Monthly Archives: April 2008

Being the ever dutiful hearing officer, I’ll start with a disclosure before I get to the substance of this post: I am passionate about the need to eliminate poverty in the USA, or at least to substantially ameliorate its effects. That having been said,… Continue reading →

Yep, those folks at “Weapons of Math Destruction” apparently do not find constructivist approaches to teaching arithmetic and mathematics palatable. In this cartoon, the school administrators have crossed out practice and skills and a parent is responding by preparing to (ahem) regurgitate or recovering from having regurgitated.
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Families sometimes turn to private residential facilities, often called “behavior modification camps,” for youths when they decide that a young person “challenges authority,” is “out of control,” and has “accountability issues,” But some “behavior modification camps” in the US and elsewhere do not employ behavioral procedures or only employ them inappropriately.
Sadly, investigations of [...] Continue reading →

The US Institute of Educational Sciences released a summary of what educators know about teaching reading and writing to children to whom we often refer as “English Language Learners.” In Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades,, Russell Gersten, Scott Baker, Timothy Shanahan, Sylvia Linan-Thompson, Penny Collins, and [...] Continue reading →

The US Central Regional Education Laboratory released a free document on teaching high school students strategies to improve reading comprehension. The publication is a part of the Issues & Answers series, a set of reports from the regional educational laboratories on current education addressing issues that are relevant for educators concerned with local, state, and [...] Continue reading →

We finish the series on the IDEA procedural safeguards today. The four methods of dispute resolution were discussed in great detail in a previous series of posts; the current series deals with the remaining procedural safeguards. The United States Supr… Continue reading →

According to Liz Ditz of I Speak of Dreams, Stephen Hinshaw gave the closing keynote speech at the Learning and the Brain conference in San Fransisco (CA , US). Professor Hinshaw, who chairs the Department of Psychology at the University of California—Berkeley and is an eminent psychologist with a list of accolades as long as [...] Continue reading →

Every year, the past president of the Division for Learning Disabilities presents candidates for offices in the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD). This year, Karen Rooney has assembled an outstanding slate of candidates for whom members of DLD can vote.

For secretary
Erica Lembke University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
June Szabo-Kifer Bishop Garcia Diego High School, [...] Continue reading →