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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. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

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). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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

Edsurge

A common set of academic standards could alleviate the discovery issue, but several states have withdrawn from the Common Core State Standards and decided to adopt their own. were part of the Common Core initiative, but several have dropped this school 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. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Blended Learning.