eSchool News

JULY 8, 2022

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , during 2013–2015, 3.9 Many didn’t have proper internet access or even a tablet or other device with which to get online. percent of boys and 4.3 percent of girls missed more than 10 school days in 12 months because of illness or injury.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Beginning a technological evolution When I first became an administrator in the 2013-14 school year, I started a coding initiative. I believed technology would be powerful for our scholars and I wanted everyone to have access to it, but only one student in the entire school signed up for the program. We can (and will!)

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How To Chromebook Elementary Secondary 122

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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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an edWebinar hosted by SETDA featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Past anti-Black federal policies and practices in housing precluded Black people from building wealth, forcing a higher proportion of Black borrowers to take out loans for higher education. A post-secondary degree shouldn’t just help people gain higher incomes. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. Cancel that debt.

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Policies Secondary Study Report 141

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. Since taking the reins as CEO in 2013, he has aggressively shed assets considered tangential to the publisher’s digital transformation strategy. Students will pay for use.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. On November 22, 1996, U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

Acknowledging this fact has driven the recent shift toward personalization in education. In 2013, the state of Vermont committed itself to the value and promise that personalized learning holds for its students by passing Act 77 , often referred to as the Flexible Pathways Initiative.

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Personalized Learning Secondary Learning Course 139

EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

With more than 4 billion users now connected to the internet, 50% of the global population (Forbes, December 2018), it is not surprising that the education sector has embraced devices and software to interact, engage, and enhance the learning environment for students. EdTech is not unique in this trend of bigger, but less frequent, deals.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. The question is, how do you ensure students are graduating with these skills in a way that sets them up for future college and career success? So, how do we do it?

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STEM Digital Badges Industry Classroom 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Since 2013, close to a third of the US school districts have charged into “one-to-one” digital instruction, putting a computer in the hands of every student—and the number is growing. It’s an alluring path, in part because it placates parents and school boards demanding a “21st century” education.

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EdTech Accessibility Policies Equity of Access 126

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

But these are secondary causes. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. This adds up to the tuition fees.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Nearly 1,900 teaching and learning staff are employed in 42 schools, each equipped with various types of technology tools (42 in all). Like many public school districts across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. Because creating breakthrough, systematic innovations in education is challenging.

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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Now the perk will run out for her before she finishes her education. SANTIAGO, Chile — So poor was the education she received at her public high school, Pilar Vega Martinez had to take an extra year to study for the Prueba de Selección Universitaria — the Chilean version of the SAT. Photo Elissa Nadworny. Elissa Nadworny.

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Policies Study Report Accessibility 137

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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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. 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. I think for the last 20 years,” said Pedro A.

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Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. By 2013, Webster managed to graduate just 53 percent of its students, and it was clear to school and district officials that drastic change was in order. City Year member Shawn Wiyninger greets a student at Webster High School. Research found that a $3.5

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Dropout Secondary Data Report 79

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Department of Education’s College Scorecard that shows 3.9 The results are quite sobering, and it compels all of us across higher education, including for-profit institutions like Strayer University, to be a part of the solution. In 2015 and 2016, 3.9

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Data Policies Report Secondary 76

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

To stop shutting students out, California began building its Online Education Initiative in late 2013. Nearly all (104 by the latest count) have adopted the Canvas LMS , and students are receiving secondary IDs that work across the entire system. Course offerings fell 21 percent between 2007 and 2012.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sue is a proud recipient of the 2012 NYLA Mary Bobinski Innovative Public Library Director award and both the 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and the WCNY Women Who Make America awards. He worked as a secondary educator before joining the Fayetteville Free Library in the summer of 2013.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

That 17-point gap was slightly lower than in 2013, when 11 percent of the university’s freshmen were Latino and 29 percent of the state’s high school graduates were Latino, an 18-point difference. But CU Boulder is remarkable because Colorado is considered one of the countries’ most educated states. in 2012 to 16.9%

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Analysis Report Data Guidelines 96

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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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The access is there but are we as educators willing to embrace it? ” This is a very powerful statement from Maddisyn (and you can see how much her time with Kelli still resonates with her) but I am going to rewind back to a conversation I had earlier in the week with an educator. .” If it isn’t, should it be?

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Secondary System Video Accessibility 28

MindShift

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Math education has fascinated me for a very long time. This led to two observations: Mr. O’Connor knew there was something terribly wrong with math education in his school. I also met gifted educators who made all sorts of mathematics accessible to children in new and exciting ways.

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Education Secondary Course Elementary 28

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

.” Krugman describes a bubble as a situation in which prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future (2013). Before the Internet, educational materials were printed, making them scarce resources. Scarcity was a defining attribute of educational resources. wikipedia ).

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OER Software Outcomes Smartphone 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A MakerBot Innovation Center is a popular, large-scale option for universities that want to offer students wider access to 3D printing to teach ideation, problem solving, and iteration. embrace 3D printing and its benefits, administrators and teachers must find an effective way to make the technology accessible to more students.

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Industry Course Secondary Accessibility 40

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

They were accessible and (it) didn’t feel like they were thousands of kilometers away.”. Caroline Levander, Rice’s vice president of strategic initiatives and digital education, said the provisions for the course’s teaching, tutoring, books, homework and review services are well worth the investment for Rice.

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Course MOOC Secondary STEM 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

DeLeón, Education Programs Professional at the Nevada Department of Education, and Alison Harte, Instructional Materials Specialist for the Bureau of Standards and Instructional Support in the Florida Department of Education, presented case studies on how their states are changing the conversation to digital first.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Policies OER 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, and home learning worlds. Our goal is to share best understandings of the learning process as part of rethinking and reinventing education. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0

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Conference Learning Libraries Video 53

MindShift

MAY 24, 2017

years after graduating,” says Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at the Education Trust, a nonprofit. “The problem is there’s not a lot of expansion in higher education,” Teranishi says. “And that isn’t just white students.

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Policies Data Outcomes Report 49

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. MBA, CFD has 11 years of experience in higher education as a professor of Mathematics. She is a seasoned presenter at Educational Conferences worldwide.

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