The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works on reading with Tyler Howard, left, and Anthony Diaz, right.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Today the group has swelled to 13 members and includes girls.). “We It’s made me realize how a small group can do such big things.”. A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. We were just four guys, we really didn’t know anything about it.”

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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. one superintendent asked a group. You’re all working together?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. Unlike groups based on race or disability or other factors, English learners are, by definition, a transient group. That makes it difficult for schools to close the achievement gap for the English learner group.

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 40

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

One way the district is applying this standard is via “number talks,” a math practice that encourages students to discuss and critique math solutions, helping kids develop into flexible and creative mathematical thinkers. That push for a common, connected curriculum also includes what happens before, and during, kindergarten.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C.,

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making.

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Groups Academic Standards Secondary Robotics 164

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

When Marie Lewis applied to the Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR), she was earning $18,000 per year as a paraprofessional, supporting students with special needs, one-on-one or in small groups. To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Still, Brendan Kelly, an Apple Distinguished Educator who teaches at Wilson Elementary School in West Allis, Wisc. Students can create ibooks and use built-in collaboration features that allow them to work in groups. There were rumors leading up to the event that Apple would reduce the price of its iPads to as low as $259.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. We did what was best for our students while meeting the requirements of the desegregation order,” Wilcox said from his office earlier this year. The new reality.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A group of parents sued last month to stop the change; a trial kicked off in federal court this week. The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.”

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Policies Report Groups System 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores. “We Related: Poll: Voters agree, candidates should talk preschool.

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