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My Vision for the Future of Literacy in Education

By Matthew Lynch
July 23, 2018

Literacy has long been the key to communication and understanding, and education demands that we teach comprehension. Comprehension includes reading, writing, speaking, thinking and ...

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A Roadmap for Identifying Reading Problems

By Matthew Lynch
April 27, 2018

Reading is one of those fundamental skills that are hard to live without. We need it to read road signs, to review paperwork, pay ...

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The Edvocate’s 2018 EdTech 20: A Ranking of 20 Global Edtech Influencers

Who are the biggest edtech influencers in the world? The Edvocate editorial team has exhaustively researched the movers and shakers of edtech and selected 20 global influencers. To frame our ...
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How Can You Ignite English Language Learners’ Passion to Read & Learn?

Hanh Bui, 5th grade teacher at Aeolian Elementary School Instilling a passion for learning is one of the greatest gifts we can give our students. I strongly believe that this ...
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Expressive and Receptive Language Disorders: What are They?

Children all learn language and speech using the same acquisition methods, but they do not always learn at the same pace. Some children pick up language early and mimic and ...
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Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dysnomia, Dyslexia, and Dyspraxia: What are the Differences?

In my past life as a special education teacher, I worked with a variety of special needs students. These students were all unique, and so were their learning disabilities. As ...
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Career Change Guide: Becoming a Teacher

By Daniel Karell There is a growing teacher crisis in the United States. The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) estimates there was a shortage of 64,000 teachers in primary and secondary ...

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The A-Z of Education Blogs: Letters F-H

Click here to access all of the articles in this series. In this multi-part series, we are profiling the best of the best education blogs, in alphabetical order. In the ...
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What would The UK government’s plans to cut student immigration by 50% mean for education ...

The UK government is planning on slashing non-EU expat student numbers almost in half from 300,000 to 170,000 under tougher student visa rules. The threat is being greeted with dismay ...
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Why pushing undocumented children out of schools won’t help bring down net migration

This article was written by Nando Sigona Leaked cabinet papers seen by the BBC suggest that back when she was home secretary, Theresa May wanted schools to carry out immigration ...
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Why it doesn’t help — and may harm — to fail pupils with poor math ...

This article was written by Elizabeth Walton Many South Africans were outraged by the recent announcement that for 2016, pupils in Grades 7 to 9 could progress to the next ...
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It’s time to rethink teacher training

This article was written by James Williams Over the past six years, we’ve had calls for teachers to be trained in everything from protecting girls from female genital mutilation to ...

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My Vision For the Future of Early Childhood Education

Early childhood education is the foundation of our society. If we do not set children up to succeed, they will ultimately fail. The failure of future generations would be the ...
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5 Steps to Asking Good Questions

There is an adage that posits that there is no such thing as a bad question. However, if you ask the wrong question, odds are you will not receive the ...
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How to Avoid Raising Racist Kids

From race-based killings to white supremacist rallies, we are living in times when racism is on the front page of every newspaper. For this reason, many race-conscious parents are trying ...
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7 Ways to Teach Children Civility

Unfortunately, our children are learning that those who are uncivil seem to get ahead. Celebrity culture and political warfare encourage the opposite of civility. The ones who shout the loudest ...
Early Childhood Parenting

What Fathers Should Teach Their Sons

While it’s true that not all families are the same in today’s society, there are still some key lessons which are best passed down from father to son. We all ...

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18 Reasons the U.S. Education System is Failing

Once upon a time, enthusiasts designed a formal education system to meet the economic demands of the industrial revolution. Fast forward to today and, with the current global economic climate, ...
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A Free College Education: A Basic American Right?

Earning a college education is something that is a double-edged sword for the nation’s youngest adults and for some of their parents too. Society dictates that some form of secondary ...
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Year-Round Schooling: How it Affects Students

The traditional school year, with roughly three months of vacation days every summer, was first implemented when America was an agricultural society. The time off was not implemented to accommodate ...
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Disengaged Students, Part 11: The Irrationality of Modern Politics

In this 20-part series, I explore the root causes and effects of academic disengagement in K-12 learners and explore the factors driving American society ever closer to being a nation ...
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Disengaged Students, Part 7: Too Much Information Access?

In this 20-part series, I explore the root causes and effects of academic disengagement in K-12 learners and explore the factors driving American society ever closer to being a nation ...

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Strategies for Reducing Essay Grading Time

When I was a teacher, I assigned my fair share of essays to my students. As a history teacher, I wanted them to use narratives to explain their interpretation and ...
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7 Things That Educators Should Know About Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment refers to judging a student’s rate of academic achievement by analyzing the available evidence, such as quizzes, tests or written tasks. Assessments take different forms, and each one of ...
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Intelligence in America: Time to Test Something New

Measuring the progress of any endeavor requires a definition of success. Education, by its very nature, is difficult to ascribe a single definition of success; “making people smarter” is far ...
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The A-Z of Education: Assessment and Evaluation

In this series, I hope to guide you in acquiring the vocabulary that you need to know to be considered a competent education professional. In this article, we will discuss ...
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Three Handy Rubrics for Assessment Creation

When it comes to creating classroom assessments, educators have a lot of leeway as to form, content, and length. Sometimes, the breadth available can be a little overwhelming. If you’re ...

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How Can You Ignite English Language Learners’ Passion to Read & Learn?

Hanh Bui, 5th grade teacher at Aeolian Elementary School Instilling a passion for learning is one of the greatest gifts we can give our students. I strongly believe that this ...
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Verified Service Learning Feeds the “Whole Student”

Teachers and schools and school districts track grades. We all know, or can find out pretty easily, what mark a particular student made on a specific assignment or in a ...
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What Preschool Can Teach Us About Choice and Opportunity

There is a pantheon of sitcom cliches that, no matter how many times they’ve been done before, always turn up in new ones. Among the repeat offenders: outrageously stressful wedding ...
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The Cautionary Tale of Story

Teachers have been telling stories for as long as teachers have taught others. Students are still learning from the stories of our greatest teachers thousands of years later like ...
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Time to Reboot the Safety Lecture

When we play the perennial favorite game of Blaming Other Generations, we tend to focus on relative merits and deficiencies: which generation is more or less polite, hard-working, civic-minded, etc. ...

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