The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Waters agrees, saying that most schools don’t really move past the assessment. But what is it, exactly? Weekly Update.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

However, Marzano and Toth (2014) warn us that we must ask our students to live in a world of complexity. This method is still sound 1600 years after Socrates and 15-ish years after the Socratic Seminars were first established. This is great news for education because now we can focus on the “Why?” behind the why.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Opened in 2014 when two existing vocational programs consolidated, Essex Tech is preparing to graduate its first senior class to have spent the entirety of their high school careers at the new campus. That’s the trade-off students have to make to come here,” O’Toole said.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. In 2014, The Economist asserted that “nearly half of American jobs could be automated in a decade or two.”“Before The slides are also available here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

By 2014, just about half of low-income students enrolled immediately in college, compared with 81 percent of high-income graduates, according to a new report from the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. or 4:30 for senior seminars; many students stick around for homework labs and other activities. So is punctuality.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

“There’s an opportunity to connect [NYU] students with jobs and internships at the companies in the program,” says Jonathan Harber, StartED’s managing partner, who is also teaching a graduate-level seminar at NYU on the subject. The edtech industry reached peak accelerator in 2015 , when at least 14 such programs dotted the map.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 14th, 2014 In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. K12 Online Conference 2014 begins October 13! Thank you, in advance, for your contribution to this great event! Thank for sharing this, Mark!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. 693 — Number of newly certified bilingual teachers in 2014-15. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. That prospect does not please everyone. While nearly 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. 693 — Number of newly certified bilingual teachers in 2014-15. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. That prospect does not please everyone. While nearly 1.4

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