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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. She is the director of curriculum for NAF, a nonprofit that is trying to make education more career-focused. When would I ever use this?

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. Educational leaders may not reach out to underserved schools or underrepresented communities, so students dont know about them. Other districts have community organizations demonstrate how dual enrollment can help students outside high school.

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Students at U.S. Government Schools Fight Book Bans

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The agency also removed content on sexuality from its middle-school health classes, including chapters on sexually transmitted diseases, abuse and neglect, sexual harassment, human reproduction and the menstrual cycle. They are explicitly for partisan political reasons.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

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Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Sam Brooks.

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What Happens When Standardized Test Scores Don’t Reflect Student Growth?

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It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students that have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the year receive poor scores. I wondered how the test would affect him after it was over.

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How Playful Assessment Unseated Standardized Tests at One School

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This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. Read part one for background.

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