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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

The Hechinger Report

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. In 2007, Massachusetts eighth-graders even tied for first in the world on international science testing. State SAT scores rose for 13 consecutive years.

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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

Education with Technology

tuttle, https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/classroom-grades-dont-reflect-student-learning/ ). The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. A common set of academic standards could alleviate the discovery issue, but several states have withdrawn from the Common Core State Standards and decided to adopt their own. Last year, the U.S. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.

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The Thin Line Between Critical Literacy and New Literacies

Reading By Example

Teaching Digital Literacies for the Common Core: What Results From New Assessments Tell Us. Retrieved 14:00, October 25, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. Forzani, E. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut. Jenkins, H.

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OPINION: It’s time to stop the clock on math anxiety. Here’s the latest research on how

The Hechinger Report

In a newly published paper , researchers showed not only that math anxiety was negatively related to performance in 63 of the 64 countries tested in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), but also that the highest achieving students had the most striking negative relationship between math anxiety and performance.

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The Thin Line Between Critical Literacy and New Literacies

Reading By Example

Teaching Digital Literacies for the Common Core: What Results From New Assessments Tell Us. Retrieved 14:00, October 25, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. Forzani, E. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut. Jenkins, H.