eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Breaking up black school boards has more to do with disrupting black power than implementing a proven strategy to improve academic achievement. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do. Students may be the most powerful weapons to help us change policy. That’s horrific enough.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Whatever you think of billions of dollars and countless hours invested in academic standards, regular testing and data-collection regimes, these efforts illustrate how dramatic change can happen when the interest of enough educational stakeholders are in sync.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Following all school, district, state and federal policies. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. Pairing students for small group work.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does. Or sometimes, an IT director may not be comfortable with an app’s privacy policy and restrict teachers from using it. There is no way for educators to directly buy materials.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

with highly selective admissions and academic standards, are failing to enroll the best and brightest students from poor and middle-class families. The fact that wealthy students dominate enrollments at elite colleges is an insult to one of America’s most deeply held values: meritocracy.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Policies At Big Universe, we developed SOPs (standard operating procedures) for every department, in the form of checklists, which served us well for employee onboarding and establishing norms for accountability, expectations and a reminder of what needs to be done when. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Other initiatives, however, have come from top-down reform efforts, such as the creation and implementation of academic standards and associated testing regimes that emerged from the accountability movement.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Among them: better teacher preparation and professional development for elementary reading; higher academic standards; state assessments aligned with NAEP’s expectations for students; and steady, consistent work toward the state’s strategic goals. But huge swings in policy are often more disruptive than helpful.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy. For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. The surge of teacher evaluation policies across the country has spurred a.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Former US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice to Casserly during a virtual award ceremony at the CGCS’s Legislative/Policy Conference. So, it is wonderful that a $10,0000 scholarship will go to someone who is following in my footsteps.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

” The one-year change in admissions policy was prompted by the pandemic and a desire to diversify the selective schools, in which Black and Latino students are underrepresented. A group called the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence is suing Boston Public Schools in U.S. He said the lawsuit made him angry. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. Bob LaRocca, Director of Policy and Communication at. In other words, SEL competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Policy changes may play a role too. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. “The results will be based on student performance and not contaminated.” Then, nearly all U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. The answer is yes, and they can be measured,” says Darling-Hammond, who now heads up the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute , in an interview with EdSurge.

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Linways Technologies

OCTOBER 30, 2019

As more and more government policies are being brought to practice focusing on quality assurance systems and academic standards, the academic community should actively enter debates about the assessments, academic standards, and the design framework of our colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2019

In exchange for a significant investment of federal funding, states like Tennessee would volunteer to enact new policies to raise standards, increase accountability, build new data systems and lift caps on the number of public charter schools. States from coast to coast made significant — and unprecedented — policy changes.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A collaborative leadership model is critical when it comes to bolstering school policy and helping students meet college and career readiness goals, according to a new report from the Learning First Alliance. ” Next page: Six recommendations for college and career readiness.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. Then massive numbers of testing requirements to disrupt and create heights of anxiety for all involved in a political appeasement move by higher policy makers.

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PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

Strict adherence to the policy of academic integrity, following academic citation rules and guidelines, to provide proper credit to the sources used in research. Academic honesty promotion is crucial for student success. The increasing importance of academic integrity policies by institutes and schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

For much of the past year, approximately 150 researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, educators, investors, and institutional leaders have been collaborating in 10 working groups (each supported by a professional researcher) to study and discuss data, processes, and systems that show substantial promise.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

He has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports, and editorials in major newspapers. He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project, and The Nation. About the Hosts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The lack of clear standards helping to shape what that care should entail has created an uneven system of care based on a fairly low bar for quality. In fact, most child care workers earn about the same as fast food cooks and 15 percent live in poverty, according to the Economic Policy Institute , a nonpartisan think tank.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. It was reprinted with permission. And they are more likely to take classes and tests meant to prepare them for college.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don’t meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures. For one thing, they will earn more money on average over a lifetime with that head start into the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

“There’s no evidence to show that a one-day training for teachers and staff will foster change,” says Circe Stumbo, president of West Wind Education Policy, an Iowa-based group that provides analysis of school equity policies. I told the superintendent we’re going to deal with issues of race and culture.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country. People outside the profession often want to see a greater sense of urgency about our work. But we’re not there yet.

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ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

research; The rethinking of what authentic work-based learning opportunities mean from a policy perspective; and. This includes not only our five part CTE playbook series and Perkins V policy toolkit, but also various model policies gleaned from states. A look at one state on the front lines of CTE reform.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Seesaw Skills view allows users to keep track of student proficiency on any given skill or academic standard. Teachers can also tag student work with Common Core or TEKS standards, for example, and create a color-coded three- to six-star assessment system. How can teachers use Google Docs with Seesaw?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Without that reason, education becomes a self-justifying expression of policies and procedures. Knowledge is the most modern of currencies that itself can be exchanged endlessly without diminishing itself. A concept? Some abstract lesson? A notable project?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Advanced high school courses could be at risk under new standards. Indiana state education officials are working on a plan to address tighter academic standards for those teaching Indiana high school classes in which students also can earn college credit. “This will have a detrimental effect on dual credit in our state.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. These new tasks were added. On one side of the room, Ron Smith, a middle school network superintendent, quizzed Kyla Trammell, an elementary network superintendent.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Texas State academic standards, for example, are different than all other States so those lesson products showing in search should be biased by geo-location (optional, obviously, and could be statewide or region rather than pinpoint geolocation.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

In most policy areas the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign want to be seen as the inheritor of the popular sitting president’s legacy, but perhaps no area has divided the party more than K-12 education. The Obama administration embraced much of the testing and accountability policies of the George W.

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