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Ho, Andrew – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
This is a response to a focus article by Briggs and Peck (2015) in issue 13(2). It should have been published in issue 13(3-4) alongside a rejoinder by Briggs and Peck that did appear. Due to an oversight, it was not published there and appears here. See issue 13(3-4) for a rejoinder to this response. Briggs and Peck (2015) propose what amounts to…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Learning Processes, Misconceptions, Teacher Evaluation
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Rock, Marcia L.; Billingsley, Bonnie – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2014
Casting special education teacher development as an avatar living in a virtual and changing landscape is a creative way to consider the current state of the field and project possible futures. In this commentary, the authors consider areas that may help strengthen the Avatar, including conceptualizing and identifying the outcomes of teacher…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Alignment (Education), Beginning Teacher Induction
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Livingston, Michael – English Journal, 2012
At 12:30 p.m. on December 8, 1941, in front of a joint session of Congress, one day after Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor and killed 2,402 Americans, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared December 7 a date that would live in infamy. He spoke of rage and betrayal, hardships and determination. Thirty-three minutes after he finished…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Grading, Scoring Rubrics, Figurative Language
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2011
What might count as a world class, national public education system in 2020? That empty cup took the floor at the 2010 Future of Learning (FoL) Summer Institute at Harvard University. It traveled from Longfellow Hall's lecture room on Appian Way to several learning groups scattered around campus. Though not deliberately created to think about…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Change, Public Education, Educational Technology