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

Edsurge

This type of thinking and teaching, which took a back seat to the academic standards-based accountability movement of the past 30 years, is now on the rise. Its schools have hit those benchmarks, including by appearing at the top of both Nashville and Tennessee school-performance reports since first opening in 2014.

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

Marketplace K-12

Then, the company was unable to produce enough paper copies quickly enough to meet the state’s demands. In late 2014, Pearson was replaced as the state’s test provider for the Tennessee standardized tests. Score and deliver results on a specific timeline.

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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. “This will have a detrimental effect on dual credit in our state.”

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León said that other students she meets are fascinated when she tells them she’s never received a letter grade.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. Schools and businesses can meet halfway to close the mentorship gap.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.