eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

According to a recent study , conducted by Project Tomorrow, almost two-thirds of teachers reported that using large print text led to faster English acquisition by their students. Thorndike will showcase its Spanish youth large print titles at the Public Library Association (PLA) conference, April 3-5 in Columbus, OH at Gale booth #2001.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Oh, it was Facebook, and I got a message from her. We broke them across class groupings into science and social studies and English and math, and… Vicki: I had a technology group. She has been teaching at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia since 1980 and served as interim headmaster from 2001-2002. And she said, “Ms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. For example, students may present case studies on education systems around the world. In Son, J.-B.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. The George W. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg gave everyone at Facebook a copy of the Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One , for example, to get them excited about building technology for the future — a book that is really just a string of nostalgic references to Eighties white boy culture. To decolonize the curriculum, we must also decolonize the ed-tech imaginary.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Pat will share his 30-plus years of fieldwork, advocacy (he published Growing Without Schooling magazine from 1986 to 2001), and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help you and your children learn in their own ways. Join the email list for to register for the series at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Danny studies sports medicine at Paris Junior College. She was 21, and had studied assistant accounting in Monterrey but couldn’t find work. We did not want them to catch something on Facebook or a phone call before they knew all the information.”. Adam follows soccer and plays baseball and “ Roblox.” Oralia came in 1996.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” Education Politics. DE is distance education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. Gardendale High School Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

They struggle with facts about social studies. As Kristina Rizga wrote in Mother Jones this year , In 2011, all federal funding for civics and social studies was eliminated. Initially Facebook had claimed that fake Russian accounts had purchased just $100,000 in ads on its platform – how bad could that be?!

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