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urged to think of viruses, fashion trends, or even peaks of crime. One does not see something as virtuous as Sesame Street to be a wide-spreading contagion. Yet, Sesame Street provoked a social epidemic as one of the most influential children 's television programs of its time. Malcolm Gladwell has studied the effects of Sesame Street on the education of young children in his novel, The Tipping Point. He has three overall generalizations of all epidemics, including the Law of the Few, the Stickiness

Realism Realism means accuracy of speech and setting, thorough background detail and a concern for vermisimitude or realism could mean the willingness to face the facts. Realism is hard to define. There are different types of realism documentary, social, emotional and dramatic. Technical codes play an important role in making realism in soaps, this refers to documentary realism where soaps are supposed to look like they haven’t been constructed and camera work

essential tool to compete in today’s global marketplace. Yet numerous study results show a continual decline in students’ reading performance. The 2007 reading study by the National Endowment for the Arts noted that “reading has slipped to a mere eight minutes per day for 18-24-year-olds” (To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence, p. 10). A

Alex Guerrero July 4, 2015 EDDL 941 Book Review Bower, J., & Thomas, P. L. (Eds.). (2013). De-testing and de-grading schools: Authentic alternatives to accountability and standardization. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Synopsis: I found De-testing and de-grading schools: Authentic alternatives to accountability and standardization by Bower and Thomas, an interesting read and consistent with the critiques of high stakes testing and assessment we’ve read about and watched in this class.

“Under Virginia’s approved Elementary and Secondary Education Act waiver application, schools must meet increasing targets — referred to as Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs) — in reading and mathematics for all students, three “Proficiency Gap Groups,” and other subgroups in order to meet federal accountability requirements” (Virginia Department of Education, 2015b, p. 1). AMO’s are not available for science; however, scores can be compared with the division and the state. Newsome Park Elementary

a student’s academic success. Without the skills of language, reading, and writing, children will have limited academic, economic, social, and emotional success in school and later in life (Maddox & Fung, 2013, p.3). According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 33% of U.S. students in elementary schools read below the basic reading level (NAEP, 2009). During this time, the Common Core initiative was in works to ensure that all students across America were graduating high school ready

are gaining school-level qualifications (Ministry of Youth Development, 2011). The New Zealand Qualification Authority (NZQA) Annual Report on National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) and New Zealand Scholarship Data Statistics (2014), report an increase in the Cumulative Percentage of Year 11 Students Attaining National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) at Level 1 in literacy and numeracy from 81.7% in 2010 to 90.7% in 2014 (New Zealand Qualification Authority, 2015). However

which are engaging and fun for teaching and learning with educational technology for teachers and their students using performance-based activities based on 21st century educational technology tools such as: Google Docs, spreadsheets and graphing, digital citizenship, copyright, presentation tools, etc. Provide just-in-time and project-based resources online which increase opportunities for authentic portfolio-based assessment of educational technology literacy skills of students. Updates: Please

Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2014) and new STEM educational instructional strategies (Bruce-Dacis, Gubbins, Gilson, Villanueva, & Foreman, 2014). Despite these new investments and changes, many students are neither enrolling nor excelling in STEM programming, particularly students of color (Museus, Palmer, Davis, & Maramba, 2011). Concurrently, many of the areas of greatest economic opportunity exist in STEM related fields (National Research Council, 2011). In order to overcome the opportunity

Developed in 2001 but signed by President Bush in 2002, the NCLB was designed to include all children the right to the same education, including those with disabilities (Educational Technology, 2012). It was designed to provide parents more options and better teaching methods for their children with disabilities (Educational Technology, 2012). It described how and what students would be learning and assessments given to prove their success. The NCLB was designed with academic standards categorized