eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Also, be sure to check out our tips video for parents , as well as our detailed review of Seesaw's potential for learning. Seesaw is a digital platform where teachers of all grade levels and content areas can create learning tasks and assignments for students. What is Seesaw? Who can use Seesaw? How do teachers use Seesaw?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. There is also the US Department of Education’s Learning Registry, which contains resources created by various parts of the US Government. Last year, the U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has a vision for how that can happen.

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Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Informing the students, parents, educators, and the public about how well students are learning important content is an essential aspect of any educational assessment and accountability system. The state’s education department mandated online tests for all of its standardized tests from the 2018-19 school year. Grading of the GMAS.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. Blended Learning. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. ESSA ensures that all U.S.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Craig Brock teaches high school science in Amarillo, Texas, where his freshman biology students are currently learning about the parts of a cell. Many reported that they did not have enough time or money to access quality materials, while others stated these materials simply don’t exist.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 30, 2015

Among the biggest changes the Common Core Standards require is the shift in the burden of general literacy. In any learning, writing is a seamless fit. And here we are, and the Common Core Standards (no matter what you might think of them) are asking all teachers to teach writing. by Terry Heick.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

What started as a treasure hunt had become a logic game in Quitman’s state-funded pre-K classroom, a free early learning experience that’s only recently become available to a small number of students in Mississippi. From the time they come in, the learning starts,” Shows said. “If The state will spend $6.5 Closed from the world’.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Here’s a look at how a few of her key ideas correspond with Mississippi’s current education landscape: Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Common Core. On her website, DeVos states that she is “not a supporter—period” of the nationwide math and English language arts standards, which Mississippi adopted in 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

While the Clinton campaign has focused on issues that unite the party—such as expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs, raising teacher pay and increasing school funding— a recent fight over the party’s platform, a document that lays out the party’s policy goals, underscores how difficult ending the party’s internal education wars could be.

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