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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. But, how does the 2010 vision for edTech match what’s actually happening today? ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$.

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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Can ‘Math Therapists’ Make a Dent In America’s Declining Math Performance?

Edsurge

Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. They are more used to dealing with discipline, Robinson says of the vice principals. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math.

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One state tried algebra for all eighth graders. It hasn’t gone well

The Hechinger Report

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Department of Education spokesperson Alberto Betancourt.) Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Heck, our education system has become so good at maintaining the status quo and enforcing compliance throughout that we and many others have been brainwashed into thinking any other course of action would be foolish. If education is good for one thing it is making excuses not to move forward. So what''s stopping you?

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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

The Hechinger Report

It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Introduced as an ambitious educational reform at the end of the last decade to make sure that, across the U.S., Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. “Of

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8 Common Core Math Standards, Explained [+ Examples]

Prodigy

The dust has finally settled, and it looks like Common Core math is here to stay. After countless political battles (and more than one Common Core math meme floating around social media), the initiative that incorporates techniques like cooperative learning and active learning has settled into the American education system.