The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 29, 2014

When the 2012 PISA scores were released, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declared the American Education system “stagnant.” He said the results were “straightforward and stark: It is a picture of educational stagnation.” Whether or not that’s true is debatable. The testing budget is simply accommodated no matter what.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lindgren & McDaniel, 2012). Now let’s compare the table above with the North Carolina Digital Learning Plan ’s Digital Age Education Model comparison. Overall there is a sense of independence and responsibility on the part of the learner: the opportunity to have choice and voice in planning, implementation, and assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Yet the performance of American 15-year-olds on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, has always been lackluster. Since 2012, U.S. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. An educated workforce is supposedly a big predictor of a country’s income and annual growth. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Each assessment also covers slightly different curriculum content. This all makes a shaky foundation for year-to-year comparisons.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 5, 2016

The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies is an exam that measures skill in numeracy, literacy, and problem-solving in technology-rich environments among adults in many free-market, democratic European nations, as well as in Japan, South Korea, Canada, and the United States.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

I wanted to bring that kind of motivation to my classroom so I started transforming it into a learning environment where nearly all elements were part of a larger game, and I developed a collection of assessments and surveys to learn more about my students. In 2010, I prioritized incorporating elements of play into teaching and learning.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 5, 2015

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. Make Real Comparisons. So this summer we have refreshed the series and made some changes. Determine the Educational Priorities. Exercise Caution on Customization.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics, and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These factors, the critics say, make comparisons impossible. Related: U.S. On PISA, U.S.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2012

With a growing number of countries outperforming the United States on the most respected comparisons of student achievement—and spending less on education per student—this question is critical. psid=2012-04-12.1601.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link].

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. The best answer comes from something called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. Source: OECD, PISA 2012 Database, Table IV.3.48.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. It has worked.”. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. In a 2012 experiment, for instance, teams of IT graduates participated in a timed competition where they solved as many “trouble tickets” — as user complaints are called in tech support — as possible in a set amount of time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

For example, they will acknowledge that it takes years to learn academic English and, in the next breath, bluster over the “achievement gaps” of English learners with graduation rates and national reading and math assessments. Related: In a conservative corner of Arkansas, schools welcome immigrants.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

For this report, the researchers asked millions of high school students in dozens of countries about their access to computers both in the classroom and at home, and compared their answers to scores on the 2012 PISA. ” That’s right. ” The results in this study were a bit more prosaic.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices. Pick and play games for intentional moments in the classroom, such formative assessment, differentiated instruction, and reflection to name a few. Switching from Math to English?

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Notes from panel discussion/concurrent session at SXSWedu 2012 Geoff Wurzel, TechNet Wurzel was one of the influencers on Senate Bill 6 and the creation of the Instructional Materials Allotment in Texas. Assessments for Learning IV. Have any international comparisons been made? The New Digital Learning Environment II.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The quotation is from 2012. Indeed, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Education – now granted, this is from the 2012–2013 academic year – there are 4726 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States. 2012 – the phones too big for their pockets.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. In surveys of 230,000 students in grades three through 12 conducted from 2012 to 2017 by YouthTruth, an education research and consulting nonprofit, only 46 percent of high school respondents felt that what they were learning in class helped them outside of school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. It’s very important for arts to be seen as a subject that can be and should be tested,” said Frank Philip, an arts education assessment consultant. It’s a parity thing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

About 18 percent of Swedish students are enrolled in free schools; in comparison, charter schools enroll 6 percent of American students. In 2000, Swedish students performed well-above average on an international test called the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). There were 65 participating countries that year.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble. A plaque in an office at San Diego State University, which has been recognized for a campuswide effort to support student veterans. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The 32 print and digital books we examined were published between 2012 and 2020, although most – some 84 percent – were released in 2015 or later. Meanwhile, even textbooks that are designed to be sold in states that follow the 2013 guidelines, known as the Next Generation Science Standards, have been slow to catch up.

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