Charles E Medley’s Updates
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Update 3 - Collaborative Learning Practices with Diverse Populations
Collaborative learning teams are said to attain higher level thinking and preserve information for longer times than students working individually. Why is this so?
Many consider Vygotsky the father of ‘social learning.’ Vygotsky was an educatio...More
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Update 2 – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (“Hood Disease”) in Minority Children
Trauma exposure is high in African Americans who live in stressful urban environments. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are common outcomes of trauma exposure and are understudied in African Americans. African Americans are mo...More
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Update 7 – Implicit Bias in ELL Quantitative Testing Methods
There are a variety of problems with the testing of ELL students, problems that predate but are often compounded by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2001). Here is a brief summary of some of the most salient issues. (For a history of fede...More
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Update 6 – Learning Sciences in Urban Schools
Update 6 – Learning Sciences in Urban Schools
Student rituals and culturally relevant analogies: Analogy and metaphor as a key to communal practice In this study, the research has discovered that heightened levels of emotional energy, synchrony...More
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Update 4 - Social Emotional Learning in Urban Schools - Restorative Practices
How schools are using restorative justice to remedy racial disparities in discipline
Too many schools today are pushing children into pipelines of incarceration and violence instead of liberation
From slavery times to the present, black peopl...More
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Update 1 - Racial Bias in Testing
AFRICAN AMERICANS currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. This gap appears before children enter kindergarten (figur...More