EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? Working with adult learners is as rewarding as working with elementary-age students.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

In today’s increasingly diverse and interconnected world, conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion have become essential components of education. As teachers and educators, we bear the responsibility of facilitating these critical discussions with our students. Be ready to explain these concepts in age-appropriate ways.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. In 2004, as a new Ph.D., With the right kind of instruction, most children with dyslexia can learn how to read. I compensated for my reading and spelling problems by staying up until 1 or 2 a.m. to get things done,” he said.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Here, find recommendations for articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us — some related to education and others that extend beyond. Jeff While it’s not strictly about education, I’ve become an even bigger fan this year of the Hidden Brain podcast , which explores the science of what makes us tick. Bodies are changing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

Using Bulletin Boards to Differentiate the Classroom Environment by Jessica Mazone [Gifted Education Communicator]. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft. Planning for Higher Education , 43 (2), 45. Georgia Educational Researcher , 12 (1), 51. Blog Posts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. Review of Educational Research, 81(2), 201–233; Headden, S. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before her son started kindergarten, Ashley Meier Barlow realized that she might have to fight for his education. Instead, the educators told Barlow that they wanted her son to attend a classroom across town meant for children who are profoundly impacted by their disabilities. “If

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2020

Louis is principal at SG Reinertsen Elementary School in Minnesota. Host Rebecca Muller, Special Educator and Advocate, Collingswood High School, and special guest this week Debi Vesper. But in the world of COVID-19 how are these goals to be tracked? Let's talk about education and how to thrive!

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. Obviously, cyberbullying is something to take seriously.

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Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Because approximately 1 in 59 students are diagnosed with autism, learning how to help students with this disorder in the classroom is so important.[1] Social Skills Activities for Elementary Students with Autism. This can help students with autism learn empathy as well as how to see situations in their lives from another perspective.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In elementary school, Matthew Peterson struggled mightily with math. Students must figure out how to help JiJi get past a variety of obstacles (each representing an important mathematical concept) by building bridges, filling in holes, and so on. “It Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 9, 2018

How is this relevant to my elementary school-level classroom? " Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley , the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. They also have made their approach available to a variety of industries, including education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Even in states that allocate education funding for capital construction the money is typically a limited pot of funds rather than a guarantee. The state cuts to education funding began long before the recession, and districts have yet to recover, he added. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. million annually.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In fact, it seems as if all eyes are on Higuera and his classmates as they pioneer what the superintendent of Dysart, Gail Pletnick, calls “the future of education” — a personalized learning environment that puts students in control of what, when and how they learn, with teachers as their guides. Right now, most do not.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Instead of dropping out and waiting months or even years to re-start their education, they can move directly into YEP’s classes and start prepping for a high-school equivalency test right away, without ever officially dropping out. Higher Education. Related: Held back, but not helped. There were state incentives in place, however.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. Obviously, cyberbullying is something to take seriously.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. Obviously, cyberbullying is something to take seriously.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants with the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally. Design creative ways to advocate and implement global learning initiatives.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. Constructionism. Playful Learning and Hard Fun.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

We are fortunate to have many innovators in education. In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. I’m Helen Keegan a.k.a.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

. — Alondra Piña Mota remembers being too embarrassed to talk to her high school teachers or college counselors about how her family’s reluctance to borrow money might prevent her from going to college. Her parents, like many Mexican immigrant families, didn’t believe in taking out loans, even for education. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Whether it’s used for homework-assignment web searches, streamed video tutorials, educational apps or collaborative multimedia projects, fast internet at home is rapidly turning into a necessity for America’s students. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. David Rosenberg, Education Resource Strategies. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. Nobody knows how to laugh at themselves. They only know how to laugh at other people.”. They want to stop arguing but they don’t know how once it starts.”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. In some cases, technology decisions are made by school leadership in-step with a plan developed with educators and an accompanying budget.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. We think of it as common sense.”. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

“Data shows if it’s not going to be a quality program, then it’s not going to impact children and families,” said Nancy Hanna, an associate superintendent of Greenbrier County Schools who oversees early childhood education. Related: Sending your boy to preschool is great for your grandson, new research shows. His speech has improved.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. When a student can see themselves in their educational environment, when they see their own story … it’s very engaging.

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MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2022

However, the educators we speak with time and time again tell us that conventional algorithmic approaches are leaving students behind. That’s what makes the perception-action cycle so valuable: it is the default way we make sense of the world around us and decide how to live in this world. Visual Math Changes Everything.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 15, 2022

Phonological awareness is essential for reading and spelling skills because spoken words correspond to written words (Ehri, 2004; Rath, 2001; Troia, 2004). Phonemic awareness instruction helps students learn how letters correspond to sounds. When you learn how to pronounce words correctly, you’re learning how to read them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.). Photo: Stuart Miller.

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MindShift

AUGUST 20, 2019

In 2004, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that about a third of adolescents (ages 13-18) have been or will be seriously affected by anxiety in their lifetimes. ” Parents and educators are scrambling to understand why kids seem to be more anxious and how to help them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

But now, as educators everywhere try to figure out how to do their jobs remotely, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the instability of relying on one counselor, or just a few, to guide hundreds of students through new academic hurdles, prepare them for an uncertain future and triage their mental health crises.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Related: Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations. In 2004, while working as a café owner near Atlanta, she stumbled on a group of boys playing soccer. Schools that cater to special populations like refugees can also educate students at grade levels that are years behind their age.

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