The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Today the group has swelled to 13 members and includes girls.). “We

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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. 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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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 55

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 75

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Ayala and Zaher created a set of goals for fixing Berwyn North that included an entirely new, district-wide Common Core standards-based curriculum that aligned through each grade, fixing the district’s special education inclusion program, upgrading programs for English learners and better integrating technology into schools and classrooms.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. No one taught her these strategies. She was left to figure it out on the job. Educators say little has changed since then.

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Training Elementary Report Course 40

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 153

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

After seeing Cathi’s message on the Future Ready Librarians’ Facebook Group , librarian Kim Borden, from the Penn Argyl (PA) School District, responded to the call. From Kim Borden’s Plainfield Elementary School Library Reopening Plan and COVID Response. Being proactive feels so much better.

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

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

We believe that our place at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts makes it possible to create and amplify our creativity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. Still, Brendan Kelly, an Apple Distinguished Educator who teaches at Wilson Elementary School in West Allis, Wisc. This is something only Apple can do.”

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 129

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2017

Since earning my undergraduate, Master’s, and Education Specialist degrees in elementary education, and working toward board certification, at Delta State University, I have observed students who have come from a variety of backgrounds. Kindergarten is not just about students mastering a set of academic standards.”.

Academic Standards 77

Academic Standards iPad Report Elementary 77

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. Longview ISD built eight schools, renovated three others and upgraded technology across the district. And they are more likely to take classes and tests meant to prepare them for college.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 56

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

For additional information regarding their application to technology, please refer to www.ed.gov/ocr/letters/colleague-201105-ese.pdf and www.ed.gov/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf. Information about how digital learning content assesses, teaches, and depends on (requires) common content standards such as State academic standards.

Education 40

Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below). Differentiating between the two is crucial.

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 78

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

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

Education 40

Education Policies Common Core Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Pro-reform teacher organizations , civil rights groups , women’s rights activists , students , centrist think tanks , reform leaders , evangelical Christians , special education advocates and even some choice proponents have lined up against her. Board of Education , the G.I. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

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Personalized Learning Advocacy Academic Standards Secondary 40