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Savvas Announces its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 Earns Highest Rating from EdReports

December 9, 2020 by eSchool News Staff

Distance learning demands that districts close technology gaps and ensure teachers—and students—are equipped for a virtual world

Savvas Learning Company, a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common ... Read more

What is Obama’s K-12 education legacy?

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 by Laura Ascione Devaney and Meris Stansbury

Common Core, Race to the Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—just a few top-down, often-controversial, metrics-heavy K-12 reform initiatives favored by the Obama Administration that seemed…

New $5M project will study impact of Common Core

October 26, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

A new $4.9 million project will examine how stakeholders from the government and other sectors are responding to the Common Core State Standards, and how those responses are…

Encourage critical thinking by turning your class into a Socratic Seminar

August 4, 2016 by Mary Howard

With so much talk about the Common Core standards and truly increasing our student’s argumentative powers and critical thinking skills, ... Read more

Free learning platform targets improved media literacy

July 26, 2016 by Laura Ascione

KQED Teach, which launched on July 11, provides a series of free, self-paced courses to help K-12 educators develop the ... Read more

The best BYOD tech tools for the Common Core classroom

June 21, 2016 by By Denise Jaffe

With just 4 categories and less than a dozen tools, educators can hit a lot of Common Core standards I ... Read more

Can you teach students to think more like entrepreneurs?

June 20, 2016 by Dennis Pierce

Entrepreneurship skills are more important than ever for preparing 21st century leaders. Here's how to foster them.

These 9 apps help every student hit Common Core Standards

June 16, 2016June 3, 2016 by Denise Skarbek, Melinda Carver, and Keya Mukherjee

Scaffold Common Core standards for students with these educator-picked apps As schools everywhere shift to the Common Core, teachers are ... Read more