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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. percent in 2008-09 to 84.9 Related: Can schools create gifted students? Here are five ways we are giving students the opportunities they need to excel: 1.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

The impetus for the change at Juarez can be traced to Ocon’s appointment as principal in 2008, veteran school staffers say. To accomplish this, courses are year-long instead of being divided into semesters. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” “Is the College Board ’s Newest AP Computer Science Course Closing the Gap?”

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. ” Five years after “ the year of the MOOC ,” the acronym does not appear on the website of any of those high profile online course providers.

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