Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

According to statistics published by Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman, only 4% of the school and education system was interested in cloud computing in 2009. Implementing a cloud storage platform at a school is a great way to gather all this knowledge into one unified place that can be accessed by students. Extended Access to Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. For example, 63 percent of rural students had access to an in-person calculus class at their school compared with 83 percent of suburban students.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Nation is in the initial stages of “higher education-massification” according to recent reports. Going by the current growth rates, this target is likely to be met in the next few years,” said the report, describing India as in the initial stages of ‘higher education massification’. GER has increased during the last 5 years, from 24.3

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. American Student Assistance is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Students are less stressed out in the middle grades.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Our follow-up research shed light on the quality of these new books, which received high praise from teachers, publishers, literacy experts, and readers themselves for their appeal and accessibility. Cited: National High School Center, 2009: High School Literacy Facts. Learn more or peruse our paperback collection ). link] , p.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report “Do we continue to fund something that is showing declining enrollment?” said Rachel Aaker, the principal of SpaRRK Academy, who spearheaded its creation. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Founded in 2009, Schoology has raised more than $57 million in venture capital, according to Crunchbase. K-12 LMS market share in U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Betting on Digital Founded in 2009, Top Hat claims that 2.7 million students access its digital course materials, including those at 750 of the top 1,000 higher education institutions in North America. Last year, the company ceased sales of individual assessment tools to instead offer a bundle of its products.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Much of the momentum behind myON’s launch was spurred by the popularity of iPads, recalls Todd Brekhus, myON’s President, who joined Capstone in 2009 to expand its digital offerings. The product focused on simplifying how teachers and students could access and assign digital materials. Capstone provides the rest.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. As we chronicled in a new report , and as previous efforts to fix similar problems among healthcare institutions has demonstrated, the economic incentives in the current system make wholesale change nearly impossible.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 11, 2018

million, the five-year grant will enable the Waterford Institute to launch Waterford UPSTART pilot programs in Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, and Montana, affording children in each of these states complimentary access to the leading kindergarten readiness program. Totaling $14.2 Across the country, some 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. Imagine you were to go to a superintendent and say, “I’d like access to your data to see how badly inflated your scores are.” They tell you, “No.”

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Also in May, local media reports from Corpus Christi, Tex., The state safety proposal notes that current social media surveillance activities, outside of fusion centers, cannot access private content. But for fusion centers, finding the next school shooter before it happens doesn’t involve futuristic mediums.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). Thirty-seven percent of students transfer at least once in their college careers, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports; of those, nearly half change schools more than once.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The pilot is run through the non-profit Waterford Institute, which launched the first online preschool offering in Utah in 2009. We’re not here to replace anything; we’re here to provide additional access and to respond to parent choice.”. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Though the startups presented a wide range of ideas, Runway co-founder Phil Kim said what connected them all is an effort to “tackle access and equity.” Founded in 2009, the company gathers and shares data from student transcripts and uses predictive modeling to “correlate this transcript data to future performance,” the company describes.

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Insight Education Group

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Since the roll out in 2009, RTTT has dedicated over $4 billion to states, impacting more than 22 million students and 1.5 Provide educators access to high-quality teaching materials aligned to college- and career-readiness standards. Read the entire report to see the rest of the recommended action steps.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. So, what happened?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s up faster than tuition, which rose 80 percent during the same period, according to one of the very few analyses of this little-reported part of college costs, by Seton Hall University education professor Robert Kelchen. Jon Bomar, officer, National Association of Graduate and Professional Students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Venture funding in the edtech sector has increased from $385 million in 2009 to an expected $2 billion this year. So how do you choose?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

This is the harsh reality that data from Stanford’s sweeping 2009-2013 study bears out. By virtue of its online access, it also allows teachers and counselors to reach more students. “It The post OPINION: Ending “one size fits all” programs for social-emotional learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. MANKATO, Minn. Adley Nyakora, 18, bends over the body of a bloated man in polka-dot boxers, examining a bucket lodged in the patient’s knee. They are still behind .

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The Hechinger Report is an independently funded unit of Teachers College.) on international math assessments, the other measure used to select participating countries. States run independent early childhood systems, but all are subject to standards laid out in the National Quality Framework, which was established in 2009.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

Although we have made incredible strides in expanding access to education over the course of the past century, that access has always been unevenly distributed as are the conflicts and crises that undermine education systems and educational justice everywhere. Disease, war, natural disaster — there are many reasons why.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. Demand for these services run fierce; individual tutors report making as much as $8 million a year. EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It That’s the strategy for.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Unequal access to external support: Staff can’t just assume students will have access to the same resources at home or that they will willingly talk about what they have and don’t have. From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

This story about preschool was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA and the Naples Daily News. The academy is able to provide smart boards due to funding from the Naples Winter Wine Festival.

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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. In fact, as Mix and Cheng (2012) report, “The relation between spatial ability and mathematics is so well established that it no longer makes sense to ask whether they are related” (p.

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In a report recently released by the American Institutes for Research , we find that Micro-Credentials are showing to be a powerful force in changing professional development for educators. Although the research around Micro-Credentials continues, the report points to five lessons learned so far.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 17, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To Registration will give you access to the live event and to the event recordings. If you aren't able to enter that room, see Behind the Blackboard Support.)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 31, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To Registration will give you access to the live event and to the event recordings. If you aren't able to enter that room, see Behind the Blackboard Support.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. Usually when you get a report back from the school, it’s just a few pages, not a comprehensive report,” she says.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 31, 2016

So the university has relied increasingly on adjuncts: while the number of full-time faculty at CUNY’s four-year colleges has been flat since 2009, the number of adjuncts has climbed by 23 percent. It is a daunting burden to students, more than half of whom report family incomes below $30,000, according to school data.

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