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Report: Assessments for College Readiness in Florida
Jobs for the Future (JFF) released "Testing Ground: How Florida Schools and Colleges Are Using a New Assessment to Increase College Readiness," a report by Pamela Burdman that describes how Florida's Division of Colleges and K-12 partners designed and launched a new placement test as a part of a greater college-readiness plan.
Personalized Learning
Good Evaluation Requires Good Data—And Sound Judgment
The superintendents and school district human resource officers I spoke this week said they are struggling with the political and technical aspects of linking student achievement data to teacher evaluation. The policy analysts and labor economists that discussed incorporating data into teacher evaluation at PIE-Net this week admitted…
EdTech
Review: The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential by Anya Kamenetz
This July Anya Kamenetz published The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential, a free eBook that teaches students how to develop a personal learning plan through the use of online resources and a community of self-chosen mentors. The entire book feeds the mind of the edupunk in delivering ways to take advantage of the rapidly growing resources on the Internet to receive a credential.
Personalized Learning
Teaching Math Without Words—And Getting Big Gains
Mathematical thinking is a problem-solving skill but we use a lot of abstract symbols and words to try to teach kids math procedures. Just look at a textbook or observe a middle school classroom. Our text-based approach works for some students but is confusing and complicated for too many,…
Personalized Learning
Kansas City: A Great Education Improvement Story
In what may be the most improved urban American district, Kansas City, Kansas achieved results by a sustained focus on rigor and relationships. They started with a new goal—college and career readiness (a novel idea ten years ago). They got to know their students, they got them in the right courses, and the teachers got on the same page about good teaching.
Personalized Learning
Assessment Will Advance When It Moves Into the Background
Digital Learning Now is a framework for state education policy for the digital age. Key to quality is Element #8, Assessment and Accountability. On assessment, DLN suggests that states should administer testing online: Administering tests digitally has multiple benefits. Tests can be administered and scored quickly and…
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Digital Media & Learning Competition Leverages Open Badges
A new game-based strategy called Digital Media and Learning Competition, hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC, and Mozilla, plans to leverage badges and badge systems to help people learn and demonstrate skills and knowledge.
EdTech
Jobs for the Future Launches Credentials that Work
Jobs for the Future (JFF) launched Credentials for Work, a new initiative intended to transform how postsecondary institutions align with occupational training programs through real-time technologies that provide labor market information.
Personalized Learning
Desmos Graphing Calculator
Several new features have been added to the Desmos Graphing Calculator. Colleen Young uses it in the classroom as a powerful resource and particularly likes the sliders feature.
EdTech
Open High School of Utah Offers 30 Semesters of OERs
Open High School of Utah, a public charter school, announced today that it will offer its curriculum from 30 semesters of content in math, science, language arts, social studies and electives as an open educational resource (OER) on its website repository.