eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Studies show that students who are healthy both physically and mentally are more likely to excel in all aspects of academic achievement, including academic performance, education behavior, and cognitive skills and attitudes. Many are struggling to manage the stress and complications of everyday life.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Esports is more than gaming–it helps students develop critical skills How esports can help students in the classroom (no, seriously!) 4 tips for creating an elementary esports program For more news on esports, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub I first started trying to get an esports program at my school in 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Psychologists have long warned that children’s lives are overscheduled, which undermines their ability to develop non-academic skills that they’ll need in adulthood, from coping with setbacks to building strong relationships. That is, students who were more scheduled also had higher test scores and better behaviors.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

A global health problem Dan Olweus published significant findings on bullying in 1978, and the topic has received considerable attention in the academic literature since the late 90s. Attendance and achievement predict students’ probability of graduating high school, which in turn predicts lifetime earnings. Here are a few takeaways.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the beginning of the school year, each of my 11th grade teachers stated that they would not tolerate students using AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, to complete assignments. It’s easy for teachers to admonish students not to use ChatGPT and then blame them when they do.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Key points: Using AI in the classroom isn’t bad–here are some tips to make sure it’s used correctly AI: Can it think like your students do? Districts call for guidance in developing classroom AI policies For more news on AI in education , visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In a recent report by ACT Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Unstructured play is how students learn to interact with the world around them. Here are just a few ideas that have helped me incorporate fun and curiosity into my students’ lessons: Gamification: Gamification is when educators use game mechanics in non-gaming situations to improve student engagement and encourage greater participation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

I benefited greatly from the ways community colleges meet students where they are and wrap their arms around them. It was the first time I connected with someone based on shared academic interests despite entirely different lived experiences. Related: Many community college students never earn a degree.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2024

As the 2023 – 2024 academic year concludes this spring, school leaders will have the opportunity to review safety protocols and adopt new tools to foster a safe and secure learning environment for years to come. Also, key to a solid communication plan is ensuring the active involvement and participation of teachers and staff.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This is particularly crucial as we navigate the challenges of helping students recover from the disruptions caused by the pandemic. In terms of impact on teachers, 64 percent have at least one EB student in their classroom. This can lead to missed school days.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The IDEA act also guarantees that students with disabilities have the right to engage in the Least Restrictive Learning Environment (LRE) that best meets their individual needs. The LRE ensures that students under IDEA are offered equitable access to education alongside their non-disabled peers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. Just a few weeks ago at Rutgers University, for instance, adjuncts, grad students and others held a five-day strike over unequal treatment compared to other academic employees. Most are not compensated for academic work performed outside their classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While the mental health of students remains a top concern of many in the education field, federal data reveals that it’s not all bad news. Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. During that same time period, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. students are so far behind other countries like Finland, Korea and Poland. American students scored 13 points lower than in 2018, equivalent to losing two-thirds of a year of education in the subject.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Research shows that the average student lost approximately one-third of a school year to the pandemic, leading to academic setbacks and missed opportunities for building skills fostered in school settings, such as learning to form routines and study habits, solve problems, and follow directions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

But their students have a different story to tell. Nothing new, nothing exciting.” “We My conversations with students make one thing clear:They think the biggest problem with high school is that it’s a huge drag. We have spent years offering teachers and students Band-Aids, achieving no long-term gains.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2024

Tracking student growth is particularly critical now, as the country inches further away from COVID but is still tied to the pandemic’s impact by lingering learning loss and equity gaps. In fact, the district’s student growth strategies are analyzed in-depth in a paper from NWEA.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Through SEL, students learn how to manage and regulate their emotions, identify and work through tough feelings, and serves as a foundation that supports students’ personal and academic achievements. Learn more about how the district is actively supporting student mental health and SEL.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This report is one of the first to gather and analyze nationally representative data from more than five million Grades K–2 students, thanks to their i-Ready® Diagnostic for Reading and for Mathematics. points for Grade 1 and Grade 2 students, respectively, from pre-pandemic to 2021. Some grades demonstrate modest recovery.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Eventually, Davenport University recognized the academic work he’d done in Mexico and he was able to finish his bachelor’s degree in international business there, without having to start from scratch. Students are eligible for the scholarship award regardless of their immigration status, which Davenport does not ask about, he said.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This year, schools are placing a focus on supporting students’ individual needs and recovering pandemic learning loss. Because of this, we will see an increase in edtech to support learning, better accommodations for students, a focus on wellbeing, and new approaches to teaching that engage with students’ interests and future careers.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The United States of America has spent the last three years arguing about the pandemic’s effects on students’ academic and socioemotional well-being. American students improved their standing among their international peers in all three areas during the pandemic, the data says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

The poorest students were sometimes left with no art in school at all. The schools would have to kick in only $5 to $10 per student for the year. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

During a session at FETC 2024, Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, dove into just what, exactly, makes for the effective use of edtech in supporting student engagement. Simply incorporating a device into the classroom doesn’t mean students will automatically engage with their learning. “A ”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha, from a small town in Massachusetts, sees stories about climate change on social media and in the news. The goal of climate education should not only be to teach students the scientific basis of climate change but also to empower them to address it — not thrust them into a state of despair.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2023

Key points: Absenteeism is a top predictor of academic success and can have serious consequences Solutions to chronic absenteeism will require long-term, strategic investment of time and resources Districts across the country are grappling with elevated levels of chronic absenteeism that have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As a former public-school teacher, I know that my students sometimes acted out when they didn’t receive the additional educational supports they needed. Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16. Go home” meant suspension.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

The modern social studies classroom should now be a classroom full of student inquiry and choice. Students should be learning the contextual background of a subject and working on the skills they need to critically analyze social studies content. Students need to understand sourcing and how to recognize inherent bias.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A national poll from the Data Quality Campaign and AASA, The School Superintendents Association surveyed district superintendents to find out they use data to support their students and schools. Data is an important part of superintendents’ decision-making and it provides insights about student and school performance.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

According to Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, in a recent edWebinar , “The future of democracy presents a case for the critical need for school librarians in every school.”. The problem. Two-thirds of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. A core part of that is preparing students to write out in the real world. To what end? I couldn’t blame them.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

There is a massive exposure to all types of media content (text, images, video, and audio) and people, more than anytime in the history of humankind, are actively engaged in consuming, producing and sharing different forms of knowledge from the trivial to the arcane academic. advertising, news, song, etc.) Drawing on Mills (1995, p.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2024

There has been much talk and concern in recent months about making higher-level math more accessible to high schoolers, particularly low-income students from Black and Hispanic communities. They created a new lesson structure that focused more on getting students to help each other solve problems than on getting direction from teachers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Because the Nation’s Report Card data released in the spring revealed that roughly two-thirds of fourth- and eighth-grade students cannot read proficiently, the efficacy of reading instruction once again became national news. This alignment between what teachers and parents want for their students is relatively new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

COLOGNE, Germany — Neriman Raim, a 16-year-old student in this northwestern German city, thought that after finishing school she’d want to work in an office. Germany and other Western European countries have long directed students into career paths at earlier ages than in the U.S., You have to experience it.”

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