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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

Edsurge

History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. Victoria was in my U.S.

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MasteryConnect Cuts 30 Percent of Staff, Brings Co-Founder Mick Hewitt Back as CEO

Edsurge

The layoffs ranged from junior-level employees to the very top: Cory Reid, who joined in April 2011 and was named CEO in June 2014, is out. MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3 billion in U.S.

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.”

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

Edsurge

Additionally, Sphero says it has more than a thousand lessons and activities that are aligned to Common Core and other state academic standards for math and computer science. Sphero was part of the inaugural class in 2014; littleBits joined two years later. Students making and tinkering with littleBits.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Breaking up black school boards has more to do with disrupting black power than implementing a proven strategy to improve academic achievement. That’s horrific enough.

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Tennessee Gives Pearson ‘Emergency’ Test Scoring Contract, Seeks New Vendor

Marketplace K-12

million for scoring 2015-16 assessments in Tennessee after the state terminated a contract in April with Measurement Inc. In late 2014, Pearson was replaced as the state’s test provider for the Tennessee standardized tests. Pearson has been awarded a contract worth about $18.5

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Tighter standards put college-level courses at risk

eSchool News

Advanced high school courses could be at risk under new standards. Indiana state education officials are working on a plan to address tighter academic standards for those teaching Indiana high school classes in which students also can earn college credit. ©2015 the South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Ind.).

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