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=Best practices & research=

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See also

[|MDCPS Online Databases]
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Page contents

 * Television
 * Homework
 * Reading
 * Writing
 * Portfolio assessment
 * High Stakes Testing
 * Start of class routine
 * Inequality & education
 * Open-book tests
 * Scripted lessons - Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse (Federal database) Search
 * Alternative discipline
 * Career academies
 * Foreign Exchange
 * Authentic education
 * Democratic education
 * mdcpsprofessionals wikispace
 * The Teacher Crisis

Television
[|AFT: Publications: American Educator Summer 2002: What Television Chases Out of Life] Pawlowski, Cheryl. __Glued to the Tube__. Gatto, John Taylor. __Weapons of Mass Instruction__.
 * Television is negatively impacting our students, teachers and families**

Homework
There is a difference between homework and busy work. Since I started focusing on specific goals instead of arbitrary homework time guidelines, my students' work in my English classes has improved to the point that they have been competing in the Dade County Youth Fair. Click on the link for 'Youth Fair entries' here for samples: http://jigsaw.wikispaces.com Hope you enjoy. (OZ, 06-16-11)
 * More than 10 minutes per grade level doesn't help.**

See also: *Overcoming mediocrity in the classroom with quality

Homework (Research on Teaching Monograph) (Hardcover) by Harris Cooper (Author) Hardcover: 218 pages Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom (February 1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0801302080 ISBN-13: 978-0801302084

Reading
[|Pasco: Tes| scores fall as pupils rise] Florida 10th grade reading scores are down since the implementation of the A+ Plan. St. Petersburg Times, May 20, 2005. The fourth grade plunge [|Knowledge: the next frontier in reading comprehension] [|Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge of Words and the World] Effective teaching of reading. [|U.S. reading program benefits Bush friend. ABC, 05-15-2007] [|Reading scores stalled under 'No Child' law, report finds D.C. fourth-graders a bright spot in disappointing 2009 data. Washington Post, 03-25-10]

Writing
Does a knowledge of traditional textbook grammar–the nomenclature kind of grammar that teaches the definitions of "transitive verbs" and "predicate nominatives" and fosters sentence diagramming and the conjugation of verbs–facilitate or improve a student's competence as a writer? Without a doubt the real-world answer is no.
 * [|Grammar... Again]**. //The Quarterly//, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999

[|Journalism Kids Do Better: What Research Tells Us about High School Journalism] __ [] __  You can find the full report here:  []
 * Professional writing and editing process helps students learn most**

[|Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance] Glasser, Dr. William
 * Quality focus helps student writing improve most**
 * //The Quality School//, 1990 [|ISBN 0-06-095286-5]
 * //The Quality School Teacher//, 1992 [|ISBN 0-06-095285-7]

[|The Effects of Digital Portfolio Assessment Process on Students' Writing and Drawing Performances (ED501463)]
 * Portfolio assessment**

High Stakes Testing
[|IQ Tests Measure Motivation - Not Just Intelligence. From BBC News Online, 04-25-11] [|"Not on the Test" (A comedy video about high-stakes testing)] [|Testing, Testing, Testing] [|Testing Trap - Harvard Magazine, September-October 2002] [|Blame for School Achievement Gap Misplaced | Education and the...] [] Berliner, Biddle. __The Manufactured Crisis__. [|welcome|dl8|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parentdish.com%2F2010%2F05%2F14%2Fthe-myth-of-testing-for-giftedness%2F]
 * A five-fold increase of testing since the '50's is not helping**

Start of class routine
[|How to Make a Good Impression Every Day. David Berliner]

Inequality & education
[|EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids (12/9/2008)] [|Unequal America (July-August 2008)] Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor. by Elizabeth Gudrais. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining **...** harvardmagazine.com/2008/07/unequal-america.html

Open-book tests
[|ERIC search]
 * 4.** [|Using Open-Book Tests to Strengthen the Study Skills of Community-College Biology Students]

Scripted lessons
[|Scripted lessons - Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse (Federal database) Search]
 * They do not help**

Alternative discipline
[|Factory-model discipline leaves many troubled students behind] - The Providence Journal, 07-20-08

Career academies
[|Education Week: Career Academies Seen to Pay Off in Higher Earnings] A 15-year research project found that students in **career academies** were no more likely to attend college than those in traditional **high** schools... [|www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/07/16/43career.h27.html]

Foreign Exchange
[|High School Give-and-TakeForeign-exchange programs help students dive into new cultures, but Americans lag.]

[|Authentic education]
*See "A democratic curriculum: Voting with water balloons" [|MDCPS Competency-Based Curriculum]
 * Provides better results**

===[|Democratic education]=== *See "A Democratic Curriculum: Voting with Water Balloons" "After studying over 1,500 schools, researchers found that students learn more when teachers:
 * Also provides better results**
 * pursue a clear, shared purpose for all students' learning;
 * engage in collaborative activities to achieve that purpose;
 * take collective responsibility for student learning (Foundations of Democratic Education, O'Hair, McLaughlin, Reitzug: 10)."

Quality
[|The Church of Reason, from "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", by Robert M. Pirsig]

The Teacher Crisis
__[|The Teacher Shortage: False Alarm?]__