{"id":637,"date":"2010-11-23T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dacha.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2010-11-23T09:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:11:33","slug":"tuesday-tidbits-november-23-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dacha.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tidbits, November 23, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hand-turkey-245x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-644\" title=\"hand-turkey-245x300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hand-turkey-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Have a great Thanksgiving holiday this week, kind readers!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/educationnext.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Education Next<\/a> is out and is very much worth reading. I was particularly interested in Mike Petrilli&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/educationnext.org\/all-together-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">piece on differentiated instruction<\/a>, something that was covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dacha.com\/?p=443\" target=\"_blank\">in this blog a few weeks ago<\/a>. The article put the spotlight on the good work being done at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org\/schools\/pineybranches\/Piney_Branch_Web\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Piney Branch Elementary School<\/a> in Takoma Park, MD and its principal Bertram Generlette. (Small world: Bertram, a math educator, helped me with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforcsri.org\/webcasts\/fractions\/\" target=\"_blank\">this webcast<\/a> on the teaching of fractions.) Mike and Checker Finn also discuss differentiated instruction in this vid.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Education Next Interviews Mike Petrilli on Differentiated Instruction\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUysC9C723U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More from Education Next: Read this interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/educationnext.org\/the-middle-school-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\">piece on middle schools<\/a> and Paul Peterson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/educationnext.org\/wasting-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wasting Talent<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Americans tend to think their local elementary and middle schools are  much better than those of the nation as a whole. The problems with  schools, people seem to believe, are found somewhere else: Schools are  dreadful in the inner city, perhaps, or in other parts of the country,  maybe. My local schools are just fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was Day of National Blogging for Real Education Reform, which I missed. \ud83d\ude41 You can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aasa.org\/uploadedFiles\/Newsroom\/AASA_School_Street\/An%20overview%20of%20NDB%281%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and read posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/coopcatalyst.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cooperative Catalyst<\/a> and see a compilation of blogs and posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/speedchange.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpeEdChange<\/a>. Even Secretary of Education Arne Duncan posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">his thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the Post&#8217;s Jay Mathews had a great <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/class-struggle\/2010\/11\/let_schools_be_creative_with_m.html\" target=\"_blank\">post at his blog<\/a>: &#8220;Two demographically similar and academically impressive&#8230;high schools&#8230;have been debating grades. Both schools have been  accused of letting too many students pass their courses without learning  the material. This is in line with what millions of Americans say about  schools in general. But they disagree over whom to blame. Unmotivated  students? Lazy teachers? Cowardly administrators? 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