The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Elsewhere in the classroom, an instructor knelt to chat with two boys engrossed in playing with blocks, while a second teacher supervised a group of five students as they completed worksheets. Every 4- and 5-year-old in this transitional kindergarten classroom was doing something different, tailored specially to their academic development.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

A study by the International Workplace Group estimates that 50 percent of people globally work outside their headquarters for at least 2.5 Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. days each week.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. The issue is effectively working alongside a platform that is delivering instruction and assessing students. Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. See our report on edtech venture capital for more details.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. —

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. The group settled on four practices: communication, creativity, collaboration and self-direction.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. Reporter Kirsten Clark can be reached at 502-582-4144. But we do.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

He has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports, and editorials in major newspapers. Stacey has worked in the preK-12 education world for 20 years, spending time on school management and working for education associations including the AAP PreK-12 Learning Group.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

You may dislike standards-based reporting, using labels like “proficient,” or grading with a 1-3 scale. Part of the time they’re doing group work, and then following it all up at home with practice–or in a flipped setting, reverse it all. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Unlike groups based on race or disability or other factors, English learners are, by definition, a transient group. Students who meet English proficiency standards – and are therefore more likely to do well on the state’s exams – cease to be tracked as English learners.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BERWYN, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

They argue the solution isn’t to get rid of assessments, however, but to redesign them to be more effective. Over the past two years — when almost all state standardized tests were suspended — periodic assessments provided educators with some data to understand what kids learned — or didn’t. is an assessment of my students.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s important to note that right off the bat, none of these say “lecturer,” “discipliner,” “instructional designer,” “whole group manager,” “data entry clerk,” or any of the other things that teachers are doing daily. Formative and summative assessments. to guide the studies of. to make known and accepted. to impart the knowledge of.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

Back-to-school content is usually focused on teachers and students, and as these two groups will have the largest workload ahead of them, that makes sense. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? How are assessments designed to promote learning rather than simple measurement?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This K-12 ‘data switch’ uses proprietary and open standards to talk to a wide variety of data sources, and merges data into a single store to provide a unified view of educational data - such as achievement, attendance and students at risk - in real time. Acer ( edu.pa@acer.com

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

In addition, kindergarteners who took advantage of state-funded pre-K in Quitman ranked among the top five performers on an assessment of school readiness skills, state data released in November show. Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Four of Show’s students were counting to 100, surpassing their end-of-year goal.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2019

At the time, Tennessee ranked near the bottom of all 50 states in student achievement, but Bredesen and a bipartisan group of legislators saw promise in Obama’s commitment to spurring much-needed changes in our nation’s public schools. on the state’s assessment of English language arts since it was first administered in 2015.

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