The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). And another international exam, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed back-to-back deterioration in math performance among American 15-year-olds in 2012 and 2015.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000. Enhancing Education Through Technology Program.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

Anyone with a child who has an intellectual or learning disability knows that learning entails much more than knowing how to read, write and compute. The absence of literacy doesn’t mean that he can’t learn skills essential to becoming a productive member of society. Learning is social and emotional.

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Classroom Learning System Assessment 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 144

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback. On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Yesterday we shared an article on close reading, and today Grant looks at providing better feedback for learning. . Even as little pre-school children, we learn from such results and models without adult intervention.

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Learning Assessment Sony Exercises 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Related: More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

Few can offer buyers independent assessments of the value of their products, even if those same entrepreneurs have sweated and toiled to build great wares. Everyone, whether an educator, an entrepreneur or a parent, should want edtech products that are effective—ones that genuinely help students learn.

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EdTech Company Outcomes Study 118

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 72

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Links to Local Learning. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Broadband Accessibility Instructional Materials Education 68

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 237

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Each assessment also covers slightly different curriculum content. Math scores declined one point between 2013 and 2015.

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Dropout Assessment Report Comparison 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Bush’s presidency: No Child Left Behind , the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. No Child Left Behind is credited with ushering in, at a national level, an education reform movement focused on measuring students' performance on reading and math assessments. Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit.

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Education Data Policies Secondary 51

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They replaced the familiar, and easier, Oregon state reading and math tests, the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or OAKS. The teachers took the survey at end of the school year, before they learned the results. ” ©2015 The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.). Visit The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) at www.oregonian.com.

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Survey Assessment Elementary Study 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. Bush’s education reform policy. based think tank.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Activity-Based Learning. Blended Learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

MindShift

AUGUST 24, 2015

students are classified as “high achievers” in mathematics, according to the most recent international assessments. No Child Left Behind, the 2001 federal law, incentivizes “just getting kids over a bar,” Finn says. Deeper learning? ” Copyright 2015 NPR. percent of U.S. Finn and Brandon L.

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E-rate Education Common Core Policies 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. Studies show that foster youth lose four to six months of learning every time they change schools. For the first time, the 2015 education law requires states to report graduation rates for foster youth. percent did.

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Report System Survey Meeting 111

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Our journey began when we conducted an extensive literature review at the outset of the project (Bruce, Flynn, & Moss, 2012) and learned about the crucial importance of spatial reasoning. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes. Spatial reasoning and mathematical thinking are intimately linked.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards 70

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. With enough data and some machine learning, you can identify – statistically – the most common obstacles. Is learning “like a map”?

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Freed from the bureaucratic red tape that stifles innovation, charter schools could adopt new policies and practices to promote student learning and development. Freed from the bureaucratic red tape that stifles innovation, charter schools could adopt new policies and practices to promote student learning and development.

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Policies Exercises Report Outcomes 40