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  1. Testing - Critical Thinking Rubric (California Academic Press)
      Provides a rubric for assessing critical thinking skills. 1-05

  2. Academic Papers Examining the Likelihood of Fraud (dKosopedia.com)
      "Since November 2nd at least 6 academic papers have been issued doing statistical analysis and models to justify the claim that voting patterns cause "Smoke Alarms" to go on: something is afoot." 01-06

  3. Teaching Positions Wanted or Available (Academic Employment Network)

  4. -Academic Libraries - USA (Berkeley) star
      Provides libraries by state. 2-01

  5. Dyslexia - Academic Interventions (ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education - Frost and Emery)
      Describes symptoms, diagnosis, and interventions for dyslexia. 5-00

  6. Higher Education and Academic Abstracts and Papers (ProQuest.com)
      "From popular to highly specialized, we offer a wide array of content—all of it geared toward best supporting the most-taught courses on college campuses." 03-07

  7. Sites Offering Academic and Skill Standards

  8. Time Spent Teaching Core Academic Subjects (NCES)
      Provides the results from a comparative national study on how teachers actually spend their time. 3-00

  9. Ask the Tutor (Academic Assistance Access)

  10. Academic Progress by State (National Education Goals Panel)
      Provides state by state comparisons of student academic achievement in 1988. 7-99

  11. Rubrics for Classroom Management and Academic Skills (Teach-nology)
      Provides over two dozen rubrics. 11-01

  12. Single Parents and Academic Achievement (Adoption.com)
      "Although growing up in a single-parent family is frequently viewed as a risk factor for a child, single-parent families are now fairly common. Of children born since 1984, more than 60% will spend an average of 5 years of their childhood in a single-parent family.... Moreover, 30% of all children in the United States spend their entire lives with single parents [6]. Many people have questions about the influence of single-parent families on a child's academic achievement and the ways single parents can help their children succeed in school."

      "Studies that consider the influence of both family configuration and income find that there is little difference in the academic performance of children from two-parent and single-parent homes when family income is equal...." 03-06

  13. Mathematics Standards for California (King's County - Shaver)
      Provides California's Mathematics Academic Standards. 11-01

  14. Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History (Page)
      "The following suggestions for citations of Internet sources in history and the humanities are derived from the essential principles of academic citation in Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 5th ed. (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987). I have also drawn upon suggestions from some of the works listed in the bibliography below."

      Editor's Note: This resource is dated 1996. 10-09

  15. Improving African American Student Achievement (NWREL - Kuykendall)
      Provides ways that teachers can improve their feedback to African American students and, as a result, contribute to their academic achievement. "Good's summary (1981) of teachers' behavior toward those students perceived as low achievers includes:
      - providing students with general, often insincere praise
      - providing them will less feedback,
      - demanding less effort of them,
      - interrupting them more often,
      - seating them farther away from the teacher,
      - paying less attention to them,
      - calling on them less often,
      - waiting less time for them to respond to questions,
      - criticizing them more often, and
      - smiling at them less.
      Research indicates that reversing these negative behaviors improves student achievement. 3-02

  16. Formative Leadership (MiddleWeb.com - Ash and Persall)
      "In the information economy, most successful organizations must be knowledge-based, value-added enterprises. Such an environment requires schools to be true learning organizations where students are engaged in challenging and interesting academic work and where teachers and administrators are collaboratively involved in learning about the most effective instructional strategies and technologies."

      "Leadership is not role-specific, reserved only for administrators. Rather the job of the school leader is to fashion learning opportunities for the faculty and staff in order that they might develop into productive leaders. This theory of leadership supports our view of the teacher as leader and the principal as the leader of leaders. It is grounded in the belief that educators should enhance not only student learning but also the learning of the adults within the school." 7-02

  17. Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (ERIC Digests - Burnette)
      Recommends teacher behaviors and other school factors that have worked well with culturally diverse students. "Of all of these factors, the personal and academic relationships between teachers and their students may be the most influential." 6-02

  18. Valuation of Companies - Tips and Tools (Motley Fool)
      Helps you assess the value of your business. " 'If you are really trying to find the true value of a business, there's only one way to do it in my view, and that is to talk to potential buyers,' he says. 'You want to find out what the traffic will bear, and you can't find out what the traffic will bear from an academic analysis of data.' " 11-02

  19. Search for Art Works (Artcyclopedia.com)
      Provides a search engine to find art works by title, painter, or museum. Also provides large examples of works, including oil paintings. Browse by movement, including Abstract Expressionism, Academic Art, The American Scene, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Arte Povera, The Arts and Crafts Movement, The Ashcan School, The Barbizon School, Baroque Art, Bauhaus, Byzantine Art, Camden Town Group, Classicism, Contemporary Realism, Cubism, Dada, Der Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke, Die Neue Sachlichkeit, Expressionism, Fauvism, Fantasy Art, Futurism, Golden Age of Illustration, Gothic Art, The Group Of Seven, The Harlem Renaissance, History Painting, The Hudson River School, Impressionism, Magic Realism, Mannerism, Minimalism, Les Nabis, Neoclassicism, Neo-Plasticism, Op Art, Orientalism, Photorealism, Pointillism, Pop Art, Post-Impressionism, Precisionism, The Pre-Raphaelites, Realism, Regionalism, The Renaissance (including Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, and Northern Renaissance), The Rococo Style, Romanticism, The Sensation Show, Social Realism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Ukiyo-e Printmaking, Western Art, and Wildlife Art. 01-06

  20. Rice, Condoleeza - Biography (BBC News)
      Provides a biography of Rice, Bush's choice for Secretary of State. "Condoleezza Rice is the first black female to be appointed as US secretary of state. She was also the first to occupy the key post of national security adviser."

      "She is the most academic member of the Bush foreign affairs team and - because of her gender, background and youth - one of the most distinctive." 11-04

  21. Legends and Myths - Bigfoot (Wikipedia.org)
      "Most mainstream scientists have found existing Sasquatch evidence unpersuasive, and consider such evidence and sightings the product of mythology, folklore, misidentification or hoaxes. The late Grover Krantz suggested that most academics who contend Bigfoot does not exist lack even a passing familiarity with the small body of serious scholarly work on the subject, and have not examined available evidence, some of which, Krantz contended, was very persuasive."

      "Recently, Henry Gee, editor of the prestigious Nature, writes of an unexpected discovery, that 'The discovery that Homo floresiensis survived until so very recently, in geological terms, makes it more likely that stories of other mythical, human-like creatures such as yetis are founded on grains of truth....' " 1-05

  22. Biodiesel School Project (MSNBC News)
      "Shanna Nelson, a Harbour Pointe science and technology teacher, worked with the students."

      " 'I wanted them to approach an environmental problem scientifically, explore a solution and communicate their findings persuasively to other community members,' she said."

      "To Nelson, it was a fun exercise allowing students from different grades to apply academic skills to real problems."

      "Biodiesel is more expensive than diesel, but government tax incentives could help it become more popular, said Emily Anderberg, 13, who is also in the eighth-grade." 4-05

  23. STAR Assessment Contact information (California Department of Education)
      Provides contact information related to California's STAR assessments of improvements in academic performance. 8-05

  24. Schools Moving Toward a K-8 Model (ABC News)
      "Philadelphia eighth-graders at the K-8 schools scored significantly higher on state tests than their middle school counterparts, studies by the Philadelphia Education Fund show. And nationally, crime takes off in middle schools, where it's 30 percent higher than in elementary schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics."

      " 'Middle-grades children in K-8 schools do far better than they do in middle schools,' Vallas said, 'both academically and behaviorally.' " 8-05

  25. -11-26-05 UN to Supply World's Rural Poor with Internet Access (Laptopical.com)
      "Nicholas Negroponte's 'One Laptop Per Child' dream of creating 100 dollar notebook computers for the world's poorest children, is rapidly gaining popularity with academics, journalists and world leaders." 11-05

  26. Hiring for Executive Intelligence (Harvard Business School)
      "It turns out that the best way to predict how well people will write essays in the future is to test them using an essay format today. In other words, to most accurately predict someone's performance, you must closely mimic the context in which the individual will have to perform."

      "The same holds true in the office. Executives exchange information through conversations, questions are posed, and decisions are made on the fly. The most accurate predictor of business performance would have to imitate these dynamics, and human evaluators are far and away the best judges of such interactions."

      "Rather than concentrating on academic subjects, executive intelligence tests should focus on the particular cognitive subjects associated with executive work: accomplishing tasks, working with and through others, and judging oneself." 12-05

  27. Biology, Boys, and Instructional Strategies (ABC News)
      "In the complaint that he lodged with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, [Doug] Anglin, 17, claimed that girls faced fewer restrictions from teachers at Milton High School in Milton, Mass., and that boys were more likely to be punished."

      "The complaint comes at a time when boys' struggles in school are getting close examination. According to a 2005 report by the Educational Equity Center of the Academy for Educational Development in Washington D.C., boys around the country are increasingly falling behind girls academically, and are more likely to get suspended. And experts told ABC News that Anglin's assessment has merit and describes what prevails in most American classrooms." 01-06

  28. -06-13-06 Harvard Study: Bush Administration Education Goals to Miss Targets (Yahoo News)
      "U.S. President George W. Bush's signature No Child Left Behind education policy is failing to close racial achievement gaps and will miss its goals by 2014 according to recent trends, a Harvard study said on Wednesday."

      "It said the policy has had no significant impact on improving reading and math achievement since it was introduced in 2001, contradicting White House claims and potentially adding to concerns over America's academic competitiveness." 06-06

  29. -07-11-06 Studies: Election Machines Reform Essential (CommonCause.org)
      "This report surveys four major studies that reviewed DRE voting machine security and reliability. Two of the reports involved extensive review of more than 80 academic, technical, and industry reports on DREs. Each report concluded DRE machines to be vulnerable to malfunction and also to tampering in which a computer-savvy hacker with minimal access to the machine could introduce malicious code to the DRE software and change the results of an election. Such manipulation could be undetectable. In machines equipped with a modem, it could even be done from a remote location.” 07-06

  30. -02-04-07 Massive Migration From Iraq (MSNBC News)
      "Nearly 2 million Iraqis -- about 8 percent of the prewar population -- have embarked on a desperate migration, mostly to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The refugees include large numbers of doctors, academics and other professionals vital for Iraq's recovery." 02-07

  31. Study: NBA Referees Biased (CBS News)
      "An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, The New York Times reported in Wednesday's editions."

      "The NBA strongly criticized the study, which was based on information from publicly available box scores, which show only the referees' names and contain no information about which official made a call." 05-07

  32. -05-30-07 Alternative for "No Child Left Behind" (Time Magazine)
      "Most state education officials grumble that the pressure-packed annual tests and rigid adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets engendered by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law are flawed means of measuring student proficiency, raising academic standards, holding schools accountable and fostering learning. But since the penalty for defying the law is loss of federal funds, most treat NCLB's prescriptives like bitter medicine they can't afford to spit out. All, that is, except the iconoclasts who run the public schools in Nebraska." 05-07

  33. Boost Memory and Become Smarter? (MSNBC News)
      "An intense game of Concentration or other demanding memory task might kick your intelligence up a notch or two, and the more you engage your brain this way, the smarter you might become."

      "Researchers reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say that brain exercises designed to improve working memory also increase scores in fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence is the ability to reason and solve new problems. It does not rely on memory and is often thought of as having a strong hereditary component. Such intelligence is considered one of the most important factors in learning and is linked to academic and professional success, according to researchers." 04-08

  34. -06-26-08 Army Corps of Engineers Causing Floods? (Time.com)
      "On March 4, three Midwestern University professors wrote to warn the Army Corps of Engineers that its concrete navigation structures in the Mississippi River were intensifying floods, and that its plans to build more wingdikes and weirs would 'exacerbate a severe and growing problem.' They called some of the structures — designed to scour out the river's bottom so that barges could pass — 'loaded cannons pointing at St. Louis and East St. Louis, waiting to go off in the next flood.' Citing 'clear and unequivocal data' from a dozen peer-reviewed articles, they declared that 'the time to ask these questions is now, and not in the aftermath of the next great flood.' "

      "The Army Corps, the troubled, gung-ho public works agency that bears much of the blame for leaving New Orleans underwater, blew off the academics' concerns."

      "The Army Corps is always completely confident, even when it's completely wrong. Its levees protecting St. Louis and East St. Louis survived this year's great flood, thanks in part to dozens of levee breaks upstream that reduced the pressure downstream, but there is powerful evidence that the Corps' mania for concrete significantly magnified the flood's power. Army Corps structures aren't the only reason 500-year floods seem to be hitting the Mississippi every 15 years, but a National Science Foundation-funded database of 8 million hydrologic measurements suggests they are the most important reason." 06-08

  35. -10-08-08 Treasury Prepares a TARP-and-Switch (Time.com)
      "Did anybody else notice that when Hank Paulson was describing in his press conference today what the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act enables Treasury to do, the first thing he listed was 'to inject capital into financial institutions' ?"

      "That wasn't how Treasury initially advertised its Troubled Asset Relief Program. It was sold as a way to get the market for mortgage securities moving (or, to use the jargon, liquid). Lots of academic economists objected that liquidity wasn't the problem, it was insolvency. What Treasury needed to do was recapitalize financial institutions and take equity stakes in return." 10-08

  36. -11-23-08 How U.S. News Picks America's Best Leaders (US News)
      "America's Best Leaders is a collaboration between U.S.News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The honorees were selected by a committee of academic, government, business, and nonprofit leaders convened by the center. U.S. News did not have a vote." 11-08

  37. -02-11-09 Creationists Try New Strategy (Christian Science Monitor)
      "In June of last year, Louisiana became the first state to pass what has become known as an 'academic freedom' law. In the past, fights over evolution took place at the local school board level, but academic freedom proponents specifically target state legislatures." 02-09

  38. -02-11-09 Educators Invite Wii Music into the Classroom (MSNBC News)
      "In June of last year, Louisiana became the first state to pass what has become known as an 'academic freedom' law. In the past, fights over evolution took place at the local school board level, but academic freedom proponents specifically target state legislatures." 02-09

  39. Editorial: Stimulus Package for Seniors (U.S. News)
      "How about the reinvention of our communities to fit the needs of an aging population? That's an infrastructure program even more important than repairing bridges, sewers and roads. By spending billions of dollars to stimulate the economy today, we will improve the way society supports our parents and grandparents tomorrow. Let's call it the Sustainability for Seniors Act (think of it as the new SSA)."

      "According to two academics, Maurizio Antoninetti and Mario D. Garrett, 'Communities are not prepared for an aging population, especially in the areas of transportation, housing, land-use planning, public safety, parks and recreation, work force development and volunteerism/civic engagement.' 02-09

  40. Summer School Trend (Time.com)
      "The landmark 1983 federal report A Nation at Risk, which highlighted the growing achievement gap between the U.S. and other countries, recommended that school districts 'strongly consider' a seven-hour day and a 200- to 220-day academic year, which would hew more closely to the schedules in higher-performing Europe and Asia. Although the practice has yet to go mainstream, there's a big push to add school hours in underperforming urban districts." 07-09

  41. Firefox Add-Ons (BestCollegesOnline.com)
      "Out of the box, Firefox 3 is already an incredible web browser. But when you consider all of the power tools that can be added to enhance your research, it’s even better. Check out these add-ons for Firefox 3, and you’ll take your browser to the next level and transform your academic research." 08-09

  42. American Association of Community Colleges
      "Community colleges are centers of educational opportunity. They are an American invention that put publicly funded higher education at close-to-home facilities, beginning nearly 100 years ago with Joliet Junior College. Since then, they have been inclusive institutions that welcome all who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage, or previous academic experience. The process of making higher education available to the maximum number of people continues to evolve at 1,173 public and independent community colleges." 10-09

  43. National Science Teachers Association
      "Community colleges are centers of educational opportunity. They are an American invention that put publicly funded higher education at close-to-home facilities, beginning nearly 100 years ago with Joliet Junior College. Since then, they have been inclusive institutions that welcome all who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage, or previous academic experience. The process of making higher education available to the maximum number of people continues to evolve at 1,173 public and independent community colleges." 10-09

  44. Acceleration in School for the Profoundly Gifted (Davidson Institute for Talent Development - Feldhusen, Proctor, and Black)
      Provides 12 guidelines for grade advancement.

      "The most appropriate educational provision for gifted and talented youth is a system of specifically designed classes which provide learning activities at an appropriate pace and level and which emphasize the process skills of critical thinking and research. Unfortunately this type of educational provision is not yet available to most gifted and talented youth. However, one of the more readily available educational alternatives for the intellectually or academically gifted student is grade advancement." 10-02

  45. Guidelines for Schools to Stop Bullying (Telecom New Zealand)
      Provides recommendations for schools use school wide strategies to reduce bullying. "Serious international academic studies have found dramatic reductions in bullying of between 20-80% when school wide strategies are used."

      'Successfully dealing with bullying involves building a genuine community within the school. Everyone accepts they have the right to be free from harassment and that they have the responsibility to support their weaker and more vulnerable peers.'

      "The goal is to sell the idea that stopping bullying is everyone's responsibility." 2-02

  46. School Bullying - A Summary of Research (AskERIC - Banks)
      Concludes that "Bullying is a serious problem that can dramatically affect the ability of students to progress academically and socially. A comprehensive intervention plan that involves all students, parents, and school staff is required to ensure that all students can learn in a safe and fear-free environment." 2-02

  47. No Child Left Behind - ELL Requirements for California (California Curriculum News Report)
      "Federal and state statutes and court cases have established that there is a dual obligation for serving English learners in our schools. In addition to providing appropriate programs for them to meet grade-level standards in the content areas as is required for all students, there is an additional and unique component necessary for English learners, that is, to develop their English language proficiency. Schools must provide programs for English learners that meet both of these important areas. The dual obligation is reflected in NCLB. Local educational agencies (LEAs) are now held accountable specifically for both the academic progress of English learners and their progress in learning English." 7-05

  48. Finding a College that Matches Your Preferences (PrincetonReview.com)
      "Counselor-O-Matic is an advanced search engine that combines your academic and extracurricular history (screens 1-3) with your preferences (screens 4-8) to help you find the right college." Asks for registration of your email address but works without it. 9-05

  49. Student Mistakes With Financial Aid (U.S. News)
      "A new study detailing students' financial blunders raises concerns that many undergraduates are jeopardizing their academic success because they haven't first learned how to manage money. The study suggests that for these students to navigate the befuddling financial aid process successfully, they might need to begin with learning financial basics like the difference between needs and wants, the benefits of saving, and the effects of compounding interest." 08-08

  50. Effective Support of Abstinence (U.S. News)
      "The researchers identified eight personality and behavioral traits that were associated with both abstinence and academic achievement—traits that to some extent may be inborn but can also be taught and reinforced regularly at home and at school:"

      "Future orientation, with a focus on long-term goals"
      "Willingness to postpone current pleasures for larger future rewards"
      "Perseverance, as in the ability to stick to a task or commitment"
      "A belief that current behavior can positively affect the future"
      "Impulse control, including ability to control emotions and desires"
      Resistance to peer influence"
      "Respect for parental and social values"
      Sense of self-worth and personal dignity"

      "The right kind of sex education of our young is really about more than sex. It's about raising the kind of people we all want to be." Visitors sometimes misspell abstinence as abstinance.

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