The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

Last week, the topic was distance learning. As with every episode, there is a larger meta layer--in this case, why the jobs exist in the first place, and whether we are providing nearly 2 billion children and teenagers with the best solutions to the problem of learning. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. What’s the learning objective today?” What were kids learning?” Why do you think I’m showing you this, in the context of the learning walk?” Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. But that wasn’t a thing then. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

But in those early days, Fair had no idea how to handle her students with disabilities, whose educational challenges ranged from learning deficits to behavioral disturbance disorders. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In 1970, an East Texas-based federal court mandated Longview ISD tackle a long list of tasks designed to make sure its black students were learning and playing in the same classrooms and playgrounds as their white peers — including closing four all-black schools and busing black students to formerly all-white schools throughout the district.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 57

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Thanks to a work-based learning program offered through nearby Harwood Union High School, Woods has been able to earn math and science credit by working 15 hours a week at the garage, instead of sitting in a classroom. “I’m Related: In this New Hampshire high school, internships shape the future of learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

Since 2007, an online clearinghouse has helped Ohio educators choose well-designed online lessons from a vast marketplace of products and has made them available free. Next school year, however, schools will be on their own because the state’s Distance Learning Clearinghouse is going away.

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