The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. State-by-state NAEP comparisons are available in this Hechinger Report table.)

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Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 123

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Whatever you call them, a growing body of research suggests these non-academic, social-emotional competencies deserve our attention. Studies have linked social-emotional learning (SEL) programs with improved focus, stronger relationships, lower anxiety and higher test scores. Assessing the assessments.

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Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

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.

Academic Standards 110

Academic Standards Secondary Policies System 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. The problem is trying to blend them effortlessly into a class LMS or learning platform without lots of extra clicks and logins. Kiddom is an easy-to-use education platform designed as a centralized hub for teaching and learning.

Common Core 175

Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards LMS 175

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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Software eBook How To Classroom 52

techlearning

OCTOBER 22, 2018

(October 22, 2018) - To fulfill its promise to provide collaborative solutions to educators, , the leading K-12 Education Intelligence Platform (EIP), announces that its suite of personalized learning solutions is IMS Global Standards certified. OneRoster ® Allows for the secure use of roster info by teaching and learning systems. ?

Academic Standards 41

Academic Standards Learning Assessment Data 41

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

How To 114

How To Common Core Academic Standards Outcomes 114

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 staff fully recognized the need to provide the students with a richer learning environment than simply watching videos that led to multiple choice quizzes and eventual unit tests.

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Assessment Course Khan Academy Blended Learning 59

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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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 116

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. days each week. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Company EdTech How To Meeting 137

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

This story is part of a series from EdSurge Research on how schools are redefining student success using MyWays , a framework created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Within the first five years of the transition, Sanborn schools also built a competency-based curriculum and performance-based assessments based on those standards.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 82

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 160

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

EdTech 120

EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

With all of the digital tools available to teachers these days, developing learning experiences should be a cinch, right? But, it’s all over the place,” he laments, “with the various textbooks, standards, digital search engines, and vendors.”. And then cutting and pasting them to align with varied curricular elements.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. In technical parlance, this is an issue of interoperability—or rather, the lack of it.

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Data LMS Company Education 113

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. — Related: Eight ways to introduce kids to STEM at an early age.

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 82

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2015

Alma Technologies, a provider of a holistic student engagement platform for K-12 schools, has added a standards tracking tool intended to empower educators more effectively teach to proficiency against any set of academic standards. The Standards Tracker is available for the 2015-16 school year.

Common Core 40

Common Core Academic Standards LMS Trends 40

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed. Noguera, Ph.D.

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Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 61

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. For us to really reach the students with disabilities, we’re going to have to change the way in which we interact with them around the learning process,” he said. Reframing expectations. But we do.”.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 54

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. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. Weekly Update.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. Blended Learning.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. ” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary 68

Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 68

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? You may need appreciate the way gamification can improve the visibility of the entire learning process. Where the learning happens. That changes everything.

Technology 40

Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. They argue the solution isn’t to get rid of assessments, however, but to redesign them to be more effective.

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Assessment Academic Standards Instructional Materials Report 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

The Common Core standards, a set of English and math guidelines adopted by more than 40 states, challenge many commonly held beliefs — including how best to teach children to read. It’s creepy because you try your best, but some kids just can’t learn, and a teacher will get fired because of those kids.”.

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Common Core Elementary Assessment Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

A burgeoning population in Kentucky of students who are learning English combined with the adoption of more rigorous standards means efforts like Ogbe’s are ever more important. Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. born and raised. JCPS has earmarked an additional $1.2

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 40

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. —

How To 39

How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

At the IMS Global Learning Impact conference this week (#LILI2018), there were dozens of sessions covering the many ways interoperability is helping data play well together to create more user-friendly digital ecosystems. Christine Weiser, Content Director SETDA Launches New Resource to Support K12 Interoperability.

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Conference Report Competency Based Learning Academic Standards 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. This is the role that would typically be used for accepted facts like multiplication tables and vocabulary lists that will be used as the building blocks of other learning.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

He has successfully worked to pass bipartisan legislation to reduce mandatory minimum sentences, reform the juvenile justice system, and require reporting and federal data collection of deaths that occur in police custody, jails, and prisons. To learn more about the CGCS, visit CGCS.org. About CGCS.

Secondary 52

Secondary Academic Standards Instructional Materials Elementary 52

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. By 5W Infographics with Peter D’Amato.

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Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 79

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

While schools (hopefully) work to update themselves and the way students learn within them, many parents have to work with what’s available to them. Armed with some kind of answer–even a basic one–parents can then decide which non-superficial actions they can impart to truly support the learning of their child.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Instructor Alexis Hollingsworth, 21, uses build-and-learn and colored pattern blocks to teach a 4-year-old class about shapes in Beary Cherry Tree, an early learning center in Metairie, Louisiana. What would it take to make sure more of Louisiana’s youngest children are learning? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Education 40

Education System Academic Standards Policies 40

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms.

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 45

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Thanks to a work-based learning program offered through nearby Harwood Union High School, Woods has been able to earn math and science credit by working 15 hours a week at the garage, instead of sitting in a classroom. “I’m Silas Woods works on a car at Duxbury Auto Shop. Duxbury, Vt. —

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 89

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. Another began sorting the bounty, putting numbers into one tray and letters in another. Closed from the world’.

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Elementary Data Training Report 62