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Betsy DeVos Touts Personalized Learning, Slams Common Core and Reform Efforts

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Yet where she sees “promise” are movements to improve education at the classroom level, particularly through instructional approaches now often referred to as “personalized learning.”. “We Department of Education, Common Core is dead. This is not the first time DeVos has praised personalized learning. at the U.S.

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Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds

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They could learn just as much—or more— when it comes to literacy, numeracy and executive function skills critical to early academic success, according to a new review of 17 studies of play. The studies that were excluded did not fit the review’s criteria of assessing child learning and development outcomes.)

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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

The Hechinger Report

Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. A student in a high school just outside of New York City.

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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

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Students used to learn typing in high school, as a skill. Now, it’s a tool for learning. So much of what we ask students to do on the way to authentic learning requires typing. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 45 wpm is good.

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STEMscopes Math Receives Top Rating from Learning List for Alignment to Common Core State Standards for Grades K-5

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HOUSTON – July 14, 2021 – STEMscopes Math from Accelerate Learning has received the highest rating from Learning List for alignment to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Mathematical Practices for grades K-5. In March of 2021, Learning List completed and published its review of STEMscopes Math for grades 3-5.

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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

The Hechinger Report

The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. It’s actually illegal to teach Common Core in Texas. to Common Core, the new math standards here are pretty similar to the standards the state rejected, experts say.

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

Marketplace K-12

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. The company’s approach is to “define what we do by the outcome, not by where it happens physically,” he said.