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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. An overwhelming majority of survey respondents (88 percent) said they have a difficult time finding teaching materials for their students. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Performance on PISA Decline Because of Common Core? “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? But the surveys put parent satisfaction in the 88th to 96th percentiles.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via The Guardian : “Growing social media backlash among young people, survey shows.” 2 Post at Ed. ” is how Education Week describes the news.