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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

A meet up for engineering enthusiasts or movie buffs. A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Sports require students to set goals, assess the competition and consider their individual strengths and weaknesses. The Benefits of Esports in Schools.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., In a variety of ways, we continuously assess the usability and effectiveness of the ST Math program, and we provide educators, administrators and students with the tools to do so as well. Effect sizes as reflected by multiple state assessments.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups.

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How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use

eSpark

For the past six years, district Superintendent Dr. Michael Nagler has championed and thoughtfully questioned our strategy for meeting the needs of every learner. Matt Akin was a visionary early adopter of classroom technology when he deployed iPads throughout his district in 2003, long before edtech was the norm. Mundelein, Illinois.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. Based on those reports, Education Week found a “modest degree of improvement” in academic achievement by fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and math from 2003 to 2015.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

All students need to have transparency about where they are in their progress and what they need to do to meet graduation standards.”. Once students have demonstrated competency in a course through a written or project-based assessment, they can move on to the next course in that subject area at their own pace. Based on what you know.

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