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

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Dallas ISD’s Director of Personalized Learning Kristen Watkins noted that with challenges of hybrid models like simultaneous learning, the driving question for her team this year is, “How might we design learning experiences so that students in any environment get equitable learning opportunities?” Give them a real question to discuss.

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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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Having taught and worked with seniors in high school for over half of my career, these questions are always present, rarely asked, and, for me, often remain unanswered. Passing these exams is especially difficult for our students who are recent immigrants and are still learning English.

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

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But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? 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.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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He recently spoke with us about testing bias, holding psychometricians accountable for the exams they create and whether the future holds any innovation for a field still dominated by math, language and multiple choice questions. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? That’s an unfair test.

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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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