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Nevada Escapes Federal Penalty After 2015 Smarter Balanced Testing Glitches

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An analysis from Measured Progress published last summer found that just 37 percent of Nevada students completed Smarter Balanced tests , while 76 percent of Montana and 88 percent of North Dakota students did so. The 2014-15 school year was the first time most states administered tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

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What A Struggling School Looks Like On Paper

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Teacher teams meet weekly in each small learning community (SLC) to analyze and discuss student data, construct item analysis and determine where students have gaps in instruction. What the school needs to improve. 1.1). (1.1). The post What A Struggling School Looks Like On Paper appeared first on TeachThought.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Four

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Follow the conference through Twitter using the hashtag #globaled14. Fariha Asif Education for a Better World Imaginarium: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Global Education Lesson Plans - Lisa Swayhoover, Ph.D. The list of today''s sessions, in US-Eastern Standard Time, is below.

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

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Questions on “main idea” and “author purpose” on state tests also reveal this problem over a long time frame, as I noted in looking at some past test questions and item analysis. Nor is it possible to meet the argument-related standards at the heart of the ELA Common Core standards. Less Is More? Comprehension Strategies.

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

TeachThought - Learn better.

Questions on “main idea” and “author purpose” on state tests also reveal this problem over a long time frame, as I noted in looking at some past test questions and item analysis. Nor is it possible to meet the argument-related standards at the heart of the ELA Common Core standards. Less Is More? Comprehension Strategies.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment. Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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