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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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Education Has a Three-Headed Crisis. Mental Health Is Only Part of It.

Edsurge

It is now time to update this piece for 2021. In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Source: A Year in the Life of a Pandemic , April 27, 2021, by Philip Fisher, Joan Lombardi and Nat Kendall-Taylor.

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Schools Must Invest to Protect IoT Devices

EdTech Magazine

billion of them in use in 2017 — from TVs, cars and coffee makers at home to security cameras, lighting systems and thermostats at businesses and schools. Beyond the data shared by devices, many operating systems and form factors must be accounted for. Gartner predicted that there would be 8.4

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PROOF POINTS: Nationwide, evaluating and penalizing teachers rarely works

The Hechinger Report

Forty-four states have adopted some version of a teacher evaluation system that rates, rewards and penalizes teachers. Source: Map is Panel A, Figure 1 in The Effect of Teacher Evaluation on Achievement and Attainment: Evidence from Statewide Reforms , December 2021 EdWorking paper at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University).

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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. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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Adobe Flash 2020 Retirement: The 5 R’s Strategy for Teachers

ViewSonic Education

Fast forward to 2017, Adobe announced its plan to no longer support its most popular success story. On January 1 st , 2021 all applications using Flash will no longer find their programs being maintained. No updates for operating systems and browsers. Adobe Flash software after 2020. This means: No bugs being fixed.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. The system fully implemented the program in the 2019-20 school year and reduced the number of developmental course sections it offered.

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