Marshall Memo 823

This week's quotes and articles come from Educational Leadership (more next week), a Thomas B. Fordham Institute report, English Journal, Cult of Pedagogy, and School Library Journal (more next week). Here are the headlines:

- Mike Schmoker on a radically simplified ELA curriculum

- Reading as liberation

- How teachers' standards and expectations affect student performance

- Lifting the curtain on SparkNotes

- Jennifer Gonzalez on the effective use of cooperative learning

- Classroom materials on the 19th Amendment

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Marshall Memo 823

A Weekly Round-up of Important Ideas and Research in K-12 Education

February 10, 2020

Marshall Memo

Mission and focus:

This weekly memo is designed to keep principals, teachers, superintendents, and other educators very well-informed on current research and effective practices in K-12 education. Kim Marshall, drawing on 50 years’ experience as a teacher, principal, central office administrator, writer, and consultant lightens the load of busy educators by serving as their “designated reader.

To produce the Marshall Memo, Kim subscribes to 60 carefully-chosen publications (see list to the right), sifts through more than a hundred articles each week, and selects 5-10 that have the greatest potential to improve teaching, leadership, and learning. He then writes a brief summary of each article, pulls out several striking quotes, provides e-links to full articles when available, and e-mails the Memo to subscribers every Monday evening (with occasional breaks; there are 50 issues a year). Every week there’s a podcast and HTML version as well.

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