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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. CIPA requires schools and libraries to install measures to protect children from obscene or harmful content in exchange for discounts offered by the E-rate program.

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Why do disparities by race and disability persist despite a sharp drop in school suspensions?

The Hechinger Report

More recent data from the nation’s largest school districts suggests that national rates of suspension have likely declined even further since 2013-14. In New York City , suspensions declined by 17 percent and school arrests by 27 percent between 2014 and 2015. That’s the bottom line on the U.S. high schools lack a school counselor.

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

Dozens of states have incorporated more rigorous standards through the implementation of the Common Core. After the June 2017 Regents, 25 of the 41 students who had repeatedly failed the state exam passed — a rate of 61 percent. In 2014, 83 percent of the school’s students graduated within four years; last year, 91 percent did.

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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

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In a nutshell, CIPA requires that schools and libraries receiving E-Rate funding “block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors).” Linked to the Common Core Standards for high school.

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Learning Revolution Week's Events - Evernote in the Classroom - Yong Zhao - Google+ vs. Ning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 10th, 2014 Children want the same things we want. Learn about free, research-based curriculum and resources to help teach students safe, responsible, and respectful participants in a digital world, while fostering 21st-century skills and Common Core Standards.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

The Hechinger Report

More than 3,000 of Mississippi’s kindergarteners, or 9 percent, were unable to move on to first grade for the 2019 school year, more than three times the percentage of children nationally who repeated kindergarten in 2014. Almost half of Mississippi’s 4-year-olds are not attending any preschool at all, according to the Annie E.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates. Education Politics. .”