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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

After a baseline assessment identifies strengths and weaknesses, there should be explicit and systematic instruction, with metrics used to monitor progress and inform teaching. In July of 2017, Dr. Simpson was appointed Deputy Superintendent for the Division of School Leadership and Improvement for Clayton County Public Schools.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing. Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to the state education department’s report card, the percentages of its middle schoolers meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations was lower, and in some cases far lower, than the South Carolina statewide averages in English, math, science and social studies in both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years. (No

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APRIL 21, 2019

In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. percent to 89.1

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JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. This year’s nearly 13,500 eighth graders will be the first students required to meet the changed requirements, which are being phased in gradually. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. “I

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MAY 23, 2020

As of mid-April, schools had distributed supplies to meet about half of that need, said Darling-Hammond. The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. Education systems will also have to adjust how they assess students and schools. When schools closed for the coronavirus, an estimated 1.2

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APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. During a district board meeting, Ms. Joey carefully tailored curriculum pathways to meet students’ needs.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

Carry out the action through letters, talks, meetings with officials, policy proposals, and activities, depending on the specific goals of the project. For example, providing warm clothing for the homeless can grow into advocacy for more essential programs to end homelessness. Have students work in small groups to create draft surveys.

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MARCH 5, 2020

To support that effort, Prescott brought on Cara Brown, a licensed independent social worker, in July 2017. After that, Brown will meet with the teacher and the child’s family to develop a behavior plan, through which they will implement interventions based on Conscious Discipline and DECA.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

” The Gibsons gave APM Reports an audio recording of the meeting where they discussed the test results with staff at their son Eddie’s school. Scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress showed most students were not reading proficiently. ” Billy graduated from Jemicy in 2017.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc.

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APRIL 29, 2022

By 7:30, he was in his office, going through emails, checking for scheduled meetings, and tying up loose ends from the day before. This call was to a relative on a student’s contact list, an attempt to locate a parent who was a no-show for a meeting a day earlier. It helps him focus, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Facebook has not been one of them since 2017, but the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has full access to the Summit Learning platform’s content and traffic data. Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”. This was still the case as of Sept.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) To keep the conversation simple, let’s say there are 300 courses worth of OER available today.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Whether working with an OPM will drive up the price of a degree program for students is one of the many factors universities consider when assessing whether to enter into an agreement with one of these companies, said Deborah Seymour, owner and principal at Higher Education Innovation Consulting, LLC. “No

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JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Northern Cass’s reforms rely on North Dakota’s 2017 decision to let districts apply for waivers from requirements such as hours of instruction. HUNTER, N.D. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Curt Coy, who was the VA’s deputy under secretary for economic opportunity from 2011 until his retirement in late 2017, said it was hard to find resources for veterans’ educational issues. “There is a long history of underinvesting in education — and economic opportunity operations as a whole — within the department,” Cloud said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Neither the principals nor the school board followed through, and district officials refused to meet with a group of black parents requesting a timeline for school integration.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. ” 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. A belief in technological utopia.

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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. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” ” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. ” You are a fool.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Obama had seen Corridor and wanted to meet him and the people in the film from Dillon and elsewhere. State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” Boston Bridge would be available for 2017 high school graduates who live in the city.” ” The Business of Student Loans.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

“Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. ” An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed by Erik Gilbert : “Why Assessment Is a Waste of Time.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. I am looking forward to meeting new friends and math,” he said. More money does not always equal better results for students—at least not as can be measured by math and reading assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017. López, the former middle school teacher in Austin, Texas, moved back to Puerto Rico, where she grew up, in August 2017. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López. It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

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