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What is Standards-based Grading?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today, many educators want to not only evaluate progress at a point in time but optimize that against the ongoing standards their school mission is built on such as Common Core, International Baccalaureate, NGSE, or TEKS. That’s changing. What is Standards-based Grading. Teachers can add comments to completed assignments.

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

About two years ago Houston Independent School District , with its 283 schools and 215,000 students, went in search of an LMS that would help teachers create and use coursework that was both digital and aligned to Texas state standards (Texas pointedly does not use the Common Core).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Drops Defense of Obama Guidelines on Transgender Students.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy.” Edsurge also “forecasts the future” of ed-tech and is hopeful. ” More via WaPo and Buzzfeed.