eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

public school students in grades 3-8 between fall 2020 and spring 2021 and found: On average, students across most grades and subject areas made learning gains in 2020-21, but at a lower rate compared to pre-pandemic trends. 2020-21 outcomes were lower relative to historic trends. million U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Stanley Black and Decker Making for Good Student Challenge runs now through Thursday, January 30, 2020 for students in the US in grades 9-12. The CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge is for students in the US in grades 5-8 now through February 13, 2020. Join in today! Subscribe to the Show Get Credit!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

While more students are falling behind in foundational reading skills, some schools buck the trend with positive practice in the pandemic’s wake, according to new research released by Curriculum Associates today. . Students in upper elementary and lower middle school grades showed the greatest persisting setbacks in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Secondary teacher positions are harder to fill than elementary ones; as are science and math openings. Although there are millions of Americans qualified to fill the 3.7 million teaching positions, there are acute shortages by grade level, subject matter, and geography.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

In my hometown of Houston, bars and restaurants have closed for fifteen days, which has been a trend occurring across the world to limit the spread of the disease. Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hawaii experienced a spike in retirements during the 2020-21 school year. And a recent Louisiana Educator Workforce Snapshot revealed that 26 percent of teachers who left their jobs in the 2020-2021 academic year had 21 or more years of experience. In the 2020-21 school year: 12.4 And what can schools change to get them to stay?

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Alanko and colleagues analyzed time trends of biennial data collected in Finland between 2000 and 2019. Torres et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. This graph from the statistical unit of the Education Department shows the history of the Long-Term Trend NAEP with the sudden plummet in test scores since the start of the pandemic.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

in the 2020–2021 school year. Hillsborough Schools boasts the 2020 #1 Elementary Magnet School of the Year—MacFarlane Park Elementary, the Florida Teacher of the Year, Dr. Dakeyan Graham of King High, and the Presidential Award of Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Winner, Tiffany Oliver of Robinson High.

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Accessibility Differentiated Instruction Elementary Assessment 94

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Fearing violence, it had installed metal detectors and called in police, sheriff’s deputies and a SWAT team.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Though perhaps less severe than some of the worst-case scenarios laid out in early 2020, the loss of thousands of providers reflects an ever-worsening crisis in the field of early care and education, accelerated by—but not originating with—the arrival of COVID-19. Nearly 16,000 child care programs across 37 U.S. as well as state-by-state.

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Policies Industry Elementary Report 152

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

“The big picture takeaway is that learning mirrors pre-pandemic trends,” said Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, which sells assessments to schools to track student progress. Based on the subsequent catch up that NWEA documented in the spring of 2022, upper elementary school students might now be six to seven weeks behind.

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Data Report Comparison Learning 81

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers. million students were enrolled in after-school programs in 2020 , with millions more seeking access to such programs. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! It wasn’t even a week into the new school year, and already Marsena Toney’s students were being sent home.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. This type of tool has various benefits over traditional teaching: Robot teachers provide students with up to date knowledge, always making sure to follow the latest news and education trends. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 3,600 students 1 In-person enrollment: 86 percent after reopening for a four-day week in March 2 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 5 cases in the fall (identified by the state in two elementary school outbreaks) 3 17 cases in the spring (15 rapid test positives, 2 PCR test positives); none identified by the state as outbreaks 4.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2022

For months, her youngest, Daniel Lewis-Coleman, a fourth grader, started his school days just as he had in March 2020, perched at a small table in the family’s kitchen. Daniel Lewis-Coleman had a new backpack to use on his first day of in-person classes since March 2020. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In 2020, some of California’s public universities allowed applicants to skip Algebra II and substitute data science.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

26, parents from Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (or P.S. 705) flocked to the school for an open house ahead of the fall 2021 semester. In fall 2020, the city started offering hybrid learning, with cohorts of students returning to classrooms for two or three days a week. BROOKLYN, NY—On the morning of Aug.

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Data Elementary Meeting Report 79

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What’s causing these trends is no mystery.” Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But Fordham Institute.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

A year ago, I wrote “ The Next Pandemic: Mental Health ” for National Mental Health Month, published in May 2020 in EdSurge. Creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence are the most-in-demand skills today, according to LinkedIn’s 2020 employer survey. Empathy, as a theme, is trending.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

However, McKinsey already predicts that, based on current trends, students from high-income families could recover the lost learning by the end of this school year. Pass rates fell the most among students whose schools had shut down for two-thirds or more of the 2020-21 school year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

From its powerful PK-2 early literacy curriculum to its math literacy tools to their many professional learning opportunities, Waterford.org offers helps teachers and parents’ partner on supporting the developing literacy and math skills of elementary school students. But in March of that year, everything changed.

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EdTech Tools Differentiated Instruction Assessment 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. According to Stanford University’s 2021 AI Index , more than $40 billion was invested in all AI startups in 2020.

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Education Company Robotics Report 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. Department of Education, shows an opposite trend.

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Elementary Policies Trends Data 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At a legislative hearing in 2020, a Louisiana education department official said the reporting lapse could cost the state $21 million in annual federal funding for career education. (A For example, a 2020 analysis found that only 18 percent of the credentials CTE students earn are sought by employers in job postings.

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Outcomes Data Education Report 124

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Some relief came in 2020 through the CARES Act with an initial $13 billion allotment to K-12 schools. A new funding package from the federal government in December 2020 dedicated an additional $54.3 The need for new K-12 classroom technology has never been greater. billion to public schools, with a wide range of permissible uses.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Software 169

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

There is a long-term trend of more counselors at schools, she confirms. Nevada bucked the national trend. Some schools, especially many elementary and middle schools, have no counselors at all. The gap in college counseling is yet another example of how students who need more tend to get less in the United States.

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Data Report Trends Outcomes 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. There are consequences for education, too.

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Policies Trends Study Analysis 126

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research found evidence of significant levels of unfinished learning, particularly in math, however, gaps between current achievement and pre-pandemic achievement have not increased since the end of 2020-21, which may indicate the impacts of the pandemic are stabilizing. .

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Outcomes Education Advocacy Policies 92

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 137

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina.

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UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 163