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What data is necessary to help students succeed?

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In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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Aldine ISD Gets 100% STAAR Pass Rate in Algebra 1 Pilot Program

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The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Do they have a better life after high school? We don't know.

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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. Luckily, these six educators have recommendations that anyone can start implementing immediately.

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Pulling the Plug on a Personalized Learning Pilot

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After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden. These bright guessers are going to be in big trouble in high school if we don’t push them beyond that.”

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Let’s Prepare Students for the World—Not Tests

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Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Schools will be in competition to attract students and the publicly funded voucher dollars that come along with them. In fact, the scores of students enrolled in special high school test-prep classes went down 10 points.

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