eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

First launched in June, ALEKS MathReady is a new, direct-to-consumer version of McGraw Hill’s personalized ALEKS program, which helps support millions of K-12 and college students each year. For more information about ALEKS MathReady or to sign up for free trial access and $19.95/month month after, visit: [link]. McGraw Hill.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While students ultimately may go back to in-person learning, remote learning will remain a possibility for suspended students “whenever feasible,” he says. The program also bolstered access to learning opportunities at times limited by availability and affordability. Millions of students still face access issues.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Disparities abound, from students who have been unable to make a quick switch to distance learning because they lack access to technology to families struggling with basic needs such as food and housing. What grades would they get? schools is an F.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. But she thinks it’s a great resource for educators, especially because it is open-access and freely available. Sometimes we have to really recruit manuscripts.”

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ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a nationally representative sample , as of August, about half the nation’s district schools were planning for face-to-face instruction, with the other half opting for fully remote learning or a hybrid approach. Private schools are more likely than district schools to offer in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Cuomo, who appeared to question this week whether students have to be in classrooms at all , drew immediate fire from many educators and parents, and his secretary later wrote on Twitter that “nothing could ever replace in-person learning.” A second-grade class completes a Thanksgiving project on paper. “I A RAND Corp.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The company describes the system as a “never before enabled language scaffolding” for personalized learning. The four-week intensive program includes four, two-hour sessions with a tutor, three hours of full-length practice exams administered by tutors (with personalized feedback) and a six-month Ponddy Reader subscription.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2021

In the beginning, teachers scrambled to record video lessons and help students get access to courses. Fletcher’s materials were already online, but she had never recorded instructional videos before and also had to quickly learn to teach live lessons and host online office hours. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning. This session will look at what it takes to create an online learning community that is safe, supportive, interactive, and engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 16, 2019

In January 2019 I began pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a Specialization in Educational Technology at T he University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The program I am in is fully online, so I am able to study while continuing my current work as a Digital Learning Coach in Georgetown ISD.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. Discovery will join its recently-formed “Catalyst Network” – about 100 schools that are meant to showcase the best practices in sustainability education and to jump-start studies into how it stacks up against traditional schooling for student learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2021

She found that, outside the walls of the school building (“real school,” as she calls in-person learning), she was actually a much better student. “I I realized that as soon as everything went online, I had every single assignment for every single class available at home. Kali took to online learning immediately.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. MESA, Ariz.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He has successfully built the architecture for a connected campus that enhances the campus experience, drives operational efficiency, and provides education in a manner that all can access. When the pandemic started, Upchurch knew this would permanently change how students learn. And for Seage, the best has yet to come.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 20, 2022

Academic institutions are moving away from the traditional classroom and adopting online and blended teaching methods like LMS in tune with the evolving trends. The COVID-19 pandemic has given a huge impetus to online learning and development, and even when it is showing signs of receding, online practices have become the new normal.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Regardless of the experiences and interactions that led these educators to the field, each entered their first year of teaching—the 2019-20 school year—filled with excitement, eagerness and anxiety. So that was definitely difficult—wrestling with how to make this accessible on technology in a way that [students] can understand.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

She argues interoperability will give schools the opportunity to take full advantage of the promise of “everything from project-based learning to personalized learning.” In Providence the curriculum and instruction, IT, and research, planning and accountability departments are working together on this.

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MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2020

Regardless of the experiences and interactions that led these educators to the field, each entered their first year of teaching—the 2019-20 school year—filled with excitement, eagerness and anxiety. So that was definitely difficult—wrestling with how to make this accessible on technology in a way that [students] can understand.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Buy the all-access pass here and have access to all the sessions and bonus materials forever. See you "online!" I hope that gives you some incentive to consider the purchase!

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.” Correction: This is the Class of 2019.). ” Via Education Week : “Brooklyn Students Protest Use of Online Learning Platform Designed by Summit Learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

in January 2019. The appearances were mostly a formality: A new, hardline transit ban that took effect nationwide in September 2019 automatically disqualified them from asylum. Throughout their journey, Vásquez tried to continue educating her children, teaching them addition, subtraction, vowels, painting, and whatever else she could.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, UC Berkeley Deletes Its Online Lectures. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Online education, we’re still told, will be education’s disruptor.

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