Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

To help accomplish their vision – that every students get not just to but through college – Brooklyn Lab leverages Cortex, a digital learning platform where student data and work can be accessed by students, teachers, parents, and administrators alike.

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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 149

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Review the teacher resources on the educator dashboard. Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. 4 Great Education Applications. Begin the first quest.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 172

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” Last year, the U.S.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

Education is changing, things are in flux, and there is uncertainty. In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

The goals of No Child Left Behind were the right goals: Making a promise to educate every child with an excellent teacher -- that’s the right thing to do, that’s the right goal. Higher standards are right. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Early Childhood Education. Accountability is right,” Obama said.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

As we collectively elevate teaching so that it may sit comfortably alongside other highly respected and important professions, we must think carefully about how to provide higher-quality, effective continuing education for teaching. And they deserve access to high-quality professional learning resources. But we’re not there yet.

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Academic Standards Case Study Common Core Policies 40

Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Informing the students, parents, educators, and the public about how well students are learning important content is an essential aspect of any educational assessment and accountability system. The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) is the authority for Georgia Milestones. History of GMAS. How is GMAS taken?

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Assessment System Course Academic Standards 53

MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards.

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Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 30, 2015

Among the biggest changes the Common Core Standards require is the shift in the burden of general literacy. And here we are, and the Common Core Standards (no matter what you might think of them) are asking all teachers to teach writing. Learning and education. Writing Is Still How We Communicate.

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Common Core Academic Standards STEM Industry 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

That’s why the kind of early learning experiences the twenty 4-year-olds are getting in Ruth Shows’ classroom on a daily basis hold so much promise for educators and parents, who are already seeing how far children have come since the start of the school year. “I The state will spend $6.5 million funding boost — $3.5 Closed from the world’.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Secretary of Education, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. Common Core. School Choice.

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Academic Standards Education Common Core Report 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

In an event that could be called a love fest, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out her education priorities in a rollicking speech at the annual assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union. There was, however, one moment of discord.

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