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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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At the 2019 National Charter Schools Conference this month in Las Vegas, EdSurge sat down with Khan to discuss his vision for reinventing schools, the focus on testing and what he thinks about the recent stumbles of AltSchool, a nearby network of tech-driven independent schools. What does that mean to you? How’s that going? Successful?

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards by Ken O'Connor (4th edition, 2019) O'Connor has been challenging the idea of what grading should be for many years; in fact, the first edition of How to Grade for Learning came out two decades ago. Make sure classroom teachers have a chance to discuss key excerpts!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to.

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