Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

When I first saw the long list of my classes’ ELA Common Core Standards, I remember feeling overwhelmed and worrying about how I was going to cover all of them in a single school year. I was being asked to teach approximately 60 standards in one year, a pace that I had never tried before.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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EdTech Course Common Core Industry 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. Most include class ideas for usage and an assessment to determine if students got what you put out there. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity. Explore.org.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Is it established by district policy or is each teacher encouraged to pick their own? For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing? End-of-year assessments of the Common Core grade-level standards are delivered online. This isn’t an uncommon concern. Are they allowed?

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Technology Digital Citizenship Common Core iPad 150

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Even though countless studies have debunked this means to truly assess teacher effectiveness states have moved full steam ahead ignoring the research. What results is the proliferation of an industrialized model of education that reformers claim they want to get away from, but the policies they support only help to sustain it.

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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. Scores from strong, medium, and non-implementers of Common Core were within a single NAEP scale score point — considered negligible.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2016

A new test is positioning itself as a non-common-core alternative to the SAT and ACT. Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C., Families who home school or send their students to private schools, and those who live in states without the common core, are key audiences for Vector A.R.C.

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Common Core Assessment Analysis Policies 40

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 20, 2013

ASCD’s Free Educator Summer Professional Development Resources ASCD School Improvement Tool — Designed for use in schools and school systems around the world, this online tool offers educators a comprehensive needs assessment as they prepare for the coming year.

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Resources Common Core Policies Advocacy 84

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. Yet it’s hard to determine from looking at the state’s testing data how successful schools have been in closing the achievement gap between these students and their peers since Common Core was implemented.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The nine authors, most of whom hail from the University of Virginia, issued a press release trumpeting it as the first long-term study of a knowledge-rich curriculum and the first to show outsized gains on state assessments. They said the gains were large enough to catapult U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2016

Even assessment changes with competency-based learning. This is an important conversation to share with curriculum directors, policy makers, and those looking to level up past standards to competencies. But, wow, are there some challenges ! Competencies by nature remove the class rank and the coveted valedictorian’s spot.

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 15, 2013

These eight fallacies are at the heart of current education policy from increased standardized testing, using of test scores in teacher evaluations, implementation of the Common Core Curriculum, and our incessant focus on accountability. Assessments given to students that we know aren''t going to be successful is idiotic.

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Education Policies Industry Common Core 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

The tool that helped identify the gaps in the first place is called the Knowledge Map , developed at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy based on the value of content knowledge. In those countries, schools are expected to teach all students common content. schools assess.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

Privacy policies are notoriously difficult to read, often filled with legal jargon that seems to require a law degree to understand. This is why Common Sense Education, with the help of our Privacy Program and its more than 250 district partners, provides privacy ratings on the learning review pages of hundreds of popular edtech products.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. Feedback is more than just one assessment.

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Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD 53

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

When we imagine the future of assessment it’s easy to envision all sorts of impressive ways to help gauge what students know and what they can do. Fortunately, professional development specialists who understand the value of the full process are providing training and tools for true formative assessment. Can testing keep up?

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 23, 2015

Department of Education, said amid a growing anti-testing backlash, state and local officials need to evaluate how their assessments are used. Assessment Common Core E-rate Ed-tech Online Learning ltlf assessment testing' Delisle, a top official at the U.S.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

I’ll explain more on this later but for now… #3 You can “protect” your classroom (kind of…) If you’re still in the camp of “No AI in my class” (whether by choice or by your school’s policy for the next school year), you can somewhat do that. ChatGPT) well. Consider your learning goals, standards, etc.

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. Census Bureau and school features from the Common Core of Data maintained by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. The positive spillover effects for other subjects are noteworthy. We know it works.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 24, 2013

The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core by Matthew J. Thomas Dewing, and Matthew Perini seem to do just that in their book The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with Common Core. Perini, Thomas Dewing, and Harvey F. What would those six tools be?

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Common Core Social Media Professional Learning Strategy 86

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

The schools were recently in the news for their relatively strong performance on what’s known as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). military installations are adopting Common Core — but don’t call it that. He also serves as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

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Resources Classroom Education Common Core 97

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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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 74

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. In June 2021, Casserly will step aside from this role and become a strategic advisor to CGCS through 2024.

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Common Core Academic Standards Education Instructional Materials 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . Policy changes may play a role too. We must do better for all children.” Then, nearly all U.S.

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Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 111

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

We have pushed many state districts to make significant policy changes that align with instructional and educational best practices, and have encouraged teachers, administrators, and districts to innovate educational systems design. Why does there have to be only one, summative, cookie-cutter diploma for all kids? .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. Raymond Pecheone, executive director of the Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity. The trouble emerges when the assessment is used as a policy tool.”. We’re asking them to assess students.”. We’re asking them to plan lessons.

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Survey Common Core Assessment Study 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Japan’s education policy has also been debating whether or not to adopt yutori ky?iku policy changes, such as the implementation of Common Core and online-administered standardized tests helped speed up the shift to digital in schools. iku , roughly (and somewhat misleadingly) interpreted as a more relaxed education.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 30, 2015

Assessment Common Core Federal Policy Workforce Readiness businessroundtable chamberofcommerce nochildleftbehind senateeducationcommittee' Two national business organizations want annual tests kept in the rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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Common Core Policies Assessment 40

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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Common Core Assessment Elementary Policies 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. STEM to STEAM -The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and business people from RISD and beyond.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The testing world is being gripped by two overriding, and often competing forces: the continued reliance on big, high-stakes assessments for accountability purposes, and the rise of more sophisticated, nimble, and smaller-scale digital assessments, largely at the classroom level. It has become a part of [our] DNA.”.

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Assessment Industry Common Core Data 40

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. That’s why we need to fix No Child Left Behind.”.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? He knows it best. I adore E.D.

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