MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

For states adopting Common Core, the standards apply to kindergarten, laying out what students should be able to do by the end of the grade.* While Common Core aligned assessments don’t kick in until third grade, many teachers feel pressure to make sure kids are meeting the specified standards before they move on to first grade.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Who are the people spearheading maker education? Maker Education Initiative. According to the report, many maker educators believe “making can help students develop real-world skills” such as creativity, problem-solving acumen, critical thinking and perseverance, along with “dispositions associated with positive work and life outcomes.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Casserly, Executive Director of the Council, to select an educator pursuing a graduate-level education degree to receive a $10,000 scholarship. Curriculum Associates partnered with the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) to sponsor the first-ever Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

Serving a population with over 30 percent “complex learners”, Brooklyn Lab identified four drivers of the school’s success that are complemented by the platform: Talent, Mastery of Rigorous Standards, Personalization, and Positive Youth Development.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. In January 2018, private equity firm Silver Lake acquired a subset of that portfolio (9 of those 16 companies) to create Weld North Education (WNE), which Grayer continues to run.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Review the teacher resources on the educator dashboard. Learning is aligned not just with Common Core and Next Generation Learning Standards, but with many state standards like Ohio’s Learning Standards, Michigan Academic Standards, and Illinois Learning Standards.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. More than 40 states embraced the “Common Core” while additional states adopted similar standards.).

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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

MAY 17, 2017

You know that old interview question: What would change in education if you had a magic wand? So how to reap the benefits of competency-based education and make sure parents, teachers and other stakeholders are on board? We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Today, the robotic toymaker is following through by adding a big building block to its educational offerings. An education version will launch later this year.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

over glitches in implementing the test, the state department of education announced this week. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 In late 2014, Pearson was replaced as the state’s test provider for the Tennessee standardized tests.

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Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course. Badges allow teachers to focus specifically on student standards or proficiencies.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Educators often wonder how they are going to meet all the demands of Common Core. One important point is that the standards require more depth and less breadth. Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum. by Renee Rubin , Ed.D.,

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2015

Tracking features in integrated SIS and LMS platform enable educators to plan and modify curriculum and instruction in real time. The tool supports the growing trend toward standards-based grading in schools and districts across the country. Alma’s Standards Tracker was designed based on the standards-based grading model.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

In the last decade, educators have focused on boosting literacy skills among low-income kids in the hope that all children will read well by third grade. Duncan of the University of California Irvine’s School of Education, whose research examines child poverty and education. “It Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

What might be considered a kind of basic standard for education technology in 2016. In theory, it’s not necessary to have any degree of education technology at all, though even that depends on your content area’s academic standards.

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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. But we’re not there yet. But we’re not there yet. They deserve every opportunity to excel and grow.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Without that reason, education becomes a self-justifying expression of policies and procedures. Put another way, there is a reason to learn. Knowledge is the most modern of currencies that itself can be exchanged endlessly without diminishing itself. A concept? Some abstract lesson? A notable project? Or simply how you made them feel?

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

A majority of Kansas public school students aren’t on track to be ready academically for college based on their scores on standardized English and math tests this past spring, a state report said Tuesday. Department officials and State Board of Education members acknowledged they’re not satisfied with the overall results.

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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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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In the last decade, educators have focused on boosting literacy skills among low-income kids in the hope that all children will read well by third grade. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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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MindShift

MAY 25, 2015

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about Common Core. But as states have begun rolling out the Common Core standards, integrating the arts has become more challenging — even for schools like Soulsville.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. It’s also not entirely digital.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It may seem frivolous to spend so much money on a school dedicated to a grade level that students aren’t even required to attend in most states , but research shows kindergarten can be one of the most important years in a child’s educational career. States and districts responded.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy. For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). K-12 landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Educational Terms 101. Procope said. “We

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. STEAM , the CCLS ELA standards, etc.), Kiddom is just a one education technology company.

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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 million funding boost — $3.5 million short of Wright’s initial request.

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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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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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