Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Administrators were a bit more tempered in their responses, expressing hesitation about whether live observation is the be-all, end-all in assessing edtech impact. Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same. Trends change. Trends change.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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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. Although there were many reasons, in large part the district had moved away from desktops and more teachers were using carts of devices, often for assessment.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And while many novel and useful experiments are occurring outside formal education, the degrees, certificates, and other credentials awarded by formal institutions are still critically important to many people… My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Each year the New Media Consortium (NMC) and CoSN—the Consortium for School Networking — jointly create the Horizon Report. The 2016 Report is made possible by Share Fair Nation at go.nmc.org/2016-k12 ). (The The 2016 Report is made possible by Share Fair Nation at go.nmc.org/2016-k12 ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 For the first time, we’ve reported our revenues on pure digital, digital enabled, and non-digital services. Pearson CEO John Fallon Other companies are looking towards bringing together curriculum and assessment, and provide the whole package to try to improve student learning outcomes.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 18, 2017

For the second year in the UK, secondary (high) school numbers have grown, and it's expected that over the next 8 years there will be a 19% rise in these numbers , with over 600,000 additional students. A recent report from the National Union of Teachers reveals some disturbing statistics. What can be done?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens , from The Education Trust, researchers found most families of color don’t think schools are set up for their students to succeed. She received this honor during her 5th year as the Principal of Ridgeview Middle School in Gaithersburg, MD.

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Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 65

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. The percentage of secondary school teachers who specialize in art or music instruction grew from 6.7

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. RED WING, Minn. The 19-year-old St.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 15, 2016

Two reports crossed my feeds recently, each concerning the intersection of automation and humans. A related political angle in the Pew report is is that automation, while exciting, doesn’t loom largest as a job threat in respondents’ minds. These are two different if related stories. Will Clinton avoid the topic?

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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. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. Framework for the Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. “We It was whatever we came up with ourselves.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 84

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2018

A new ninth-grader at one school who reported frequent visits during the school day to the emergency department for breathing problems was able to receive a correct diagnosis of asthma in a Chicago area in-school health center. While numbers have grown over the years, among the 125,000 plus primary and secondary schools in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 71

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A Proof-of-Concept Study of Game-based Learning in Higher Education,” published in the August 2016 issue of the journal Simulation & Gaming. As part of their research in the field, Crocco, Offenholley and Hernandez conducted a study on GBL and co-wrote. “A These results may have particular impact on non-traditional students.

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Game-Based Learning STEM Secondary Study 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). On report cards, grades are presented in the new system, but on transcripts the school provides a conversion to a traditional letter grade — an element that has meant grades are easy for parents to understand.

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Learning System Report Outcomes 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. ” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 67

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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System CMS LMS Outcomes 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. At 7 a.m.,

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Report Study Elementary Secondary 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats. For example, as the New York Times reported in April 2020, the Library of Congress has created a new digital tool to help aspiring DJs.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. Say Yes also credits its partnerships for a K-6 summer camp program that served 2,500 students in 2016. “It Are our students completing post-secondary education? Dedecker said the No. We’ve got a long way to go,” Rust acknowledged. “I

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Summative assessments evaluate competencies in each course through the year, instead of the quarters to reach a “3” in each competency to achieve course credit. We celebrated our first graduating class of students in June of 2016. Nellie Mae is a funder of The Hechinger Report).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? Students were therefore unable to sit their A Levels, the exams that are the culmination of secondary education there. Every student is guilty until the algorithm proves her innocence.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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Elementary Education Survey Report 39

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. teachers are calling on government and school boards to take steps to protect student privacy and support teachers’ use of digital reporting tools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. teachers are calling on government and school boards to take steps to protect student privacy and support teachers’ use of digital reporting tools.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2015

I am now booked through the end of December and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. YouTube has devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). How to report content on YouTube. I am taking 2016 dates and it’s not too early to begin thing about next summer.

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Digital Citizenship Resources Classroom STEM 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Although it’s not easy to track participation in online programs, a report by the Evergreen Education Group , a leader in digital learning research, estimated that some 2.7 Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 64

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

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. In fact, as Mix and Cheng (2012) report, “The relation between spatial ability and mathematics is so well established that it no longer makes sense to ask whether they are related” (p.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.).

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. Kayla Patrick, an author of the National Women’s Law Center report “Let Her Learn.”. She had once planned to graduate with her class by the age of 17.

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