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Utah STEM Action Center Adds IXL Math to K-12 Personalized Learning Grant List

eSchool News

Before adding IXL Math to the state’s grant list, the Action Center and Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) rigorously evaluated the platform to determine its efficacy. To further target instruction, the diagnostic provides educators with personalized action plans for each student.

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More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

Their ability to make changes in policy, law and their own lives is enhanced.” The National School Board Association reports that population of students performed two to three grade levels below their white peers in reading and math. Their ability to make changes in policy, law and their own lives is enhanced.”

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Teachers: Don’t Feel Guilty About What You Can’t Do. The System Needs to Change.

Edsurge

Students collaborated, constructed their designs, collected data, wrote reports and gave presentations. What if I could differentiate instruction in more effective ways than providing extra worksheets to advanced students or offering after-school tutoring for those who struggled? How much more might my students have learned?

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It Takes a (Whole) School

Digital Promise

According to a new report , these teachers — while remarkably motivated by the challenge at hand — need and want school-wide, institutionalized supports in order to succeed in the face of the uncertainties that poverty brings. The answer is probably not a traditional top-down intervention, says Kraft, or a simple policy shift.

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Don’t get rid of gifted and talented programs in the name of integration. Integrate them.

The Hechinger Report

FM reporting. We believe that it is more important to invest in the design, implementation, and growth of specific instructional programs to meet the needs of high-ability learners, rather than in conducting a screening program that limits who can participate in advanced learning opportunities.”. Department of Education.

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The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

The Hechinger Report

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network.

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Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education

The Hechinger Report

Their 118-page report, “ ‘In theory it’s a good idea’: Understanding implementation of proficiency-based education in Maine, ” published in October 2018, serves as an unintended post-mortem of how educational reforms can go wrong. Nellie Mae is also among the funders of the Hechinger Report.). ” she asked.