Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. Under ESSA, states are not required to adhere to Common Core Standards, but the act says that state-determined standards must prepare all students for postsecondary success.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Part 2: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … More Reading. At the same time there must be formative assessment and proper guidance that promotes needed success and growth. A Writing Process – Science Writer helps students through the process of draft, revise, and edit when writing a science report.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

The announcement about Pearson’s job cuts came in the company’s January trading update, in which the company said it expected to report adjusted operating profits of £720 million for 2015. Ramping Up Online Programs. See also: Tough Choices for PARCC as States Drop Out. Court Hands Major Victory to PARCC, Pearson.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Rod Federwisch & Karen Goss Assessing and Developing Modern Language Fluency For Global Communication - Harry Tuttle, Ed.D. Charles Young & Bhavna Narula Handling Ethical Issues for Developing Digital Citizenship - Dr. Revathi Viswanathan Improved Reporting Triples Educators’ Accuracy When Analyzing Data - Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

There are other areas that also come to mind including student grouping, assessment, and interest. This Research Report will provide you with even more information on this wonderful program. How to Change the World: Service PBL in the Common Core Literacy Classroom … Amy Conley (Edutopia).

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Fractus Learning

JULY 23, 2015

Find a blog that will help you learn more about new tools, tips and techniques. Catlin Tucker – Blended Learning. – Fast and fun game-based formative assessment. Karen and Gene co-author the Communicate.Create.Edtech blog, which reports on practical, classroom-proven tools for Common Core and more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Common Core programs use research-based approach to help students learn reasoning, critical thinking. The Oregon State Board of Education has adopted Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready and Ready Common Core math programs for use in all K–8 classrooms across the state.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The ideal would be to have all assignments, assessment, and submittals for each student curated in one spot that automatically updates as the year progresses–and provides actionable reports. Kiddom is a free standards-based platform designed to help teachers curate individual learning experiences. How to use.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Martin describes examples of what a competency-based report card/transcript may look like (in particular, the work of the Mastery Transcript Consortium ), you realize how crucial it is to have an effective reporting tool of learning, especially for high school. Martin (2010) Don't let the slim nature of this book (151 pages!)

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. NEW YORK — One morning, just before classes at New York City’s Quest to Learn Middle School broke for lunch, Etai Kurtzman found himself transformed into a lemon tree. By Alexandria Neason.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources. I stepped up my game by adding even more videos and assessment exercises to my class website, mining resources from IXL and CK-12.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. New Hampshire is adopting it, too, and developing a statewide assessment method that would replace most standardized tests. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. 442, teachers said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The Hechinger Report.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They receive instant feedback and a chance to revise their work for ongoing learning. Teachers also receive feedback via reports on student and class performance, allowing them to analyze classroom trends and inform future teaching. Assess class performance. Learn more about ASSISTments. Analyze answers together.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 9, 2017

When we did a report on our country in third grade, and again on a country completely different from our own in sixth grade, we had to report on its history, languages, culture, food, art, everything which mad it unique. We not only had to write about each subject in detail but also make art to show what we were describing.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

By NICHOLE DOBO, The Hechinger Report. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. For more, check out this story about personalized learning and Common Core by Sarah Garland.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Nikki Haley of South Carolina has signed into law a measure that requires the state’s public colleges and universities to publish reports of conduct violations involving alcohol, drugs, sexual assault, and hazing at fraternities and sororities.” “ Columbia Drops SAT Subject Tests Requirement,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

That was the conclusion of an Oxfam report issued in January. Reports of hate crimes and racist graffiti spiked on school campuses across the country following Trump’s election. ” Despite all the Common Core-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” ” The publisher in question: Pearson.

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