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Minnesota student achievement down during pandemic
These results probably don’t surprise educators, but student achievement in Minnesota as assessed using the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments were down. The number taking the exam were also down as many students opted out. student proficiency rates fell 11 percentage points … Continue reading
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Politicians determining the historical record
What is appropriate in teaching history has become controversial and now that I have spent some time listening to politicians discuss the matter confusing. This resource from FutureEd addresses the controversy regarding the teaching of concepts such as racism and sexism as … Continue reading
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Antivirus extensions on a Chromebook?
I have been assuming that antivirus software need not be added to Chromebooks because of the way a Chromebook “sandboxes” activities limiting what a virus could accomplish. I was surprised to have the following YouTube public service video come up … Continue reading
Google search
How Google prioritizes search results has always been a mystery with the lack of clarity defended as necessary corporate secrecy. I liked the original notion of page rank because as an academic I understand the logic of citation frequency as … Continue reading
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Comment Spam
I have started to receive a lot of comment spam. You don’t see the spam because I have comments setup to require moderation. It has taken me some time to determine why the spam just started. I have been using … Continue reading
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Pearson – future of education?
I sometimes check a stock market page to see if my retirement funds are increasing or decreasing. The page offers the basic data on the markets, but also news of the day that may be influencing the markets and specific … Continue reading