Daily Archives: 15 October 2007

Dogs as reading monitorsWouldn’t it be great if kids would learn to read by reading aloud to dogs? According to Yolanne Almanzar of the Miami (FL, US) Herald, that is what’s happening in some Florida schools.

Writing under the headline, “Dogs lend ears to young readers: A program helps elementary … Continue reading →

Thanks to the Instructivist, I’ve learned of a series of stories about the trials of a teacher working in difficult schools. Check out the article associated with this lead:

Teaching in the inner city
The Chicago Tribune went into a classroom for a year in an inner-city school to observe first hand … Continue reading →

Sometimes something that’s passed off as “professional development” just plain isn’t professional. There are, of course, the jokes about Underwater Basketweaving, and such. But there are instances that are beyond that joke. Over the weekend, the ever-informative Liz Ditz had a nifty piece running on I Speak of Dreams that … Continue reading →

The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) is a relatively new group—it has been forming over the past couple of years—that provides another example of efforts to put education on a firmer empirical base. In contrast to the diverse and variable American Educational Research Association, SREE has a specific … Continue reading →