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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. Now, we know that edtech has been proven to improve test scores and overall classroom engagement. ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$.

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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

The Hechinger Report

Several other pictures were strategically placed in different corners of the brightly decorated classroom. It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Closing these gaps was one of the goals of Common Core reform.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Reframing expectations.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Depth of understanding was hailed by its architects as a cornerstone of the Common Core, a set of educational guidelines for what students need to know in each grade in English and math that have been adopted in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

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How the first Common Core state is seeing faster student gains

Insight Education Group

Kentucky has been in the news a lot in recent years when it comes to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). In 2010, it became the first state to adopt the Standards. As I have said in many past posts and conversations with educators - and as Kentucky has proved - the Common Core is a marathon, not a sprint.

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If You Want Equity in the Classroom, Above-Average Readers Need Intervention Too

Edsurge

EdSurge caught up with Ballone to discuss differentiation tools, the dangers of not intervening with above-average readers and the thrill of seeing equity in action in the classroom. In 2010, New Jersey adopted Common Core standards. Michael Ballone How do you bring equity and energy into the classroom?

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. It’s nearly impossible to test different instructional approaches in real classrooms.

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