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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

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem. Yet these student growth gains are not reflected in most edtech implementations. So, what can be done?

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

Georgia Test Prep

The tests provide information about whether students are grasping their subjects according to the state-adopted standards in the core areas of English language arts (ELA), math, science, and social studies, and whether they are ready to progress to the next grade. Social Studies. Biology Physical Science??. ??Social

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was appointed by the Clinton administration’s Secretary of Education Richard Riley in 1997 and reappointed by him in 2001.

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The Inconvenient Truths About Assessment

TeachThought - Learn better.

This can mean that it’s often easier to assess something other than an academic standard than it is knowledge of the standard itself. Further, language development, lexical knowledge (VL), and listening ability are all related to mathematical and reading ability ( Flanagan 2006 ). ” 13.

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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.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

“Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said.