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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

Students create budgets, shopping plans, and comparison shopping while learning about the effective use of credit. Designed for grades 7-10, it is also linked with Math and ELA Common Core standards. Idea #10 Data Science Foundations. Big data” and data sciences are in high demand in today’s labor market.

Course 503
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What Are the Real Motives Behind the Common Core State Standards? Let's Be Honest with Ourselves!

The 21st Century Principal

Today, there was this post on the Public School Forum of North Carolina website defending the Common Core. I am a skeptic about the Common Core, not because I do not believe in the need to have higher standards. The Common Core is "more rigorous than North Carolina''s previous standards."

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Math Webtools to Support Any Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. As students work, their tests are instantly scored and available on the teacher dashboard, with a comparison to prior timed tests.

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Governor Christie’s Guide to Destroying a Great Education System #NJED

A Principal's Reflections

This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. However, just like any other profession the amount of bad educators pales in comparison to those who go above and beyond to help kids learn. Historically NJ is typically number one or two.

System 150
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The U.S. has more memorizers

Dangerously Irrelevant

Jo Boaler said: data from the 13 million students who took PISA [math] tests showed that the lowest-achieving students worldwide were those who used a memorization strategy – those who thought of math as a set of methods to remember and who approached math by trying to memorize steps. … [wait for it…]. … The U.S.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Data unavailable for Oklahoma. Data source: Thomas J. Little is known about what has happened to adult learners seeking high school degrees since the old GED exam disappeared because annual data is no longer published as it used to be every year. Source data: Center for an Urban Future).

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How Can a Student Be ‘Proficient’ in One State But Not Another? Here Are the Graphs

Edsurge

They then estimated NAEP equivalent scores for the exams and mapped the outcomes onto a graph depicting how their proficiency levels measured in comparison. Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scale, Source: U.S. This is a surprising achievement given how states have historically bucked national standards alignment propositions.