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#AskExcelinEd: What is CTE, and how can it serve students in your state?

ExcelinEd

research; The rethinking of what authentic work-based learning opportunities mean from a policy perspective; and. This includes not only our five part CTE playbook series and Perkins V policy toolkit, but also various model policies gleaned from states. A look at one state on the front lines of CTE reform.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

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. But too often, schools aren’t providing students with the appropriate help.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. Plus, Teachers are supposed to be maestros of all technologies and personalizing separate paths for every single one of their students. Sourcing project ideas.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

Edsurge

Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling. To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. Is it important to measure those skills? where it’s unusually popular.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

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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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

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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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian. What are the emerging technologies in a library? Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. What are the new trends in libraries?