The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. “We It was whatever we came up with ourselves.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

First of all, let’s go to the core definitions and dispense with ideas of teacher intergalactic dominion, whether you use Jedi mind-control to herd cats and sit atop mountains dispensing the wisdom of the ages. Definition #1 – Causing to Know. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. to guide the studies of.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Massachusetts became a leader in national assessments in math, reading, and science.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. ” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a bonus, these sessions can allow educators more opportunities to measure student achievement through informal assessments, potentially providing new holistic accountability measures. 15 These increases in achievement show great potential for using high-dosage tutoring as a school improvement strategy.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Have you ever thought about how the way you grade and assess work, or maybe how the way you are required to grade could be contributing to the game of school? There have been many articles, books, and theories on shifting the way we assess and assign grades. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said.

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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.”. Erika Stump , a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine, has written seven reports on proficiency-based education in the state.

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MindShift

MAY 31, 2017

The idea is to liberate principals to focus more on teaching evaluation, planning and assessment and far less on milk, leaky faucets or security. “I report directly to him. So this is definitely something that we need on a permanent basis in all schools,” Tukeva says. His day starts with a text or call at 6 a.m.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Brainscape

MAY 18, 2022

Within the virtual pages of the 10th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary, you’ll discover more than 50,000 terms and 16,000 new definitions than previous editions. This saves you a ton of work on determining what’s important to know versus what’s secondary. It even costs less ($54.99 at the time of writing).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. This is just the medicine we need,” Cassellius recalls telling the reporter. Did NCLB work?”

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. Khan Academy has recently introduced more assessments, so that more of the exercises in their free library can be used in this way. Proficiency vs. mastery (Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

There’s not a single subject you cannot teach within Minecraft, not a single assessment you cannot do within Minecraft. I believe the earlier we start with our students at the elementary level, they’ll become more proficient as they progress onto the secondary level. We definitely need a shift. It’s not engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Our reporters have spent the last 10 months speaking with students, parents, teachers and school district leaders around the country about what this pandemic school year has been like. Next year will be a better year, definitely. Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report. CHOOSE A LOCATION. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The second, which is my path, is to make common cause with others who are working on solving the problem of the cost of attending a post-secondary institution, like Martha Kanter , Morely Winograd , and others making slow but steady progress eliminating tuition as a barrier to students. I settled on OER-enabled pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report. Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. I had it real bad,” he said.

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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? patches/hour (p.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Photo: Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. This is assessed first through group interviews where students are judged on how they collaborate with other students; the top 60 percent are then invited back for a one-on-one interview. Photo: Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. NEWARK, N.J. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. In contrast, by definition OER never require a license fee or royalty to use.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The main way I learn is by screwing up and doing it again, which is honestly a lot more interesting and definitely makes it stick in your head a lot more.”. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Duxbury, Vt. —

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Blumenstyk as a reporter surveying the landscape, Mr. Jones as a professor and administrator at a college, and Mr. Freedman as an investor looking for the next big thing in education technology. But I definitely would be interested. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms. I served as moderator. Jones: I’m deeply conflicted here.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 15, 2016

Two reports crossed my feeds recently, each concerning the intersection of automation and humans. A related political angle in the Pew report is is that automation, while exciting, doesn’t loom largest as a job threat in respondents’ minds. These are two different if related stories. Will Clinton avoid the topic?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. Who might benefit from such a restrictive definition of universities?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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