Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Specifically, the bet is that formative assessments, which can be delivered in classrooms regularly throughout the school year, offer educators a better, timelier understanding of what students know (or don’t) than an end-of-year final test. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2020.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Does everyone feel valued?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. More than 40 states embraced the “Common Core” while additional states adopted similar standards.). Then, nearly all U.S. Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. A 2009 study concluded that no one explicitly shows teachers how to teach to “different needs.” Educators say little has changed since then.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In Brockton – a once-prosperous town called “shoe city” until the last of its footwear factories closed in 2009 – drugs are plentiful. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

He chucked an orange at Mason, who grabbed it and threw it back across the classroom. The adult in this high school classroom, teacher Bridget Shingleton, did not start shouting. The goal is to offer an alternative for kids who struggle in standard classrooms. Zak, who’d been in a funk, started laughing.

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Report Handbook Academic Standards Study 96