A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In fact, several studies contradict this belief. Research continues to provide further evidence that the conventional wisdom about learning styles should be rejected by educators and students alike (Kirschner, 2017; Husmann & O'Loughlin, 2018; Riener & Willingham, 2010). O'Loughlin. Anatomical Sciences Education 12, 6–19.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

A 2017 study by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that many elite colleges, including the majority of the Ivy League, enroll more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. This study is evidence, however, that the upfront guarantee scholarship structure is more effective at increasing low-income enrollment.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Most importantly, it studied math, often an insurmountable requirement for many students to complete their college degrees.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

A day late perhaps, but here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition). Tagged on: May 1, 2017 “Is Our Children’s Apps Learning?” face up to. |

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The drop in humanities majors and a significant and simultaneous rise in the number of STEM graduates show that students have altered their understanding of what they should study to achieve success in the post-collegiate job market. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition). Tagged on: August 26, 2017 Are you a student? Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition). Tagged on: August 26, 2017 Are you a student? Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. additions to the K-12 Cyber Incident Map , including a couple of new TV news reports of the same. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 12 Edition). Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Who’s logging your face?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. The new report—adding EducationSuperHighway as a partner—spends its 33 pages focused on best practices to address this gap in a series of who-what-how steps: assessing needs, procuring solutions and accessing funds. The report is based on existing research plus 18 interviews with stakeholders.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 15, 2018

In November 2017 EdTechTeam spun off the new Student Voice Foundation as a California Nonprofit and launched the Global Student Voice Film Festival (similar to handing off Future Ready Schools to the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education in 2014). This would be a great ‘Take Action’ piece for Social Studies!

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Questions that have been a long time coming… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 13 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held. It is that bad.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Questions that have been a long time coming… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 13 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held. It is that bad.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence. The study focused on fifth graders who said they were playing online video games, using social media or texting “many times” a day and their characteristics and behavior in kindergarten. “We Some racked up considerably more hours.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 12 Edition). Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Who’s logging your face?

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The underwhelming answer from more than 100 studies of flipped classrooms is yes, but only slightly. “My Van Alten’s analysis was published in November 2019 in the journal Educational Research Review and confirms the relatively small boost to learning that earlier analyses found for flipped classrooms in 2017 , 2018 and 2019.

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Flipped Classroom Study Classroom Analysis 142

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 2nd grade social studies. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. Students worked on multi-stage projects over an extended period of time throughout a unit of study. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Those parents should consider the results of a new study finding that children who are mildly symptomatic for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often end up worse off in school if diagnosed with the condition. An analysis of national student data collected by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. So 2017, right? The newest study, “ Putting a negative spin on it ,” published online Oct. A German study published in January 2019 found that both fidget spinners and doodling impaired memory.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. Nationwide research is also relatively infrequent — the most recent in-depth study of U.S. The answer?

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Education Study Course Elementary 160

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago.

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Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2021

A study conducted in 2017 and published in June 2021 investigated how five school districts from Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools made edtech purchasing decisions. To learn more about the research behind these learnings, check out the published study.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

New research from Macquarie University’s Department of Educational Studies and education technology company Makers Empire finds 3D printing integration can boost creativity, critical thinking and design skills among primary school students. MORE FROM EDTECH: See these 4 steps to create a strong 3D printing program in your K–12 classroom.

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EdTech Student Engagement Study Report 368

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

A new report from NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education offers recommendations on how colleges can rethink work-study programs to more intentionally prepare working students with career-ready skills. “As At least 70 percent of undergraduate students have a job, according to a 2015 study by Georgetown University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

Most federal work-study jobs don’t prepare students for life after graduation, according to a March report from the Urban Institute. According to her report, titled “Rethinking Work Study: Incremental Reform is Not Enough,” just 32 percent of work-study jobs are related to students’ coursework. There are 7.3

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 2017, we partnered with Google and EdTechTeam to launch the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP), a classroom-based coaching program with the goal of increasing educational equity and the impactful use of technology. We also led a corresponding research study to assess the impact of DLP coaching on teachers. 11 from 3-4 p.m.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2018

A new report might give them a better idea of where they stand—and can provide guidance for colleges trying to support them. The report, published by the Economic Policy Institute, examines the job outcomes for those between the ages of 21 and 24 with a bachelor’s degree. Among those challenges? Racial disparity for wages. percent.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction. Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

A new study finds that students subsequently bounced back and prospered after the public school system was replaced with charter schools, which are privately run but publicly financed. Both the Arnold and the Spencer foundations are among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel. Grant Foundation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

Community college enrollment declined 11 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2017, according to new research from the Southern Regional Education Board, a drop that may signal workforce trouble ahead as more jobs require advanced skills and credentials.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Justin Reich and Mizuko (Mimi) Ito have recently published a report entitled From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies. The report is available for download without monetary charge and without collection of your personal data. If you don’t care about equity in edtech.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Research suggests that when technology is effectively used in schools, access may help to bridge educational and social gaps (Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010; Eccles, 2009; National Science Foundation, 2017). Foundry10’s 2018 study focused on technology usage in U.S. middle and high schools for 1,700 students across 22 schools.

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