The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed.

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Hapara

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since 2015, H?para Developed by some of the division’s most experienced master teachers, this ELM comprises 64 core curriculum courses, including math, sciences, social studies and English. In addition, teachers at WCPS have also created or modified courses in Workspace for elementary through high school learners.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. Four regions in mainland China, including Beijing and Shanghai, collectively ranked 6th in math and in 2015. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. At the high school level, financial literacy curriculum is often delivered as a separate course within social studies, consumer science, or business. For youth, the outlook is not much better. scored below the OECD mean.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

12, 2024 column about how chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high in elementary, middle and high schools. Of course, most chronically absent kids aren’t missing for a whole month at once, and those who are out for weeks at a time tend not to have perfect attendance when they return. This question gnawed at me as I wrote my Feb.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Supporting this notion, a research study out of the University of Salford Manchester (UK), followed 3,766 students in 153 elementary classrooms from 27 different schools over a three-year period, analyzing classroom design elements along the way. In fact, changes can be made that have little to no cost yet make a significant difference.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Demand for shorter, more focused courses is growing, and universities are finding themselves “unbundling” their core offerings in order to keep up. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Schools across the state are ramping up technology to provide more access to courses for students. Although Mississippi is still ranked among the bottom five of all states when it comes to connectivity, more than 158,000 students have gained access to high-speed internet since 2015. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16. Schools still need to address misbehavior, of course, but there are better ways to do this. Corporal punishment has been banned in a majority of states since the mid 1990s.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Principals lack the experience and expertise in early childhood education that is needed as pre-K programs expand in public elementary schools and that could inhibit their ability to manage and support pre-K teachers, according to a new report. A preschool student writes in class. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson. And not always as reward for a correct answer.

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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] A Comparative Analysis of Student Motivation in Traditional Classroom and E-Learning Courses. If you show why you love learning, your students are more likely to catch your enthusiasm, too.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). That was in 2017. “It

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Over the course of a year, we at Graphite look at a dizzying number of edtech tools. Here's our list of 2015's most wow-worthy websites and web-based edtech tools: A.D.A.M. These powerful, inquiry-based science units capitalize on elementary kids’ natural curiosity. Interactive Anatomy Online. Mystery Science.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Melvin Love, principal at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School in Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. When I came to this school in 2015, our data from the state of Alabama showed an eight percent proficiency in reading in grades three through five.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 10, 2015

Of course the negative impacts of the decision are borne by you, your co-workers, and your customers, not your bosses or the CEO. In Iowa, our Department of Education brags about elementary schools that cut recess. As you walk away, head in hands and tears of disbelief streaming down your face, you think to yourself… I hate this.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“For students who have been historically marginalized, Algebra I has become a sort of gatekeeper course,” says Henry Hipps, deputy director of K-12 Education at the Gates Foundation. Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration. The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. 2015-16: Students who Met or Exceeded Expectations.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

For the purpose of the Modern Language Association study, programs are course offerings during a given semester, not entire departments. percent of students enrolled in a foreign language course. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

The whole reason behind having these accounts is of course to share our story with the world, but more importantly to teach my students about how to appropriately behave on social media and how to use digital citizenship early on, before they actually have those accounts at home with their families. You’re an elementary teacher right?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Pam: But his kids… he teaches an environmental course.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent enrollment drop cascades through the whole elementary-to-high-school system as these first graders age and progress into higher grades. According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5 “Nobody is talking about this.”

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Dr. Schwandt’s Tests and Measurements Course via Loomio.org. However, in order to produce knowledge, we must introduce “thinking” back into the classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

An updated dashboard makes it easy for students to monitor their own progress and save essential learnings to take with them after they complete the course. The plug-and-play SEL solutions include elementary Tier 1 curriculum and Tier 2 interventions , as well as secondary curriculum and interventions for Tier 1 and Tier 2 students.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 30, 2016

Last year at this time, I had some words about the treatment of technology in the 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform. And, to be clear, the poll findings should not be taken to generalize to any student population beyond high school (like to elementary or middle school students).

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JUNE 2, 2015

Our library makerspace will feature 12 Finch Robots by BirdBrain Technologies during the 2015-2016 school year. These robots will of course be a part of that as well. Barrow Elementary. Barrow Elementary has been selected to participate in the 2015­2016 Finch robot loan program. What exactly is a Finch?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Of course, while this isn’t an exhaustive picture of K-12 blended implementations across the world, it is enough data to reveal insightful trends and debunk some of the most common myths surrounding blended learning. The BLU houses a directory of blended schools around the world.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Students can take courses otherwise unavailable online, at home and even during the summer, earning valuable credits and skills. The courses are free and conducted in Middletown by certified adjunct professors.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Data from Speak Up 2015 National Findings show that 54% of students use YouTube all the time, and almost 40% of them are finding online videos to help with their homework. 78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

She spent many of her weekends this past fall at an elementary school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, alongside 83 other peers, including fellow classroom teachers and other educators. As part of her doctorate, she taught courses to pre-service educators through a social justice lens. In 2015, she started Breathe for Change.

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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. Vicki Davis: That's fantastic. Thanks for coming on the show, Katie. for this episode.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Three particularly noteworthy milestones are the company’s launch of its adaptive learning model in 2007, its introduction of the Lexia Assessment Without Testing real-time evaluation feature in 2015 (patented in 2017), and its addition of the LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) comprehensive professional learning solution (..)

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