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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. Once a teacher begins his or her lessons, it is important to be patient with oneself as you learn the 51Talk online platform and how to communicate reports effectively to support staff.

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Meet the Support Network Addressing Out-Of-School Challenges for Every Student

Edsurge

City Connects has been around since 2001, but has even earlier roots in a two-year partnership between Boston Public Schools and researchers at Boston College from diverse disciplines, including psychology and special education. And she meets with groups of students during their usual lunch breaks.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

That was the idea behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. In high poverty schools, where student test scores are often low and there is pressure from state and local governments to raise them, data analysis can dominate weekly or monthly meetings among teachers. As long as it’s not studying student data,” said Hill.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Dr. Zheng and colleagues did not collect original data; rather, they used a statistical technique (meta-analysis) to combine the findings of prior studies meeting specific quality criteria in an effort to identify larger trends in the emerging body of empirical evidence on laptop programs’ impact on learning.

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind. But there were many reports of tutoring fraud and fiascos. I believe it’s safe to say that most students haven’t thrived online. That’s ambitious.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The “accent” of a digital immigrant (preferring a printed report rather than one online, for instance) strikes digital natives as odd.[4]. 10] They are less likely to believe face-to-face meetings (when possible) are the best way to discuss their students, and are more accepting of digital methods. October 2001. Adobe Blog.

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Data-Driven Instruction for the Real World

Edsurge

Before she started using Schoolytics , Alice Keeler experienced this struggle firsthand: “The worst is sitting in a meeting pretending to care about data that is old or doesn't really mean anything. Operating under false assumptions based on obsolete data can lead teachers down the wrong path in their lesson planning and personalization.

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