Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” ” The center, as the name suggests, does legal work for civil rights and low-income groups. More LAUSD news in the legal section below. Immigration and Education. ” asks Bryan Alexander.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. It will be able to ascertain which student did what during “group work.” It will improve student health.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Indeed, if we take time to unpack the general orthodoxy of educational technology as a “positive” attempt to improve education, then a variety of different social groups and with different interests, values and agendas are apparent. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” Despite raising some $87.5

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classrooms.” ” The group in question: the Council for National Policy. NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” Via The Verge : “ Yik Yak is secretly pivoting to group messaging.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via the San Jose Mercury News : “A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for a state audit of a profitable but low-performing network of online charter schools following this newspaper’s investigation of K12 Inc., ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember Richard McKenzie?

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! ” Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Preferred admissions gives a narrowly defined group of black descendants a chance to compete for achievements that are defined by accumulated disadvantage. ” Despite all the Common Core-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.”

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. ” The program in question: The Global Assessment Certificate program. Get rid of it.’” From MIT President L.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” ” Talking to them, I guess, is not an option.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Arizona Board of Regents probably violated First Amendment rights of state’s student association when it stopped collecting fees for the group, U.S. Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to Common Core-Focused High School Exams.” appeals court rules.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?” Sounds scandalous.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. Meanwhile, Campus Technology offers “7 Tips for Listing MOOCs on Your Résumé.” Via Data & Society : “Assessing the Legacy of inBloom.” ” Story says “could be.”

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