eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, Nick ran a pilot with Unruly Splats, a STEM learning tool that combines learning to code with active play.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. That will depend on federal immigration policy after the 2020 election.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2] The value of choosing intrinsic motivation over its extrinsic counterpart is clear, but it’s not always easy to know where to start. Differences of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation. V erywell Mind, Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many people may assume that what I saw is an outlier, but the latest Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) shows that at least 19,395 students experienced corporal punishment during the 2020-21 school year. Corporal punishment has been banned in a majority of states since the mid 1990s. Corporal punishment remains expressly legal in 16 states.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016 (look for No. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , by 2020, there will be 1.4 It’s about helping students make sense of their digital world.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. There are consequences for education, too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In 2015, Austin, Indiana was hit with a deadly epidemic: HIV/AIDS. Alongside four other school communities, it was selected because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and under 5 percent of the student population was identified as a Covid-19 case.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

That cash, combined with what observers have estimated was $800 million in revenue in 2020, has been fueling its growth spurt. By 2015, they had launched their flagship product, Byju’s Learning App, and were raising millions of dollars in funding. elementary schools have signed up for accounts. The couple also married.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

On June 10, 2020, as the U.S. In June 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a think tank based at the University of Washington, posted a survey of summer school plans around the country. Those final results are expected to be published later in 2020 but I’m not anticipating a surprise turnaround.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Calculus simultaneously to prepare for computer engineering courses in college.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

But Lynn, right now, you’re excited about what you’re calling TL 2020. What is TL 2020? TL 2020 is our teaching and learning initiative in Salisbury Township School District. We spent quite a bit of time visioning for TL 2020, and continuing to evolve our vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom?

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The following excerpt was originally published in The Reading League Journal – May 2020 Edition and is shared with permission. A perfect storm is a “combination of events or circumstances creating an unusually bad situation” (“Perfect Storm,” 2020).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. In Alabama, nearly 2,000 of the state’s 47,500 teachers — 4 percent — didn’t hold a full certificate in 2020-21, the most recent year for which data is available. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mississippi’s elementary reading policies, signed into law in 2013, have drawn national attention. They include improved literacy training for elementary teachers and reading coaches for the state’s lowest performing elementary schools. Related: Mississippi made the biggest leap in national test scores this year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. In the winter of 2015, the TAC visited our own schools. Several of our students were named U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

14, 2020 also marks the 35th anniversary of John Holt’s death so, to honor his memory, here is a way to encourage you to enjoy living and learning with your children without turning your home into a miniature school. 2) The Elementary School Years and Homeschooling Laws and Regulations 3) What Do We Do Now That We’re Home?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first part of the study of Tennessee’s program was released by the Vanderbilt University researchers in 2015. Previous research suggests that the quality of the teachers and elementary school that children attend after pre-K may boost or undermine long-term effects of pre-K.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

in 2013, and then becoming part of education technology and services provider Cambium Learning Group in 2020, and integrating with reading intervention provider Voyager Sopris Learning. “In Among those strategic milestones was first joining with language learning system creator Rosetta Stone Inc.

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. Everyone would have their tablet or laptop.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. The Gaddies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. She had enough to manage with her evening bartending job, so she was seeking a simpler option.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The isolation of spring 2020 sent Lindsay Richmond’s 13-year-old son AJ into severe depression. AJ, a student in Colorado’s Jefferson County School District, was moved to remote instruction in September 2020 while administrators conducted a behavior threat assessment. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a 2015 study of elementary school students in Wayzata, Minnesota, found only small increases in reading and math scores and the increase wasn’t seen for all students. start during the current 2020-21 school year and I’ve noticed that she’s less groggy in the morning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Classroom Conversations in the Study of Race and the Disruption of Social and Educational Inequalities: A Review of Research. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 453–476.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This logic continues today, boosted by the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), which retains annual student testing, with supports and sanctions for low-performing schools. We’ve learned that test-based accountability systems such as NCLB and ESSA change the behaviors of schools and teachers, for both better and worse.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In a 2015 evaluation of Massachusetts schools, only 54% of 4th-graders and 51% of 8th-graders tested at or above a proficient level in math. We will be seeking applicants from October 7, 2020 – February 12, 2021 for the 2021-22 school year. How do you create a culture of perseverance and problem solving in schools?

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Buncee

JANUARY 10, 2020

We are continually inspired by the wonderful students and educational professionals in our community, and we look forward to another year of sharing, learning, and inspiring others as we move forward into 2020. This year is her 4th year as a campus coach, and she loves calling Keenan Elementary her home.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So No testing took place in 2020, so the scoring is based on the prior two years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. We wouldn’t want to say that most teachers in America became worse at their jobs in 2020 and 2021 because test scores declined during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Four Steps We Took to Catalyze Change In January 2015, we began to implement our multi-step plan, prioritizing the roll out of some bold changes in our schools. The roll out began with one pilot school with a plan to expand to all schools across the district by 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. Araujo’s salary has nearly doubled since she joined the federally-funded Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science. Coleman Elementary, hasn’t had a suspension in six years, according to the principal. Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a school administrator, I was first introduced to Buncee in July 2015 at an EdCampLeader “un”conference in Long Island, New York. “During our emergency school closing in 2019-2020, Buncee was used to celebrate the great work our teachers and students did when we all had to quickly transition to remote teaching and learning.”

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