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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

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Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. The number passing the exam and earning a diploma has decreased more than 40 percent from almost 400,000 in 2012 to just over 225,000 in 2016.

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The upside, and the downside, of working ‘as fast as you want and as slow as you need’

The Hechinger Report

We celebrated our first graduating class of students in June of 2016. We completed a grading system, a competency-based report, a competency-based transcript along with a GPA system that made sense to us. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies? Nellie Mae is a funder of The Hechinger Report).

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Is Estonia the new Finland?

The Hechinger Report

A 2016 study by the Brookings Institute found that on average, states track three-quarters of eighth graders in math, meaning they might be put on a path in middle school that determines which level of math class they’ll end up in in their final year of high school. .” appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

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Emily Hanford | APM Reports. This story was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? Emily Hanford | APM Reports. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. Balanced literacy.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” More on the future of Common Core from NPR. regulation,” reports The Washington Post. Very unfair!

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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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. Significantly, ESSA mandates the collection and reporting of per pupil expenditure data at the school level. funding) and outputs (e.g.,

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