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How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success

Waterford

It happens when families commit to making their child’s education a priority, and teachers commit to listening and collaborating with families. With involvement, teachers hold the primary responsibility to set educational goals. Children with families engaged in their education are more likely to: Earn higher grades and test scores[1].

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. Personalized Learning, Personal Meanings.

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Will new standards improve elementary science education?

The Hechinger Report

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. Related: The next generation of science education means more doing.

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When the children leave: What’s left after a mass exodus of young people from Puerto Rico?

The Hechinger Report

She attended Goyco as a child and she lived just a few blocks away when, in 2013, the Department of Education shut the school down. “I But the truth is, it’s been so carelessly abandoned, just like our education system.”. The truth is [the school has] been so carelessly abandoned, just like our education system.”.

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Shifting From Pedagogy To Heutagogy In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Definition Of Heutagogy & Self-Determined Learning. The main theme is that people are naturally very efficient learners and that we can more effectively make use of this fact in our current education and training systems. The late Fred Emery was a little more scathing in his assessment of the education system (1974, p.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Will New Standards Improve Elementary Science Education?

MindShift

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. hours per week on science during the 2011-12 school year, the last for which data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.