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Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: New White Paper Examines Portrait of a Graduate

Digital Promise

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Can a Group of MIT Professors Turn a White Paper Into a New Kind of College?

ED Surge

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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How Large Print Books Create a ‘Virtuous Cycle’ for All Readers

ED Surge

The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th graders were reading at or above a proficient level. To address the current reading crisis effectively, educators might also benefit from a slight shift in mindset. Dr. Julie A.

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Educator Micro-credentials are Grounded in Research

Digital Promise

Micro-credentials offer an important opportunity for educators to strengthen their professional learning. Digital Promise’s new white paper examines how the organization has ensured the content of micro-credentials and the process for earning them are anchored in rigorous research. Digital Promise is the gold standard. …

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Strengthen Professional Learning with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Through each competency-based credential, educators demonstrate application of their learning. School districts are seeing the value of embedding micro-credentials in existing professional learning pathways to promote educator agency, recognize educators developing their practice, and expand competency-based learning practices with students.

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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

ED Surge

And there's the tougher question: "If remote education is worth the tuition, then what is the worth of college?" What is unique, perhaps, is a model that both embraces online education materials and partnering with employers while also insisting on preserving in-person teaching and a dose of the liberal arts.

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PROOF POINTS: Nearly six out of 10 middle and high school grades are wrong, study finds

The Hechinger Report

The discrepancy matters, the white paper says, because inaccurate grades make it harder to figure out which students are prepared for advanced coursework or ready for college. In this transcript analysis, grade inflation occurred more frequently for Black and Hispanic students than Asian and white students.