23
Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and
Preschoolers
from the Kaiser Network, Fall 2003.
Toddlers and preschoolers are spending more than twice as much time
watching television, using computers, or interacting with DVDs than
reading or being read to by an adult, according to a new study of the
electronic-media habits of children ages 6 months to 6 years.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a25
Requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a22
What's the Diff? A Guide to Digital Citizenship
>From Junior Achievement, Fall 2003.
Middle school teachers can instruct students on responsible "digital
citizenship" with a new curriculum kit that reviews copyright laws,
intellectual-property rights, and the consequences of illegally
downloading music or other online material, claims Junior Achievement.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a8
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READING LIST
THE FLICKERING MIND: The False Promise of Technology
In the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved
by Todd Oppenheimer (Random House, 512 pages, $26.95)
Oppenheimer, a contributing writer for the Atlantic Monthly, spent
three years visiting schools across the country, trying to determine
the extent to which the technological revolution has reshaped American
education. In what TEACHER MAGAZINE's reviewer David Ruenzel a
"sprawling and devastating" book, he concludes that in fact technology
has seriously undermined teaching and learning.
Oppenheimer observes that school technology diverts money from
student-enrichment programs, is subject to frequent breakdowns, and
gives students novel ways to entertain themselves in class. But his
primary concern is that, with its stream of distractive and
easy-to-manipulate images and data, technology fosters a "flickering
mind" that loses the will to struggle with difficult problems or
challenging texts. In the glow of technology, student work becomes
content-light, unmoored by the solid and comprehensive worldview of
good books.
Oppenheimer acknowledges that computers have a place in the classroom,
but he argues that "life's fancy tools" should be used only at the top
level of the learning pyramid, after students have done the ground
work of acquiring knowledge and intellectual capacity.
Read the complete review in TEACHER MAGAZINE:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a14
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DIRTY: A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic
by Meredith Maran (HarperSanFrancisco, 320 pages, $24.95)
In a quest for insight into the causes and consequences of teen drug
abuse, veteran journalist Maran follows three adolescents as they
struggle with both drug and life issues, exploring their social
environments, beliefs, and choices. Maran suggests that such children
often suffer from a deep emotional emptiness--and that schools are
partly to blame. She also examines drug treatment programs, and
discusses ways adults can help kids get off drugs.
Read an interview with the author in TEACHER MAGAZINE:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a9
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TUNED IN AND FIRED UP: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the
Classroom
by Sam M. Intrator (Yale University Press, 188 pages, $23)
Intrator, an assistant education professor who is a former high school
teacher and administrator, examines those moments when "inspired
learning" happens in the classroom, and attempts to understand how and
why such moments occur and how teachers can replicate them. The book
is the fruit of a year's study of a high school English class, where
the purpose, the author says, was to "identify the ways transcendent
educational exchanges come about."
More information is available from the publisher:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a26
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GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT: Teachers and Accusations of Abuse
by Matthew D. Olson and Gregory Lawler (New Forums Press, 228 pages,
$16.95 paperback)
Written by a journalist and a teachers' union lawyer who has defended
more than 2,000 teachers against allegations of abuse, this book
explores the societal pressures that can lead to the persecution of
innocent teachers. The book examines in detail 13 real cases litigated
by Mr. Lawler, and recommends several reforms in the system.
More information is available from the publisher:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a0
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AN ISLAND OF ENGLISH: Teaching ESL in Chinatown
by Danling Fu (Heinemann, 168 pp., $21 paperback).
Fu, an associate professor of literacy and language, offers insight
into the experiences and struggles of Chinese immigrant students,
basing her observations partly on her experience working as a
literacy consultant at a middle school in New York City's Chinatown.
She reflects on her personal story as an immigrant, as well as the
experiences of her son as an immigrant student, then extrapolates to
other immigrant populations, offering a number of practical
recommendations for educators.
More information is available from the publisher:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a89763a136637175a24
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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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