Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

(CNY) In the spirit of celebrating cultural diversity and love of world cultures, I went ahead and prepared this list of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals that you can share with you students and help them learn more about Chinese New Year and its traditions. Chinese Zodiac Animals 1. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Contrary to NCES’ latest report about the decline this decade, in April NCES stated there had been a 35 percent increase in college students aged 25 to 34 between 2001 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2026, enrollment is projected to increase 11 percent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

This week, REINVENTING.SCHOOL explores an increasingly common practice--home as a place for learning, and in some cases, as a physical replacement for a physical school facility. Diana Ortiz Burns is Director of Operations and Sustainability, Indian Creek School, and a force in the physical reinvention of local facilities used for learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). And another international exam, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed back-to-back deterioration in math performance among American 15-year-olds in 2012 and 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

But now, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to improve teaching, the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, says the conventional wisdom that veteran teachers stop getting better is one of several myths about teaching. Old dogs do appear to learn new tricks. The science has evolved.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001 ). 90% of teens who report being cyberbullied have also been bullied offline. ( “Seven Fears and the Science of How Mobile Technologies May Be Influencing Adolescents in the Digital Age,” George and Odgers, 2015 ). McCallion and Feder, 2013 ).

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000. Enhancing Education Through Technology Program.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

But that expansion doesn’t necessarily correlate with how the public perceives the quality of online courses, historically questioned for its lack of rigor and limited measurable learning gains. Then they want to talk to me for 45 minutes about how bad online learning is. I will be at a dinner party, and someone will ask what I do.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

Anyone with a child who has an intellectual or learning disability knows that learning entails much more than knowing how to read, write and compute. The absence of literacy doesn’t mean that he can’t learn skills essential to becoming a productive member of society. Learning is social and emotional.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Children with these experiences often exhibit learning or behavioral issues related to the way trauma influences brain development. 9] If an experience leaves a serious and lasting impact on a child and influences their learning or behavior, it may fall under the ACEs umbrella. Learning and memory. Emotional regulation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

November 4, 2015 Blooms traditional taxonomy which was published sometime in the middle of the last century was revised in 2001 and henceforth was labelled Blooms Revised Taxonomy. This revision is a.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. Frontline Education, controlled by Insight Venture Partners, has snapped up another 10—most recently, professional-learning provider School Improvement Network. billion sale to LinkedIn in 2015—was 20 years in the making.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

An oft-cited education-finance report, published last year by the nonprofit EdBuild, found that predominantly white school districts received $23 billion more in funding in the 2015-16 school year than districts that serve mostly students of color. We’ve become too accustomed to learning within the confines of inequality.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. NYSE: NRDY).

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here are some of the best books I’ve read this year (2015)– in no particular order. (I 21 Great Leaders: Learn Their Lessons, Improve Your Influence by Pat Williams. These three “type A” women remember and learn so much about themselves and each other. Great books can do that. Quick read. Big impact.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

But it was not initially clear what technology platform UniversityNow had left to sell, since in 2015 the company sold its competency-based learning platform to Penn Foster Education Group. UniversityNow was founded in 2010 by Eugene Wade, an education entrepreneur whose first company sold to Edison Schools in 2001 for $38 million.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 22, 2016

Program Authority: Sections 5411-5413 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; title III of Division H of Public Law 114-113 , the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016. Show citation box.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Related: More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2018

College Affordability: Now Versus the Past Tuition at four-year public institutions over the last 40 years has gone from $3,680 a year in 1985 to nearly $18,632 in 2015, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And as of 2016 , about 82 percent of full time, first-time students receive financial aid—up 10 percent from 2001.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback. On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Yesterday we shared an article on close reading, and today Grant looks at providing better feedback for learning. . Even as little pre-school children, we learn from such results and models without adult intervention.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. They also have interactive — more learning type games — called Mr. Body, where you see a human body, and as you tap on different parts of the body, the organs will open up, and there will be some information about it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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Learning With Lucie

JANUARY 2, 2015

Finding a Focus in 2015 ~ Inspired by the Turtle Guy I love learning! Well I don’t really, but if I could make myself pick one area for 2015 that would get my attention before I wander off exploring whichever of my passions catches my attentions that day, I might make more a a difference in the world.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Links to Local Learning. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For instance, a 2015 analysis of Harvard law school graduates found that women who had not become partners in a firm had fewer mentors during their first five years than either women partners, or men who had not achieved partnership status. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. Math comes naturally to me,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

They learn how certain foods affect the body, and they practice yoga poses and study the benefits of meditation, which Ms. Research has documented how students’ frustrations, fears and out-of-school trauma can get in the way of learning. Experts say grown-ups may also learn more empathy, too. Tara Garcia Mathewson. Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I learned that my attention isn’t very stable,” a student said. In 2001, brothers Atman and Ali Smith, who grew up learning mindfulness from their parents, and Andres Gonzalez, all recent college graduates, volunteered to teach mindfulness to a group of 10 to 20 students at Windsor Hills Elementary, a small Baltimore City public school.

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Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Informing the students, parents, educators, and the public about how well students are learning important content is an essential aspect of any educational assessment and accountability system. Georgia Test Prep is an online practice testing tool to help your kids test themselves on what they learn in school. History of GMAS.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. At the national level, she serves on the ALA International Relations Committee and the Resident Expert Panel for the 2015-2017 ALA Presidential Initiative, and co-chairs the Public Libraries Expert Initiative Committee.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

Congress passed ESSA in 2015, but one area still challenging schools is the tiers for evidence-based interventions and materials. to determine what programs will assist with meeting learning goals. Step 3 – Learn the basics (about ESSA levels). Furthermore, administrators must also consider local buy in.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Math scores declined one point between 2013 and 2015. Two experts associated with NAEP’s National Assessment Governing Board (Mary Lynne Bourque and Susan Loomis) made it clear in 2001 that NAEP’s “proficient achievement level does not refer to ‘at grade’ performance.” They’re down five points since 1992.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. At the national level, she serves on the ALA International Relations Committee and the Resident Expert Panel for the 2015-2017 ALA Presidential Initiative, and co-chairs the Public Libraries Expert Initiative Committee.

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