The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. It’s unfair these students – about 98,000 across the state with conditions ranging from dyslexia to severe cognitive impairments – are entering society unprepared, said former Kentucky Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit, a longtime supporter of the Common Core standards.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 68

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2015

Common Core. Lots of webinars are available on topics that range from Common Core to How to Set up Your Classroom. Common Core. Click here for more information (Next class: Summer, 2016). Subject-specific tools and information. The 21st Century classroom. Tech tools for the classroom. Keyboarding.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Wiki Software 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2016 digital education survey. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. With the flexibility afforded by a full suite of digital content, teachers have the freedom to assign students dynamic work tailored to their needs. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content. Here's what they said.

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Survey Differentiated Instruction Common Core Student Engagement 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This story is Part 3 of our 3-part series on Lessons Learned in 2016. Educators made much of their learning opportunities in 2016, whether through professional development sessions, webinars, product demos, or even conferences. 2016 was a year of firsts for me as an educator.

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Education Common Core Learning Software 78

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2016

The 18-page two-lesson plan bundle to blend your class into Martin Luther King Day January 18, 2016. Common Core and ISTE alignment. Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: If you donate to my blog drive, I’ll send you FREE. Essential Question.

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Common Core EdTech Company Assessment 150

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 141

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Request a demo of Levered's System.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In 2010, the Commonwealth ditched English and math standards that were a model for other states in favor of weaker national standards known as the Common Core. In the decade before the Common Core was implemented, Massachusetts NAEP reading scores rose by 0.25 Academic standards were the next to go. points each year.

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Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

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. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S.

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Common Core Elementary Study Training 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP’s writing rubric is aligned with the Common Core and the writing approach is aligned to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards dimensions of inquiry. The 2016-17 assessment results show strong growth over the year among high school students.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 18, 2015

Learn granular approaches to infusing differentiation into all of your lesson plans, whether you’re a Common Core school or not, with this hands-on, interactive class. Next class: Summer, 2016. It is not an extra layer of work, rather a habit of mind for both teacher and student. The Tech-infused Teacher: Summer PD. Certificate.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Common Core 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Learning Common Core 168

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

All students in the district take Common Core Math 6, 7 and 8. By contrast, the first group of students who took Common Core Math 8 in eighth grade and Algebra 1 for the first time in ninth grade (and who graduated earlier this year) had an Algebra 1 repeat rate of 8 percent. Related: COLUMN: The U.S. Alan Schoenfeld is

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Common Core STEM Course Study 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In her July 2016 account , former librarian Mary Moen witnessed a computer science training for school librarians where Klimczak encouraged teachers to think about how the five-stage story structure is right there in computer science instruction. Rather, coding instruction should be about teaching how to write a story. The initiative?

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Common Core Strategy Study Video 143

MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Traditional curricula have focused on one particular strand of mathematics (or one domain within the Common Core) at a time. As a result, many students view mathematics as a long list of rules and methods to remember, and students who see mathematics this way are the lowest achieving students ( Boaler & Zoido, 2016 ).

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Common Core Resources Assessment Data 129

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I don’t like to be alarmist, or give too much weight to any one test result, but last week’s release of 2016 reading test scores around the world is now the third major proof point that something is awry. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Is the U.S. educational system beginning to decay? See adjacent table.).

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System Education Common Core Study 112

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

According to 5th grade scores on the 2015-2016 PARCC (a Common Core-aligned test similar to SmarterBalanced), students of all racial backgrounds have experienced a significant rise in English language arts proficiency since the school went blended, especially when compared to state averages. Hispanic/Latino 42.1%

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 147

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

From 1998 to 2010, the time spent on nonacademic subjects in kindergarten, including free play, decreased in favor of more time on academic subjects, such as conventional spelling and writing simple equations, a 2016 study found. Related: Opinion: Kindergarten is more than preparation for first grade, and we need to take it back.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. In national surveys of opt-out activists (conducted with Nancy Green Saraisky) in 2016 and 2018, we found concerns that go beyond the narrow features of standardized testing itself. Other states have also experienced high rates of opting out.

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Common Core Advocacy Policies Survey 111

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

51Talk was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on June 10th, 2016. 51Talk makes it easy for teachers to conduct lessons because we design and provide all of our own course material, which closely follows Common Core and CEFR standards. 51Talk went public on the New York Stock Exchange in June, 2016 (COE).

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Technology Education Company Accessibility 186

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Benefits for students—and teachers.

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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Comparison Data Secondary Report 109

Waterford

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After evaluating a 2016 ETI study of Waterford Upstart , an early literacy program for PreK studies, the WWC designated it as meeting ESSA Tier 1 standards. Department of Education, evaluates and ranks early learning studies to provide educators with unbiased evaluations as they make decisions for their schools.

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Study Common Core Groups Meeting 130

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

We started Torah Academy in September 2016 with a strong vision for how and what we want our students to learn. Educators at Torah Academy teach courses that cover everything from Common Core mathematics to Judaic studies, as well as provide services including speech therapy and vocational training.

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Company EdTech Common Core Assessment 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. According to the nonprofit’s most recently available 990 form , the organization took a net loss of $4 million in fiscal year 2016 (ending on Aug.

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Kaplan Common Core Education Company 88

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Its K-8 adaptive learning and diagnostic product i-Ready is used by over 4 million students, and a 2016 study found that it was an exceptionally accurate predictor of student performance on Common Core Assessments in New York State. The company also donates a significant amount of earnings to schools and charitable causes.

Education 120

Education LMS Moodle EdTech 120

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2016

Recent #nhedchat Twitter Chat on Competency Based Learning [January 26, 2016 Twitter Chat]. Add John Martin to your PLN @ edventures. New Hampshire’s Journey towards Competency-Based Learning [Article]. Marzano Research’s Competency-Based Learning Resources.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Twitter 150

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

The interaction between administration and students and the amount of student voice put into the decisions made, specifically about Common Core and standardizing a certain curriculum. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I’m not going to be anything.

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Common Core Advocacy Report System 100

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Northfield’s class of 2016, it turns out, reflects a distressing reality in the US: kids are much slower, less efficient readers than they used to be. The standards changed to Common Core in 2013 and our middle school had pretty lackluster results in reading with the adoption of more rigorous standards,” says Langston. “We

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Survey Study Common Core Assessment 129

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Part of the appeal of project-based learning is the perception that there’s more freedom, a welcome antidote to the pressures of test prep and meeting Common Core standards. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Study Learning Common Core Report 111

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Mangum then took the floor to take the attendees back to 2016 and talked about the important edtech trends of that time. The Influence of Common Core and SBAC Testing Utah participated in the Common Core standards and was an SBAC state for online testing.

Technology 87

Technology Common Core EdTech Trends 87

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

The Common Core, in part a response to the poor quality of writing nationwide, pushes length and text complexity. In one specific example, high school students across the city did not know what the conjunctions “because,” “but” and “so” are meant to signal.

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Common Core Strategy Knowledge Base Assessment 111

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In 2016 the Common Sense Education editorial staff evaluated close to 170 apps, games, and websites for learning potential and classroom implementation. You can filter through collections by grade level, Lexile level, theme, genre, literary device, and even Common Core State Standards addressed.

EdTech 40

EdTech Android Smartphone iPad 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 4, 2016

Deadline: March 29, 2016. “As teachers know, the persuasive essay has long been a staple of high school education, but the Common Core standards seem to have put evidence-based argumentative writing on everybody’s agenda. You couldn’t ask for a more real-world example of the genre than the classic newspaper editorial.”

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Common Core Learning Examples Education 46

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

Related: In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core. They do not say this about other subjects. More than any other subject math is about tests, grades, homework and competitions. The post OPINION: It’s time to stop the clock on math anxiety.

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Common Core Conference STEM Report 55

MiddleWeb

APRIL 22, 2015

Articles Media Literacy 2016 Election Common Core Frank Baker media and politics media literacy polioptics political advertising political literacy political stagecraft presidential politics social students visual literacy' As the "polioptic" presidential race begins, Baker shares insights and lesson ideas.

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Common Core Education 40

wwwatanabe

JULY 2, 2016

Importance of Global Collaborations Common Core State Standards demand students to collaborate with diverse partners , thereby expanding students' global awareness. New 2016 ISTE Standards for Students I recently attended the ISTE Conference in Denver, where they unveiled the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Conference Policies 64