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Data-Driven Instruction for the Real World

Edsurge

According to the data , it’s data-driven instruction. Let’s take a closer look at what keeps data-driven instruction from working in the real world. Nearly 90 percent of teachers think data is critical for effective classroom instruction. By the time teachers have classroom data that’s action-ready, it’s often outdated.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

That was the idea behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Policymakers and advocates said that teachers should study this data to understand how to help students who weren’t doing well. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data. Why doesn’t data analysis work?

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Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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How to get the most out of USB-C cables and accessories? 

ViewSonic Education

This mighty cable brings the prospect of true universality much closer, offering greater power, versatility, and data throughput than its predecessors. . Since its first airing in 1996, it has much improved in speed and data rate. Especially with the expanding list of devices and their various data and power demands.

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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

Edsurge

Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001. One way the company hopes to do that, she said, is through greater use of data, or what she called “data-driven infrastructure.” Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006.

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The Simple View of Reading: What You Need to Know

Waterford

Cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and education experts have studied literacy development for decades, creating a wealth of data for educators. Developed by Hollis Scarborough in 2001, it extends the Simple View by identifying subskills in both language comprehension and word recognition. Scarborough’s Reading Rope.

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IRS Official to Schools: “One of the Most Dangerous Email Phishing Scams We’ve Seen”

Doug Levin

It can result in the large-scale theft of sensitive data that criminals can use to commit various crimes, including filing fraudulent tax returns. Phishing’ attack threatens thousands of school employees’ private data (Manatee County, FL). Corsicana ISD (TX) responds to data breach incident. Dracut (MA) schools hacked **.

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