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A million reasons to improve teacher quality (The Economist)
Education A million reasons to improve teacher quality Oct 16th 2013, 17:07 by R.A. | LONDON THIS week’s Free exchange column looks at a fascinating bit of statistical work on the value of a good teacher. Economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff obtained a massive data set from a large, urban school system, which covered 2.5m […]
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Conference: Literacy across the curriculum in different languages and contexts
Madrid, 17-19 October 2013 Access to the conference webpage
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/61760795421
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Learning to read in Madagascar
16 September 2013 , Source: IRIN St Augustin Marie Louise, 46, from the village of Namakia-Ankilibe, about one hour’s drive south of Toliara, in arid southwestern Madagascar, never saw the inside of a classroom as a child.
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Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught? (NYT 11-Sept-2013)
THE EDUCATION ISSUE Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught? One day last spring, James Wade sat cross-legged on the carpet and called his kindergarten class to order. Lanky and soft-spoken, Wade has a gentle charisma well suited to his role as a teacher of small children: steady, rather than exuberant. When a child performs a requested […]
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When Class Became More Important to a Child’s Education Than Race
SARAH GARLANDAUG 28 2013, On a weekday afternoon in July, Jessica Klaitman pulled her 16-month-old daughter Hannah out of a stroller in the lobby of the New York Kids Club, a “child-enrichment center” with four classrooms, a dance studio, and gym space in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.