Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. In 2011, the Dow Jones News Fund honored Sackstein as a Special Recognition Adviser and 2012 Education Updated recognized her as an outstanding educator. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an edWebinar hosted by SETDA featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. Setting the Course for Secondary Students.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. A foreign language teacher, Lisa Toivonen, has tried to fill in the gap by putting on events to encourage students to consider higher education, but Toivonen’s time and expertise are limited. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school. Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. It wasn’t for a lack of effort from educators who wanted to tackle the problem. Yet their prospects are perilous. Yet the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Join me Thursday, November 8th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview (and pre-event for the 2012 Global Education Conference ) with Veronica Boix-Mansilla and Tony Jackson about their free PDF book, Educating for Global Competence : Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World. "In psid=2012-11-08.1616.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 25, 2015

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 discussion came about as a result of a general dissatisfaction with the way in which education was being conducted in universities. Origins & Influences.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. A holistic approach to child development, education, and differentiated support – This is a chance to make classrooms developmentally conducive to learning. without really looking for the root cause of the issues. Noguera, Ph.D.,

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Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 59

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Founded in 2012, Nearpod initially launched its “interactive lecture” platform for iPads, at a time when many schools and districts swooned over the tablets. The app initially focused on allowing teachers to build their own multimedia-rich presentations and assessments, beam them to students’ devices, and monitor their activities.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

It’s a conversation a decade ago that was so widely circulated and discussed that even dedicated education stakeholders grew weary of it: U.S. In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The network links educators across disciplines who are interested in using games and other forms of interactive teaching to improve student success. A Proof-of-Concept Study of Game-based Learning in Higher Education,” published in the August 2016 issue of the journal Simulation & Gaming.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. image via AP ].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Even as educators from around the world flock to Finland to discover its magic formula, Estonia, just a two-hour ferry ride away, has not aroused the same degree of interest. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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.” 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 23, 2019

Researchers from the University of Arkansas recently studied achievement effects on students participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) between 2012 and 2016. Using a rigorous experimental design, the authors find negative effects for participating students on state assessments, particularly in math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The results do matter, and American educators will lose out if they dismiss the findings so easily. By taking the results seriously, educators can examine the practices and policies of countries that do well on the test and see what they can do to improve practice in this country. This would be a mistake. Related: U.S. On PISA, U.S.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Our journey began when we conducted an extensive literature review at the outset of the project (Bruce, Flynn, & Moss, 2012) and learned about the crucial importance of spatial reasoning. Education matters! Spatial reasoning and mathematical thinking are intimately linked. Spatial reasoning can be improved.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sue is a proud recipient of the 2012 NYLA Mary Bobinski Innovative Public Library Director award and both the 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and the WCNY Women Who Make America awards. He worked as a secondary educator before joining the Fayetteville Free Library in the summer of 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. The initial boost came more than six months before the district won its first “Best Communities for Music Education” award. Department of Education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’m always in search of simple, time-saving rubrics that make it easier for kids to understand how they’re being assessed. I’ve also added a process criteria, an idea I’ve borrowed from the book, How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading by Susan M. Thank you, Dennis! Brookhart (ASCD, 2013).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update March 18th All of life is a constant education. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Join here ! Register here.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. Samsung’s Interactive Whiteboard was ready out-of-the-box and was an easy-to-use product for educators to easily provide personalized experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

The unconventional flurry of both in-person and virtual academics in a school that had never before offered AP physics is part of a broader experiment that experts say could herald the future of education, especially for rural schools. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. compared to a 2.84

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 68

MindShift

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

If these conditions sound familiar, it’s because lots of school districts serve similarly divided communities and have similarly stagnant results from traditional approaches to improving education. Craig worked with British researcher David Hopkins to develop 10 theories of action , based on research about what works in education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When he was assistant superintendent of schools in Meriden, Miguel Cardona — the state’s new education commissioner — would take new teachers on a tour of the city’s neighborhoods. Miguel Cardona, whom President-elect Joe Biden has chosen for his education secretary, speaks to educators earlier this year.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

The unconventional flurry of both in-person and virtual academics in a school that had never before offered AP physics is part of a broader experiment that experts say could herald the future of education, especially for rural schools. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

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. This statement is just not true.

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