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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” ” (30). ” (30).

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” ” (30). ” (30).

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

Danielewski’s House of Leaves is my favorite book of all time, in no small part because of what a great teach it is. I’ve been excited to get the first couple of books from his new, 27-volume series, The Familiar and I can’t wait for the third. And I’m enjoying my first dives into the Grimes LP. Technology.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

There were no pictures in the books her high school students read. The main idea seemed to be: Give kids lots of good books, and with some guidance and enough practice, they become readers. ” Related: When reading a book means more than just looking at text on a page. “We had never, ever looked at it.

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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

In their book about the research, The Political Classroom , Hess and McAvoy argue that schools, in order to fulfill their democratic mission, should be political (though not partisan). In addition, they wanted to study the teachers providing the “high quality” discussions to find out what they were doing right.