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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.”

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The Inconvenient Truths About Assessment

TeachThought - Learn better.

Further, language development, lexical knowledge (VL), and listening ability are all related to mathematical and reading ability ( Flanagan 2006 ). This can mean that it’s often easier to assess something other than an academic standard than it is knowledge of the standard itself.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. She began to criticize them and to criticize the federal law called “No child left behind.”

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

Edsurge

In 2006 the consortium featured 50 member organizations. Today, there are over 8000 edtech products that the 1EdTech community certified as meeting 1EdTech standards for quality and trust. Today, nearly 900 organizations participate from 28 countries.

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