EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 17, 2021

In 2020, phishing was the most common type of cybercrime and was 11 times more likely to happen than it did in 2016. For children 13 and under, they must create their Gmail account on an app called Family Link that grants the adult access to supervise the child’s account.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

As schools and testing centers shut down in spring 2020, it seemed only fair for colleges and universities to suspend ACT and SAT admissions requirements. Students with access to college counselors and test tutors (read: wealthier students) know this, and many are still using ACT and SAT exams to stand out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

One of its most notable dangers is increased wildfires, which caused more than 100 school districts to evacuate when they swept the state in 2020. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. Then came the pandemic and even steeper drops that “show no signs of recovery from 2020” as documented by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and other sources.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. Then, there are states that lacked laws prior to 2020, but began responding to the at-home learning requirement with new legislation for future needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You’ll get access to activities, strategies, and tools to improve the four domains of wellness. Chris Chappotin has been serving as Assistant Superintendent for Boyd ISD in Boyd, TX since January 2020. Furthermore, he was the parody writer and voice of Burleson ISD's school year launch videos from 2016 to 2019.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Department of Education is ready to give schools $280 million through two grant programs to help young people access mental health care. million between 2016 and 2020, the first year of the pandemic, the report finds. Casey Foundation report found—predictably—racial disparities in youth access to mental health services.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

From 2000 to 2020, Delaware experienced the highest increase in its percentage of English learners, followed by Maryland and Virginia. Mandatory English immersion wasn’t repealed in California until 2016. Toma un pueblo; It does take a village. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The gap is growing between students who are only exposed to technology for uses such as test prep and reading static online content and students leveraging technology to work out exciting and relevant problems, conduct deep research, connect with peers around the world and access experts. About the Literacy Initiative.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2023

The authors drew on data from the 2016–2017 to 2019–2020 school years involving more than 2,900 teachers and 79,000 students in grades K–12 in 101 schools in a large, diverse urban district in California. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For example, in 2020, the first known wrongful arrest through misidentification via facial recognition software occurred when police mistakenly accused a Black man of committing a crime. Yet, many social, political and ethical concerns have emerged as the application of technology has grown in daily life.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

VHS Learning renewed its commitment to expand access to computer science education for all students at the 2020 CSforALL virtual showcase held recently. Participating schools from at least five rural districts will be able to enroll students in the AP® program at no charge, beginning in the 2020-21 school year.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

Teachers should remember that not every family may be able to afford Internet access, so old-fashioned printed notes and bulletins still have a place in the student’s backpack. March 2020. Commonsense.org has a list of some popular apps , such as ClassDojo and Bloomz, that teachers can use to communicate with parents. ASCD InService.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Colleges and universities with prison education programs are increasingly using technology to deliver instruction to incarcerated individuals, even with strict limitations on internet access in correctional facilities. Then, in 2016, the U.S. But the technology is also raising serious questions about quality.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. In 2021, the proportion of high school graduates going directly to college fell to 62 percent from a high of 70 percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But after a problematic soft launch on Dec.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

She has had heart palpitations and difficulty sleeping since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The state began collecting and publishing chronic absenteeism data from schools during the 2016-17 school year. In 2020, at 16.2 Her anxiety is worse on days when her best friend won't be at school.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 19, 2020

Since 2016, the Marginal Syllabus has sparked and sustained public conversation about educational equity through collaborative technologies and partnerships. Access all Marginal Syllabus conversations here. Not familiar with our project?

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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. Tell us what that is. Lynn: Good morning, Vicki.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards. Three quarters of this math deterioration has taken place since 2020. Grade inflation struck all high school subjects, ACT found, but it was highest for math, followed by science, English, and social studies.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

This continued collaboration ensures K-5 students and teachers districtwide will continue enjoying access to Discovery Education’s award-winning Mystery Science service, which is helping drive deeper engagement in science instruction. We are pleased to continue this valuable, long-term partnership.” Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

Smith, who joined the company in November 2020. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, we’ve seen just how important it is for teachers and students to have access to digital tools that give them personalized, equitable support. This work has never been more urgent.”.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The site eMarketer found that 41% of students ages 0-11 and 84% ages 12-17 owned a smartphone in 2016. respectively by 2020. Cost and ease of access will only lead to more schools and districts going down this path. Persistent access to high-speed Internet in and out of school. Powerful learning devices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” More than 10,000 of the students had answered questions on their technology use in the spring of fifth grade in 2016.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s in no small part because of what he says is a first in this field of research: access to data with a uniquely high level of detail that allowed the team to track how many office referrals were issued by individual teachers. For instance, could their classrooms be in areas where more fights tend to break out?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a model that’s paid dividends for the district. The role of technology.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. “ Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation ” was written by Erica Blom and Tomas Monarrez at the Urban Institute and published in January 2020. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For example, from 2016 to 2020, ParentSquare has averaged year-over-year revenue growth of nearly 100%, tied to a similar increase in the number of schools adopting ParentSquare, and the number of parents, students, and staff users. Since its founding, ParentSquare has received industry recognition in numerous awards programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Neil Heffernan, a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, came up with the idea in 2016 after a Maine middle school math teacher, Chris LeSiege, uploaded hundreds of hints he had written for solving textbook problems to Heffernan’s free online homework help website, ASSISTments.

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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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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Applicants will at minimum, have access to new funding in FY 2020 if: . Applicants will at minimum, have access to whatever funding remains in FY 2020 if: They began using their 5-year budgets in subsequent funding years (i.e., FY 2016 – FY 2019). They began using their 5-year budgets in FY 2015 (i.e.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

After PowerSchool rolled out its Unified Classroom suite in 2016, Schoology was tapped to be its first learning management system partner. Moody’s also estimates that PowerSchool will generate nearly $450 million of revenue in 2020. The New York-based company has received more than $57 million in investment capital.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Interest in outdoor schools like Sol has spiked since Covid-19 hit the United States last year, according to a 2020 snapshot report from the Natural Start Alliance. But despite the growth in the number of programs, not everyone has access — most programs are private and expensive and battle diversity issues.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The labor market took a generational hit in 2020. The goal for Career Karma, he added, is to become more than a static repository and create a pathway that increases opportunity to access a well-paid career. And many of them don’t have access to a laptop.” Before COVID-19, retraining was a popular career choice.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Nearly 20 million students were projected to attend an institution of higher education in the United States during the fall 2020 semester, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. However, the opportunity for developmental education innovation is relevant in every state of this country.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Long before the pandemic, there was a gap between the number of families who needed child care and accessible providers in communities across the country, including rural areas, many of which qualify as ‘child care deserts.’ The industry had already been struggling with affordability while remaining viable on thin profit margins.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?”

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