Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The era of trying to measure aptitude is finally over,” wrote the College Board’s president, David Coleman, in an essay in The Atlantic earlier this summer, referring to the version of the test that has been in place since 2014, when the SAT was last revised. It didn’t even occur to me that it could possibly be a positive.”

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Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 158

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Collecting data, making meaning of it, and using it to take action and inform instruction is already a difficult task in a whole-group setting. In my first teaching job back in 2006, at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia, teachers were expected to collect data at the beginning and end of each semester for every student on their rosters.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 105

k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Many online learners, especially in middle and high school, are checking Instagram during breaks, watching study tips on TikTok, and discussing class projects in WhatsApp groups. But online schools have to work harder to build this same community. Education doesnt stop when the Zoom call ends.

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Online Learning Ethics Education Learning 52

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JANUARY 4, 2024

A Student and a Teacher Try to Untangle Why Group Work Is, Well, Terrible By Nadia Tamez-Robledo This one hits close to home, and it’s thrilling to see that the topic of group work resonated with so many readers. There’s no neatly wrapped solution to tie up her essay — because her school hasn’t devised one.

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Essay Lecturing History Group work 152

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2012, I transferred to McClarin Success Academy in Fulton County School District. The high school is in College Park, Georgia which, according to FBI crime statistics, is the fifth most violent city in the United States. It wasn’t “Dead Poets Society” but it could possibly be “Dangerous Minds,” so I leapt at it.

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Attention Special Education Curriculum Testing 141