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Doing anything amazing turns out to be really hard. Incredibly hard. In the startup world sometimes we thought there were instant successes when people hacked together a website and the next day they had millions of users. There are no instant successes. Good products take time to build. We have to fight for every user. When we see that a user deleted our app it seems like the end of the world. Basically when you’re building something at any moment you can be really close to giving up. The question is how many times should you really try before you call it quits?
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Doing anything amazing turns out to be really hard. Incredibly hard. In the startup world sometimes we thought there were instant successes when people hacked together a website and the next day they had millions of users. There are no instant successes. Good products take time to build. We have to fight for every user. When we see that a user deleted our app it seems like the end of the world. Basically when you’re building something at any moment you can be really close to giving up.

The question is how many times should you really try before you call it quits?

What is the most important problem facing American children today? According to the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, it is the effects of poverty on the health and well being of young people. The role of poverty on student achievement has been one of the flashpoints between supporters and critics of modern school reform. Supporters insist that citing poverty as a reason for lack of student achievement is “an excuse” made by people who want to support the status quo. Critics of reform say that the major reform efforts ignore the effects that living in poverty have on children and their ability to do schoolwork and perform on standardized tests.
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What is the most important problem facing American children today? According to the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, it is the effects of poverty on the health and well being of young people.

The role of poverty on student achievement has been one of the flashpoints between supporters and critics of modern school reform. Supporters insist that citing poverty as a reason for lack of student achievement is “an excuse” made by people who want to support the status quo. Critics of reform say that the major reform efforts ignore the effects that living in poverty have on children and their ability to do schoolwork and perform on standardized tests.

gjmueller: Why Reading Aloud to Older Children Is Valuable Reading aloud to older children — even up to age 14, who can comfortably read to themselves — has benefits both academic and emotional, says Jim Trelease, who could easily be called King of the Read-Aloud. Trelease, a Boston-based journalist, turned his passion for reading aloud to his children into The Read-Aloud Handbook in 1979; it has since been an unequivocal bestseller with sales in the mult-millions, and Trelease is releasing the seventh, and final, edition in June. image via flickr:CC | Old Shoe Woman
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gjmueller:

Why Reading Aloud to Older Children Is Valuable

Reading aloud to older children — even up to age 14, who can comfortably read to themselves — has benefits both academic and emotional, says Jim Trelease, who could easily be called King of the Read-Aloud. Trelease, a Boston-based journalist, turned his passion for reading aloud to his children into The Read-Aloud Handbook in 1979; it has since been an unequivocal bestseller with sales in the mult-millions, and Trelease is releasing the seventh, and final, edition in June.

image via flickr:CC | Old Shoe Woman

FUCK YEAH GIFTED!!!: "19 Reasons It's Horrible To Grow Up Gifted" is a fucking terrible headline because it's bullshit

fuckyeahintellectualgiftedness:

Ah, but it’s in a classic Business Insider Template, so it works for them.

While they threw a dart on the wall and landed on 19 then proceeded to introduce each cherry picked Reddit comment with a stock photo and an encapsulating 3 word introductory sentence while managing to put it on a 20…

10 Reasons To Try 20% Time In The Classroom

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jbizzle329:

Google does it. Your classroom could too. Why not try a little creative thinking with 20% time in the classroom?

This is interesting because we kind of do this in the Montessori upper grades. We allow kids to research and plan field trips, pick science and S.S. topics and teach the class, as well as jump in and learn the answers to their own questions. The kids take a lot of ownership of their work, pride when teaching their peers, and on top of all of that, they are excited.

This is interesting. It’s got me thinking about how to combine ideas from blended, project-based, thematic units and 20% time. Hrm.. Off to do some more research.

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