The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The rhetoric and policy of “accelerate, don’t remediate” makes sense when students are a year to a year and a half below grade level. David Scarlett Wakelyn is a former math teacher who helped develop the Common Core State Standards while at the National Governors Association. He is a partner at Union Square Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich started his teaching career as an elementary school teacher in the Seattle area. With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. See: Copyright Policy. (This episode sponsored by H?para.)

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The reform efforts included a state-funded commitment to a pre-kindergarten pilot program, a comprehensive reading policy featuring a promotion/retention component at third grade, and a required assessment of the knowledge and skills needed to teach the science of reading for aspiring elementary teachers.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

Privacy policies are notoriously difficult to read, often filled with legal jargon that seems to require a law degree to understand. This is why Common Sense Education, with the help of our Privacy Program and its more than 250 district partners, provides privacy ratings on the learning review pages of hundreds of popular edtech products.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2016

Middle school points down to elementary. Elementary points to kindergarten. This is an important conversation to share with curriculum directors, policy makers, and those looking to level up past standards to competencies. Think about it. And kindergarten blames the parents. Who is responsible ?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Last fall, the students themselves explained new homework policies. Related: Parents, it’s not your job to teach Common Core math when helping with homework. LOVELAND, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Because their elementary school teachers do too, says Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a policy institute that studies what America can learn from the world’s best-performing education systems. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards.

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Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Here are the most effective ways to communicate better and take the child’s elementary education to an altogether new level. Honesty is the best policy. Moreover, preparing for tests becomes easy with an app like Georgia Test Prep, an online practice test tool designed for elementary and middle school students.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The very first Standard for Mathematical Practice in the common core speaks of helping students be able to "make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.". Additional Resources: Core Competencies of Social Emotional Learning. SEL in Elementary Mathematics. Productive Struggle in Mathematics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

WriteWell for Google Docs is a Google Docs Add-on that includes a series of templates for elementary school, middle school, and high school classrooms. These templates can be incorporated into a wide range of student writing activities and are well suited to Common Core writing tasks. How to Install WriteWell for Google Docs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

In fact, for superintendent Dr. Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Part of the appeal of project-based learning is the perception that there’s more freedom, a welcome break from the pressures of test prep and meeting Common Core standards. It’s an open question whether large numbers of teachers will enjoy teaching detailed lesson plans created by curriculum designers. We know it works.

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? I adore E.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards. There are several adjustments that policy makers and administrators can make. Related: Louisiana Teachers to swap their classrooms for factory floors and office cubicles this summer. So how can we increase retention rates for teachers of color?

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Seesaw is used by primary grade-level teachers, middle school subject area teachers, elective teachers, and after-school program teachers, but it's most often used in elementary schools. Teachers can also tag student work with Common Core or TEKS standards, for example, and create a color-coded three- to six-star assessment system.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students. Related: Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target. Fortunately, some states are innovating with new data policies.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

Elementary teachers have been especially challenged for the first time to fit science instruction into their day,” said Kristen Mayfield-Evanishyn, Marketing Manager at Carolina. The program is in use at schools throughout the country and teachers at schools such as Westmore Oaks K-8 Elementary School in West Sacramento, Calif.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

There are five magnet schools in the elementary levels—a school for arts, aerospace and engineering, medical science, international studies, and technology. They had no correlation to the standards that we had just switched to, which was Common Core. We now have about 80 percent. So to me, they were just kind of useless.

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2016

McGee teaches kindergarten at Walker Jones Elementary in Washington, D.C. Sonja Santelises, vice president for K-12 policy and practice at the Education Trust, which focuses on efforts to reduce the achievement gap, says rising expectations are a good thing, though “rigid instruction” is not. And are they inherently bad?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. They’re also the first cohort of prospective teachers to be educated entirely under 21 st century education reforms , including No Child Left Behind and the Common Core state standards. They’re holding everything inside,” Eckhoff said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They have created their own vegetable gardens and raised funds to bring plant beds to local elementary schools. A 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of several EL middle schools found that after three years the EL students had made significant gains in reading and math compared to other middle school students.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Wettrick’s students research potential projects, then find collaborators, identify the Common Core educational standards that their projects demonstrate, then blog about the process as well as their findings, which can be in the form of a DVD, a television program, an app.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

A study by Brett Lane, president and founder of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and Learning, an education research and policy consulting firm, reported that the percentage of students in the district proficient in math increased by over 50 points and in reading by over 40 points between 1996 and 2008. Related: Schools on U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” How Philanthropy Shapes “Ed-Tech Trends” It’s hard to overstate how much influence philanthropic organizations have had on education policy, now and throughout US history. Philanthropy today shapes policy. No contemporary billionaire has shaped the policy and the discourse in education quite like Bill Gates.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

It changed what math meant,” said Maria Velazquez, who now studies education policy at the University of Wisconsin. “It Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. . ‘It has expanded my thinking about what makes you smart at math.’ ’ Tracy Thompson, High school math teacher. “It Designing Groupwork.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

STEM to STEAM -The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and business people from RISD and beyond. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

STEM to STEAM -The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and business people from RISD and beyond. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

STEM to STEAM -The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and business people from RISD and beyond. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

There has been a rise in AI programs with books and courses exclusively focusing on elementary and high-school students. Alex said that the biggest change he has seen is not in the topics we’re teaching, but rather how it’s been taught and this is now formalized in many of the newer standards which come under the Common Core.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The Press-Register editorial board wrung its hands at how “obdurate desegregation policies” were wrecking the public schools. He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool. Lee Academy moved to a new campus that fall, built on a former cotton field.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

STEM to STEAM -The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and business people from RISD and beyond. Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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