The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement. While some students don’t love these extra demands, Kylie says the new model gives her a deeper understanding of her own strengths and weaknesses. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But instead of strengthening social studies or helping more students engage with the subject, the focus in recent years has been on undermining or attacking it, he said. In those other disciplines, said Lesh, “There was an effort to take the inequity out of what was taught to students.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms.

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