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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill. 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.

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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

Edsurge

Students need access to tools that work. We hope this will kick off a more intense effort to advance research that leads to better policy and practice in both adopting and using technology. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide.

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Plagiarism Checkers: Changing the Writing Process

PlagiarismCheck

Access to billions of scientific research has never been easier, academic journals and the latest discoveries available online and can be analyzed right from mobile phones. Strict adherence to the policy of academic integrity, following academic citation rules and guidelines, to provide proper credit to the sources used in research.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

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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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

The Hechinger Report

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

eSpark

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. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.