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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Request a demo of Levered's System. She jumped at the opportunity to pilot the program in her school.

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Classroom Gaming Should Be Engaging, Tied to Curriculum—and Not Require Teachers to Code

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“Games, like any other tool, should be put into place to support the learning of curriculum and the mastery of standards by our students,” says White. Many times we find stand-alone games and demos that are hard to link to the standards or to work into the general flow of the class.” Making Games Relevant and Accessible.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. Common Core State Standards. In 2013, Pearson paid $7.7

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