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

Edsurge

In 2010, New Jersey adopted Common Core standards. We have a pullout Gifted and Talented program at the elementary school level. So it gives you a very high-level view of the trends, and then you can go in and dig a little deeper where you want to.

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What Is Lost When Kindergarten Gets More Academic?

MindShift

McGee teaches kindergarten at Walker Jones Elementary in Washington, D.C. The authors chose to compare teachers’ responses from two years, 1998 and 2010. Among the differences: In 2010, prekindergarten prep was expected. That figure jumped to 80 percent by 2010. Not all playtime is trending down, though.

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S

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Live Thursday, May 3rd - School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Their crowdsourced eBook, which is available for free download, is a collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors. Formerly, she was an elementary school librarian, professional development facilitator, and secondary English teacher.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. Funding has shrunk.

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School. Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence. Related: LA’s school counselors strike back.