The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students. million in 2001.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

STANDARDS Some states, such as Ohio , have an economic and financial literacy requirement in their Ohio Core state standards to be taught within social studies or another class.

Handbook 40

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Four years ago, in 2009, I wrote a book called “ 21st Century Skills ” — the moniker is now used around the world, but initially people were unclear that it meant the 4C’s of Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration. Due to Common Core and its debates, it’s now possible to revisit that conversation.

Robotics 40

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My While national surveys indicate that adolescent drug use has fallen across the board in recent years, some 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. She also plans to carve out time for students to choose what to study. As part of a pilot, he is testing this, and Ms.

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

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MindShift

MAY 12, 2015

Common Core-aligned materials, art supplies, science supplies, library improvements, and several staff positions are among the other new items in the district’s $124 million budget. An informal poll of a half dozen California museums found that field trip attendance dropped universally in the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years.

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Common Core Report Survey Meeting 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

What’s striking is that this success story has occurred against the backdrop of so many major high-profile education initiatives floundering across the nation—Common Core and accountability come to mind—and amidst significant political turbulence in the Tar Heel state.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Control was goosed further with Race to the Top in 2009, which not only continued federal dictates about the structure of public schooling, but also attempted to coerce what was taught. To get maximum Race points, states essentially had to adopt the Common Core curriculum, and the Education Department picked the tests to go with it.

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Common Core Policies Study Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App. They’re distracting others. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. Thiel, who lamented women’s suffrage in a 2009 article for the Cato Institute, has been well-known in Silicon Valley as a libertarian, and some observers struggled to explain why Thiel would back an authoritarian for president.

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