Reading By Example

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Judgement – It’s all a matter of perspective by Jay Posick ( Jay’s Journal , May 7, 2015). Four Lessons from Motherhood by Ariel Sacks ( Center for Teaching Quality , May 3, 2015). On differentiation: a reply to a rant and a posing of questions by Grant Wiggins ( Granted, and… , January 15, 2015).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When four ambulances arrived at school in 2015 to transport middle school students who had taken prescription drugs in the classroom, it was a career first for me. Why Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Weren’t Enough When I came to Madison Elementary in 2015, I was the third principal in a four-year time-frame.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

An increasing number of people now prefer to access and read books on digital devices such as eReaders, computers, smartphones, and tablets. This will depend on factors like the platform, the device on which the ebook is being accessed and viewed, and the individual settings chosen by the reader. Digital Publishing / November 4, 2015.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the winter of 2015, the TAC visited our own schools. However, they also saw limitations such as inconsistent wi-fi and minimal access to devices. It was eye-opening to see our classrooms in comparison to the schools we visited outside of our district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

A state law prohibiting willful defiance suspensions for grades K-3 went into effect in 2015; five years later, the ban was extended through eighth grade. Others noted that this ground for suspension was a subjective catch-all disproportionately applied to Black and Hispanic students. Last year, Gov. It takes effect this July.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2019

Since 2015 I’ve led the college and career access division at The College Board. What’s less well known is that our mission is rooted in changing the systems that prevent low-income and first-generation students from accessing the college opportunities they deserve. This is simply untrue. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. The main concern while publishing content is the quality of the final output which will be accessed by students. Easy to Publish. Easy to Deliver.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Launched in 2015, Ponddy Education makes AI-supported language-learning products and services. Gordon is using traditional AP prep materials as well and says Ponddy holds up well by comparison. And the written language includes thousands of special characters. It’s nice to have an opportunity to do that.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. Through the #GoOpen initiative, launched in 2015, the U.S. That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. billion was spent on software.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Pre-K quality and accessibility have received much attention over the past 15 to 20 years and state and federal policymakers continue to allocate resources and prescribe policies geared toward ensuring high-quality pre-K experiences. Our current K-3 system does not serve these children effectively.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

And though interest in computer science education, and access to it, is growing, the report found that not enough students are taking high-quality computer science classes at the high school and university levels. The report found that just half of U.S. The report was co-authored by ITIF President Robert D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Source: OECD, PISA 2015 Results (Volume I), page 177. These factors, the critics say, make comparisons impossible. Once again, results from an international test show that U.S. students perform relatively poorly, and once again, critics say the results don’t matter and should be ignored.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices. Learn about creating various kinds of codes and access to lots of QR code activities for all subjects and grade levels. Then consider coming to Mobile Learning Experience 2015 in Tucson, Arizona.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019. Pennsylvania district comparisons [link] Advanced Search Tool data options. Data Speaks: Addressing Equity of Access to School Librarians for Students. ” Teacher Librarian 48 (3): 49-52. District Profiles.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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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. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!)

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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. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. By comparison, he said, edX updates many of its tech courses four or more times a year.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 28, 2017

We’ve all heard anecdotes, too, of teens being reduced to tears from the constant communication and comparisons that social media invites. Leah Shafer is a staff writer for Usable Knowledge , which translates education research and well-tested practices so they’re accessible to practitioners, policymakers, and parents.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Researchers found that children who were assigned to the PEG + CAT group showed stronger improvement in key math skills than children who were assigned to a comparison group. Most parents and caregivers want to be children’s learning partners, and our research shows how high-quality media experiences can play a role.”

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

Trust me, he’ll like this comparison!) The Innovator’s Mindset was published in 2015 by Dave Burgess Consulting Inc. He is indeed fortunate to have access to the awesome sketch noting ability of Sylvia Duckworth. Indeed, he is the Justin Timberlake of educational innovation. Yes, that Dave Burgess who teaches like a pirate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Different states use different cutoff scores to determine who must take these classes, which makes remediation-rate comparisons difficult and, critics say, remedial placement somewhat arbitrary. But despite the difficulty of comparison, many states have strikingly high remediation rates in their public colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

By comparison, in the United States, students do not get the same educational experience. Families with the most money often have access to the best child-care centers and most elite colleges. That 2015 study attempted to separate out how much the instruction a student receives in school contributes to their scores.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. The Every Student Succeeds Act ― a federal education law passed in 2015 ― allows states to create a state-defined alternative diploma that’s aligned with regular requirements. I’m not asking Matthew to climb a tree. Future improvement is unclear.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. The rule—and that number—has many detractors , but the underlying principle is that it requires deep and focused work to achieve mastery.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

It’s considered by pundits that the shift in access via smartphones has caused a mutation in content consumption away from only books and long-form reading. Yet there is something to the immediacy of access from smartphones that holds promise. Audiobooks, social media and smartphone newsfeeds are what Americans are doing.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. IDC estimates that the total number of shipments in 2015 was actually around 207 million units. 2015 – the phones in their pockets. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Gaps between how minority students perform academically in comparison to their White peers have long been an issue across the country. The disparities often stem from larger structural issues — a lack of access to quality curricula , for instance, or teachers expecting students to perform poorly.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. For example, at the nonprofit where I work, nearly 190,000 people have signed up for our MOOCs in 2018 compared to around 145,000 last year and 177,000 in November, 2015.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 25, 2017

The Tiled Display is the only publicly accessible, free, high-resolution (4k) screen on campus. The interface allows users to work together on projects, access content submitted by others, investigate new areas of interest, and interact with fellow contributors, strengthening Oxy’s broader sense of community.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Yet Dror Ben-Naim cringes—just a little—every time he hears that comparison. The first wave, he says, were efforts that “solve[d] for access.” After Dror-Nam met the philanthropist in 2015, the company received a $4.5 Since entering the U.S. Letting Humans Drive Adaptivity. million grant from his foundation, which.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Ray Henderson (@readmeray) October 14, 2015. And they need to purchase the open access option for these articles so we can all read them.) Efficacy and Comparisons. Just-in: @Pearson has just pubd white paper on their #Revel platform, as CEO @johnfallon committed. This is critically important to understand. Postscript.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Nearly 29 percent of them applied to eight or more colleges in 2015, according to the UCLA survey — more than twice as many as their predecessors did 10 years earlier. This has helped thwart efforts to make college more accessible to low-income families. The biggest drop is expected this spring, when there will be about 2.3

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inspired by her research, Ilana founded Breathe For Change in January 2015 and created the world’s only 200-hour wellness and yoga training specifically for educators. ” That was in January 2015, and that’s really how and when Breathe for Change was born. I was like, “Nothing is going to stop me.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In January 2015, Brock Turner, a Stanford University student, sexually assaulted an unconscious woman before being stopped by two men who happened to catch sight of him. And this is far from the first time. In this case, white privilege was put on trial, and white privilege won. Related: Teachers of the world, unite.

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