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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

Edsurge

Once the teacher approves all of the personalized learning plans for each of the students based on what their RIT scores and the various common core strands, then the student gets an email notification saying, “You’re ready to get started on your personalized learning plan.” How’s that going? Successful?

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Further, authentic learning has the potential to make students more engaged. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. Why is this important?

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The Four Biggest Challenges to Implementing Maine's Proficiency-Based Diploma

Edsurge

I believe the new proficiency-based diploma requirements are yet another beacon of educational leadership and innovation, one that will alter our education system in meaningful and lasting ways. But what exactly are these new kinds of diplomas, and just how difficult a transition do they pose to educators? First, the basics.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012. Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.”

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