Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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. For the kids surveyed in 2011, however, reading efficiency largely flatlined—and even regressed in some cases—in middle school. That has been pretty exciting,” says Langston.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

A new survey finds teachers’ use of technology is driven by access to devices and positive learner outcomes. When choosing which software to use, the most important factor surveyed teachers cited was the advancement of student learning, followed by the availability of valuable information on a student’s progress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. In national surveys of opt-out activists (conducted with Nancy Green Saraisky) in 2016 and 2018, we found concerns that go beyond the narrow features of standardized testing itself. Other states have also experienced high rates of opting out.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

And yet, surveys suggest most teachers find it challenging to connect with families. It suggests policymakers take a community-informed approach and help schools conduct parent surveys, provide teacher training and hire technology experts to increase the quality and quantity of school-parent communications.

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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.” The research was based on how students answered survey questions that accompanied an international test, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. No, don’t just give them the rule.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

The Common Core State Standards were a primary focus. I think it had more to do with our (see: my) approach to benchmarking our students’ writing against the Common Core State Standards. We will continue to examine and own those beliefs where we find common ground. Structure and Style.

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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 “number of pets” survey is a great introduction to dot plots. In the survey, however, students are simply declaring numbers, possibly made up.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

With your administrator’s permission, design and distribute a survey at your school about which Internet sites teachers and students feel would add to their educational opportunities. Linked to the Common Core Standards for high school. Here’s a quick link to the At-A-Glance page for the United States to get you started.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

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. (The students said they were happy at school on the survey.).

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2016

Welcome to kindergarten in 2016. With the caveat that this is a sample, not a comprehensive survey, here’s what they found. It doesn’t capture changes that may have taken place in schools since the adoption of the Common Core, for example. Copyright 2016 NPR. ” Textual evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

That was in January 2016. While national surveys indicate that adolescent drug use has fallen across the board in recent years, some 1.3 In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

Our school got a grant in 2016 to implement a personalized learning initiative. I even administered frequent student surveys to get their feedback. I showed kids their grades and ELA standards mastery scores, which I had tracked through bi-weekly Common Core-aligned quizzes.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

According to the student engagement survey, student choice is listed as one of the most engaging strategies a teacher can allow in the classroom. From “Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. Want to know how to engage students, enthuse them, and bring out their best effort?

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MindShift

MAY 12, 2015

In addition to collecting surveys from a quarter of the student body, which is about a third black, a third Latino and 18 percent Filipino, she set up small-group meetings at the middle and high schools. By 2016-17, there will be $360,000 available to grades K to 12, enough for every child in the district to attend at least one field trip.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? A big part of the problem is at the university level, in schools of education, according to the authors of a 2016 article in the Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders. ” In 2016, the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

A federal survey released in 2012, for instance, revealed that roughly 95 percent of the highest-income high schools offered visual arts courses, while only 80 percent of the lowest-income ones did. Related: Do the arts go hand in hand with Common Core? Yet access to arts education remains unequal.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

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

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

And from his business partner Michael Feldstein : “ Instructure con 2016: Why This Company is Still Formidable (and Misunderstood).” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A new national survey finds that student debt has an impact on how people view relationship potential.” ” Poor poor misunderstood LMSes.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. “ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. More on the future of Common Core from NPR. Very unfair!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

“Anti- Common Core Groups Unhappy About Trump Ed Secretary Pick Betsy DeVos ,” says the Sunshine State News. Common Sense Media looks at education applications’ use of encryption. Data and “Research” Analytics software Tableau offers its report on “The State of Data Education in 2016.”

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 ” Via The Guardian : “Growing social media backlash among young people, survey shows.” 2 Post at Ed. ” is how Education Week describes the news. Shares closed at $13.46

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

This is all based on a survey by Ellucian (the company behind the student information system Banner and Degree Works, a predictive tool profiled by Edsurge in a story linked above); and I’d sure love to see the wording of the questions. .” Job search site Indeed.com surveyed 1000 HR managers and tech recruiters.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. “ Are MOOCs Forever ? .”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. – this time in science.

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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

MAY 20, 2016

“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.”

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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. She serves on its board.)

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. From Berkery Noyes, the “ Mergers and Acquisitions Trend Report ” for the first half of 2016. Get rid of it.’”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” Via KJZZ : “ Arizona Board Of Education Replaces Common Core State Standards.” ” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. ” Via NPR : “Harvard Survey Highlights Attitudes About Campus Sexual Assault.” ” The Trump Administration.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” From the organization’s press release : the NAACP “ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice.” ” Rousseau could not be reached for comment.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Teaching Tolerance released a report on the increased harassment and bullying witnessed this year – something it tied directly to the Trump campaign: 90% of K–12 educators that the organization surveyed said that their school climate had been adversely affected by the racist, nationalist, sexist rhetoric of the Presidential campaign.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Performance on PISA Decline Because of Common Core? Via International Business Times : “ Charles Koch Gave $50 Million To Higher Ed In 2016. ” Via The 74 : “ Middle Schoolers Without Broadband Access Feel Set Up for Failure, New Survey Finds.” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Open Doors survey shows declines in new international students starting in fall 2016 , after years of growth. More shadiness from Thiel in the campus news section below.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” I’m a little surprised that either of these women – both Democrats, both Common Core supporters, if nothing else – would be under serious consideration. K98BwFMkIc @ryancraiguv #edtech pic.twitter.com/3mITJHvODv — EdSurge HigherEd (@HigherEdSurge) November 11, 2016. is disappointed in Common Core.

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