The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. Garcia and the scientists wanted to study conditions on the 300-foot-deep lakebed where the frogs live to see if changes there were responsible for the species’ dramatic decline. “We

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STEM Report Robotics Company 103

ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 24, 2019

ExcelinEd Vice President of Policy. UNCF teamed up with the ACT to release a study specific to college and career readiness and along with the study, we’ve included recommendations on how we can address the overwhelming college readiness gap. We must establish clear, high and common academic standards in the classroom.

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Academic Standards Policies STEM Outcomes 28

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Photo: Michael Farrell for The Hechinger Report. campus as sophomores.

Policies 81

Policies Report Academic Standards Meeting 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The lack of clear standards helping to shape what that care should entail has created an uneven system of care based on a fairly low bar for quality. A 2016 state-by-state analysis of early childhood employment conditions by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley confirms that finding.

Guidelines 74

Guidelines How To Report Policies 74

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

Assessment 76

Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 76

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In addition to their focus on reading, library teachers are responsible for promoting information and digital literacies, which help democratize academic standards and provide students access to learning resources otherwise unavailable. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92