Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this Common Core literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. PARCC, 2011, p.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

“The most challenging thing about implementing challenge-based learning in schools is changing the mindset of students and teachers,” says Dawn Hennessy, Technology, Design, Innovation and Robotics teacher at Carroll Magnet Middle School in North Carolina's Wake County Public School System. Why is this so challenging?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. While Massachusetts high schools adhere to the relatively tough Common Core academic standards, at Independence Academy the priority is on meeting students where they are. Brockton alone had 2011 overdoses in 2015. Photo: John D.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. But the results are not uniformly positive.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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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 robot startup, formerly known as Play-i, has raised $35.9 Get rid of it.’” ” He is suing the university.

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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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