LAUSD’s iPad Troubles, Continued. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or in the […]
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Declining Support for the Common Core. Each week, Educating Modern Learners will pick one interesting current event – whether it’s news about education, technology, politics, business, science, or culture – and help put it in context for school leaders, explaining why the news matters and how it might affect teaching and learning (in the short or
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Educator (and EML regular contributor) Lee Skallerup Bessette writes about what it means to “foster independent learning” in an educational climate with restrictive curriculum, high-stakes assessments, and mandated standards. Here she offers concrete steps for engaging students in the decision-making that happens in the classroom, giving them more agency and a larger stake in their
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