The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.” It’s a view that’s catching on.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. Embrace not knowing. “Teachers are given release time to work as teams and observe classrooms together.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

Thanks to policies such as the Common Education Data Standards , information regarding Bobby’s need for special transportation services, food allergy restrictions and appropriate class placements were shared quickly, securely and automatically in time for his first day of class. Expand Educational Resources to Student Toolkits.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And the digital transformation will honor learning that occurs outside of the classroom, allowing a shift to competency-based learning, perhaps using microcredentials and badges. State and federal policies need to provide the foundation for ongoing technological research and innovation, affordability and sustainability.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Powerful ideas that seem simple in print quickly take on new, and potentially divergent, meanings as they are applied to policy and practice. Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. How effective are policy levers?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the Reagan administration’s Nation at Risk, an alarmist and misleading report that has since been discredited , there has been a bipartisan attempt to break open the education “market” and put public school dollars into private pockets. It’s time to heed our warnings. Teachers want our field returned to us.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. There is strong leadership from the superintendent and middle school principal, focused on using technology to power personalized learning. Contact information.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. MONTPELIER, Vt.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Bob LaRocca, Director of Policy and Communication at. His Boston-based consultancy works with districts to identify relevant MESH (Mental, Emotional, and Social Health) skills, and disseminate tools to build and assess those competencies. You can’t get away from subjectiveness of grading.”. Assessing the assessments.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

They are a good resource for states, districts and schools to start the conversation about the new policies and practices that need to be put in place. Grades are used to communicate learning progress and achievement to students and families; grades are not used as forms of punishment or control.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Government policy has also contributed to its adoption.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This year NMC and CoSN have also put together a digital toolkit to help educators and policy leaders start conversations about these trends in their community, with the hope that some of the changes they see happening in pockets around the world will become more broadly accepted. “It NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition).

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