From cbsnews.com Math Tests For Five-Year-Olds?
The experiment could involve tests as long as 90 minutes and change reading assessments for kindergartners through second-graders in the nation’s biggest school system, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration has embraced testing. The approach dismays some parents and educators who see it as mechanizing education.
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What I truly love about the web is when it takes thing that before seemed hard and difficult and all of a sudden makes them easy. Not only that, but when you are trying to get money and funds into a country that is hard to get into to begin with the web allows...
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Just a quick post to let everyone know that we’re doing fine in Shanghai. I just finished talking to EARCOS who is an organization that most international schools belong too. The director there told me he had checked in with all the EARCOS schools in the region and everyone is fine.
I have created a...
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I’ve actually been back for a couple of days, but hit the ground running getting in at midnight and having to full on PD days and friends visiting from the States and then Dubai.
Kashgar was wonderful. Different people, different culture. We had to keep reminding ourselves that we were in China and had not...
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We celebrated the Moon Festival earlier this week, and next week we get 3 days off of school for Chinese National Day (Think Independence day in your country). It’s been a heck of a start to the school year, with little time to blog, do deep thinking and reflecting or get the stuff done...
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Another long day but a good one over all. Taught middle schoolers how to create header images for their blogs or web sites. Taught a high school elective via video conference about wikis, tags, and rss to kick off the horizonproject. Then brought 9 new teachers into the blogosphere with an after school Professional...
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Since Monday all blogger blogs have been blocked by China. It was good knowing you all for the past 5 months while blogger has been unblocked. It became unblocked when Google switched over to the new system and changed the IP address on its blogger server. This week China decided to block it again....
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China to expand ‘Great Internet Firewall’
AFP
March 13, 2007
BEIJING –
China will tighten controls on Internet blogs and Webcasts in
a response to new technologies that have allowed cyber citizens to
avoid government censorship efforts, state press reported Tuesday.
China, Firewall
Technorati Tags: China, Great Firewall, Firewall
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