Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Go easy on the inspirational, aspirational statements; go deep on data to support the needs assessments and recommendations. It should not be controversial in 2016 that there is a baseline expectation of access to technology in schools, just as there are baseline expectations for access to textbooks and desks. Offering online learning?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”. But it logged growth starting in the 2013-14 school year, two years before the school introduced Edgenuity.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 78

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2016, two books were published: The Reading Intervention Toolkit , by Shell Education and Read Talk Write: 35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction , published by Corwin Literacy. Formative Assessment So I, I want to minimize the confusion, but I also again bear that's with that formative assessment.

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Differentiated Instruction Elementary Groups How To 337

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000). Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Based on Ohio Achievement and Graduation Assessments, low-achieving students in online charters may be learning about one-fourth less than their peers with similar academic performance in brick-and-mortar schools. Out of those students, white students were much more likely to enroll in online charter schools than minority students.

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E-rate Policies Report Analysis 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. LOOKING AHEAD.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

as if offended by her cruel self-assessment. In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. The required passing rate for most students is 65.

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E-rate Strategy Report Common Core 109

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Give Assessment: Follow up with the interactive unit-level assessment. Students can take the assessment and then share their table of results with you -- an easy way to document your efforts in regards to E-rate funding. We all hope you have a great beginning to the 2015-2016 school year.

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Digital Citizenship E-rate Common Core Assessment 40

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Some debated the merits of MOOCs, high attrition rates and the legitimacy of participating without completing a course. There were calls to provide students with incentive to persist in their studies through enhanced forms of interaction (with content, other students and teachers) and more authentic learning and assessment activities.

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MOOC E-rate Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 28

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. They can access these different assessments (tasks for them to do) in each G-suite, and they can complete that.

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Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

That’s among the questions we posed to Scott Pulsipher, who took the helm as the university’s president in March 2016. We run seminars specifically about competency-based education, our approach to it, how you design for it—everything from the program design to the instruction, assessment and evaluation. Yeah, they do. Nine years.

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Outcomes E-rate Accessibility Course 79

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. The Harvard case (with a final hearing scheduled for mid-February) focuses narrowly on race and procedural questions about how Harvard assesses Asian-American applicants versus others during admissions reviews. That works for the University of Chicago. Now, “our No.

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E-rate Assessment Report Examples 110

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The ratio of school counselors to high school students in Minnesota was 681-to-1 in 2016, according to state data. In Minnesota, that ratio was 681-to-1 as of 2016, according to state data , among the highest in the country. That’s despite the fact that the overall rural high school graduation rate in the 2015-16 school year was 87.3

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E-rate Report Accessibility Secondary 111

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In a nutshell, CIPA requires that schools and libraries receiving E-Rate funding “block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors).” Develop a toolkit for school leaders. Teacher Resources by MediaSmarts.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

According to the ECAR 2016 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology , 96% of undergraduate students now own a smartphone. Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. Tumblr ) for peer review or assessment of learning. ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2016.

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Smartphone Learning Mobility Social Media 28

The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

. - #NYCSchoolsTech leader @Levy_Jason pic.twitter.com/IaPdb3MvAa — Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu) December 15, 2016 The excuses must stop and ensuring our students have access to the resource they need for high speed learning must become the issue that voters fight for if we want our children to be prepared for the modern world.

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Chromebook Internet Safety E-rate Laptops 40

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You will want to share the following with your classroom teacher partners and your school’s edtech leader: Best of Breed 2016 (categorized favorites). Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). I especially trust their reviews. Check out their Top App Lists.

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iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Conduct a Needs Assessment to Fuel Demand for Improved Workforce Development Programs. Roles that have the fastest turnover rates. One HR leader provided an example of this needs assessment: “Early on, I had the head of hospitality coming to me saying, ‘We’re in a crisis. Lykins, L., & Davis, E. 1 Martin, K.,

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Data Industry Training E-rate 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. We’re preparing kids for these jobs of tomorrow, but we really don’t even know what they are,” said Amy McLeod, the school’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. Twenty-one percent of Lowell residents live in poverty; the average rate in small metro areas nationwide is 17 percent.

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E-rate Industry Report Survey 99

MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Jim Bentley (2016) of the Buck Institute of Education (BIE) is an expert in student choice since it is a deeply rooted element in project-based learning, the strategy at the heart of the Buck Institute. e]ngagement is a fire that can quickly die out when things get challenging. The A c ademi c Benefits of St udent Choice.

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Learning E-rate Report Common Core 48

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Learning.comoffers a complete online safety curriculum that provides lesson plans and activities, reporting on district E-rate compliance, and seamless integration with Google Classroom and other widely used learning platforms.

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E-rate Online Assessments Industry Report 41

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

LeMya is one of 156 4-year-olds in Mississippi who participated in UPSTART’s 2016-17 school year pilot program. a month for the first student in the family who enrolls, with a discounted rate for additional students. In 2016, that average was $4,976 per student according to NIEER. for one year.

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Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 154

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. Lopez’s new gig, chief education administrator for the federal BOP, was announced in November 2016. “I An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / WASHINGTON, D.C. Jerard Briscoe is away at school. It’s a plausible story.

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Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 164

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rural fourth- and eighth-graders do, in fact, score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students, on average, and just as well as suburban ones, the U.S. And rural students graduate from high school at higher rates than their urban, and about the same levels as their suburban, counterparts.

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E-rate Report Dropout Course 91

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

A recent Stanford Graduate School of Education report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Literacy assessed of the news literacy of students from middle school through college. Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year. Post-truth or truthiness.

Social Media 40

Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Department of Justice , 21 states, and the District of Columbia have reached a $864 million settlement with Moody’s Investors Service over the company’s role in faulty credit ratings that led to the financial crisis of 2008. Justin Reich on “ assessment ” versus “ evaluation.”

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool. “ Tweaking the business model.”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2 Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). .”

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Some Colleges Try to Burnish Student-Loan Default Rates.”

Education 44

Education Facebook Company MOOC 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition, he co-captains the “Rainbow Six Siege eSports Team” (e-sports teams compete in organized, multiplayer video game contests), is the vice president of the e-sports club and is a member of the National Honor Society. Iowa has one of the highest graduation rates in the country, at 91 percent.

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E-rate Elementary Report Study 96