Education Week - August 5, 2015 - 25

What You Might Have Missed:
During the recent Education Week print publishing
break, Commentary authors continued to drive
education debate with Web-only essays. Read
excerpts of the Commentaries and reader
responses below, and join the conversation online.

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[S]ame-language subtitling can
actually support literacy. ...
[R]ather than being simply annoying,
listening to English and reading
English subtitles helps in decoding
words and reading better."

PRESIDENT & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Virginia B. Edwards

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR Gregory Chronister

[Bree Newsome] gave bold witness
to the fact that educators must take a
courageous stand, insert lessons about race
and racism into our curriculum, and make
visible an invisible history of hatred."

-DPETERSON314

Karen Diegmueller, M. Sandra Reeves

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Steven L. Miller, author
"Technology Holds Promise for Students With
Poor Vocabulary Skills," July 23, 2015

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COMMENT: "My experience as a teacher in the Houston area
certainly suggests to me that bilingual education, at least as it is
practiced in Houston public schools, is not serving students well."

COMMENT: "As long as poverty is allowed to rage out of control, all your
tech solutions, and all your expert opinions will not make a difference.
It's not just a 30 million-word gap; it's a gap in opportunity, a gap
in cultural and social capital, and a gap in income and access to
adequate health care, and all the other niceties of middle-class life."

-DAJBA

ONLINE

-MCRUIZ

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BLOGS
Although same-sex marriage is
now legal across the country,
Peter DeWitt says that many
schools won't offer LGBT
curriculum for three reasons.
Read his Finding Common Ground post to
find out what they are.

www.edweek.org/go/LGBT3

Practicing mindfulness is key
to keeping teachers healthy,
happy, and stress-free, writes
Matthew Brensilver of Mindful
Schools. Check out his guest post
on the Leadership 360 blog for mindfulness
strategies.

Education Week is on a print
publishing break until August 19, but
look for Web-only opinion essays and
blog posts on Commentary online.

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With the right technology, struggling
students can gain not only more word
experiences per unit of time than they can
from traditional instruction; they can also gain
the right word experiences to prevent them
from falling behind, giving them a real shot
at excelling and achieving their potential."

www.edweek.org/go/BilingualEd

Linda H. Jurkowitz, Francis Sheehan

DESIGNERS Sumita Bannerjee,

SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

ASSISTANT COMMENTARY EDITOR

COMMENT: "I think Bree Newsome is a terrible role model for young
people and not the courageous person you are portraying her to
be. The fact that the correct political process was taking place
several steps away is the model that young people need to see."

Claude Goldenberg, author
"Congress: Bilingualism Is Not a Handicap," July 14, 2015

COMMENTARY EDITOR Elizabeth Rich

Christina A. Samuels, Sarah D. Sparks, Andrew Ujifusa

www.edweek.org/go/ Subtitles

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ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Vanessa Solis

ASSISTANT EDITORS Liana Heitin, Alyson Klein,

Monica Brady-Myerov, author
"Closed Captioning Gives Literacy a Boost," July 21, 2015

Educational policies that restrict
use of students' home languages
are no silver bullet. They might
even do more harm than good."

ART DIRECTOR Gina Tomko

Mark W. Bomster, Kevin C. Bushweller,
Lesli A. Maxwell, Anthony Rebora, Debra Viadero

Catherine Gewertz, Stephen Sawchuk

www.edweek.org/go/ConfederateFlag

-GREG McCALL

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Laura Baker

ASSOCIATE EDITORS Sean Cavanagh,

Jon N. Hale, author
"Confederate-Flag Controversy Underscores Need
for Educational Activism," July 16, 2015

COMMENT: "I am still using elements of SLS in my classroom
and hoping that other researchers will take on application
studies on the various formats of same-language subtitling!"

MANAGING EDITOR Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS

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