The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said. I utterly failed it. I got three words right.”.

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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Though the state definition of proficiency is changing, for years proficiency was measured by how many students reached a passing, or “basic” score on the math and English portion of state tests.). Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 66

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. It should be clear to students which skills will be assessed on any test or project and how those skills will be graded. I definitely would have struggled if I didn’t have to go through the process of retaking,” Kylee said. “It

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” On the other hand, I’m fundamentally a “small steps” person, which has led me to try to limit the scope of my current work to the US post-secondary education system (and more specifically US community colleges).

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. But is 300 a lot or a little?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms.

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