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

Edsurge

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill.

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” Last year, the U.S.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

Education is changing, things are in flux, and there is uncertainty. In this ever-dynamic landscape, “commonstandards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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

eSpark

The goals of No Child Left Behind were the right goals: Making a promise to educate every child with an excellent teacher -- that’s the right thing to do, that’s the right goal. Higher standards are right. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Early Childhood Education. Accountability is right,” Obama said.

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Writing Is Still How We Communicate

TeachThought - Learn better.

Among the biggest changes the Common Core Standards require is the shift in the burden of general literacy. And here we are, and the Common Core Standards (no matter what you might think of them) are asking all teachers to teach writing. Culture and industry. Learning and education.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

The Hechinger Report

That’s why the kind of early learning experiences the twenty 4-year-olds are getting in Ruth Shows’ classroom on a daily basis hold so much promise for educators and parents, who are already seeing how far children have come since the start of the school year. “I million funding boost — $3.5 million short of Wright’s initial request.