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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement.

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How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism

eSchool News

The odds of illness and truant absences “increased by 45 percent if bullying victimization was reported several times a week.” Feldman and researchers (2014) explain: “The more bullying was related to low GPA in middle school, the more it predicted decreases in school attendance for girls toward and during high school.”

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What Is ‘Quality’? Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards

Edsurge

In an effort to close the gap between claims and facts, Entangled Solutions has issued a near-final draft of a new set of “quality assurance” standards for how programs report and communicate student outcomes. One option is to charge accounting firms a membership fee to apply the standards in their audit reports of schools.

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Spending on Ed-Tech Hardware Hits $15B Worldwide, Report Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, spending on hardware for educational purposes amounted to $15 billion, an increase of 7 percent from 2014, according to Futuresource Consulting, a U.K.-based classrooms to support digital assessments and personalized learning, to the growth of different mobile personal computing devices in other parts of the world. .”

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. Increase Feedback and Assessment. school and library to the internet. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document.

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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. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 Pearson has been awarded a contract worth about $18.5 million tests.

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