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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

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Many of us find students benefit greatly when the school employs curriculum-based assessments to measure progress. Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning. Measuring Up Live 2.0,

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Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement

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Needs assessments are used to identify key issues and then match service recipients with local partners, and the assessments also help coordinators develop implementation plans designed to facilitate and optimize the delivery of services. In addition, the students receive similar books to read on their own.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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In hybrid courses, IDLA teachers and students meet on a weekly basis in real-time (synchronously), in addition to the asynchronous nature of online content and assessments, which students can tackle on their own time, at their own piece. A face-to-face proctor also supported each group of students. Completion %. Avg Final Grade.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. It’s true that there are not enough professionals to meet rising demand. Students post anonymously to a campus-specific group or a broader audience.

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States will soon be free to transform standardized testing, but most won’t

The Hechinger Report

In the early 1990s, Kentucky districts were among those grading student portfolios and assessing performance tasks, instead of standardized tests, and they found themselves on the cutting edge of educational assessment. And not all districts want to do performance-based assessments.

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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

The Hechinger Report

That left students powering through learning challenges by texting classmates for help, forming Zoom study groups and capitalizing on free internet resources to help clarify difficult material. Students may find that attending regular in-person meetings with a consistent group will help them gain confidence again in social settings.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Freshman calculus students at the University of Texas at Austin work together in small groups to master calculus concepts they will need later in college and their careers. An aspiring mechanical engineer, Hamscho failed his first college calculus exam before he formed a study group. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

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