Top LYS Tweets From the Week of November 18, 2012

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And to complete the review of tweets during the Thanksgiving Break, hereare the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of November 18, 2012.
1. Public education system is not perfect. That being said, myapproach is a laser like focus on solutions, not on complaining. Join me! (By@museblogger)
2. Why is teaching so hard to do well? The"curse of knowledge" leaves us unaware of what our students don'tknow. (By @anniemurphypaul)
3. A study found there is little connection tohomework time and grades. That's because grades measure when you learned it,not if you learned it.
4. Increased rigor does not correlate withincreased homework. (By @dsteeber)
5. Homework serves little purpose as it isgenerally administered. But that is true of lots of what occurs in school.
6. The neuro-power of a pat on the back: praiseboosts dopamine; dopamine enhances consolidation of new skills/memory. (By@sweatscience)
7. The less time you have, the greater thechance that external incompetence will come into play.
8. I'm not saying that basing an educator’sevaluation on test scores is right or fair. But we do rate coaches based ontheir win/loss record.
9. I'm not holding up the coaching model asideal. Just pointing out that there are ways to evaluate based on added value.
10. Thankful that children can be successfullyeducated in public schools across the nation. Go LYS Nation! (By @Crysrommuel)
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