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

The Hechinger Report

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. I feel like they learn more,” she said.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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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. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed. Noguera, Ph.D.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Now, Savard says, learning targets are clearer, and there’s more opportunity to truly understand the material. Statewide standards set expectations for subject areas students are supposed to learn, but graduation requirements are set locally in Vermont. It’s better than it was.”. Moving in this direction is really a paradigm shift.”.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

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 2009 study concluded that no one explicitly shows teachers how to teach to “different needs.” No one taught her these strategies.

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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

The Hechinger Report

Forty-five percent of Black children go to high-poverty primary and secondary schools , compared to 8 percent of white students. The study followed 23,000 students beginning in 2009, when they were in the ninth grade. Our high schools are more segregated than ever and prepare students very unequally,” Orfield said.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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It’s a common story: the energetic principal who comes into a school, revamps the curriculum, creates innovative learning practices, and then leaves with no sustainability plan. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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The newly reimagined Empire State Information Fluency Continuum

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Barbara Stripling, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University, and former ALA President, describes the history and goals of the project that builds on an earlier version developed by school librarians in 2009 under the auspices of the Office of Library Services and its former Director, Dr. Stripling. Barbara Stripling’s Inquiry Model.