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A Guide to the 8 Mathematical Practice Standards | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    A Guide to the 8 Mathematical Practice Standards
Daniel Breiman

Best Practices: Learning expeditions | Expeditionary Learning - 0 views

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    Best Practices: Learning expeditions
ShaeBrie Dow

Improving Student Writing Through Effective Feedback: Best Practices and Recommendation... - 0 views

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    Best practices of giving students feedback
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    Best practices of giving students feedback
Kelly OLeary

Should More Low-Income Students Apply to Highly Selective Colleges? - 0 views

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    Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Research on College Undermatch "Access to the nation's most selective colleges remains starkly unequal, with students in the lowest income quartile constituting less than 4% of enrollment," say Michael Bastedo and Allyson Flaster (University of Michigan/Ann Arbor) in this article in Educational Researcher. "Students in the top SES quartile comprise 69% of enrollment at institutions that admit fewer than a third of their applicants…" One increasingly popular explanation for this enrollment gap is undermatching - academically able low-income students not applying to selective colleges for which they are qualified, settling instead for lower-tier institutions. Bastedo and Flaster are skeptical about this theory for three reasons First, they don't believe there is good evidence about the life benefits of attending different tiers of college, and most measures of college "quality" are quite unscientific. Life advantages might accrue at the extremes - going to a highly selective college versus a low-quality community college - but the evidence about the whole middle range is "quite muddy," say Bastedo and Flaster. Among the factors that need to be looked at more carefully are a college's graduation rate, students' debt burden, placement in graduate or professional schools, and post-graduate earnings. Second, the authors question whether it's possible for researchers to predict which low-income students will get into selective colleges to which they haven't yet applied. Competition for seats in these colleges has become much more intense in recent years, and extra-curricular activities, alumni parents, athletic prowess, and other intangibles play an increasingly important part. In many of these areas, higher-SES students have great advantages. Third, even if we look only at SAT scores and GPAs, high-achieving disadvantaged students are still not as competitive as the undermatching advocate
Lois Whipple

College Board SAT Partnership | Khan Academy - 0 views

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    The partnership between Khan Academy and the College Board directly addresses one of the greatest inequities around college entrance exams: the culture of high-priced test preparation. Now, for the first time, all students have the opportunity to practice for the SAT with completely free, best-in-class materials
Alicia Koster

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/PISA-2012-results-US.pdf - 0 views

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    he Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an ongoing triennial survey that assesses the extent to which 15-year-olds students near the end of compulsory education have acquired key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies. The assessment does not just ascertain whether students can reproduce knowledge; it also examines how well students can extrapolate from what they have learned and apply that knowledge in unfamiliar settings, both in and outside of school. This approach reflects the fact that modern economies reward individuals not for what they know, but for what they can do with what they know. PISA offers insights for education policy and practice, and helps monitor trends in students' acquisition of knowledge and skills across countries and in different demographic subgroups within each country. The findings allow policy makers around the world to gauge the knowledge and skills of students in their
Alicia Koster

Accountability and Motivation - Top Performers - Education Week - 0 views

  • There is a lot of federal money available for training and professional development for teachers but no systematic federal strategy that I can discern for turning that money into systems of the kind top-performing countries use to support long-term, steady improvements in teachers' professional practice
  • Knowledge workers would fail unless they were managed like professionals: given a lot of autonomy, trusted to make the right decisions and supported rather than directed.
  • Pink draws on four decades of research to argue that most workers are capable of much more and better work than they currently do, but they will be motivated to do it not by the old extrinsic rewards and punishments, but rather by the intrinsic motivation that comes from being treated like the true professionals described by Drucker.
Kelly OLeary

Restorative Justice or Restorative Practices | Fix School Discipline - 0 views

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    A trauma-informed, school-wide approach to supporting healthy learning environments for students and teachers
meredith fox

TLRIMargrain (2) - 9232_summaryreport.pdf - 0 views

  • Effective teacher education practice:the impact of written assessmentfeedback for distance learners
Alicia Koster

Let's Mend, Not End, Educational Testing - Education Week - 0 views

  • The Common Core State Standards and accompanying K-12 assessments have recently sparked a fierce national backlash against testing. Sound educational testing and assessment are integral to good teaching and learning in classrooms and necessary for evaluating school performance and assuring quality in education. Rather than throw the baby out with the bathwater, I propose a more considered, "mend, not end" approach to testing, assessment, and accountability in America's schools, with validity at the forefront of the conversation.
  • Mending begins with understanding that most commercial standardized tests are designed to serve particular purposes well, for particular populations, and can support only particular decisions at best. To uphold validity principles in practice, it is worthwhile to ask: Are we using the test for the originally intended purpose, or for another purpose that taxes the tool beyond its technical limits? Multi-purposing a test indiscriminately is not a good idea from a validity standpoint, despite its efficiency.
Lois Whipple

Sustainable Professional Development | District Administration Magazine - 0 views

  • class, and requesting feedback from students and parents on how it’s working. Risk-taking also includes a higher level of transparency, such as sharing classroom practices that didn’t work, as well as those that did, at a Parent Teacher Student Association meeting, or via a school newsletter or classroom website. <a href="http://ox-d.promediagrp.com/w/1.0/rc?cs=81df19a157&cb=1295506973" ><img src="http://ox-d.promediagrp.com/w/1.0/ai?auid=537074984&cs=81df19a157&cb=214790647" border="0" alt=""></a> Advertisement Learni
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