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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. If you look at the content on the MAP accelerator, it is common core aligned content and it’s all from the standards in the common core and not just what may or may not be in the MAP. Successful?

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

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I most definitely didn’t plan a project to have something like the superhero project culminate before every parent-teacher conference—that would feel forced. In my first year teaching math, I built and maintained a complex grade book using Google Sheets. Of course, I replaced names with ID numbers).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. The incident caused a great deal of furor, perhaps because it came at a moment of heightened political outcry about the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing.

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