Academic Standards, Personalized Learning and Policies

Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

For much of the past year, approximately 150 researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, educators, investors, and institutional leaders have been collaborating in 10 working groups (each supported by a professional researcher) to study and discuss data, processes, and systems that show substantial promise.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

He has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports, and editorials in major newspapers. He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project, and The Nation. About the Hosts.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by 2gnoMe. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

In other words, the benefits of target marketing, also known as profiling-and-pushing-messages for helpful learning programs for users could be enormous. Saving Personalized Learning.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. Bob LaRocca, Director of Policy and Communication at. In other words, SEL competencies.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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Trouble With the Curve: Estimating the Size and Growth Rates of K-12 Markets

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. The surge of teacher evaluation policies across the country has spurred a.

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Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Forget learning should be fun. Gamify compliance to institutional policies instead of social change and disruptive creativity. Place students on the periphery when we design, plan, and respond to their learning. (It’s personalized learning, inquiry, PBL) that could change everything. Stigmatize failure.

Education

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The Characteristics Of A Good School

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

How schools are designed and what students learn–and why–must be reviewed, scrutinized, and refined as closely and with as much enthusiasm as we do the gas mileage of our cars, the downloads speeds of our phones and tablets, or the operating systems of our watches. A good school teaches thought, not content.

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16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Editor Description: “Connected learning communities are a three-pronged approach to effective professional development using the local (professional learning community), contextual (personal learning network), and global (community of practice) environments. So Much Reform, So Little Change by Charles Payne.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Schools that are in the bottom 10 percent of performance in the State, or who have significant achievement gaps, based on student academic performance in reading/language arts and mathematics on the assessments required under the ESEA or graduation rates (as defined in this document). Personalized learning plan .

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Opening the doors to elite public schools

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

” The one-year change in admissions policy was prompted by the pandemic and a desire to diversify the selective schools, in which Black and Latino students are underrepresented. A group called the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence is suing Boston Public Schools in U.S. He said the lawsuit made him angry. “We

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Anyone interested in improving schooling through digital tools has to distinguish between what the media hypes and what policies are actually adopted. Then, one has to further distinguish between the hyperbole and adopted policies and programs before determining what teachers actually do in their classroom lessons.

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

Trouble With the Curve: Estimating the Size and Growth Rates of K-12 Markets

Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again

The Characteristics Of A Good School

16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read

A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

Opening the doors to elite public schools

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