eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

The acquisition of DoodleLearning supports Discovery Education’s mission to prepare learners for tomorrow by creating innovative classrooms connected to today’s world. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since at least 2006 , technology leaders and mathematicians have argued that data is the new oil. This isn’t the fault of teachers, but rather of the system and the systemic choices we have made to date that heavily constrain classroom time. Generative AI algorithms, like those used to create ChatGPT, train on large language datasets.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

and abroad, while focusing on supporting disconnected and marginalized student populations and empowering girls in STEM. The top 10 states for classroom adoption are California, Texas, New York, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Beyond the U.S., currently teach computer science.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

There’s untapped potential among people who work in schools right now, as classroom aides, lunchroom workers, afterschool staff and more, the thinking goes, and helping them become teachers could ease the shortage that’s dire in some districts around the country, particularly in rural areas like this one. What if we eliminate the question?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

He’s held a teaching credential in the state since 2006, based on passing the state’s biological sciences and geosciences teaching exams, state records show. To make up the gap, states are putting teachers without a strong science background in front of classrooms. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

” Yet at the same time, we also heard from teachers and education organizations who are introducing the topic in subjects from social studies to math to English language arts, and at every grade level, from preschool on up. He studies how climate change is taught in schools, and believes it needs to be taught across many subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Whether or not preschool teachers offer science lessons and activities in their classrooms depends largely on how comfortable they are in the topic, according to new research from Michigan State University. A sample science activity in a preschool classroom might be as simple as an apple tasting, Gerde said.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. There are numerous research studies that demonstrate the relationship between spatial reasoning and what we typically think of as mathematical ability.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Drones in the Classroom. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford kymberlimulford@gmail.com. Pam Moran – Bio as submitted.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many students are turning to STEM and other vocational fields in hopes of better job prospects. According to the Kauffman Foundation’s 2008 report on this trend, entrepreneurship in higher education is growing fast, with formal programs quadrupling from 104 in 1975 to more than 500 in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. She became chronically absent and lethargic when she was in class. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

By 2006, the school was majority minority. Renick came to Georgia State as a religious studies professor in the 1980s. These are classes that students take early in college that predict whether a student can actually pass the toughest required courses that will come later in their field of study.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. We’re in the classrooms. About two-thirds of the school’s teachers are Native American, with many alumni now leading classrooms. Since its opening in 2006, the charter school has inspired the launch of similar schools in other tribal communities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Game based learning excites learning in my classroom. It can ignite your classroom too. In this post, I’ll share what I’m doing in my classroom. Games are fun.

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MindShift

JULY 8, 2019

Quigley is one of dozens of students at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School who in the past year built a high-tech, high-yield farm inside a third-floor classroom. For example, a 2006 study of efforts to address food insecurity in Burlington, Vt., But she didn’t have to leave her school in Brooklyn, N.Y.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

While there’s been ample research on tracking’s negative effects, studies of positive effects resulting from detracking are scant. The Portland school district in Oregon planned to compress two levels of middle school math into one starting in 2023, but after criticism, said the issue needed more study.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. We can’t help what they choose,’” said Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University who has spent almost two decades studying charter schools. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. Despite all the investment and marketing surrounding CS and STEM education, the results – enrollments and graduation rates – have been mixed at best.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

At Manchester School of Technology, students may study a wide range of sought-after careers, from game design and aeronautical engineering to HVAC and nursing. Statewide, kindergarten through 12th-grade enrollment is projected to drop nearly 22 percent from 2006 levels by 2025. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

At least 10 states now permit students to take classes part-time online (and sometimes in other in-person classrooms), instead of being limited to their local course offerings; eight adopted or considered laws in just the last four years. She said that although no more than 1 or 2 percent of U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

And the “ queen sacrifices ,” for those who don’t know that terminology, is what Alexander calls it when a college sacrifices its most powerful resource – its faculty – in order to stem financial problems. Study says too early to tell.” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. .”

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