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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

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We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. This is where Mastery Education’s Measuring Up can help. How curriculum-based assessment improves education. What are Common Core keyboarding standards?

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Bring Experts to Your Class Easily with Nepris

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Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Select the type of presentation you want–1) topic, 2) mentoring, or 3) project evaluation (for input on completed student projects). If desired, attach documents potential presenters can review to prepare. Insider Tips.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. 21st Century Leadership connected educators educational leadership Ignite NASSP'

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This is how Democracy ends — Apology from a former teacher

The Innovative Educator

Recently Kris Nielsen , the Teacher Dropout I featured on my blog last month, wrote this to me on Facebook: A while back, I asked you if you saw any redeeming qualities about CCSS. It wasn’t long after my presentation that I had a crushing realization that the entire thing (minus the hands-on stuff) was completely misguided.

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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and “just kind of pulling from here and there,” he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam’s Club, for example. Department of Education to release a series of guidelines for their education.

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Can kids get passionate about learning — and develop the persistence to follow where it leads? One school has a plan

The Hechinger Report

Samouha aimed to transform the picture of education from one of kids dutifully doing assigned work to one of kids “who are just on fire about their own learning path.”. The charter network’s New York students had scored below expectations on the new, more challenging Common Core tests. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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What Does “College Ready” Really Mean, Anyway?

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This approach has alienated a significant number of potentially brilliant children who, for whatever reason, didn’t make the cut, which creates a useful context to rethink education. These limited answers, to me, miss the point of education entirely, but I’ll get to that in another post. Or too narrow.

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