eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today released a comprehensive year-to-date innovation summary that underscores the company’s commitment to anticipating and meeting the evolving needs of school districts across the country.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. educational system beginning to decay? American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. Is the U.S. At the same time, other countries leapfrogged ahead of us.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

Despite these competencies being related to consequential life outcomes, it can be challenging for educators to find effective ways to prioritize, teach and assess social and emotional skills. According to the CASEL report, “Ready to Lead,” interest in and support for SEL are high among teachers and school administrators.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching.

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edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. But What About Technology? About the Presenter.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

With constant budget pressures, protracted sales cycles and a diffuse web of different purchasing processes, the K-12 education market is not for the faint of heart, especially for startups looking to establish themselves. Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts.

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IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 176

PlagiarismCheck

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

today announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program providing education customers the ability to automate the writing assessment process and get coherent plagiarism reports. PlagiarismCheck.org offers customers a Google Docs add-on and extension for Chrome, as well as integration with Google Classroom.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

It removes barriers to learning materials, supports students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and gives educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating. Students and educators have more tools to create a learning environment that fosters personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. As educators reflect on the disruptions of the past two academic years, they’re increasingly gravitating toward the kind of personalized, “move on when you’re ready” learning being practiced at Parker-Varney. It’s a view that’s catching on. And Daniel A.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

He’s the man behind SELweb , an online tool designed to assess K-3 students’ social-emotional learning (SEL), their ability to recognize and manage emotions and build healthy relationships. For McKown, along with an increasing number of educators and parents, teaching SEL is not just beneficial, but imperative.

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Insight Education Group

MARCH 30, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has left long-lasting impacts on educators and students alike. According to a report cosponsored by the NEA , “what was once referred to as stress or educators ‘having a bad day’ – which might still be happening – has evolved.” Lighten the load for educators. Normalize mental health education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Checking student work for possible plagiarism, specifically, has become a time consuming burden for many educators. Some educators prefer this approach, as it doesn’t require purchasing or using any software.

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Software Assessment Analysis Tools 153

PlagiarismCheck

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

today announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program providing education customers the ability to automate the writing assessment process and get coherent plagiarism reports. PlagiarismCheck.org offers customers a Google Docs add-on and extension for Chrome, as well as integration with Google Classroom.

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Google Report Assessment Tools 75

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

This certification was awarded by Digital Promise , a non-profit established by the US Congress in 2011 to develop research, practice, and technologies to drive education equity, in partnership with the EdTech Equity Project. For more information, please see www.lwtears.com.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. Parents are engaged via student activity reports on school-owned devices.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A Reboot Foundation report finds a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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Tablets Analysis Report Study 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In 2011, Oakland declared itself the nation’s first full-service community school district, with the goal of using the community-school strategy to drive systemic change across its 86 schools. The district’s highest-need schools employ full-time community school managers to plan, implement and assess partnerships with community agencies.

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Strategy System Report Resources 133

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Educators and researchers are weighing three theories on what is responsible for the decline: money, instruction or reading itself. Reading Remedies. READ THE SERIES. In 2016, U.S.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

students in global assessments in math and science is another troubling statistic: According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fifteen-year-old girls in 65 countries generally outperformed boys worldwide, but in the United States, boys outperformed girls in quantitative studies. World News and Report.

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STEM Resources Report Study 257

Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

According to findings culled from five meta-analyses, blending technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better outcomes than face-to-face or online learning alone ( Cheung and Slavin, 2011; Cheung and Slavin, 2012 ; Tamim, Bernard, Borokhovski, Abrami, and Schmid, 2011 ; Means et al, 2009 ; Means et al.,

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Technology Outcomes Online Learning Analysis 121

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I have to submit data from two recent tests, fill out two data reflection forms, start progress reports and complete the SEL survey about each of my 23 kindergarteners. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One of the great debates in education spans more than two millennia. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Around 370 B.C., Peps McCrea , a U.K.

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Study Google Assessment Accessibility 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. It was whatever we came up with ourselves.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 86

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates , or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial classes when they get to community college. Tennessee Higher Education Commission. He continued, “You’re just not going to finish.”.

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Education Course Case Study Assessment 103

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in.

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EdTech Chegg Mobility Company 160

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Higher Education. But despite their vastly different student populations, the two schools share similar educational philosophies. Led by Wendy Crocker-Roberge since 2011, Pyne Arts is already one of Lowell’s more progressive schools. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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STEM System Report Assessment 102

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Not so fast, say education publishers and retailers. Instead, educators asked how quickly it could print out materials. But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. Technologists from Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, almost a century apart, have predicted their demise.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

But many educators argue that a focus on only cognitive ability is too narrow to measure a student’s ability and undermines the importance of emotional intelligence. 3] Teachers who prioritize teaching emotional intelligence report lower levels of behavioral issues, classroom bullying, and chronic absenteeism.[13] Rivers, S.E.,

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Classroom Training Examples Elementary 317

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 2 = basic.

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Assessment Common Core Analysis Examples 150

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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Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 67

The Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2018

Switch this to the context of education, and many schools are focusing on the question of “What is best for the learner?”, which is a “learner-centered” approach to education. In fact, as content is now everywhere, relationships are are more important in education than ever. The first is relationships.

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Education Professional Learning Assessment Classroom 62

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning.

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

techlearning

APRIL 6, 2018

The online course was created by the Center for Education Through eXploration (ETX) at ASU, with support from NASA and the National Science Foundation. Since 2011, it has been taken by more than 5,000 ASU students and adopted by instructors at nearly 40 other institutions globally.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. for former general education students.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 93

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Unless you were a reporter or play tester, however, it was hard to get your hands on them. Conversations continued through early 2016, during which time StoryToys was also interested in buying the portfolio of educational apps from Touch Press, a London-based company. Only one title was available in the consumer market.

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