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The upside, and the downside, of working ‘as fast as you want and as slow as you need’

The Hechinger Report

A Humanities class will earn students English, Social Studies, and art credit, but the learning is smoothly integrated so that students may be reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” while learning about civil rights, and civil disobedience with time still set aside for students to learn the important SAT vocabulary words.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - SLS14 Expanded! - Open Natural Math Class - Educate to Liberate or Control?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

March 20th - March 22nd in Palm Springs, CA CUE Annual Conference + Invent to Learn Workshop , The CUE Conference is the largest and oldest education technology conference in California, and among the largest in the United States. Sylvia Martinez will lead a pre-conference Invent To Learn workshop, plus a conference session.

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

TeachThought - Learn better.

Rather, most large-group instruction or reader-workshop mini-lessons involve small bits of text, typically no more than a few paragraphs. Nor is it possible to meet the argument-related standards at the heart of the ELA Common Core standards. How can you possibly develop comprehension ability of a text this way? Less Is More?

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

TeachThought - Learn better.

Rather, most large-group instruction or reader-workshop mini-lessons involve small bits of text, typically no more than a few paragraphs. Nor is it possible to meet the argument-related standards at the heart of the ELA Common Core standards. How can you possibly develop comprehension ability of a text this way? Less Is More?

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

“There are thousands of studies,” said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.” ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? Balanced literacy.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). Everything’s a business opportunity. ” So congrats, ed-tech vendors.)