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Who Does School Reform Serve?

Edsurge

Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We And the people who need schooling the most to make social mobility possible still get shafted, essentially.”

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind.

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PROOF POINTS: Should parents value academic achievement or academic growth in a school?

The Hechinger Report

A fourth group, which saw only the demographic and income data, was used as a comparison. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that required annual testing was intended to help spotlight and improve schools where student performance lagged. A third group saw both achievement and growth. children in a school year.

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An introduction to Bloom’s taxonomy

Linways Technologies

In 2001 the Bloom’s taxonomy was revised by putting together a series of more dynamic concepts for the classification system by a team of cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists, instructional researchers and testing assessment specialists led by Lorin Anderson, a colleague of Krathwohl’s and former student of Bloom’s.

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The ultimate guide to Bloom’s Taxonomy

Linways Technologies

In 2001 the Bloom’s taxonomy was revised by putting together a series of more dynamic concepts for the classification system by a team of. Teachers can assess by asking for summaries, comparisons, deductions, descriptions etc. elementary modules to draw connections between ideas and utilize. It was published as. are built.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Making ‘Big Data’ useful rather than scary for teachers

The Hechinger Report

At least since 2001, when No Child Left Behind set strict student achievement benchmarks based on standardized tests, teachers have had reason to fear data. One tab teachers can select when they log into their dashboards is a comparison of schools based on the Georgia state tests. Also, there’s a psychological factor.

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