Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The test results for Northfield were sobering: just under half the juniors failed to meet the ACT’s college-ready reading benchmark score of 22 out of a possible 36. Northfield’s class of 2016, it turns out, reflects a distressing reality in the US: kids are much slower, less efficient readers than they used to be. The main hurdle?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

We started Torah Academy in September 2016 with a strong vision for how and what we want our students to learn. Rather than fighting, they work as a team to figure out if the platform can adapt to meet the needs of a range of educators. Melissa Giroux: Our initial planning session with Torah Academy was extremely energizing.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. This allows us to meet as a whole group for a 20-30 minute math and science mini-lesson at the beginning of the period, before dividing the students into small groups for the rest of class.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

They’re words that show up on assessments and standardized tests, most notably the Common Core, with which much of the game aligns. According to its Q1 2016 earnings sheet , bookings—customer commitments—totaled $182 million, up eight percent from the previous year. You can find a trailer for the app here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. Our programs were not meeting students’ individual needs. From 2006 to 2016, St.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The group points to slumping test scores as a reason why change is needed: Eighth grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have been flat for a decade, with just 34 percent of students testing proficient in 2019, as the gap between the highest and lowest performers grows. I am not the most diplomatic person.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Teachers across MSD agree that technology presents a new path for meeting diverse student needs. She uses i-Ready , which provides both diagnostic assessments and level-appropriate practice. The 2015-2016 math scores were similarly impressive, with growth across the board. Image credit: Erica Hartman Innovation and Inclusion.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. My district has been experimenting with a revolutionary concept of aligning computer science and coding to world languages.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

It was about this time last year, in January 2016, when Rudolph was working on a strategic plan that he hoped could address the needs of all MVWSD students. We are committed to personalized learning, but can't continue a program that does not meet the needs of all of our students.” There were also issues with the program itself.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. So far, results are promising.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

The president went on to add, "What hasn’t worked is denying teachers, schools, and states what they need to meet these goals. Rather than receiving additional support from the federal government, schools that struggle to meet the goals established by No Child Left Behind risk losing funding and could be subject to closure.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

In 2016, the company said it expects to report operating profits — before the costs of the restructuring effort — of between £580 million and £620 million. For instance, Pearson recently landed an potentially huge contract last year (upheld after a legal challenge) to deliver common-core tests to PARCC states.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Even though Ramirez is only in second grade, she’s already learning skills that hopefully will come in handy when she starts taking New York’s Common Core-aligned assessment tests next year. Gundersen is on one side of a sharp divide within the special education community that the Common Core has brought to the fore.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

Carolina’s Building Blocks of Science |3D was designed to meet the full intent of California’s Science Framework and reflect its vision and philosophy. We were careful to meet every facet of CA NGSS.” 2016 to address NGSS, but implementation at the school level has taken time. Three-dimensional learning; 2.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

as if offended by her cruel self-assessment. Dozens of states have incorporated more rigorous standards through the implementation of the Common Core. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed. When a student in faded jeans and a sweatshirt shouted, “Oh my God. Don’t be nervous,” he said. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

In a newly published paper , researchers showed not only that math anxiety was negatively related to performance in 63 of the 64 countries tested in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), but also that the highest achieving students had the most striking negative relationship between math anxiety and performance.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. But that obsessive buying appears to soldier on.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Summative assessments evaluate competencies in each course through the year, instead of the quarters to reach a “3” in each competency to achieve course credit. We celebrated our first graduating class of students in June of 2016. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

Making Through the Lens of Culture and Power: Toward Transformative Visions for Educational Equity (Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University and Paula Hooper and Meg Escudé, Exploratorium, forthcoming in the Summer 2016 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.). Wingo, George Mason University, paper presented at AERA 2016.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. A series of meetings with parents and community members preceding Superintendent Lane’s taking over the job had a common theme. They wanted excellence,” Smith said. They wanted us to be able to compete with kids anywhere.”.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

This session of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting didn’t focus on any specific mathematical practice and yet it was enlightening — with the right approach, teachers can help kids who hate math feel like it’s their best subject. — SFComplexInstruction (@SFComplex_Instr) February 3, 2016.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 18, 2015

Differentiation in the classroom means meeting students where they are most capable of learning. Learn granular approaches to infusing differentiation into all of your lesson plans, whether you’re a Common Core school or not, with this hands-on, interactive class. Next class: Summer, 2016. Certificate.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

But in the here and now, the reality is less romantic, and as we head towards the 2015-2016 school year, it’s just might be that teaching is more difficult than it’s ever been before. Research-based activities will meet the needs of diverse learners. Everyone will have microchips and virtual reality and 3-D everything.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 She finds the program gives her extra time to meet individual kids’ needs. Teachers decide how many times a student can retake an assessment before intervention is needed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

High school art teacher Karen Ladd and her colleagues meet in Concord, N.H., to compare artwork created by their students for tests and to try to find common ground in scoring it. Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets. The platform supports balanced literacy programs with integrated tools such as embedded assessments, a student recommendation engine, analytics to demonstrate reading growth, and engaging reading practice opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? And that’s the best they’re going to do.'”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

We wanted to redefine effective standards-based instruction and assessment. In 2016-17, I was the new English department chair at ECRCHS, which is a large public charter school in Los Angeles. This year, I needed to help our English department implement shifts in writing methods directed by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. At that time, more than 80 percent of students were failing to meet state proficiency standards , and the school was graduating less than half of its students.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

“In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016. 2016 underscored that security flaws aren’t solely a problem of educational institutions and government agencies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool. “ Tweaking the business model.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

But the parents at Derrick’s school were willing to sign annual parental waivers and school leaders were willing to pull together documentation that a dual language program would meet the “special needs” of their students and submit an application for such a program to the state. “I I cried the first time I took a test.

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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. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

” We can see in Reagan’s pledge the roots of ongoing efforts to defund public education, something that enabled for-profit schools to step in to meet the demand for college. But the total dollars fell sharply in 2016 – “only” $2.2 “Everyone should learn to code,” as they like to tell us.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

There was some talk that, despite being vociferously anti-union , Michelle Rhee’s support for the Common Core was allegedly a deal-breaker. Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. Presidential-Elect Donald J.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” ” CSS pic.twitter.com/JYyabJDAS3 — Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) June 6, 2016. ” CSS pic.twitter.com/JYyabJDAS3 — Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) June 6, 2016. ” Hackers, man. .”

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