Khan Academy is quickly becoming a popular site for helping students with specific topics. Wired Magazine has an article on how one school district is using it to increase student mastery of math: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1
I came across A Guide to Special Education Advocacy, by Matthew Cohen by chance on the new books shelf at the Mendenhall Valley Library here in Juneau. It has detailed up-to-date information on the 2004 reauthorization of IDEA and the IDEA 2006 regulations. This book should be very helpful to any parent trying to advocate for their child, as well as classroom and special education teachers and administrators because of the detailed information on federal regulations regarding IDEA and Section 504, with specific CFR citations.
One of this year's newly announced MacArthur Foundation winners is economist Emmanuel Saez, who helped calculate the worth of outstanding kindergarten teachers.
"...researchers sorted the children, based on their treadmill runs, into highest-, lowest- and median-fit categories. Only the most- and least-fit groups continued in the study (to provide the greatest contrast). Both groups completed a series of cognitive challenges involving watching directional arrows on a computer screen and pushing certain keys in order to test how well the children filter out unnecessary information and attend to relevant cues.
Last week my mother called me. She didn't have a current email address for someone, and hoped she could get it from me. I said, "I don't know, just send him a message on Facebook. He's one of your friends, isn't he?" It hadn't even crossed her mind that Facebook is a way to contact people.
I had to remove the link to KINY online news, since the website seems to have disappeared. Very sad, as it was my favorite place to go for short updates on local and state news. Hopefully they will get the site back up.
UPDATE: The KINY site was only down for a short time.
@willowolson My husband says the sushi is better in Kodiak than any sushi he ever had in Japan, and he's been to Japan a couple of times! —
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@mattbuxton I'm so glad I mostly only cover four #akleg committees and press conferences. I don't know how the rest… https://t.co/ItuiR9kEuz —
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