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Internet Research Resources One or more Internet links are provided below for each of the indicated categories. Click on the link for more information on the topic of the category. The challenge of balancing childhood achievement and happiness often puts parents in a position of uncertainty. If children are pushed too hard, they may rebel and achieve neither success nor happiness. If parents don’t push enough, their children may be self-satisfied and unmotivated. Parents often feel they must choose between two alternatives: sheltering their children from the cruel realities of the world so they can experience a “happy childhood” or driving their kids so they can get into the best schools and achieve financial success as adults. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones AND Names WILL Hurt Me -13 ways to prevent peer cruelty. Check here for additional information on U.S. Department of Education Class-Size Reduction program. Reducing Class-Size -- What Do We Know? Summarizes existing class-size reduction research base and various state initiatives. Also explores important class-size reduction issues such as why smaller classes make a difference and whether or not teacher behavior can/does change in a smaller class.
TCRecord for the Week of October 28th, 2002 <http://www.tcrecord.org> "The demise of the state examination and the rise of guidance testing is part of a larger retreat of the American state from an active role in schooling. Today, once again states envision themselves as change agents, and testing plays a major role in these reform efforts. How did the idea of an active state role reenter educational policy and politics? State governments, after all, still have limited capacity to intervene in the core processes of teaching and learning in schools. Indeed, tests are attractive tools to contemporary educational policy makers because they offer leverage in a system that offers few such powerful levers. Does an active state role inevitably lead to more intensive forms of state testing?" Christopher Mazzeo considers this and other aspects of the history of testing in: Frameworks of State: Assessment Policy in Historical Perspective <http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=10762> The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics, geography, and the arts. Teaching elementary mathematics methods is extremely challenging. We know that prospective elementary school teachers must be prepared to teach everything from counting to algebraic thinking. They must understand the mathematics that they are to teach, as well as how to engage students in that content. For me as a methods teacher, this is not simple pedagogy. The pedagogy must be tied to the mathematics being taught.
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