Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2023

The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021. We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. Source: American Community Survey.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2015

The following post is a modified excerpt from Uncommon Learning. Mobile learning provides enhanced collaboration among learners, access to information, and a deeper contextualization of learning. Koole (2009) No one will deny the impact that mobile is having on the world.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2018

The report, published by the Economic Policy Institute, examines the job outcomes for those between the ages of 21 and 24 with a bachelor’s degree. It found that those in the Class of 2018 have better job prospects than the classes of 2009-2017. Among those challenges? Racial disparity for wages.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

Do you wonder how learning works? Are you looking to design learning environments to support a range of learners? The Research Map is a hub for learning sciences research which connects education leaders, policymakers, and technology developers with research findings that can inform their work. Read below to find out what’s new.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

He served as an ALAS board member from 2003 to 2006 and as President Elect in 2009, as President from 2010 – 2011, and as Past President from 2012 – 2013. It is of vital interest to invest in the education of every child, and the professional learning of all educators who serve Latino youth.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

His meta-study, Visible Learning (2009), analyzed 50,000 studies of more than 80 million students. This seminal work, with its 2011 and 2015 updates, shined the light on the importance of visible learning and taught us what interventions were most effective in education. Basing Policy Decisions on Education’s Existing Effect.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

What I would like to discuss are ways that schools can provide increased value to students based on changes to the learning culture. A school can and should provide a meaningful learning experience for students. Kids should want to come to school and learn. Value-added schools: Focus more on learning as opposed to grades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

The strategy relies on what economists call “efficiency wage theory,” which posits that increasing wages based on performance leads to greater output and lower employee turnover, says Emma García, a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute. Since 2009, D.C. s model since its inception.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

See the map below from NCES ( or make your own ), which shows that most states are trying for their children to achieve NAEP’s Basic level, not Proficient: Once again, in the words of Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, “ Proficient on NAEP does not mean grade level performance.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

His school had resumed in-person learning during the pandemic and so he had the option to take either version. Researchers compared similar students with similar academic backgrounds to estimate the grade “penalty” that students suffered for opting to learn online. . months of the time it took a student to finish a bachelor’s degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. We built them ourselves. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Founded at Brookline High near Boston in 2009, the group now works with roughly 1,000 students from 14 nearby districts beginning in the summer after seventh grade to help them complete advanced math classes like calculus before they finish high school. In the summer of 2009, Mims piloted his idea with a group of rising eighth graders.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Now that we have powerful, easy-to-use design tools and a capacity for worldwide publishing, we have an opportunity to restore the dignity and integrity of a work ethic by redefining the role of the learner as a contributor to the learning culture. — Alan November, Who Owns the Learning. What’s Good for the Goose….

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2024

In my years as an EFL teacher, I’ve witnessed the delight and challenge children experience in learning a new language. Learning a new language opens a gateway to its underlying culture, offering insights into how others think and behave. Many of us are bilingual, trilingual, or even multilingual. Bialystok, E., Craik, F.I.M.,

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2018

When I work with schools, especially in a coaching role, I routinely ask educators to share with me how they are empowering students to own their learning or ways in which they are transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. Once I started drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid back in 2009 I quickly learned the error of my ways.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 17, 2010

Since then I have done a lot of thinking about and talking about social media policy. I repost it now because we are heading into that time of year when people are starting to ask me and the rest of the members of their PLN''s about their best example of social media policies. My question is why have a policy in the first place?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2019

A youth advocate with more than 20 years’ writing and speaking about youth and digital media, Anne has served on three national task forces on Internet safety, including the Obama administration’s 2009 Online Safety & Technology Working Group, which she co-chaired.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

That not only makes it harder to gauge how well students are learning math and catching up from pandemic learning losses, but it’s also making math grades a less reliable indicator of who should be admitted to colleges or take advanced courses. They’re becoming increasingly untethered to how much students know.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

But even over summer break, students still need educational opportunities so they can return to school strong and ready to learn more. One of the most common causes of the achievement gap , or the differences in scores between disadvantaged and advantaged children, is summer learning loss (also known as the summer slide).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Since the 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a large number of states have backed away from recently enacted policies that were designed to breathe new life into moribund teacher and principal evaluation systems, according to new research from the National Council on Teacher Quality.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

In 2009, between 800 and 900 student registrations were cancelled because students had not paid their bills, according to administrators. The difference in Rutgers-Newark’s approach can also be seen in its honors college, the Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which opened in 2015. Read more about Higher Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2023

As educators, we're at the forefront of this exciting (and scary) change with unprecedented learning opportunities (and threats.) Smyers is a member of the EDUCAUSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board and has been named as one of CRN’s “Top 100 Women of the Channel” 2009–2013 and named to its advisory board.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2017

I vividly remember one such moment in 2009 when I took a device from a student as he had it out in the hallway. Since this was a violation of school policy I immediately confiscated the device, as this is what I thought I was supposed to do to ensure a school culture free from distraction and solely focused on traditional learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a teacher at the early learning center All Five, in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, May 26, 2023. When students are chronically absent, no matter what the issue is, you're missing out on learning," she said. Particularly this year, as school policies around COVID or illness are a lot less strict."

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. Customers of Edulence’s learning management system, Knowledgelink, include Lincoln Financial Group and AARP Services.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

Instead of just looking at test scores and saying there’s an equity issue, leaders need to dig down into each group of students and determine why they’re not meeting their learning goals. Make learning collective. Invite a diverse group to analyze the problems. It will take time for staff to recognize and change their faulty practices.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. So we were off and running. and Oakland, CA.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Because administrators, policy-makers, students, parents, and community members all play key roles in how society values the work of teachers, positive interactions become critical. For this reason, relational trust is a key factor within the learning environment to have engagement and success (Bryk & Schneider, 2002; Bryk et al.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In 2009, a National Center for Education Statistics survey showed that about 90% of schools prohibited cell phones during school hours. They already nimbly use them to facilitate their lives and want to do the same for their learning. The school experience isn’t just about cerebral learning. That’s a problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

The expiration of court orders that mandated school integration and the expansion of school choice policies, including the rapid growth of charter schools, explains all of the increase in segregation from 2000 onward, said Reardon. All this matters, Reardon said, because kids are learning at different rates in more segregated systems. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates popularized the notion in a 2009 TED Talk when he said “ once somebody has taught for three years, their teaching quality does not change thereafter.” Old dogs do appear to learn new tricks. Other researchers, including Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek , found the same. .

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Because the reality is that we are not only experiencing a mental health pandemic; we now have a three-headed learning crisis consisting of mental health, empathy and creativity. Levels of empathy in youth fell by nearly half between 1979 and 2009. Build emotionally healthy learning environments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In a strong job market that values both experience and educational credentials, interest is growing in experiential learning models that fuse traditional academic study with real-world projects and work experiences. There’s a need for more coordination between K-12 and higher ed to bring a more holistic approach to experiential learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For them, the net cost of a degree has risen from 12 percent to 22 percent since 2009, depending on their earnings level, compared to about 1 percent for lower-income families, federal data show. Middle-income Americans have borne a disproportionate share of college price increases, too.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We founded Treering in 2009 with the goal of creating a more inclusive yearbook. Learn more about this partnership and how you can get involved here. SHP also advances school safety, youth mental health, and responsible gun ownership at the state and federal levels through nonpartisan policy and partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. The result today is a patchwork of local policies, with pockets of proficiency-based grading surrounded by schools that have stuck with traditional methods of evaluating students — or reverted to them recently.

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