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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. The recent announcement by the U.S.

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

Last year, like many schools, Parker-Varney navigated months of remote learning, in which standardized tests were disrupted and absences soared. Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Predicting innovation trajectories in K-12 education

eSchool News

There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale. Local businesses, advocacy organizations, and community groups shape public opinion and influence voters.

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Making College A Powerful Experience For the Most Marginalized

MindShift

The cohort of 16 students meet once a week for three hours to discuss readings and how their individual projects connect to the theories they’re learning. Any time they meet in person the school provides childcare and food to make sure everyone can come. COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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