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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. Recent studies, including one by Stanford’s CREDO project , have shown virtual schools producing poor results.

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Welcome to Social Studies: Barefoot World Atlas

SpeechTechie

As a companion to my column for the ASHA Leader App-Titude series, "Welcome to Science Class," this series explores how technology can serve as a context for teaching "language underpinnings" related to the social studies curriculum. is clearly I-Interactive, provides great V-Visuals, and is E-Educationally Relevant as described above.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.

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Why do disparities by race and disability persist despite a sharp drop in school suspensions?

The Hechinger Report

More recent data from the nation’s largest school districts suggests that national rates of suspension have likely declined even further since 2013-14. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. That’s the bottom line on the U.S. The good news? high schools lack a school counselor.

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

Dozens of states have incorporated more rigorous standards through the implementation of the Common Core. Wolcott encouraged Gallin to carefully study his students’ work and look for clues. After the June 2017 Regents, 25 of the 41 students who had repeatedly failed the state exam passed — a rate of 61 percent.

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Why Choice Matters to Student Learning

MindShift

It is a suspicious coincidence that during the first decade of Starbucks’ life, there was also the birth of a large study in humanistic education by David N. This study spanned the 1970s and focused on student-centered learning, an element of which is student choice. Results from a 2010 study show that when. Aspy and Flora N.

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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

NeverEndingSearch

In a nutshell, CIPA requires that schools and libraries receiving E-Rate funding “block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors).” Establish a digital repository of Internet filtering studies.

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