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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability. So, what can be done?

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

More businesses must open their doors to students through internships, summer employment opportunities, research intensives and other experiential learning options. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs. Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

Georgia Test Prep

Informing the students, parents, educators, and the public about how well students are learning important content is an essential aspect of any educational assessment and accountability system. The state’s education department mandated online tests for all of its standardized tests from the 2018-19 school year. Grading of the GMAS.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Last week, the topic was distance learning. As with every episode, there is a larger meta layer--in this case, why the jobs exist in the first place, and whether we are providing nearly 2 billion children and teenagers with the best solutions to the problem of learning. Gavin is co-founder and chair of Education Fast Forward’s debates.

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Could a plan to improve early education be putting the squeeze on child care centers?

The Hechinger Report

Instructor Alexis Hollingsworth, 21, uses build-and-learn and colored pattern blocks to teach a 4-year-old class about shapes in Beary Cherry Tree, an early learning center in Metairie, Louisiana. What would it take to make sure more of Louisiana’s youngest children are learning? Photo: Della Hasselle.