edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. Instead, said Duchesneau, educators and staff need to recognize cultural and contextual differences and how they impact students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] Content : How the student will access the information.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Somewhere in the 2010-12 time frame, that abruptly changed. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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ExcelinEd

MAY 11, 2020

Health crises, deepening education divides and economic disaster come to mind. Educators and school system leaders will have to shift and adapt quickly, bringing their greatest creativity and problem-solving capacities to the table.”. It’s not just educators and systems leaders who will need to adapt and help guide us forward.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

New report offers policy recommendations to sustain momentum for computer science education. schools should make every effort to expand computer science education to keep up with workforce demands, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Teach computer science in all high schools.

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ExcelinEd

JULY 1, 2019

We must remember we are working for not just the close to 1,000,000 students who remain on charter school waitlists nationwide, but for all children and families who crave educational options. This lack of innovation has shut out young education entrepreneurs inside of the state. T his is the cap that matters.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 24, 2020

” She points out that researchers, educators, and district administrators won’t have any empirical evidence until student assessments reveal learning gaps due to COVID slide and summer learning loss. Dr. Brooke joined Lexia from the Florida Center for Reading Research in 2010, where she served as the Director of Interventions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Odd as his presence may have seemed, it was not out of the ordinary for the Church, which first devised a social media strategy around 2010. Monsignor Tighe calls his educational profile and path “one of the most disjointed you will ever find.” I had no direct access to their sources of information. That has all changed today.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

A New Definition For Equity In Education. Each word has its own nuance, but one characteristic they share in common is access—a level, shared area with open pathways that are equidistant to mutually agreed-upon currencies. Design learning models that are inherently inclusive regardless of access to technology. by Terry Heick.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

What was once a sleepy conference at Arizona State University that charged $50 for attendance has now become ground zero for dealmaking in the education technology industry. (A Increasingly, educators and administrators seem onboard with that premise as well as their presence at the event has grown. Educators: 30 to 750.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

She attended Goyco as a child and she lived just a few blocks away when, in 2013, the Department of Education shut the school down. “I But the truth is, it’s been so carelessly abandoned, just like our education system.”. The truth is [the school has] been so carelessly abandoned, just like our education system.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations. Because people just didn’t get along.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. 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.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). Adult learners don’t appear.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). Adult learners don’t appear.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Notes from a TCEA 2011 Concurrent Session John Lopez Texas Education Agency All TEA Power Points from TCEA will be uploaded to TCEA Project Share group for this conference. digital content tcea tcea 2011 teacher education' Commissioner''s List added Electronic Textbooks. Format of digital materials being submitted is all over the map.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

These things “just reminded me of what I already knew about the politics of education and the lack of resources in low-income communities when it comes to schools,” said Ben, now 22 and about to graduate and go back to Chicago to teach while pursuing a master’s degree. The answer?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: The Classroom 2.0 show is back!

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

A point raised by the National Center for Education Statistics states that an average student’s decision on whether they want to attend college or not is entirely up to their family finances. The education expenses are the biggest concern for freshers, which puts them in a dilemma “ Should I go to college or not” ? million students.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 5, 2014

A 2010 paper by associate professor of digital media Constance Steinkuehler and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin showed that when struggling readers read from school-based and game-based texts chosen by researchers without regard for student interest, the struggling readers showed low performance on both kinds of text.

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iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, I thought that technology might be the savior of education. I created the Learning Genome Project as an attempt to make it possible to personalize education for every child. But Bodo comes at the problem of education from a very different direction. Does anyone else see the problem with this? Change makers!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This flaw in higher education is not obscure; it is codified into federal law. However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, many schools and districts are still relying on individuals or looking for that magic program rather than developing educational systems that provide a high-quality, modern education for all students. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom.

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Evelyn Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

Hello esteemed educators and industry leaders, This month, our deep dive explores the pressing challenges facing the U.S. education system. It’s become painfully evident that a student’s ZIP code plays a massive role in determining their education quality. Stat Spotlight : Research indicates that teachers in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When he was assistant superintendent of schools in Meriden, Miguel Cardona — the state’s new education commissioner — would take new teachers on a tour of the city’s neighborhoods. Miguel Cardona, whom President-elect Joe Biden has chosen for his education secretary, speaks to educators earlier this year.

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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. In England, the country at large is instead investing in the education of young children right from the start. We think of it as common sense.”. Like the U.S., and the U.K.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. We argue that this progress is achievable only if we make room for new approaches in education—that is, if we innovate." Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. We argue that this progress is achievable only if we make room for new approaches in education—that is, if we innovate." Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Free speech is not just a legal imperative; it is a core educational principle.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined . To see how many factors impact a child’s education. A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined . b)(1) and who enroll in an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act, P.L. Educators .

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Buy the all-access pass here and have access to all the sessions and bonus materials forever. He has been recognized as one of the most influential education scholars.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. LOTS of information below!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A former special education teacher who grew up in Oregon, Grant rarely considers a problem without mentioning how it affects students. By the time she formally started, in July 2020, the coronavirus pandemic had upended public education. Related: Should rich families be able to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” Or it was.).

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