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4 ways to use ChatGPT in your STEM classroom

eSchool News

Each of these technologies paled in comparison to the impact of one of our students discovering Wolfram|Alpha and sharing the link with his classmates.

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8 Key Focus Areas for Developing a Re-Entry Plan

A Principal's Reflections

Addressing and Closing Learning Gaps Many people are saying that the summer learning loss will pale in comparison to what educators will see when kids return to school. Unfortunately, difficult decisions lie ahead, similar to the Great Recession from 2007 - 2009. Hence, it is crucial to start to develop critical supports now.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Yet, if students in other nations took the NAEP, only about one-third of them would also score Proficient—even in the nations scoring highest on international reading comparisons (Rothstein, Jacobsen, & Wilder, 2006). But that’s a hard case to make, judging by a 2007 analysis from Gary Phillips, former acting commissioner of NCES.

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To the Citizens of BC

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ).

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

More than half of the students were language minority students, and the vast majority of students in both treatment and comparison schools were low-income. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation. The results of this initial trial are very promising. T., & Fielding, L. 2 McBeath, J., Reyes, M.E.,

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Report: Class of 2018 Has Better Job Prospects than Classes of 2009-2017, but Still Faces Challenges

Edsurge

However, in comparison to students who graduated into the 2000 job market, the Class of 2018 still has economic challenges. The report also found that the underemployment rate for young college graduates is still “significantly higher than it was before the recession” in December 2007. Among those challenges?

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

More than half of the students were language minority students, and the vast majority of students in both treatment and comparison schools were low-income. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation. The results of this initial trial are very promising. T., & Fielding, L. 2 McBeath, J., Reyes, M.E.,