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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

Edsurge

The Power of Assessment Digging through Jason’s files and coming up empty reinforced my belief that, if we had a true district-wide RTI framework with a uniform approach to assessment, we would have uncovered Jason’s needs sooner. Although the RTI framework includes many components, Jason guided my focus on assessment.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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PROOF POINTS: Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

The Hechinger Report

The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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Epic Effective Classroom Decoration and Design Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. link] [PDF] High Performance Learning Spaces – a paper shared by Stanford University in 2004 about their research into creating spaces where high performance learning happens. University of Salford, Manchester.

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Building better early grade math teachers: Milwaukee goes back to an old playbook

The Hechinger Report

The elementary teachers in the room solved the problem quickly. But early-childhood and elementary teachers have the daunting task of introducing abstraction to their students: What is a number? Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I went to the store to buy some fruit.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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