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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

Edsurge

Even back in 2001, an in-depth study of an online-education effort at the State University of New York reported that most faculty who taught remotely found the techniques they discovered online positively impacted their campus instruction when they returned to the classroom.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. American fourth graders also didn’t show the same antipathy toward reading that their international counterparts did in surveys by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

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ISTE 2018: 5 Best Practices for Adhering to Federal Privacy Laws

EdTech Magazine

The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) was established in 2001 with the No Child Left Behind Act and is known for its provisions dealing with surveys and assessments.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. The researchers also detected an increase in students’ compassion for others, or emotional empathy, based on student surveys. Arts education steadily increased throughout most of the 20th century. In the schools without art, 14.5

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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 a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis.

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PROOF POINTS: Should parents value academic achievement or academic growth in a school?

The Hechinger Report

In an online survey, Chicago was one of five metropolitan areas that 2,500 adults were asked to imagine relocating to and choose a school district for their child. Excerpt from a relocation survey administered to 2,500 adults. Credit: Google Maps. Imagine you’re a parent relocating to a major metropolitan area.

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

Waterford

2] More than half of students surveyed say they learn best by doing, not by listening.[3] October 2001. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn. To the typical digital native, learning comes from doing, not from a lecture.[2] Using Technology in the Classroom to Teach Digital Natives.