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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. For example, using the book report scenario, discuss these with students: What are the basics of each reporting method?

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

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Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations.

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COLUMN: How can we improve math education in America? Help us count the ways

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“There are kids who can be successful in math, but the opportunities are not there for them,” Ross told me, in an eye-opening conversation that came in response to a survey The Hechinger Report sent to our readers last month. “I Help us count the ways appeared first on The Hechinger Report. And I have been looking for four decades.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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For some districts, the cost per student quickly became unrealistic to initially implement, leading schools to create alternate strategies. ” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. Then there was the iPad.

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How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests

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The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

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Those were among the 10 key findings highlighted in the Consortium for School Networking’s fourth K–12 IT Leadership Survey Report , which was released on Monday in conjunction with the opening of CoSN’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The survey also highlighted the different paths men and women take to IT leadership.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

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Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. Procedures and strategies are easier. One of them, the Arnold Foundation, is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. Content is hard.

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