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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

While the teachers in my audience will probably know the difference, it does not help that the Common Core Standards are exceptionally vague about the type of digital skills students need to exhibit. Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

Edsurge

By digging into your grade level data for various discrete skills, you notice a trend—75% of your third grade classes are struggling with number sentences. For example, imagine that you are an elementary school principal who is looking for opportunities to strengthen specific third grade math skills in the new school year.

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Louisiana’s NAEP Score — A Victory for the Science of Reading?

Edsurge

Wexler, the education writer, suggests that blue states haven't embraced phonics or knowledge-based curricula to the same degree as red states. For instance, researchers use Common Core of Data to access demographic information about schools, such as the number of English learners or the number of special-education students.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The incident caused a great deal of furor, perhaps because it came at a moment of heightened political outcry about the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing.

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