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Tests suggest most Kansas students not ready for college

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A majority of Kansas public school students aren’t on track to be ready academically for college based on their scores on standardized English and math tests this past spring, a state report said Tuesday. For 10th graders, the figures were 31 percent for the English tests and 25 percent for the math tests.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! But how can we integrate more of these skills into core academic classes such as English, algebra, physics and social studies? Where and how do young people learn these skills?

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Not Just Numbers: How Educators Are Using Data in the Classroom

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To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions. Dan Ryder, an English teacher at Mt.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Passing these exams is especially difficult for our students who are recent immigrants and are still learning English. Standardized testing has long been protested by educators, parents and students due to its racist origins.

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Juggling ‘Roomers’ and ‘Zoomers’? How Teachers Make Hybrid Learning Work

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Don’t put them in a room to talk about a multiple choice question. Give them a real question to discuss. Moreno notes that this is important for parents who may not know English or may not be familiar with technology. Give students real meaningful work,” Watkins recommends. Start small and very structured.

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The ABCs of SEL (or, the Impact of Social-Emotional Learning)

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The data included traditional ABC metrics drawn from student information systems, as well as data from the Panorama Social-Emotional Learning Survey , which asks students to reflect on their behavior, attitudes and mindsets through psychometrically-validated , multiple-choice questions.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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But three months in, she had had enough of watching students in her English language arts class mentally check out from the monotony of the new structure: She read off district-created slides, and then students answered a multiple-choice question by holding up a markerboard where they scribbled an A, B, C or D.

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