Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

I work with a high school robotics team, and once a month, we go to an elementary school and bring a STEM activity. When kids are in a school setting and they read a book and they take a test about the theme of that book and they fail, they feel so devastated inside. They don't see it as a failure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Kids got a preschool intervention, and it seemed like it went well initially—in elementary school those kids started to move up. But then the gains wore off as they went further along in elementary school. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This sense of inclusion is particularly important for Morris’s growing ELL population, a group which has historically faced racial, economic and linguistic isolation within the American school system. Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We worked through the entire engineering process, defining the challenge, specifying the requirements, brainstorming solutions, building prototypes, testing and redesigning. Schools Adjust Curriculums to Include Drones. They can then make modifications if needed, redesign the code, then test again. I’m proud of our team.”.

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Learning Tools STEM Learning Failure 161

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years. Jessica Torres. “In

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Harsh words, but perhaps unsurprising from Robinson, whose TED Talk on whether schools kill creativity is the most viewed in the TED canon. Taking aim at standardized testing in particular, Robinson advocates for a “revolution” in learning—and praises several schools that are realigning priorities to put the focus back on inspiring students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. He could use a calculator during tests, but he had to learn a strategy for tracking those negative signs.

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Math Testing Learning Failure 112

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

That’s exactly the approach that CTO Frankie Jackson took several years ago at Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District when proposing massive infrastructure upgrades in the suburban Houston district. Before the upgrade, a group of about 100 students gathered in a large space to take an online test.

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Mobile Devices Failure Blended Learning Testing 114

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

I do remember being very young and helping one of my aunts, like every year, set up her classroom before school started. My mom didn't finish her education degree until I was in elementary school, but then she became a [high school English teacher]. I felt kind of like a failure. You're testing a lot of limits.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

These days, schools are trying to figure out how to bring making into every facet of the school day, with mobile kits, clubs and more. Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey. When teaching fictional texts, you can apply lessons in resilience to the hero’s journey ; discuss how heroes aren’t successful all the time.

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