Remove 2018 Remove Humanities Remove K-12
article thumbnail

What 2018 PISA international rankings tell us about U.S. schools

The Hechinger Report

. In 1967, on the first international comparison of educational achievement in math, the United States ranked 11 out of 12 nations. It ranks 13th out of the 79 countries and regions, according to the 2018 PISA scores in reading. The post What 2018 PISA international rankings tell us about U.S. The only country behind the U.S.

Pedagogy 141
article thumbnail

A Window Into the Early Epigravettian: Grotta della Lea and Italy’s Final Ice Age Hunters

Anthropology.net

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

article thumbnail

Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. In this session, participants will explore a new way to use the latest research in K-3 math and reading to understand strategies for reaching all learners in the classroom and with edtech. Can Students Create VR?

EdTech 100
article thumbnail

Education Has Been Hammering the Wrong Nail. We Have to Focus on the Early Years.

ED Surge

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. The health and learning readiness gaps that build up before age 5 fuel the achievement gaps in K-12 education.

K-12 137
article thumbnail

Supporting Districts to Develop Inclusive Computing Pathways

ED Surge

CT pathways are system-wide K-12 programs supporting equitable participation in computational thinking. Beginning in the fall of 2018, North Salem partnered with Digital Promise to provide professional learning opportunities for teachers in the district. The course first supports district leaders in assembling a leadership team.

K-12 101
article thumbnail

Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning.

Advocacy 145