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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. Now, we know that edtech has been proven to improve test scores and overall classroom engagement. ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Depth of understanding was hailed by its architects as a cornerstone of the Common Core, a set of educational guidelines for what students need to know in each grade in English and math that have been adopted in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Reframing expectations.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. It’s nearly impossible to test different instructional approaches in real classrooms.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. In 2010, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics with a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as earning an ELL (English Language Learner) endorsement for K-8 students.

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Better tests don’t lead to better teaching, study finds

The Hechinger Report

And, even if you could be a fly on the wall in every classroom in America, one person’s view of a good lesson might differ from another’s. Two previous studies, of math instruction, combined classroom observations and teacher interviews. “How can we improve classroom instruction in the midst of high-stakes testing?

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High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class

The Hechinger Report

Related: Will the new Common Core SAT close the privilege gap? In teaching assistant Natalie Nowicki’s math class at San Diego State, for example, step one is to reconfigure the classroom. San Diego State has joined a couple of dozen math departments across the country that are rethinking the way they teach math.