eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

New report finds Common Core is affecting reading and math — but not test scores. On that point, it appears Common Core’s changes are winning out over entrenched practice. The gap shrunk for eighth grade students from 34 percent in 2011 to 16 percent in 2015. The findings?

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Since it launched in 2011, the company’s online graphing calculator has been used to create everything from Valentine’s Day “Math-o-grams” to Picasso paintings. Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Image credit: https://larrycuban.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/parents.jpg Unfortunately there is a growing rhetoric and sentiment that the education system in America is broken and our teachers are to blame for this. If there is ever a profession that should be revered as much as that of a doctor who saves lives it is that of a teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. She achieved National Board Certification in 2011. . Smath was born out of a realization that the old way of doing things wasn’t working. But we have also seen other benefits.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In 2011, 78% of 4th graders scored below proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In addition to this legislation reform, the Common Core State Standards had been adopted as the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards in 2010. Go big or go home. One thing was certain.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 26, 2011

learncentral.org/event/143030/ APPLES AND ORANGES: EMPLOYEE SKILLS ASSESSMENT DRIVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE (Elluminate) Wed 30 Mar 01:00PM New York / Wed 30 Mar 05:00PM GMT / Thu 31 Mar 05:00AM Sydney Ajay Pangarkar. Also, a critical discussion about apps for language learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

And though official numbers are hard to come by — California stopped tracking dual language programs in 2011 — the growing popularity of dual language immersion programs like the one at Derrick’s school indicates multilingualism is an advantage more and more parents wish their children to possess.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Technology Integration and the Common Core by Andrew Miller The CCSS call us to integrate technology in intentional and meaningful ways to have students meet rigorous standards. See examples at varying grade levels of successful PBL projects aligned to Common Core and ISTE NET Standards and for various subject areas.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 29, 2016

More than half the states have made their tests more difficult to pass, bringing proficiency rates more closely into line with the those of the rigorous National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to a new study. States Grapple With Common-Core Test Cutoffs. Cross-posted from the Curriculum Matters blogs.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. million for technological improvements.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. million for technological improvements.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 1, 2016

Assessments are built into both systems. and it was purchased for an estimated $50 million in 2011 by Weld North. Most Math Curricula Found to be Out of Sync With Common Core. Compass Learning provides intervention and skills instruction in math, reading, and language arts for K-8. Company Exec. Politician’s Trial.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

Research confirms that in order for ELLs to acquire English they must engage in oral language practice and be given the opportunity to use language in meaningful ways for social and academic purposes (Williams & Roberts, 2011). Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations.

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

Reader Pants,” reports a 36% increase after she genrefied a middle school library in Fort Worth, Texas in 2011. So the decision could come down to a pragmatic consideration of resource availability and student body composition, but it might also touch the soul of the field: What ought the core mission of a modern school librarian be?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

And though official numbers are hard to come by — California stopped tracking dual language programs in 2011 — the growing popularity of dual language immersion programs like the one at Derrick’s school indicates multilingualism is an advantage more and more parents wish their children to possess.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a Frostburg State University football player who died after suffering a head injury in 2011. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. ” The program in question: The Global Assessment Certificate program. Get rid of it.’”

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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.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

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. ” The agendas of other foundations – big and small – often echo those of Gates.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Pike unleashing pepper spray into the face of peaceful protesters in 2011 weren’t the first thing that people found about the school online.

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