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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Department of Education spokesperson Alberto Betancourt.) Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2016

And most of all, technology has invaded the classroom in the form of equipment, tools and video educational lessons. . Does technology enhance my child’s educational experience over the pre-technology experience? The comparison is completely unfounded, of course. Students are no longer confined to their seats all day.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an organization that has been mapping proficiency standards for 15 years, says the gap between how states define proficiency is narrowing. NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Common Core expect students to write-edit-resubmit. Education is no different. Education pedagogists categorize these sorts of ideas as higher-order thinking and Habits of Mind –traits that contribute to critical thinking, problem solving, and thriving. What’s the Mulligan Rule? Any golfers? Draw a diagram.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

In the last five years, there have been some remarkable shifts in the tools educators use in the classroom and to perform their many responsibilities. The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But thanks to a data collection effort by an expert in adult education at a nonprofit research organization in New York, Center for an Urban Future, we now have evidence of a sharp decline in new high school equivalency degrees in almost every state between 2012 and 2016. Many state budgets for equivalency test preparation were also cut.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

According to Stanford professor of mathematics education Jo Boaler , making mistakes is actually “the most useful thing they can be doing.” But making mistakes is crucial when students are learning math. Why then, do kids approach mistakes in math differently?

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

Education is changing, things are in flux, and there is uncertainty. 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).

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

Across the board, educators value MAP Growth’s consistency, reliability, and flexibility. It allows for an apples to apples comparison.” So the district began looking for a solution that kept up with the changes in the Common Core and included the language component that’s so important for problem solving and critical thinking.

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Brainscape

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Now, the reason we love these numbers apps is because they provide a structured, yet entertaining and effective way for kids to become fluent in the concept of numbers, counting, comparisons, and values, while engaging them with games and rewards to motivate their learning. If only there were such apps around when WE were in school, right?

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N2Y

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This may be surprising to some, especially as much of the current conversation in education involves student-centered learning. They need their teacher to set up structured opportunities for them to explore fraction comparison with these manipulatives. Some states follow Common Core and some do not.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 1, 2016

Both admin and teachers can also see where their students fall in comparison to other Newsela students in regards to reading-level achievements and Common Core standards. All pre-loaded prompts are Common Core-aligned. Write About This. With this simple app, students become digital authors.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. The push to find the best way to test the arts is coming from arts educators themselves in many instances. Yet access to arts education remains unequal. It’s a parity thing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Even as educators from around the world flock to Finland to discover its magic formula, Estonia, just a two-hour ferry ride away, has not aroused the same degree of interest. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In their excellent resource No More Independent Reading Without Support (Heinemann, 2013), Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss provide a helpful comparison: Silent Reading. The authors also cite the Common Core Anchor Standard that addresses independent reading: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10. The next three are more student-led.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

I was recently asked to provide a workshop that supported Differentiated Learning through the use of educational technology in the Project Based learning Classroom (PBL). As I explored the idea of technology, PBL, and the differentiated classroom I needed find some common connections and categories.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

Olga Dysthe, professor of education at the University of Bergen, separates student writing into two categories: thinking-writing and presentation-writing. In case your administrator wants to see how blogging relates to the Common Core State Standards, you can use these for reference: WS 11-12.4: WS 11-12.6: WS 11-12.6:

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The independent analysis released Friday was conducted by the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment , a research and consulting nonprofit hired by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , the group that sponsored the exams.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Originally inspired by the efficiency of factories and certainty of science, the mass education movement largely sought to standardize and sterilize schools nationwide. This is the only way we know and it is cemented in our brains by our own 16,000 hours of time on the mandatory education assembly line. Change your lens.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students. Related: Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target. We shouldn’t be surprised — or punish educators — when the students we’ve identified as such perform that way.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. Mary Fulton, a senior project manager and policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. Most professions allow entry to their respective field only to those who demonstrate agreed-upon core skills on an independent assessment of competence. in comparison to the nationally recommended standard of 42. This is a profession-based anomaly.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 18, 2016

The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring Pearson PLC, the global education company, to conduct a business strategy review with an eye to becoming more profitable. ” [See the charts above for 12-month and 3-month comparisons.]. Pearson 1-year stock price chart, New York Stock Exchange, from Morningstar. ” U.S.-based

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2015

After looking at an initial prototype, Hartford educators came back to the company explaining areas that needed more background, context and clues to scaffold a student’s understanding of texts. In comparison, the Middlebury blended curriculum is grouped by overarching themes and subthemes.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

This is the second of a two-part conversation with Yong Zhao about standards, testing and other core elements of the modern system of education, and the assumptions that may be standing in the way of meeting the real learning needs of all children.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

I feel like a lot of times as educators, we tell people things because it’s easier than trying to come up with something inquiry-based. What I have found, at least with the Common Core Standards the way they’re written, if we look at the standards themselves as the end point, I think it becomes really frustrating and limiting.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Now that 45 states (and 3 territories) have adopted the Common Core Standards, edu-preneurs and opportunists have gone into overdrive, churning out tons of materials, programs, and trainings to help schools and school districts implement these standards. Or, is it a continuation of a outdated education paradigm that refuses to die?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. One of the excuses educators have long offered to explain America’s poor reading performance is poverty. The problem in Bethlehem.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Donald Trump outlined his policy and philosophy for K-12 education in a speech at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy (CASSA) , a for-profit charter school in the largest city of battleground state of Ohio. Black folks’ outstretched desperation for quality schools and equity is longer than the history of public education itself. “.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Layoffs at General Assembly (7% of staff). Why, schools of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.

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