Doug Levin

AUGUST 30, 2016

Given that I do not believe that the 2016 EdNext Poll on School Reform’s findings about ‘blended learning’ should be taken at face value, what do I think the poll actually reveals? This is malarkey.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. “We Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. “He In 2016, she was accepted as a trainer for the Oregon Science Project.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016). Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading: A report from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2023

After a two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, suicide rates among American youth increased in 2021, according to a recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges. A study released by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). The report also emphasizes that students need to be given chances to actively, creatively use ed tech.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Journalists (and others) are failing us when they don’t report out what NAEP levels mean. For instance, the New York Times reported this graph today from NCES : “Appalling,” right?! Loveless noted in 2016 that: Equating NAEP proficiency with grade level is bogus. That’s what the U.S. It’s significantly above that. ”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

last year, as tallied by a recent federal report. Damage from disasters like flooding, cyclones and wildfires can shutter schools for long periods, a Brookings Institute report says, or cause students to miss school due to illness or damage to their homes. The report authors were particularly concerned about repercussions for girls.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. In District 36, “We have makerspaces in the resource centers of each elementary school, that’s where the robotics activities are happening,” Miller says. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

The governor told reporters that educators instead need to stick to the “basics of education.” One study from 2016 found that preschool teachers closely observed Black boys more than other children when they expected misbehavior. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Often, adults misunderstand children’s behavior.”

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to student stress statistics, nearly half (45%) of the teenagers polled reported that they’re stressed all the time, and 70% report that anxiety or depression are “major problems” for themselves or their peers.[9,11] In fact, one-fifth of all children report that they worry a lot.[14] Sources : Sigler, M.K. Riley, A.W.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A 2016 study found that not one textbook in commonly used teacher-training programs adequately covered the science of learning. The seven recommendations in the report represent, according to the U.S. The post OPINION: It is time to pay attention to the science of learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. LINDSAY, Calif. — Ushering in a new model.

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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. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

ACT’s researchers calculated that the number of test takers with an A average surpassed the number of B students after 2016. Something interesting is happening in 2016. One drawback of the study is that it relies on self-reported grades that students disclose on an optional survey when they register for the ACT.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

“These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year. percent by 2016. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Without a national standard or requirement, foreign language enrollment and assessment varies widely by state, but Edweek reported in 2017 that one in five K-12 students in the U.S. were studying a world language or American Sign Language. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Most schools, however, stick with what they know, reporting student progress with letter grades, numbers or percentages. Realizing this, during the 2015-2016 school year, the Elizabeth Forward elementary teachers and administrative staff began to discuss the possibility of using micro-credentials and badging for their youngest students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. Of course, students might not see it that way.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Vernier Software & Technology and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are now accepting applications for the 2016 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards. on March 31, 2016–April 3, 2016. For more information and to prepare your 2016 entry, visit [link]. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Chang points out that five states reported a decrease in chronic absenteeism – an improvement in student attendance – during some of the worst days of the pandemic. “I The post PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. The report cites federal statistics showing that 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. Elsewhere around the world fourth graders had more negative attitudes about reading in 2016 than fourth graders did in 2001 in 13 out of 20 countries and jurisdictions. First, the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. The children are selected to represent the nation’s geographic, income and racial diversity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. ” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But a lack of high-quality curricula designed to support that personalized learning is stalling the effort, according to a new report. New technology is key to allowing educators to provide this personalized support, the report says. See also: Personalized Learning in 2016: What’s Working, What’s Missing?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. But there were many reports of tutoring fraud and fiascos.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The series is part of an eight-newsroom collaboration between AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Fresno Bee in California, The Hechinger Report, The Seattle Times and The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, with support from the Solutions Journalism Network.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

In its 2022 SAT annual report, the College Board reported that students from families earning less than $67,083 annually made up only 27 percent of test takers who reported their family income. This is a jump from 46 percent of student test takers whose families earned $80,001 or more in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Other parents report simply being called almost every day to pick up their child early. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. Department of Education released guidance that clarified regularly sending a child home early was likely akin to a suspension, and should be reported by the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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