eSchool News
MARCH 27, 2023
After retiring from the Berkeley faculty, Fillmore has worked with educators in urban school districts to improve academic language and literacy instruction for English learners and multilingual learners. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com. See CGCS.org.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. State SAT scores rose for 13 consecutive years.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. An obsession with assessments, and the pressure for children to meet lofty academic requirements years before they’re ready, have all but eliminated playtime from our schools.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 5, 2016
MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2017
Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. Then in 2010, after two years of research, Sanborn implemented a district-wide shift.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2017
10 Percent — Yearly increase in the percent of students achieving basic scores on state tests required by No Child Left Behind Act in 2010. Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 8, 2018
During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.
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