The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 25 percent of students nationwide are writing on grade level, and 3 percent are considered advanced. The Common Core, in part a response to the poor quality of writing nationwide, pushes length and text complexity. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. Educators at Torah Academy teach courses that cover everything from Common Core mathematics to Judaic studies, as well as provide services including speech therapy and vocational training. Hardly the case!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In a report published in May, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended that districts eliminate tracking in middle school math. Another DeWitt math teacher reported similar numbers. “We But she said the district would find ways to measure student performance and assess kids’ views on the changes along the way.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. These techniques include how to create strong, guided reading instruction, how to select and appropriately use high-quality texts and how to assess each child’s reading level to better target guided and independent reading. BRONX, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. 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. From 2006 to 2016, St.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” But a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) finds that applied-math instruction, or the way it is actually taught in classrooms, may not be serving students well.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 20, 2016

All educators need PD and learning that is relevant to their practice to keep up with the rapid pace of change in technology and education initiatives such as ESSA, Common Core, Next Gen Science Standards, Future Ready, and more. Assess how edWeb compares with other teacher professional learning options.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 29, 2016

billion for the first half of 2016. Reuters reported that the company’s shares were the biggest losers on Britain’s Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 for the day. Another reason was a change in the revenue model at Pearson’s Connections Education , which changed the way it reports its sales, the company said.

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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. TTO is also aligned with Common Core standards and runs on the Chromebooks that the district had invested in. There were also issues with the program itself.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

The announcement about Pearson’s job cuts came in the company’s January trading update, in which the company said it expected to report adjusted operating profits of £720 million for 2015. Ramping Up Online Programs. See also: Tough Choices for PARCC as States Drop Out. Court Hands Major Victory to PARCC, Pearson.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 18, 2016

All educators need PD and learning that is relevant to their practice to keep up with the rapid pace of change in technology and education initiatives such as ESSA, Common Core, Next Gen Science Standards, Future Ready, and more. Assess how edWeb compares with other teacher professional learning options.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I am now booked through the end of March, and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. At the same time there must be formative assessment and proper guidance that promotes needed success and growth. A Writing Process – Science Writer helps students through the process of draft, revise, and edit when writing a science report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Photo: Kyle Spencer/The Hechinger Report. as if offended by her cruel self-assessment. Dozens of states have incorporated more rigorous standards through the implementation of the Common Core. Photo: Kyle Spencer/The Hechinger Report. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 15, 2016

Many of the articles are accompanied by a Common Core-aligned quiz designed to check for student understanding, to prompt critical thinking and to provide teachers with immediate feedback. The School edition offers assessments, standards alignment and the ability to customize instruction.

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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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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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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. Going into effect on July 10, 2016, the Every Student Succeeds Act promises to make the following key changes to U.S. educational policy: College and Career Readiness.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

I am now just about booked through the end of March and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. There are other areas that also come to mind including student grouping, assessment, and interest. This Research Report will provide you with even more information on this wonderful program. Check out my Booking Page.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 16, 2016

Here’s the relevant Common Core standard, for those of you who, like me, like to decipher standards for a living: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.D.9. The GAISE Report suggests on page 31 (recommended reading, really!) For second graders, though, we are asking a lot of students. It could just as easily work outdoors at a school.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

2016 to address NGSS, but implementation at the school level has taken time. have reported positive impact on their classes. “I The program is a core curriculum that combines interactive investigations, literacy components, and digital resources to teach students science content and investigative skills. and amazing observation.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

They were also given a common planning period to discuss student progress and problems and consider ways to make lessons more rigorous and engaging. There were people who really didn’t believe the reports,” he said. The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. percent in 2007.

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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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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

Each student in the group has a role: team captain, resource manager, recorder-reporter and facilitator. — SFComplexInstruction (@SFComplex_Instr) February 3, 2016. If one student can solve the problem in his or her head, it’s not a rich task. So we need each other.”. SFUSDMath pic.twitter.com/O3ieqEsYEJ.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Emily Hanford | APM Reports. This story was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. 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. Emily Hanford | APM Reports.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Jim Bentley (2016) of the Buck Institute of Education (BIE) is an expert in student choice since it is a deeply rooted element in project-based learning, the strategy at the heart of the Buck Institute. Marzano goes on to report that granting students choice directly aligns with student engagement. Ways to report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report has spent a year exploring the elements of the Summit model, the extensive training process for schools that are new to the program and the twists and turns of implementation. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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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

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. It’s very important for arts to be seen as a subject that can be and should be tested,” said Frank Philip, an arts education assessment consultant. It’s a parity thing.”.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Whether they're composing song lyrics, film scripts, blog comments, infographics, essays, tweets, video-game storyboards, lab reports, or lines of code, what it means to write no longer conforms to the traditional notion of putting pen to paper. On Thursday, Oct. Join an online community.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. LeMya is one of 156 4-year-olds in Mississippi who participated in UPSTART’s 2016-17 school year pilot program. Company officials also said students are assessed throughout the program to see if they have mastered preschool-level skills before they move on to more challenging material.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Special Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

.” MIT , New York University , and Yale are being sued by employees, “accused of allowing their employees to be charged excessive fees on their retirement savings,” The New York Times reported on Tuesday. From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.”

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