Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. The report cites federal statistics showing that 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. Our main goal is to give access to world-class technical education for folks who may not otherwise have it.” And neither is elementary-grade science. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. million in revenues this year and $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The CoSN Meeting the Needs of Students Without Home Internet Access webinar on September 19, 2018 reflects the growing concern and call to action for school districts, business communities and state and federal government to address what has been termed as the homework gap. 1 at the elementary level.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. Josie Chelotti, vice principal and athletic director for the Plumas district’s Greenville Elementary and Jr./Sr. Josie Chelotti, vice principal and athletic director for Greenville Elementary and Jr./Sr.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5 missed at least 10 percent or more of school days than in 2017-18, according to an Attendance Works analysis.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Students are particularly vulnerable to data theft and breaches because they have “clean” data — unblemished credit reports and pristine Social Security numbers — that cybercriminals want to exploit. In an always-online world, many students use public Wi-Fi networks to access the internet for homework and for entertainment.

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 341

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. We need to change that.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

Because of COVID-19, we did not want to have a lot of paper materials, and I created a checklist for my students to audit and make sure that all of the students can access the textbook because that can be a real issue as you go to e-books. . Make sure that they understand when they are supposed to report and what their hours are.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Elementary School Levels. Elementary students should be taught how to stay safe online, but mainly, they need to learn that the online world is connected to the real world. Unified School District fifth-grade teacher Tammy Dunbar and Concord Road Elementary (N.Y.) Manteca (Calif.)

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Elementary School Levels. Elementary students should be taught how to stay safe online, but mainly, they need to learn that the online world is connected to the real world. Unified School District fifth-grade teacher Tammy Dunbar and Concord Road Elementary (N.Y.) Manteca (Calif.)

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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. Our study provides some indication of the groups.”. This 2020 review of the research confirms that.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Cyberbullying statistics show that 59% of teens have reported being the target of cyber bullying, with name-calling, spreading rumors, and receiving explicit images they didn’t ask for as some of the most prevalent abusive behaviors.[1]. Cyberbullying in Elementary School.” The victim can’t just walk away. Waterford.org. Love to Know.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

More students than ever before now have access to a quality education, no matter where they live. At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. Wrapping up.

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Learning Student Data Privacy Data Software 254

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

2017 NAEP results show that more than 6 out of 10 U.S. To gauge the nation’s reading readiness, Age of Reading surveyed more than 1,000 parents and 1,000 teachers of children ages 2-12, reporting on children’s access to books, their reading habits, and major obstacles to developing confident and strong readers.

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Survey Libraries Elementary Accessibility 106

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Lalaine Perez Just a short drive away, Mónica Ruiz, principal at Chula Vista’s Montgomery Elementary, was facing her own math struggles.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austyn Gaffney for The Hechinger Report. But last February, Ophelia received her first dose; she was excited about starting kindergarten at West Whitesburg Elementary School this fall. Around 8:15 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The findings provide further evidence of a trend identified last year by a Hechinger Report/Associated Press analysis of data gathered from 40 states that revealed a racial divide in career and technical education, or CTE. “It Previously, the Department of Education only reported enrollment in CTE career areas by gender.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. The seminal Coleman Report published in 1966 showed that student outcomes inside the classroom are predicated on their circumstances outside the classroom. Summer has always been a time when gaps get wider.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the many supporters of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report. It was the kind of report students traditionally deliver orally to their classmates. First graders work on a coding assignment. MINEOLA, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Over 40 years, she’s developed strong views on what’s wrong with American math education, but one problem has rankled her since she first walked into a classroom: unequal access to higher-level courses. Help us count the ways appeared first on The Hechinger Report. And I have been looking for four decades.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. The researchers tracked Texas because they had access to the state’s data but the state is not an egregious example of inequity. Forty-five percent of them became principals.

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Elementary Study Data Groups 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. All teachers should have equal access to tools that can improve their teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. We must work to increase accessibility on college campuses across the country and seek to defeat the stigma that often holds students with disabilities back.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Thousands of Mississippi children will have access to the software this summer as part of an effort to support incoming kindergarteners during the coronavirus pandemic.Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Waterford.org initially launched a pilot program in Mississippi in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report. 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. today, nearly double the number in 2017. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. One place to start is by expanding educators’ access to affordable therapy, coaching and other resources that foster well-being. Frustrated.

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Survey Training Report Accessibility 143

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s a big deal for a startup that was founded in 2011 on the bet that as internet connectivity and mobile devices became more affordable and accessible in classrooms, teachers and students would need a way to create and share digital content and resources. Mystery Science had raised just $4.5 million in outside capital.)

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IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 173

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

In the spirit of benevolent friction, I’d like to share a few thoughts with our colleagues working at the intersection of education and technology as I reflect on 2017 and look ahead to the new year. Yet it was sobering to find only two elementary math software programs with randomized, controlled trial studies from the past six years.

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Technology Education EdTech Elementary 97

Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

6] Students who are characterized as “difficult” or “bad-mannered” may be overwhelmed with toxic stress and unable to access the support they need because of the way others view them. In fact, one-fifth of all children report that they worry a lot.[14] Academic Pediatrics, 2017, 17(8), pp. A Few Common Causes of Student Stress.

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Classroom E-rate Advocacy Report 239

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2017

Textbooks and blackboards have become a thing of the past in K-12 schools as educators collaborate with IT teams to shape a full digital core curriculum as part of their educational strategy for 2017 and beyond. billion in 2017.

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E-rate Blackboard Broadband Survey 78

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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