The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. The previous federal law, the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, required states to develop and give standardized tests in third to eighth grade.

Personalized Learning 72

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 72

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. Stanford, CA: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Henke, R. Geis, S., & Knepper, P.

Policies 236

Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. For example, one research study found that the quality of block play at four years of age was a predictor of high school mathematics achievement (Wolfgang et al.,

Pearson 28

Pearson STEM Training Study 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Ed note 2: Hase and Kenyon make distinctions between self-determined and self-directed learning that may be in conflict with our use of the terms (see, for example, our self-directed learning model ). Assessment becomes the key for opening doors and teaching is geared to providing the key.

Education 40

Education Industry Training System 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.

Elementary 69

Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 69

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W.

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. Utah’s Process and Reviews.

Instructional Materials 41

Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 41