edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Rubrics to assess qualitative learning: While all work might not be graded, both students and teachers need to be working toward the same goals. Prior to CueThink, Sheela was Project Director at Pearson Education, focusing on technologically innovative assessment items based on Common Core State Standards.

Instructional Materials 75

Instructional Materials Professional Learning Pearson Common Core 75

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market.

Industry 81

Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 81

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” Pearson cut 4000 jobs – 10% of its staff. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. ISTE’s CEO left “ unexpectedly.”

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

Education 45

Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45