Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As we close 2015, I invite you to join me in reflecting on the year's events, our accomplishments and in looking forward to the year ahead. Also in 2015, we extended our Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative to 21 middle schools nationwide.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 27, 2024

2015, [link] Sayre, April Pulley, et al. Verywell Mind , Verywell Mind, 11 Mar. 2023, www.verywellmind.com/gardners-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-279516 Rosier, Lauren. Word Walls and Reading Fluency.” Missouri State University, 1 Jun. Word Walls.” Reading Rockets , www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies/word-walls.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Hope you will join me and Julie Graber in June for our ISTE workshop… Register here! Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking. Short description.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 10, 2015

Imagine that your bosses come up to you one day and say something like this… Hey, I know that we’re a year and a half late on this but we’re trying to take care of you. It looks like the company’s profits are solid but we’re just not sure right now. At this point all we can offer is a 1.25% raise for you and your co-workers.

Education 101

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

The report indicates clear evidence that “well-designed primary schools boost children’s academic performance in reading, writing, and math” (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett, 2015, p. The study found a 16 percent variation in learning progress due to the physical characteristics of the classroom. Cited Sources Barrett, P., &

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

Below are some lessons we learned after hitting the reset button on our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative in order to get it right that I captured in a 2015 post. William Horton says it best, "Unless you get instructional design right, technology can only increase the speed and certainty of failure."

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

That is, recombining specific elements of a particular practice into a different sequence (eg Janssen et al, 2015). Janssen, Grossman & Westbroek (2015). A final consideration that supports the kind of adaptive expertise we want teachers to develop is the addition of recomposition. Teachers College Record. Ryan & Deci (2020).

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Professional Development Psychology Teaching Education 195

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. Four regions in mainland China, including Beijing and Shanghai, collectively ranked 6th in math and in 2015. Photo: Chris Berdik. ranked 13th.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The text of the bill contains the line, “in 2015, a typical American student took 112 mandated standardized tests across the length of their elementary and secondary education years.” Likewise, we’re better served by being as precise as possible when we discuss testing. Stenhouse Publishers. Hutt, E. & & Schneider, J. Kamenetz, A.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al., 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Copeland T., & Dengah, F. Involve me and I learn”: Teaching and applying anthropology. Lumpkin, A. &

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The original series started in Amsterdam 1986 and in 2015 merged with the Italian series of conferences on Greek linguistics ( Incontro Internazionale di Linguistica Greca ), to start the new regular series of colloquia held every three years.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Effective use of differentiated instruction “has been proven to successfully promote the equity dimension of instructional effectiveness by providing all students with the opportunity to improve their achievement levels” (Valiandes, 2015). and Timperley, H. The power of feedback. 77, 81–112. doi: 10.3102/003465430298487.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

His African Realism: International Relations Theory and Africa’s Wars in the Postcolonial Era (2015) was a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title.” He published Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Oral History 42

Oral History History Political Science Museum 42

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16. Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Neanderthal fossil was found in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter (shown) in France. The Discovery of Thorin: A New Line of Neanderthals The key to this revelation lies in the remains of an adult male Neanderthal, dubbed “Thorin,” found in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter in France.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Finding out just how significant this was required, unfortunately for one cohort of students, waiting until the exam results, mark schemes and reports from the first round of exams in the 2015 A level specifications were released.

Psychology 195

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The day we were awarded the opportunity to participate in this initiative back in 2015 is a day that is forever ingrained in my memory. Before the 2015-16 school year, our school had just two laptop carts with 20 laptops each that were shared among all of our classes.

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Middle School Artifacts High School History 121

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

However, the 2015 discovery of 3.3 When Homo habilis , known as "handyman," was discovered alongside stone tools from 2.3 million years ago, it was widely assumed that australopithecines lacked the mental or physical capabilities for toolmaking. afarensis may have been capable of making and using tools.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For about 29 years, Pell funding had been largely prohibited for individuals who are incarcerated, with the exception of a small federal pilot program that debuted in 2015. The new Pell rules made 767,000 people at state prisons nationwide eligible to pay for college with federal funds — starting with a handful of those at Pelican Bay.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

At private, nonprofit colleges and universities, where discounting is most prevalent, a whopping 57 percent of undergraduates received institutional aid in 2019-20, unchanged from the previous financial aid survey data in 2015-16. But the average tuition discount that each student received grew to $20,800 from $16,200 during this time period.

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O-Level Geography

JULY 7, 2024

Since the launch of the app in 2015, at least 76 people who had a cardiac arrest have been saved by such responders. How does the introduction of the MyResponder app help to build up community resilience? What are the successes and limitations? M ore than 170,000 people are registered on the myResponder app.

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Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. He then compared these diversity gains to what happened at a similar group of colleges that didn’t adopt test-optional policies until after 2015-16. and DePaul University in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

And federal data show the number of high schoolgraduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2015 to 62 percent in 2022, the most recent year for which the figure is available. Freshman enrollment this fall dropped by another 5 percent.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Online students who received audio feedback perceived that feedback as more thorough, detailed, and personal than text feedback (Voelkel & Mello, 2014).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. Why we should care about high levels of education spending among the rich is a matter of debate.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

2015: fig. Endowed with 61 meticulously etched markings, Ötzi's tattoos have long puzzled researchers, prompting inquiries into their significance, symbolism, and the sophisticated techniques employed in their creation. Details of the Iceman's sixty-one carbon pigment tattoos (after Samadelli et al.,

Archaeology 68

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Living Geography

APRIL 17, 2024

FjordPhyto started in 2015 to investigate how melting glaciers are affecting the phytoplankton along the western Antarctic Peninsula. Fjord Phyto is a citizen science project relating to phytoplankton - a key part of the Antarctic ecosystem.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

According to Common Sense, between 2015 and 2019, screen use among teenagers (ages 13 to 18) increased by 11 percent. TikTok wasn’t as big a platform in 2019, and it wasn’t even a thing in 2015.” Among tweens (ages 8 to 12), it increased by just 3 percent. One platform in particular stands out. TiKTok is a big force,” he says.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We discovered his first teeth in 2015 lying on the ground at the cave’s entrance, barely covered by a few leaves. Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans. He is among the most recent occupations of the Mandrin Cave.

Archaeology 111

Archaeology Archiving Anthropology History 111

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

Leadership 144

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This webinar takes as its focus trajectories of deprivation in England using the Index of Deprivation (IoD) for several time points: 2004, 2007, 2010, 2015, and 2019 for common geographical areas (2021 Lower Layer Super Outputs Areas; LSOAs, which we consider as neighbourhoods).

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Resampling between 2015 and 2017 of the fungal colony in the Upper Peninsula has upped the estimates for Michigan’s giant fungus to 173 acres (0.7 km 2 ) and 2,500 years. That’s both bigger than the Vatican and older than the Church, weighing some 400 metric tons.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed. In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children.

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