Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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techlearning

OCTOBER 22, 2018

“Working with partners who commit to IMS Global specifications lessens the burden on school districts and educators, reduces costs and implementation times, minimizes risk when procuring new products, and thus provides great value at the classroom level.” SchoolCity’s OpenSalt v1, Popcorn v0.1, and Suites v4.1, and 6+ have all earned.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. Participants can teach to student avatars in a virtual classroom, check out the Two Bit Circus or attend “Hour of Power,’’ sessions that promise to be “provocative, fun and interactive.”.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , “Digital Curriculum Development: The Missing Time-Saving Link,” Daniel Ralyea, Director of the Office of Research and Data Analysis at the South Carolina Department of Education, and Mark T. But, it’s all over the place,” he laments, “with the various textbooks, standards, digital search engines, and vendors.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Was classroom management stronger? BERWYN, Ill. — These goals still guide the district today.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. The reading skills of the nation’s eighth-graders rose slightly, but their math skills did not.

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Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. 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.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 56

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

It's interesting to point out that the authors came from special education backgrounds, and for most classroom teachers, that is usually their co-teaching situation: a gen ed teacher is the one "in charge," while an ECE teacher pushes in because several children with IEP needs are on the roster. How much are they logging on?

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Assessment Course Khan Academy Blended Learning 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

If we’re being honest — and we’ll look at the data in a second — most of them fall woefully short of any kind of meaningful change for students. standardized test results suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed nearly two decades of progress in math and reading for K-12 students. And change is desperately needed.

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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. But measuring how well schools are reaching English-learners is not easy, at least not from looking at the state’s accountability data.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Across the country, with changing academic standards and increasingly diverse learning environments, the role of teachers is of paramount importance,” said YouthTruth’s Executive Director Jen Vorse Wilka. “At Additionally, only 59 percent of surveyed students reported that their homework assignments help them understand the subject.

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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. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. While Massachusetts high schools adhere to the relatively tough Common Core academic standards, at Independence Academy the priority is on meeting students where they are. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5

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Training Elementary Report Course 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. Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Was classroom management stronger?

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

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. High quality instruction materials, whether curriculum or classroom environment, play a role in how a student performs on these assessments.

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Assessment Academic Standards Instructional Materials Report 141

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. EVERETT, Wash. —

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 30, 2021

The what is decided by academic standards, and the when by curriculum maps and pacing guides–and all of it by anyone but the student. The current education form–aptly labeled as industrial–is very good at certain things: alignment, distribution, measurement, data collection, and reporting.

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Learning Industry Academic Standards Study 116

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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Black kids need to know they’re not being singled out,” says another, during a conversation about making sure that her students see she isn’t playing favorites when it comes to classroom discipline. Related: How implicit bias creeps into the classroom. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned. Third-party software can share student data in ways that violate district or state standards. And they may be vulnerable to hackers. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. It was reprinted with permission. And they are more likely to take classes and tests meant to prepare them for college.

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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. Possip provides a community that lets parents have a direct role in improving their schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Woods is calm and confident as he moves around the garage, which serves as an unconventional math and science classroom. Woods, who has never liked school, says that being able to earn academic credit by working with cars is ideal. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. More than 70 percent of children who attend pre-K in the state leave ready for kindergarten, according to 2018 accountability data. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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Elementary Data Training Report 64

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “New Student Visa Data Show Overall Declines.” ” There’s more financial aid news in the privacy section below – because, you guessed it, data breach. Steve Kolowich is such a great reporter. ” Education in the Courts. Student Sues Neo-Nazi Website Over Online Harassment.”

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