Marketplace K-12

JULY 12, 2016

Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 As part of the settlement with Smarter Balanced, Nevada will receive credit of $996,895 against its 2015-16 membership fees to Smarter Balanced, which is now affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Insight Education Group

APRIL 20, 2015

Kentucky has been in the news a lot in recent years when it comes to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). But now, in 2015, Kentucky is making news for a great reason: faster gains in student learning. In 2010, it became the first state to adopt the Standards.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A New Orleans teacher is helping a 12-year student to prepare for a Louisiana state test in this 2015 photo. A research study finds that test preparation, even for rigorous tests, isn’t improving the quality of instruction. Teaching quality is a very hard thing to study. Photo: Peggy Barmore.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. The study aimed to better understand what educators want, need and expect in their search for and use of digital content.

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Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. What does this practically mean? This test will be conducted online. This learning curve will need to be addressed.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

50 Free Online Courses For Teachers: Spring 2015. Below is a list of 50 free online courses for teachers for Spring 2015, aggregated by Class Central. Go To Class | Next Session : 2nd Jan, 2015. . Go To Class | Next Session : 5th Jan, 2015. . Go To Class | Next Session : 5th Jan, 2015. . by Class Central.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

note : We’re counting down the top stories of 2015 based on popularity (i.e. Writer Mary Axelson’s reporting was engrossing, and her case studies struck a chord with readers: While the original story ran across four pages, an unusually-above average number of you read it all the way to the end. website traffic) to No.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. There was an influx of districts assigning teachers or instructional coaches to compile OER options that reflected the needs of common core. © Shake Up Learning 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Reading comprehension skills are slipping among fourth-graders, according to the Progress in International Reading Skills Literacy Study. The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) — a reading comprehension test given to fourth graders in 58 countries and regions around the world — showed that U.S.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. Utica is one of only 73 districts accepted into this exclusive cohort; 22 new districts were just welcomed in October 2015.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. Utica is one of only 73 districts accepted into this exclusive cohort; 22 new districts were just welcomed in October 2015.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Read a full recap of our fall 2015 League of Innovative Schools meeting. At Elizabeth Forward, students study and create games in the Entertainment Technology Academy, a curriculum developed in partnership with the CMU Entertainment Technology Center. Sara Schapiro ( @sschappy ) is the Director of the League of Innovative Schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2015, Minnesota’s Northfield Public Schools had a district-wide gut check. A recent study sponsored by Reading Plus , an adaptive literacy intervention platform, found that by the time they finish high school, today’s students read 19% slower than their counterparts of 50 years ago. Reading Plus Resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

military installations are adopting Common Core — but don’t call it that. It’s troubling to hear about serious counselor shortages in U.S. public schools, especially given the challenges students have faced during the pandemic. Related: Schools on U.S. Catholic Schools performed relatively well too.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. The training in this area is mostly academically focused, such as common core standards and STEM. With research from the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Teaching Tolerance : Teaching Tolerance was one of EdSurge’s top S’Cool Tools during Q3 of 2015—and today, we’re bringing it back. Teaching Tolerance Free!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

September 21, 2015 Since its adoption by the Common Core State Standards, close reading came to the forefront in educational studies generating some heated debates among educators and pedagogues (see.read more.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Mobile App Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015 * Seesaw - Excellent free mobile app (Android/iOS) for students creating digital portfolio w/ educational portal. Galxyz - An innovative mobile app (Android/iOS) for Elementary Science that is COPPA compliant and aligned to Common Core Standards.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. Stagnant scores breed plenty of hand-wringing and questions over the value of efforts like Common Core and investments in education reform and technology. It’s something that we want to study further.”

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 29, 2016

More than half the states have made their tests more difficult to pass, bringing proficiency rates more closely into line with the those of the rigorous National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to a new study. On the 2015 NAEP, Georgia turned in proficiency rates of 28 percent to 34 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Carr emphasized that the 2015 PISA results showed that students across the board, from bottom to middle to top performers, were doing worse in math. Now, with the 2015 results in, it’s a clear downward trend. In 2012 math scores deteriorated a few points.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The disruptions in online assessments that roiled Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota in the spring of 2015 appear to have had both negative and positive effects on individual students’ test scores, according to a new analysis. See also: Assessment Fallout: Texas Fines ETS, Nevada Says DRC Misses Deadlines.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This upswell really began around the launch of the popular podcast Serial in 2015. Podcasting can also address Common Core State Standards, including key speaking and listening skills. Thousands of classrooms across grade levels, demographics and locations are podcasting.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

One of the O’Keeffe assistant principals had recently learned about an approach to professional development called “lesson study” in a class taught by a Japanese professor. Bringing Lesson Study to Chicago. If there’s no lesson study,” Takahashi says, “how can teachers learn how to improve instruction?”. “If Akihiko Takahashi).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2015

Use this as a study tool. By the time everyone has added their information, you have a study aid. While Common Core and NGSS Standards seem fully fleshed out, other state and international standards aren’t. As its name implies, this program makes it easy to integrate Common Core Standards into your planning.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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 Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

backlash , in the words of Education Week’s Benjamin Herold, “echoes previous battles among various teachers’ union factions over highly politicized issues such as the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing.”. Few education entrepreneurs today would suggest that technology should or will replace the teacher. (In

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

The idea of teachers searching the web for individual units of study, or even individual lessons, strikes her as a huge waste of time. Louisiana’s fourth graders also had the highest learning gains in the nation in the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. But Hilliard studied the pool of young adults 18 to 24 who lack a high school diploma — 4.3

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning. Students who participate in guided collaborative projects improve critical thinking and social skills needed for college and careers ( P21 , 2015). Why is this important?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. Studies of immersive classroom VR are still scarce. Photo courtesy Global Nomads Group.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. Dozens of states have incorporated more rigorous standards through the implementation of the Common Core.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 11, 2015

The webinar will take place from 1:00 – 2:00pm ET , on Monday, April 20, 2015. TIME For Kids delivers authentic content that covers a wide range of real-world topics through nonfiction text and multimedia tools that align with the Common Core State Standards. Leakey asked her to study a group of chimpanzees in Tanzania.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

Plus the decline in remedial enrollments appeared in 2015, not long after the Common Core State Standards were implemented. And the actual decline is probably larger, because the CBMS survey collection was for the 2015-16 school year.

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Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The tests provide information about whether students are grasping their subjects according to the state-adopted standards in the core areas of English language arts (ELA), math, science, and social studies, and whether they are ready to progress to the next grade. Social Studies. History of GMAS. Biology Physical Science??. ??Social

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Connecting 2 the World

APRIL 29, 2016

My colleague, Diane Crosley, an instructor in Natural Sciences at Spring Arbor University, and I gave a presentation at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning in Traverse City, MI last October (2015) entitled, "Bridging the skills gap: Preparing Higher Education students for the 21st century workplace."

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