Links in Education Week: September 27, 2006
September 26, 2006
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'One Stop' Research Shop Seen as Slow to Yield Views That Educators Can Use
- Learn more about the What Works Clearinghouse from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The IES is in charge of the clearinghouse.
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'Reading First' Appears to Prompt Improvement
- "Keeping Watch on Reading First" is posted by the Center on Education Policy.
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Panel Points Way to Improving K-8 Science Learning
- The report, "Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8," is available from The National Academies Press.
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Report Roundup
- Texas Bible Classes Seen to Lack Rigor:
"Reading, Writing, and Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools" is posted by the Texas Freedom Network. - Education Statistics:
"Projections of Education Statistics to 2015" is available from the National Center for Education Statistics. - Canadian Education:
"Why Canadian Education Isn't Improving" is posted by the Fraser Institute.
- Junk-Food Advertising:
"A National Survey of the Types and Extent of the Marketing of Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Schools" is available from the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University. - Preschool Strategies:
"Effective Preschool Curricula and Teaching Strategies" is posted by the National Center for Children in Poverty.
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