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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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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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The Inconvenient Truths About Assessment

TeachThought - Learn better.

This requires rethinking of learning models, or encourages corner-cutting. (Or This can mean that it’s often easier to assess something other than an academic standard than it is knowledge of the standard itself. If it’s not married to curriculum and learning models, it’s just another assignment.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. It’s stuff that we learned.”.