EdTechTeam

APRIL 24, 2017

With the Common Core State Standards launching in 2009 and textbook publishers having to recreate their curriculums, many districts were left with their teachers having to come up with their own curriculum that met the new state standards. Ann-Marie Skaggs has been teaching elementary school in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

High school students are taking a new version of the SAT, which incorporates the first changes to the test since 2005. To the casual observer, the SAT looks the same — questions on math and English, an essay, a set amount of time to finish each question. But the college entrance exam has gotten a makeover.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The tech and core standards of organizations such as ISTE, CSTA, and Common Core State Initiative stipulate that students need foundational digital literacy skills to demonstrate writing, reading, and mathematical achievement. Things to consider. After receiving an M.Ed

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

A 2005 research study by the MDRC, a New York- and Oakland, California-based research group, found that Kansas City high schools produced and sustained a “double digit” improvement in the percentage of 11th-graders reading proficiently and a dramatic decline in the percentage of students scoring “unsatisfactory” on the state test.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The preschoolers loved the program, Nemko said, and the results of the pilot were “phenomenal”: As the children consumed the digital books, assessment data showed a 250-percent increase in their English language skills. Children also can click on pictures within a story to see animations that bring it to life. More than just literacy skills.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A learning theory that suggests that “people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences” (Christie 2005). (14). Common Core) for individual students. Differentiation. Individualized Learning. The customizing of universal content (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

There was some talk that, despite being vociferously anti-union , Michelle Rhee’s support for the Common Core was allegedly a deal-breaker. Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. She serves on its board.)

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