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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Toppan, a junior at the high school, was angry that the administration hadn’t sought student input about the change, and worried that a switch to a 1-4 grading system, with a 3 the highest possible grade on some assignments, would hurt her chances of getting into a good college. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8

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Shifting From Pedagogy To Heutagogy In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The main theme is that people are naturally very efficient learners and that we can more effectively make use of this fact in our current education and training systems. The needs and motivations of the learner and, more importantly, what is happening in their brain is of secondary importance, if it is of any importance at all.

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Thursday Interview: The Personalized High School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Prior to joining ESR, Wolk served as a program associate with The Education Alliance at Brown University where she served on the core work group with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to write Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (NASSP 2004), and Breaking Ranks in the Middle (NASSP 2007).

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Circumstances are really kind of secondary. I’ve attended dozens of education conferences. But when I talk about reimagining education, reimagining our systems, reimagining our society, reimagining our world, that’s not hyperbole. The truth is, I was having more low days than functional days by July and early August of 2020.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too!

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

People who struggle with reading are more likely to drop out of high school, to end up in the criminal justice system, and to live in poverty. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. So in 2015, Butler and her colleagues decided to repeat the study they’d done in 2003.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Complex Dynamical Systems, Physics and Consciousness. David Homa Teacher, Los Gatos High School David Homa has been a teacher for 24 years both at the University and Secondary level. airing on Discovery in 2020.)