Tom Murray

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to a report released by the Pew Research Center, approximately 5 of the 29 million households with school-aged children lack access to high quality broadband internet while at home. Whether it’s continuing education, applying for a job, or access to the world’s information, the ability to connect is vital for economic opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

A 2017 study by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that many elite colleges, including the majority of the Ivy League, enroll more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students. Pretty much everyone values certainty a lot.”.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

The success rate of online learning versus traditional classroom learning is a topic of ongoing research, with various studies examining factors such as academic achievement, retention rates, and student satisfaction. Subsequent studies have provided mixed findings. What is the success rate of online learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence. The study focused on fifth graders who said they were playing online video games, using social media or texting “many times” a day and their characteristics and behavior in kindergarten. “We Some racked up considerably more hours.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Eighth graders in Texas scored roughly in line with the national average on the test referred to as the Nation’s Report Card in 2022, seeing a similar dip since 2019. In that class was Alexis Grant, an 11-year-old who thinks her year in sixth-grade honors math will pave the way for achieving one of her goals: Studying at Harvard. “I

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 17, 2019

A study by the University of New England shows how the use of VR can help teach medical students empathy for the elderly and other patients. However, today’s highly skilled tech specialists are more in-demand than ever, and companies who need to fill technical roles have access to pools of pre-vetted talent to match their needs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2022

March 13, 2019, for many educators in California and nationwide, was a day that will forever be etched in their memories. Academically, she pointed out that students struggled with literacy skills, which has also been reflected in some recently published studies. Technology is providing access and engaging students.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2022

The College Readiness Program expands access and achievement in high-quality, public STEM education, particularly among students underrepresented in STEM careers. Right now, we have communities that don’t have access to STEM education. math, science, computer science, English, social studies, art, and Spanish Language courses.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2019

Thu, 05/16/2019 - 15:20. A study released by Schoology this year tackled a few of the challenges that educators, students and families face with technology in the classroom. Although this may allude to recognition by some schools of the power of social media, access to social media tools doesn’t, on its own, result in purposeful use.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

The recent focus on literacy across the country makes it more important than ever for districts to have access to evidence-based, impactful reading resources. Classworks Reading Intervention received convincing and partially convincing evidence in the categories of Study Design, Participants, and Broader Measures.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Mon, 05/06/2019 - 09:49. But what is the actual state of digital learning when it comes to accessibility, implementation and effectiveness? . Schoology recently released a report on the 2018-2019 state of digital learning in K–12 schools. 3 Key Findings on the State of Digital Learning in K–12. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2019

Wed, 01/02/2019 - 10:20. While traditional professional development is important — in-person and group education — today’s teachers need access to fast approaching and more relevant opportunities that cater to their personal goals. . How to Gamify Professional Development. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Large school districts in different parts of the United States have now developed systematic ways to increase diverse students’ access to advanced courses, and the districts are also providing other important aspects of an equitable education that prepares the students for 21st century careers. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

The study emphasizes a critical equity issue: our most vulnerable students are those most impacted by a declining numbers of school librarians. I recently chatted with project director, Deb Kachel to dig a little deeper into what the study means and her hopes for its impact and use. or SLIDE research project. It was never documented.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Tue, 09/03/2019 - 10:08. By bridging the gap between physical and online spaces, schools see their students improve academically and engage with their studies on a deeper level. By bridging the gap between physical and online spaces, schools see their students improve academically and engage with their studies on a deeper level.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

The biggest danger that higher education faces as a sector, though, is the loss of gains that we have made over the past 20 years in access to a college education — with all of the accompanying benefits to individuals and our entire society — for first-generation and minority students. This story about access to U.S.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Books on literacy development are the most accessible way to learn more. Waterford.org recommends the following books for in-depth studies on the science behind teaching students how to read: Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers by Louisa Moats. Studying reading science by yourself can be overwhelming. May 13, 2019.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Thu, 08/15/2019 - 13:15. Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . Broadband access still is limited in some rural areas. Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Thu, 11/14/2019 - 10:43. The cyberattacks on Louisiana schools’ IT systems were among a flood of similar data breaches in 2019 on both K–12 and higher education institutions’ computer networks. This sector is particularly poor in instituting software patching updates, application security and network security, according to the study.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

On Wednesday, the nonprofit announced the start of a two-year research project to study how effective these “microcredentials” actually are in helping students from marginalized backgrounds secure employment. One challenge is making career training accessible to college students—and convincing them to participate. Seems simple enough.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

The pre-K environment may help support long-term success in math, according to a new study of Georgia’s pre-K program. We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. Nationwide research is also relatively infrequent — the most recent in-depth study of U.S. The answer?

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 3, 2019

Fri, 05/03/2019 - 14:54. While K–12 schools are working to guarantee their data is secure , educational IT experts are raising concerns over the safety and accessibility of physical IT infrastructure in schools. . Classrooms are another great place to store technology and provide immediate access to teachers and students. .

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2023

The study , published in Educational Researcher , a peer-reviewed journal of AERA, was conducted by Jing Liu at the University of Maryland, College Park, Emily K. These gaps are mainly driven by higher numbers of office discipline referrals (ODRs) issued for Black and Hispanic students, compared to White students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

She also pointed to a research study conducted by the school — with The Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education at the University of San Diego — that reported greater feelings of belonging and self-esteem among students. But that study did not track academic outcomes or chronic absence rates. So does the model work?

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Parents with suboptimal internet access, however, are dramatically more likely than others to say the pandemic has caused a problem in their child’s ability to keep up academically. It is not surprising that teachers’ job satisfaction, already at a low level (34 percent in our fall 2019 survey), dropped to 23 percent in this survey.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

our Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) devices help provide the access. Being a part of VILS was such a blessing for my school because we joined the program about five months before the March 2019 school closures. Here at Neelsville Middle School in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

New research study questions whether black students are disproportionately put in special education. Two new studies by independent groups of scholars find that students of color are actually less likely than similar white students to be identified as having disabilities and obtain special education services at schools.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

They are essentially media comparison studies or, to be more precise, license comparison studies. It should surprise no one that media comparison studies find no significant difference in student learning. ” This is a theme in media comparison studies that has been repeated in the literature for decades.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

E-rate is the federal government program that provides discounts of up to 90 percent for schools and libraries to bring high-speed internet into their building(s) and create internal networks for online access. But funding requests for Category Two services have soared in the same time period.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Others shared that they or their colleagues fear being reprimanded by school leaders for trying something new, don’t feel adequately trained, or lack access to the tools they need to implement edtech effectively. Internet access has also improved substantially. Internet access has also improved substantially.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article originally appeared on MIddleWeb 7/31/23 you can access the original post here. Former social studies teacher and school leader Shawn McCusker is co-author of Becoming Active Citizens: Practices to Engage Students in Civic Education Across the Curriculum. 8 Sep 2019, Politico Magazine. Accessed 16 Jun.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

The hope is that if you build the institution, employers will come,” said Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, which has studied the idea on behalf of the legislature. Robert Stivers, the president of the Kentucky Senate, and the sponsor of the bill that commissioned the council’s study. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Fordham Institute study reviewed popular English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and two other sites and found that most weren’t good. in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This year’s Marginal Syllabus, titled Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN: Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020 is kicking off November 4, 2019. Thank you to the partner authors whose texts are included in the 2019-20 syllabus. — Michelle King, Love Activist.

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