eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 2, 2022

"Librarians as Mandated Reporters: Child Abuse, Dependent Adult Abuse, and Elder Abuse" Part of the Library 2.0 How can library employees remain safe while reporting abuse? In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. What is the primary motive for elder abuse? in Psychology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” ” The Nation’s Report Card. 2015, September 2015). June 21, 2015. The life long consequences when a student cannot read. “How Did U.S.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

New America published a report in June that shows while we’ve made substantial progress—among families with children ages 6 to 13, access to non-dial-up home internet service has increased from 64 percent in 2015 to 84 percent in 2021—we still have work to do. It’s one of adequate access to devices and the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. Four regions in mainland China, including Beijing and Shanghai, collectively ranked 6th in math and in 2015. Photo: Chris Berdik. ranked 13th.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike. Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing - Michael Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com ) . Create A Survey.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin. See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report. Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015. What’s missing?

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Like all districts in Texas, we live and die through accountability ratings based on how our students perform on the state’s STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests. To this end, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment.

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Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

If you’ve got a child in the Georgia state school system, then you’ve probably heard of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System and how important it is. This post is a comprehensive guide on what the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is all about. Grades 3 – 8 will take the End of Grade (EOG) assessment.

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This approach is founded on the idea that all individuals should build a “sense of place” and develop “an ability to care for one’s surroundings” (Demarest, 2015, p. All of this information helped us assess the water quality of the creek. Instruction is largely focused on, in addition to mastery of the subject (Demarest, 2015, p.5):

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 1983, a landmark federal report, A Nation at Risk , pointed to declines over time in SAT scores and the U.S.’s s middling performance on international assessments to claim a “ rising tide of mediocrity ” in American education. There will be opportunities in the near future to assess the pandemic’s consequences on student learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 4, 2022

In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. He is board-certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat assessment. Steve Albrecht has trained thousands of library employees in 25+ states, live and online, in service, safety, and security. in English, and a B.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A 2022 report published by that task force revealed that about 1,000 aspiring educators were unable to begin a preparation program each year due to their failure to pass the Praxis Core. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program. “Why asks James.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 29, 2016

Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are The Texas Education Agency announced last week that it will collect a fine from ETS, the company responsible for the statewide delivery and administration of its State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, with liquidated damages amounting to $5.7

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

NEWTOWN, CT – July 13, 2021 – A report developed by Safe and Sound Schools and Raptor Technologies, based on a nationwide survey of school district administrators, public safety staff, teachers, parents, and students, has identified significant gaps in attitudes about school safety. About Safe and Sound Schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. He as more than 35 years of experience in journalism and freelance writing and was a reporter and editor at Worcester’s Telegram & Gazette from 1987 until 2015. Unfortunately, stats are even worse in other subjects.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

We called it “The State of EdTech: Forces and Trends Shaping K12 Edtech” report. Part Two: The Funding Figuring out how to fund the development of education technology continued to be complex: Investors in US edtech startups hit a high-water mark in 2015 with US companies raising $1.45

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

A newly released federal report, “ The Condition of Education ,” looks at dozens of education statistics, some broken down by state, to paint a picture of education in America. Between 2000 and 2015, Mississippi’s enrollment decreased by 2 percent. . You can read the full report here.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

A recent report from Technavio found that revenue from digital signage in the education market is expected to grow 10 percent by 2021. notifications about curriculum, assessments and emergency situations during regular school hours. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

The schools were recently in the news for their relatively strong performance on what’s known as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). But it’s not helpful to simply set aside DoDEA schools when looking at the Nation’s Report Card scores. schools more broadly.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The new NCTQ report, State of the States 2022: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies , presents data and analysis on policies from all 50 states and D.C. However, while 43 states had this requirement for both teacher and principal evaluations in 2015, that number has since dropped to 30 states for teachers and 27 states for principals.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

There were 418 mergers and acquisitions in the education industry in 2015, up from 329 in 2014, according to research by the investment bank Berkery Noyes. The post Education Industry Mergers, Acquisitions Jumped Significantly in 2015 appeared first on Market Brief. But the analysis also notes that the K-12 market today is bifurcated.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That’s according to a new report from the Learning Policy Institute, an education research nonprofit founded by researcher Linda Darling-Hammond, who is also president of the California State Board of Education. The report looked at Hispanic, African American and white students separately.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. That also trickles down into schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.” One common misunderstanding, according to the report, is mistaking student engagement for learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The results are in: The National Center for Education Statistics today released its findings for the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The assessment, which has been administered every three years since 2000, measures math, science and reading literacy of 15-year-olds in 73 education systems around the globe.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have created common unit assessments, focusing on what we believe to be the most important standards, and we are required to meet and discuss assessment results to evaluate our teaching effectiveness. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

This past summer representatives of all arts education groups gathered at the headquarters of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) to benchmark the “model cornerstone assessments” developed for each discipline’s national standards. These model cornerstone assessments help bring the National Standards into focus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A Reboot Foundation report finds a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Eighth graders who reported using computers to conduct research for projects had higher reading test scores than those who didn’t use computers for research.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

According to an online news report in the Colorado Sun, from January 17, 2023, both libraries have had to do a serious de-contamination of the walls, counters, fixtures, and exhaust fans. In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. You can read the full post here. in Psychology.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

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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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. They can also take practice assessments using the devices.

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