edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

He spends much of his time providing leadership and guidance to the National Dropout Prevention Center and the Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center, which are part of the Successful Practices Network. He was the first president and co-founder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). It’s not entirely a rosy account. What do you make of it?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

The chapter of his book devoted to gun violence and gun control is particularly compelling. Pointing to the decline in the county’s dropout rate, Duncan proclaims: “It’s a model that works, and it’s been replicated across Georgia and has also been the subject of a Harvard Business School study.” (A

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

If you want to learn about progressive ideas in the areas of grading, assessment, and homework, check out Joe's book, De-Testing + De-Grading Schools , one of his talks , and his blog. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis. In 2013 I sat next to Deven in Washington D.C.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. After an initial assessment, he determined that early reading instruction was one of the school’s glaring weaknesses. “We

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. If you want to follow a more formal approach towards analytics implementation, there are a number of learning analytics readiness assessment tools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is the purpose of education to forge a thoughtful citizenry or to equip students for jobs?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In high school, his teachers gave general tips on how to handle college work, such as using an assignment book to keep track of your due dates. He’d talk to his professor about not having the book. That’s very easy to tell somebody,” Hendricks said. People talked about it loosely. This way, he has constant reminders about his workload.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But they also note many efforts underway to assess interventions and ensure bad actors don’t undermine the field. Meghan Groves shows off a book in which her students have chronicled their hopes and dreams for their future. Even advocates of social-emotional learning acknowledge the risks of shoddy programs.

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MindShift

JUNE 3, 2015

Also well-known is Claude Steele’s work on stereotype threat, which shows that evoking stereotypes — even in benign ways like asking someone to list their gender — can diminish student performance on assessments. And these experiments involve only one program at one university.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Louisiana had long erred on the side of social promotion, often passing underachievers through school despite low reading and math levels.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. I’ll never be back in a place like this again, because I’m closer to being ready for a job as a border patrol officer.” Image credit: Achieve3000.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

He handed me a roll book, the keys to my classroom and wished me good luck. When teachers graduates from college they have a lot of book learning but are not competent to function as a quality educator. It is like reading every book there is to learn how to swim, taking a test on swimming and then being thrown into the ocean.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Now that he’s back in person, there are certain things he needs to do — coming in, taking off your coat, unzipping and unbuttoning, putting your book bags in your cubbies. The state of Virginia just launched the Virginia Growth Assessment, it’s the fall baseline assessment; the scores are truly heartbreaking.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, has a similar assessment. I shouldn’t even be in this room with all of these book-smart kids,’ ” he said. “I Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits. Then the publisher of the test they were using, the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales, updated its scoring standards — and the pass rate went back down, gifted director Ginny Medina-Hamilton said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

For example, some studies focus only on a select group of children whose parents send them to pre-K, assessing the impact of a year of pre-K on children’s test scores in the first months of kindergarten. Second, the methods most commonly used to study the impact of school-based pre-K have crucial flaws.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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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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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In a dense, polemical book called “The Flickering Mind,” he warned of the industry’s tentacular reach into schools, steered by futurists such as Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language, who had a habit of proclaiming, every 20 years or so, that schools had 20 years left to either adapt or die.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout. On the math test that children all over the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. She had wondered why her son got bad grades on English tests, especially since he was a good reader, and had read Harry Potter books from a young age.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rural fourth- and eighth-graders do, in fact, score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students, on average, and just as well as suburban ones, the U.S. Department of Education reports. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on “‘ Netflix for Books.’” ” asks Cathy Davidson in her review of the new book from Andrea Gabor, After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform. Sounds legit.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Wendy Luttrell, a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the book “Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens,” said an increase in pregnant and parenting teens is a “commonsense prediction.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

His death was one of a series of attacks on immigrants in the area, according to the journalist Mirta Ojito’s book on the killing. That year, a pack of Patchogue-Medford High School students set out to hunt “beaners” and murdered Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” Tressie McMillan Cottom on her new book on for-profits , Lower Ed , and on credentialing and inequality in a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed. The startup lets parents book activities for kids via a mobile app.

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” My most favorite lines simply must be these: “One of the early adopters of Imbellus was McKinsey & Company , the management consulting firm, which uses the scenario assessments to find job candidates. ” LOL, they do?! .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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