Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. It was spring 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The state proved a bright spot on the most recent Nation’s Report Card. Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. A growing body of research names curriculum as a critical factor in academic success.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Step 3 – Consider Individual Needs and Preferences Before selecting the best educational software , it is critical to assess that the software is suitable for the age group of learners.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.” That project explored the opportunities and barriers for educators and decision-makers looking to thread SEL throughout their work.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

million for scoring 2015-16 assessments in Tennessee after the state terminated a contract in April with Measurement Inc. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 Pearson has been awarded a contract worth about $18.5 million tests.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. See our report on edtech venture capital for more details.)

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. The issue is effectively working alongside a platform that is delivering instruction and assessing students. Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 22, 2018

These products assist educators with content creation, assessment, student achievement and more. Illuminate Education’s SchoolCity products have earned IMS conformance certification to the latest versions of the following IMS Global standards: ? SchoolCity’s OpenSalt v1, Popcorn v0.1, and Suites v4.1, and 6+ have all earned.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. days each week. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2016

That part of the story is over, and the new part of the story (is one) with a new assessment and a more typical life cycle.” “Superintendents, principals and teachers have all worked diligently to implement higher academic standards and help students achieve better outcomes. . Most school districts are a B, C or D.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

“But, it’s all over the place,” he laments, “with the various textbooks, standards, digital search engines, and vendors.”. Ralyea knows well the challenge of haphazard coordination, having lived it in South Carolina, where he had to work with a standards-based report card. What’s Out There Now. Just a dream? Not really.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. —

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2015

Alma Technologies, a provider of a holistic student engagement platform for K-12 schools, has added a standards tracking tool intended to empower educators more effectively teach to proficiency against any set of academic standards. The Standards Tracker is available for the 2015-16 school year.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. It’s a mindshift for teachers, especially when it comes to assessment, because scoring is so different. It connects with curriculum and assessment tools to gather evidence of learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Majority of students are not on track for college success, according to a new report. A majority of Kansas public school students aren’t on track to be ready academically for college based on their scores on standardized English and math tests this past spring, a state report said Tuesday. All rights reserved.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. Reporter Kirsten Clark can be reached at 502-582-4144. But we do.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments. But he still struggled.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. ” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

He has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports, and editorials in major newspapers. He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project, and The Nation. Dr. Morton Sherman.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

You may dislike standards-based reporting, using labels like “proficient,” or grading with a 1-3 scale. As the teacher, you’re used to being the control valve for content, assessment, feedback, and reporting. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. This is okay.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

The Common Core standards, a set of English and math guidelines adopted by more than 40 states, challenge many commonly held beliefs — including how best to teach children to read. Regardless of how effectively Pinheiro incorporates the Common Core academic standards into her classroom, challenges will remain.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

They argue the solution isn’t to get rid of assessments, however, but to redesign them to be more effective. Over the past two years — when almost all state standardized tests were suspended — periodic assessments provided educators with some data to understand what kids learned — or didn’t. is an assessment of my students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Martin said schools around Kentucky are doing a good job of helping English learners both grasp the language and keep up academically. For instance, she said she does a quick nonverbal math test with new students at her school to get a sense of where they are academically. ” Reporter Allison Ross can be reached at (502) 582-4241.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BERWYN, Ill. —

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Formative and summative assessments. Writing lengthy individual student reports. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. Data entry. Discipline.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

He has successfully worked to pass bipartisan legislation to reduce mandatory minimum sentences, reform the juvenile justice system, and require reporting and federal data collection of deaths that occur in police custody, jails, and prisons. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com. About CGCS. See CGCS.org.

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techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

Some sessions dove into the weeds, exploring systems like IMS CASE (Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange), which supports learning standards and competencies, digital resources, and assessments.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The Hechinger Report.

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