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Data Shows Demographics Are Shifting in Fast-Growing Cities. How Are School Districts Impacted?

Edsurge

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. With the release of new data from the American Community Survey, EdSurge decided to take a look at demographic shifts in the school districts of five fast-growing areas around the U.S. to see how their communities have changed. Census Bureau. Source: American Community Survey.

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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts

Digital Promise

A study conducted in 2017 and published in June 2021 investigated how five school districts from Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools made edtech purchasing decisions. End user data—from both students and teachers—should be intentionally gathered and utilized to drive decision making throughout the entire process.

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Pennsylvania School Reports Student Growth in Mathematics Despite National Trends

eSchool News

Screening measures from the 2021–2022 school year revealed significant increases in math readiness from fall to winter in all grade levels. First-grade students’ scores jumped from 52 percent in the 2016–2017 school year to 98 percent in the 2022–2023 school year—a 46 percent increase.

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Think Together’s Helen Welderufael is Named a 2021 “Next Generation of Afterschool Leaders”

eSchool News

Think Together, a Santa Ana-based and California’s leading nonprofit provider of afterschool, expanded learning and school improvement programs, is proud to announce the National AfterSchool Association (NAA), has named Think Together Regional Operations Analyst Helen Welderufael, as one of NAA’s 2021 Next Generation of Afterschool Leaders.

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Experienced Teachers Can Bring Big Value to Schools. Here’s Why They Still Need Support.

Edsurge

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. teachers into four buckets.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

From July through December 2021, I took Teaching Computer Science in Grades 6-12 from Advancement Courses for my three hours of college credit required by my certification organization. . I ran the lesson plan with my seventh graders while collecting learning and survey data — and I learned so much. Data Analysis. Danielson, C.

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

Edsurge

The state began collecting and publishing chronic absenteeism data from schools during the 2016-17 school year. East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. percent) in 2021-22.

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