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7 Notable NBA Players Who Have Played Overseas
In light of Metta World Peace aka Ron Artest aka The Panda's Friend announcing that he is playing in China next season, let's take a look at other notable players who have taken their talents overseas.
J.R. Smith Fined By NBA For Twitter Exchange With Brandon Jennings
The NBA has fined controversial Knicks guard J.R. Smith $25,000 for his Twitter exchange with Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Jennings.
J.R. Smith Defends Brother, Calls Out Brandon Jennings On Twitter
J.R. Smith is protective of his younger brother, Chris, and he showed it on Twitter on Wednesday night following the Knicks' victory over the Hawks.
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Five points separated the Nets and the Bucks in their home-and-home set, and Brooklyn came away with two straight last-second victories.
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Joe Johnson hit a tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter and then his buzzer-beating jumper at the end of overtime lifted the Brooklyn Nets to a 113-111 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.
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Ersan Ilyasova scored 26 points, including a critical putback in the final minute, and the Milwaukee Bucks held on.
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The Nets fell to Milwaukee Bucks, 92-85 on Sunday night, spoiling Brook Lopez's return.
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The Bucks won for the sixth time in their last seven trips to New York, where they played better than a Knicks team that has lost five straight overall and heard frequent boos after turning the ball over or missing shots right at the rim all night.
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Brandon Jennings scored a season-high 37 points, 16 during Milwaukee's second straight dominant start against New York, and the Bucks sent the Knicks to their fifth consecutive loss, 102-96 on Friday night.
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The Iguazu and Parana rivers that Brazil shares with Paraguay and Argentina rose to historic levels, forcing authorities to open two major hydroelectric dams above the world-renowned Iguazu Falls, where the water flow increased nearly 30-fold, from 1,500 cubic meters per second to 43,000 meters per second, topping the previous record of 36,000 set in 1992.
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Windows 7 Starter cannot process GPOs (Group Policy Objects) or be a member of a domain, so if the settings are greyed out, it'll be a setting in the registry or most likely malware which has created this problem.
It has Open Office 3.3, AVG, Collins Dictionary, Malwarebytes, Skype, Firefox and IE9. I put Spybot S&D on to scan it when the problem appeared but it wasn't on before the problem started and I've uninstalled it again. Everything else was installed as standard. And yes, I have checked the list!
Windows 7 Starter cannot process GPOs (Group Policy Objects) or be a member of a domain, so if the settings are greyed out, it'll be a setting in the registry or most likely malware which has created this problem.
Malwarebytes found nothing. The re-installed Antivirus is working fine.
Doing the online scan now - thanks very much - really appreciate everyone's input.
I've given this some more thought and it sounds like exactly the sort of problem you get on a machine that has been infected with one of those fake Antivirus programs after it's been cleaned. Some of the variants are easy to remove. Others you can clean up so much but the only solution is a clean install of Windows to remove all traces.
So, is that what you recommend? A clean install of Windows? I'm afraid I don't know how to do that but at least it is a solution
See what the Eset scan brings up first. If you do need to reinstall Windows I'm sure people here will be happy to help you.
Check the instructions or google the make/model for factory restore instructions most have a hidden partition for this purpose.
Backup docs first to usb drive.
The Este scan brought up nothing either.
Combofix is really good at removing most malware. We use it whenever we have an infected laptop that we cannot reimage for any reason.
A guide and tutorial on using ComboFix
If you follow the guide through and see if that removes anything.
Try this...
- Go to the Control Panel, select the Network and Internet category and click Internet Options.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Click the Reset button.
- Click the Reset button in the box that pops up.
- Click the Close button.
- Open Internet Explorer and try visiting a website e.g. bbc.co.uk
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If you create a new user account ( local admin ) then try and change proxy settings does that make any difference ?
If so I was thinking one of the below :
1. Using a script on the original account ( assuming the registry keys related to proxy settings / internet explorer have said user account on the keys with permissions ( admin rights to read / write / delete ) --> 3 Useful Scripts To Modify Your Proxy Settings For Internet Explorer
2. Doing the following MS KB manually or Using the Fix It Wizard here --> How to reset your Internet Explorer proxy settings.
3. Using notepad to create a registry file which should update the proxy settings via the registry instead of through the internet options control panel applet --> How to configure client proxy server settings by using a registry file
Obviously the registry keys mentioned above you may need to confirm if they are the correct registry paths / registry keys for your version of Internet Explorer.
4. Last resort ( backup the whole registry key where the proxy settings etc are kept ) so you can re merge them back if needed, delete the main registry folder / key where they are kept and see if it re creates them, if not are you able to remove IE 9 , reboot, log back on ( hopefully you get IE 8 ) and then try proxy settings ( if it works now ) then try and re install IE 9 and test again ?
There may be a better option then option 4, if using a different account works then maybe transfer everything over to the new account and delete the old account ?
If you have any error messages about access denied or you don't have access rights you may need to go into the registry to the correct path --> right click on the main directory where the sub keys etc exist --> permissions and ensure said user accounts have full access rights to the keys and sub keys etc ?
If not I think there is another registry key that you can adjust that will re enable access rights to adjust proxy settings but as others have said with ref to malware or any programs that run in the background ( may change this back ). Also due to you having spybot search and destroy and possibly other programs running in the background you may constantly get pop up messages requesting access rights to make changes to the registry
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Spybot S&D is NOT on the machine.
The Combofix and the Este scan as well as the Malwarebytes hasn't shown anything up.
I will try some of the things that Mac has suggested next. Thanks!
Creating a new account didn't make any difference.
The Fix it wizard hasn't made any difference either.
Maybe it is applied to the machine rather then the user ( Make proxy settings per-machine (rather than per user) - Windows-2000-NT-General-Discussion - Windows-2000-NT )
Registry keys as per above quote :There are some machine specific settings for Internet Explorer. For instance
open regedit and look underHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Windows\curr ent version\internet settings.
Then look under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\curre nt version\internet settings
Normally the user setings apply. If you use Group Policy toenforce proxy settings for the machine then the machine settings will apply.
Unless you have created entries for proxy settings for machine key you will
not see any there but you can add them. The easiest way would be to
configure proxy settings as you want for a user and logon as that user and
compare the machine/user keys and add the keys you need to machine. Then the
Group Policy setting you describe will enforce machine settings. If you want
to do such I would also configure Group Policy to block users from accessing
proxy settings. To configure the registry for local machine you would have
to use a Group Policy startup script or possibly the IEAK IE administration
kit when you roll out your installations. There may be other ways but those
two are the ones I can think of offhand. --- Steve
There are some machine specific settings for Internet Explorer. For instance
open regedit and look under
Machine settings for IE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Windows\curr ent version\internet settings
Then look under
User Settings for IE
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\curre nt version\internet settings
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Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊʃɪəʊɪˈkɒlədʒi /
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The branch of science that deals with the interactions among the members of a species, and between them and the environment.
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- Identifying the factors that influence primate variability at the subspecific level can lead to more effective models for the evolution of primate socioecology.
- The recent proliferation of long-term mammalian studies over broad geographic areas and taxa as diverse as carnivores, ungulates, and primates provided considerable insights into the socioecology of mammalian groups.
- Adaptive socioecology rests on the notion that social systems can change rapidly in response to a novel ecology.
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- He has chosen to concentrate on environmental factors - soil degradation, shortened fallows, vegetation change, disease, and urbanization to explain the socioecological collapse implied in the archeological record.
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- According to socioecologists, who look at the natural environment to explain social dispositions, the optimal condition for the evolution of egalitarianism is dependency on cooperation combined with the option to leave the group.
- We could say, to be short, that some activists are focussing on biological considerations while others are taking into account the human and social aspect of ecology (they tend to qualify themselves as socioecologists).
- Socioecologists argue that men, women, and children have to share food in order to ensure the long-term survival of the group.
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Former NYC Mayor Bloomberg Wins the Soda Battle, for Now
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- When was the last time you sat back with a cold one? Not a beer, but soda, or "pop" as it's referred to in the Midwestern US. According to the Beverage Digest, total sales of soda fell 3% in 2013 to 8.9 billion cases. That's the ninth straight year of decline and lowest since 1995.
One of the main reasons is because more Americans are jumping on the healthy train. No surprise here, since soda, has been linked to contributing to higher obesity levels. Just ask former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who was trying to ban the sale of large sugary drinks. One can of soda doesn't seem too harmful, but the site onecanofsoda.com states just one can contains 40 grams of sugar -- which is equivalent to about 10 packets of sugar.
Will Americans still have a thirst for soda? I agree with TheStreet's Andrew Sachais who Wednesday morning stated soda is not going anywhere. Coca Cola just launched a massive marketing deal to sponsor the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Plus, the next time you visit your local movie house to watch a movie, chances are you're not going to reach for a cup of tea to drink with your large buttered popcorn.
However, Starbucks
(SBUX) may still be holding out hope for fizzy drinks. The chain is testing out Fizzio carbonated sodas in Atlanta and Austin, Texas, in an effort to expand its offerings beyond coffee. The sodas are handmade and organic and come in flavors from lemon ale to spiced root beer. The hand-crafted touch gives them an edge over packaged brands such as Coke and Pepsi.
What's interesting here is, you would think sales of diet soft drinks would get a boost. Not so.
Sources tell Beverage Digest, sales of diet soft drinks are struggling as consumers shy away from artificial sweeteners. The beverage industry is also flooded with more options -- especially caffeinated ones.
Granted Coca Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP) and Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) still dominate the top three spots in terms of volume, energy drinks are becoming more popular. However, the report states that sales of Monster, Red Bull and Rockstar -- which each posted stronger performance than the overall industry -- have gained or held share. Monster posted growth of 7.7% over carbonated soft drink volume growth, and Red Bull's volume was up 6.4%.
Meanwhile, more households are preparing DIY or "do it yourself" soda -- hence the popularity of SodaStream (SODA). Market research firm, NPD group found U.S. retail sales of home soda machines soared 30% last year, and sales of the accompanying products -- CO2 carbonators, bottles, mixes and syrups -- more than doubled.
Adage reported, back in October, that Starbucks trademarked the term "Fizzio," but doesn't plan to release an at-home machine anytime soon. For now, its focus is on wine. Restaurants will start offering wine after testing so called, "Starbucks Evenings" at select U.S. locations in an effort to drive traffic during the slower hours.
At the time of publication, the author held no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time. This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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Good Morning my temp shot up like a rocket this AM! I am about to go test... Will let you all know in a few.
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Well I am majorly confused! I got 3 pink BFP's yesterday at different times with increasing darkness in the lines so naturally this AM my lines should be there and be darker right? Well BFN on FRER and looks like BFN with $ Tree as well I am not happy! I am quite irritated that I would get 3 good ones yesterday then get freaking BFN this AM... My BB's aren't even as sore as they were which worries me about a chem preg.I will let you all know if things change.
Ive had that happen. O got my bfp with ds at.8dpo at 6 pm at night on an frer. Did you buy more than one frer that you can try again later?
but,.yes, thats a bfp!
Maybe my FMU has too much liquid and not enough hormone yet it seems like I get better results as the day goes on... Anyone else have this issue?? Also I have never been a fan of FRER they have real skinny lines and lighter pink dye making them harder to see I have always had good results with the cheepies after all when I was preg the 1st time $ Tree gave me a good + before FRER did and I later watched the Dr's office do a test and guess what their tests look like... The cheap tests. So I figure if it is good enough for them to use it is good enough for me. I know I mentioned my 1st preg here but I don't have kids it's a long story and I typically don't talk about it... Unfortunately I only have that to go by as a reference and I mentally blocked alot of it out so it is hard to remember enough to compare... Thanks for listening and your support I am not announcing these tests as being BFP until I get more than 1 brand to come up + and be a bit darker Hopefully by the end of today or by the weekend.
I kinda agree with.Christina, but then ive always,liked frer... I used it and got my 8dpo bfp. I just wonder if since you got a bfp on the ic if youd get one on the frer..
No telling I will try maybe tomorrow 11DPO or Monday12DPO with mid day U that has been held for a while and see if it comes up on FRER it will be my last FRER in the pack and after that I won't buy anymore of those so let's hope it is a + and I won't need to buy anymore at all
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this is what my 8dpo frer bfp looked like.. irl there's def a line


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An education forum examining teaching in an age of massive cuts and the new Common Core Standards... Highlighting teaching that is pushing the doors open to new techniques despite the many barriers faced by the modern educator...written by Scott Bedley an author and 20 year educator in Southern California.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Assigning Optional Homework?
A few years back, my district went through an exercise of looking at homework and our policies surrounding it. Meetings were had, discussions and debates occurred, and in the end... nothing much seemed to have changed. I understand why... this is a tough issue! Homework, after all, is truly a pillar of education. So as the debate over homework seems to continue on like Pink Floyd's song "Comfortably Numb" ...looped..., some arguing for it and others against it, all with no solution... I'd like to propose an optional new policy... The Optional Homework Policy. The optional homework policy states this... "Students, if you or your parents would like you to complete homework, then here are your options." Yes, giving the decision making power, to have or not have homework, over to the students and their families. Crazy!? Will Not Work! Kids' Scores Will Drop! Before you judge, please think growth mindset... and know that I've actually been testing this out over the past school year with positive results for all parties involved with the homework debate.
There are three basic explanations/reasons why I reconsidered required or no homework:
Grades, Grades, Grades...
As teachers we have the choice to calculate homework into a grade or not. Most teachers I know have homework as a small percentage of a student's overall performance, yet many of the report card conversations between teachers, parents and students, from my experience and as shared with by many other teachers, revolve around the topic of missing or late homework. Now I don't believe that something should be changed to avoid a conversation, but these conversations can often become distractors or points of contention between parent and student, student and teacher, and teacher and parent, thus creating problems in partnerships that are vital to real learning. These homework conversations are another draw away from the important conversation about learning, true student needs, and areas of growth.
The important question to ask oneself about homework grades is why is it being given? The typical answer would be work completion, practice of concepts or responsibility at primary levels, and preparation at the higher levels. Most don't say that the primary or important factor in homework is as a diagnostic tool to report to parents on a students ability or performance. There's too many variables that impact homework to use it as a diagnostic for student learning or as a tool to help guide future lessons and instruction. When homework becomes optional though, the feedback, and not the grade, become more important to the learner. Feedback is how we learn. I've seen the focus shift and become about the quality rather than the completion. So rather than giving grades based on completion of work, grades can continue to move towards being about reporting levels of learning growth.
Help or lack of it
It's a "Goldie Locks" deal... some get too much, some not enough and others just the right amount. While parents and teachers are often on one side or the other in this debate, the optional homework policy pleases all. Ideally the parents who may offer too much help to a child, thus taking away their chance to feel the success that builds confidence, find that their help (which is at times aimed at grades) becomes obsolete and the focus shifts to supporting a child's learning. Fewer conflicts occur between child and parent and student and teacher. On the other hand, the student that always struggles with homework, and comes to our learning environments already with a feeling of failure, now is far more open to learning.
Real Impact?
On a study my teaching partners and I did in 2007, surrounding homework's true impact, we found that through a comparison based in data, the students who received less homework (in the subject area of math for our study) had three key factors surface. First, parents reported better relationships with these children. Next, students positive attitudes and feelings towards learning and school showed a measurable increase as well as in-class focus and participation based on surveys and observable evidence by two outside teachers watching the three groups in class for engagement and effort. Finally, the group who received the least amount of homework, actually showed the highest percentage of gains from pre-assessment to post assessment on the math concepts. Again, with the number of variables, I can't say beyond doubt that homework or lack of it, was the factor that truly made the difference, but it did play a key factor.
Still not convinced... Me either
My main hope is to "get you up on the fence" about this topic so you can look down on both sides and clearly evaluate homework requirement practices and why they are in place. One quote that sticks with me came from some of the additional video content from the movie Race to Nowhere.
"Homework may be the greatest single extinguisher of children's curiosity that we have yet invented..."
So, where do our fears as educators and in education lie with letting go of homework? Are we giving homework because it's always been done or because it makes a positive impact? If you believe it makes a positive impact, what real concrete proof do you have that it's the homework providing this improvement?
I write this blog only to encourage you to question things that have always been... I hope you'll question some norms... maybe even check out my previous post titled "Subversive Education Unconference Style"
My Steps and Results
So what did I do to make homework optional? Well... when I change things I don't only consider the implementation I will make, but I consider "will others be able to do this too?" Confession... This isn't for everyone. Baiscally I took the assignments I would normally assign and said... "This is optional..." after all, I have no foundational research to show homework was actually beneficial, so how could I justify continuing a required practice that no one could prove even worked after decades and decades of research and debate. So rather than stop giving it, or continuing to require it... I made it optional leaving the decision to the parents and students.
How has my experiment gone? First, please know I wouldn't have tested this without the data from the study we did in 2007 and a great deal of research... but it's been great! One of the most positive outcomes I've seen is that it's pushed me as an educator to continue create in-class assignments that drive kids to want to continue their learning on their own at home, intrinsically, by choice. It's so rewarding to have my students have the desire to learn more about a subject I'm teaching, because it's one of the main reasons I went into teaching... to inspire my students to learn. In addition, many students who have wilted under "required homework" policies have started to blossom and come to life as learners in my subject areas. I can't say beyond a doubt that The Optional Homework Policy has alone created the success and desire to learn I've seen, as I'm always trying new ways to inspire my students to learn, but I do feel confident it's been a key contributing factor to success for both my students and myself.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the issue.
Are you going to try The Optional Homework Policy? Tweet at me or comment to let me know. My next action step... student choice self-assigned homework. I'll let you know how it goes...
Additional reading on the homework debate that's gone on since the early 1900's ACSD's look at Homework through the 20th and 21st Centuries
Thanks so much for reading! With my best hopes for you and your students!
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- Maureen GeorgeJuly 7, 2014 at 11:00 PM
Scott, I love this idea. I was very vocal a couple of years back about the idea that homework (and too much of it) was detrimental to some of the children, including one of mine. He was closing himself off to school and becoming very negative about school in general. He was losing his sense of curiosity and his self-esteem, as well. I think optional homework is an extremely progressive idea, in which the teacher, parents and student can work together to create the best plan for each individual student to best facilitate learning, which of course is the final goal. I hope more teachers and school officials will join in this very important conversation. Thank you for your work in this.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Maureen! You have amazing, creative, intelligent boys and their story is an example of why real solutions need to be found! I too hope the conversation grows... it seemed to have been on the front burner, but has now fallen by the wayside without much change nationally. I know the great people in our district continue to try to find a balanced solutions based in evidence, but change is often hard and agreeing on a solution even more challenging. My very best to your family!Delete
GREAT stuff. Been circling around this for a while now. May I ask though then what the final grade (which you're assuredly required to submit) was based upon? Or how it was determined? Just subjectively?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Chris... Final grades are based on summative and formative assessment data (student choice is often built into assessments from traditional tests to non-traditional forms of knowledge demonstration), in-class projects (individual, partner and group, all typically rubric based but some competition based), teacher formal and informal observation (I try to avoid subjective grading, but I do believe educators are professionally trained to be able to identify students strengths and areas of needs and that all assessment shouldn't be numbers based, but those observations are made in connection with standards and high expectations), completed optional homework (a very small percent of the overall grade, but the same that I had prior to going with optional homework) and some other in-class assignments that are content focused vs project based. Final grades were calculated on each student meeting or exceeding the learning and content goals within the above structure, the improvement in their ability to learn (My goal for next year is to create new ways to assess this as it is the "tech a man to fish"concept...) and their ability to demonstrate their learning... that all being said... I'm always looking for ways to improve the information I report to parents so they can understand their students progress... I tried adding Three Ring the last few years to share more information and I feel I failed at using it consistently enough, but will try to develop a better structure for using it to share with parents. It's an area I'm always trying to improve in professionally.Delete
Scott, I love this post.. I really want to push this idea with my staff this year. The point that you make is excellent, creating an optional homework policy is the solution to so many arguments. let's talk!ReplyDelete
Any way I can help count me in! I'll be having a GHO with a staff next week and would be more than happy to support your efforts.Delete
You have a GHO with a staff next week? Oh wait, that's MY staff! And it's tomorrow already! EXCITING! Can't wait! Thanks for taking time for us. :) AmyReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks again for giving me a chance to share my ideas Amy!Delete
Hi Scott!ReplyDelete
I'm a 4th grade teacher. I have always been of the mind that homework should be an extension of the classroom. I do not give busy work. Period.
That said, it IS one of those rites of passage to some parents, just like the infernal weekly Spelling Test!
Last year, I was fortunate enough to work with a group of 36 students on a year long PBL project. It was only a 45 minute period, 4 days per week, and there was no grade, just participation. I have to say that I have never felt more free, or seen kids engage more fully. For the first time, I had numerous kids online at home working on their projects, connecting in Google chats, and learning (at home! I guess one could call that "homework"?) They were not bogged down by my putting ideas on them, so they were able to fly. It was an amazing window into the possibilities, and I plan on giving your idea a try!
Can you expand on how you actually worked informing parents, as well as how you handled the work that did come in? Did you grade it? Was it cr/nc? I'd love to know the nitty gritty of the process...
Thanks for putting this out there! It's time to let go of antiquated procedures!
P.S. I'm also nixing Spelling tests! :)Replies
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Thanks so much for sharing your experience! And sorry for any convention errors in my writing... this was in the informal draft stage and I'm still refining it, but it's meant to be in a conversation style (in an afford to continue the conversation on homework).
Great questions. I'll be in a Google Hangout On Air today talking with some principals about the topic. I'll add the link above once I have it. It's set for 11:30 AM PST. It will also be recorded (I'll add the link).
The short answer is that I focused my discussions on learning and slowly implemented all while checking along the way to make sure there was only positives for my students. Even though I felt it was the best for my students, I still felt unsure because required homework is almost in the DNA of education. Again... I'm not advocating for the elimination of homework in any way, but more of asking "Why" do we require it, does the data support this practice, and how can we inspire our students to have a passion for learning.
As far as grading, I think focusing on feedback, rather than scores or letter grades, is far better and is a foundation to learning.
I'm working on a follow up post now on how I think teachers and schools can implement this in there classroom or at their school.
Hope that helps :-)
Love your spirit for doing what's best for kids! Thanks for being fearless and for sharing your time with us today during the GHO.
Best wishes,
The study that you did in 2007, where you staggered the amount of homework that you gave to see how if would influence learning really interests me. I must say, I started reading this post a skeptic and still am. I can't help but wonder if some of the students that "received the least amount of homework" and "showed the highest percentage of gains from pre-assessment to post assessment" made these gains because these gains for some reason other than lack of homework. In addition, it seems that the sample size of the experiment was too low to draw an substantial conclusion. Though I am finding myself wanting to be skeptical, I must say that I am interested. If assigning optional homework would get my students motivated, I would try it.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Thanks for the comment. I'm thankful you are thinking about the practice itself. Please undertstand my choice was not only based on our study, but on the research I did to try and find any evidence that homework is an effective practice. I wanted to proove what I had been doing for over a decade was effective. Also know that if someone came to me and presented evidence that homework was an effective practice, I would immediatly start to require homework again. I'm certainly not against homework by any means (My students still have optional homework which they consitently complete), but rather against requiring unproven practices. I really just want to do what's best for my students.
Our study was with three groups of 35 students in a departmentalized 5th grade program. The students received the same instruction from the same instructor. We made a strong effort to isolate the homework practice, get pre and post feedback from parents and students, and find ways to measure observable evidence on top of the assessment data. While it is a small sample size, it was just one factor in my move to an optional homework policy. (Please note that I do disclaim that I couldn't draw a fullproof direct conclusion, but homework was the sole isolated practice that differed.) There certainly are other potential factors.
I really appreciate you taking the time to consider the issue. I've always heard arguments for and against homework, I just thought there was a middle ground where we could land and optional homework was that middle ground for me.
Homework is an institutionalized practice and I would expect most to be skeptical. Obviously in a blog post I wouldn't be able to cover the issue completely, but I really just hope it encourages people to to reconsider the approach to accepting practices that have always been.
Wishing you and your students the best in your classroom!
You may want to try it with one class, one subject or even one unit to see your results. :-)Delete


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note: Last night I delivered the following reflection at an ecumenical Thanksgiving service including Armenian Orthodox, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Baptists, and Methodists
Gratitude is a fundamentally Christian way of life. I don't mean that Muslims, Buddhists or atheists never feel thankful. Obviously all humans experience gratitude.
But gratitude in its fullness is something that flows directly from the Christian gospel.
Let me explain.
I grew up in a fantastic Episcopal Church with wonderful Sunday School teachers who, I'm sure, taught me well so what I'm about to say has more to do with my listening than their teaching.
What I remember from Sunday school and, later, from sermons, and what I took with me to college was something like this:
"God sent Jesus to model the life we are supposed to lead. Christians are people who do good things like Jesus did. If we do, then God will reward us here and when we die and we will go to heaven whereas all the bad people will go to hell."
How many grew up with similar understandings?
Most religious faiths, in fact, present paths very similar to the one I just articulated. A "way" is revealed by prophets, avatars, or gurus, that, if followed well and correctly, will lead you to some kind of reward. The rewards differ - heaven, nirvana, and/or enlightenment. And the paths differ - prayer, good works, and/or meditation. But the core idea: that you and I by following certain disciplines, rules, laws or precepts can by our own efforts ascend to some ultimate spiritual reward - is the same.
Human religion then is about human striving, and the human ability to reach, the divine.
Here's where the gratitude problem comes in.
If you - through your own efforts and strivings - attain heaven, toward whom are you thankful?
I suppose you could "thank" God for revealing the "way" in the same way you might thank the clerk at Citgo who gives you a free roadmap - but the clerk does not drive your car or empower you to reach your destination. You are the one doing all the work.
The same is true with the sort of religion we've been speaking about. The only thanksgiving due is of the attenuated, "thanks for pointing the way" sort.
If you see the goods of this life and the next as the result of your ability to follow a path, achieve a height, then while you will on occasion feel thankful to God or whoever for laying out the steps necessary, the whole thing is your own doing.
This reminds me of a prayer I saw on some film, I think it was the Patriot by Mel Gibson but I could be wrong. It went something like this:
"Lord thank you for this bread and this meat set before us, even though it was my hands that planted the seed, my hands that fed the sheep, the sweat of my brow and the skill of my eye and the success of my plans that produced it."
What place, ultimately, does Thanksgiving have if you are the one who accomplishes the task?
There is certainly room for feelings of accomplishment, self regard - but gratitude? Not so much.
But all of this, as I later learned, is antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The New Testament presents no work by which or through which you attain the divine. The gospel is not: "Jesus did good, now do likewise and if you try hard and do well you'll be let into heaven."
The first principle of the gospel is that such an endeavor is impossible.
In Mark 10, a rich young ruler approaches Jesus and says: "Good teacher, How do I attain eternal life?"
Who remembers what Jesus says?
"Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone."
Jesus was not denying his divinity. He was rather correcting the young man's anthropology.
Human beings are not "good" and cannot be "good".
You and I are morally powerless. If eternal reward depends on your capacity for moral rectitude and holiness, then you are hopeless and so am I.
Here's how Paul puts it:
"You [speaking to Christians here] were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air…carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind."(Eph 2:1-4)
That's the human condition from God's perspective. That is God's diagnosis of our natural potential for good. We're dead. Children of wrath. Dead men and woman are very limited in their ability to affect moral change.
"But God [two very beautiful words], being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."(Eph 2:4-9)
That last verse - and this is not of your own doing, it is the gift of God - sets Christianity apart from all man-made religion. Do you understand what that means? To be a Christian is to trust not in you, your own work, your goodness—all of that, as Paul says elsewhere is "rubbish"(although he uses a stronger word)—but forsaking hope in yourself, the Christian depends on, surrenders to, trusts in Jesus Christ who by himself did all the work required of you, on your behalf, and then bore the consequences of your sins on his cross.
He became sin for you so that you might become the righteousness of God.(2 Cor 5:21)
He did it not because we deserve it but precisely because we don't and never can.
And so every step, every breath, every tasty morsel of food we eat everything we drink - the life of the Christian - is a life responding to, not earning or deserving, the love, mercy, blessing, and abundance of God.
Everything is unmerited, unearned, undeserved.
And so the Christian life is bathed in gratitude. It is not a life of ease and comfort…we were indeed "saved for good works" but we work to please God because he has given us all things in Jesus Christ, not so that he may do so, if all goes well, one day in the future. Ours is the sweat and toil of gratitude and joy.
Gratitude is the fundamentally Christian way of life.
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Nicely done. The "prayer of thanks" you may have in mind is the one delievered by Jimmy Stewart in the movie Shennodoah. What's interesting is that as the movie progresses and a rather idylliac life begins to fall apart, the character played by Stewart is humbled such that the ending reflects true gratitude for a resolution he did not "work with his own hands". I would note that the movie both begins and ends in a church!
@ Undergroundpewster I second that.
This was all prior to my actual conversion Christianity as opposed to the nominal faith I held before that. I vividly remember one moment that in the end was crucial to my conversion. I had been struggling to define just what was different and superior about Christianity in response to the easy confidence of Muslims as to what was different and superior about their religion (They really do a better job of teaching this than Christians do). Then I read a comment from a nominally Christian man who was seriously considering converting to Islam. His main criticism was that if it was true that Jesus did all the work of earning our salvation, then what motivation was there to do good works. He thought Islam's teaching that we earn our salvation through good works was more logical and attuned to human nature ie we respond to the promise of reward and do not respond in its absence.
I struggled with how to respond to that and that is when it became clear to me that the Christian motivation for good works was gratitude for a gift already given. As I thought about it I realized that this was by far the better motivator on many levels most especially in light of the purity of the response. When we do something in order to get a reward for ourselves, that response is tainted by self-interest. When we respond out of gratitude for a reprieve we do not deserve, our actions flow from the same place that love originates as love is focused on the other. This difference, ideally, makes it possible for the Christian's good works to be about others instead of about ourselves. Whats-more, it is the only way to separate good works from self-interest. This is indeed powerful stuff, an idea that we selfish humans could not invent.
I posted my response to this effect on the board and they were promptly deleted without explanation! Haha
Thus my point in telling this long story. I think that, in spite of my overall ignorance, I scored a direct hit with that comment (It was my only comment in defense of Christianity that was ever deleted from that board). For anyone interested in outreach to Muslims I would say that this line of argument could be a real difference maker.
PS. I think that when we are given a gift that we do not deserve that it shocks us out of ourselves. We then turn to the giver and our hearts shout for joy "How wonderful you are!" How much more Wonderful is God the Giver of our salvation!
Early on in Les Miserables (movie, 1998), the Bishop takes in John Valjean a homeless convict. He feeds him and then sends him on his way. When the Bishop and his wife are asleep, Valjean returns, breaks into their living quarters and begins stealing valuables. The next morning the French gendarmes have captured Valjean and bring him to the Bishop asking if he stole the Bishop's items. At which point the Bishop says, "No he didn't steal my valuables, I gave them to him," and then he begins to find more valuables and says, "you forgot this." Once the gendarmes release custody of Valjean what follows is:
Bishop: Now Don't Forget, Don't ever Forget, you've promised to become a new man.
So, in keeping with your piece, the Bishop is trying to show Valjean gratitude?
Excellent reflection, Matt+. Not a bit surprised at your theme. However, were any of the Christians there surprised at your thoughts on gratitude? You are so right. Many people believe that the Christian life is exactly as you describe:
Yet, the Christian life and the True Gospel are soooo different from that attitude. I wonder how many realize that? Have you received any interesting e-mails from the people who were there?
#4 and5- StayinAnglican,
If any of you have read Bishop Allison's book, Trust in an age of Arrogance, you know that he call this self striving and salvation-by-works philosophy- the yeast of the Pharisees. In that book, Bishop Allison goes on to explain how many denominations have been infected by this destructive yeast of the Pharisees. He starts with an entire chapter about Anglican "Pharisees" then goes to describe the tendency in the Roman Catholic Church and other Protestant denominations. Oddly, he does not mention the Moravians as having this "yeast". It was a Moravian who set John Wesley on the right path.
Bishop Allison's book is the antidote to this self-striving/salvation-by-good-works attitude. I highly recommend it!
Well said, AnglicanXn.
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