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Math Scores Drop, But Achievement Gap Narrows for U.S. Teens in International PISA Assessment

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The results are in: The National Center for Education Statistics today released its findings for the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The 2015 study showed that the country’s 15-year-olds have largely stagnated in subjects like science and reading literacy, while math scores have fallen. What Happens Now?

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

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Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student-Led Tech Team

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After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledge base and cultivate their leadership potential? Here’s how it happened. Developing the 4 C’s.

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Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

No classroom walls divide them. “It There are no classrooms but rather a series of contiguous, multipurpose spaces arrayed around the central stairs, which themselves double as social meeting areas or lecture seats. The 10 grades are each split into groups with a designated base (analogous to a homeroom) and teacher.

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

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Congress passed ESSA in 2015, but one area still challenging schools is the tiers for evidence-based interventions and materials. School leaders and classroom teachers need reminders that just because a specific program or pedagogy has evidence that it works, that doesn’t mean it will work in every classroom.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. The Flipped Classroom". Online Grade Portals.

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