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	<title>Teach Effectively!</title>
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	<description>Evidence-based teaching methods for helping students who are at risk for school failure or who have disabilities.</description>
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		<title>Sorta building a better teacher, maybe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Building A Better Teacher,&#8221; Elizabeth Green presents cases personifying two perspectives on teaching effectively&#8212;one we often hear referred to as &#8220;classroom management&#8221; and the other regularly called &#8220;good content.&#8221; She uses Doug Lemov and Deborah Ball, respectively, as her exemplars of the cases. 
Professor Ball, dean of the University of Michigan’s school of education, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2010/03/04/sorta-building-a-better-teacher-maybe/</link>
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		<title>Evidence-based education in Head Start?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isabel Sawhill and Jon Baron published an editorial in Education Week calling for a new approach to the venerable Head Start program, one founded on evidence about effectiveness. They argue that in the wake of the discouraging Head Start Impact Study reported by US Department of Health &#38; Human Services, it&#8217;s time to bring research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2010/03/02/evidence-based-education-in-head-start/</link>
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		<title>Read the Rose Report on reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those readers from the UK are almost surely familiar with the &#8220;Rose Report,&#8221; but readers in other parts of the world may not know about it. Identifying and Teaching Children and Young People with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties: An independent report from Sir Jim Rose to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2010/02/26/read-the-rose-report-on-reading/</link>
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		<title>Tutoring the right way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on Facebook Martha Gabler announced the opening a private tutoring center in Silver Spring (MD, US): Kids&#8217; Learning Workshop. The focus is on what she calls &#8220;fluent foundation skills&#8221; by which she means rapid, accurate performance on such tasks as reading aloud, writing answers for arithmetic facts, and answering questions about academic content. 
Readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2010/02/24/tutoring-the-right-way/</link>
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