eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In early 2020, 7.3 million students received special education services as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to the National Center for Education Statistics. A whole-child approach to special education will help accelerate the learning of this unique population.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Last year presented many challenges and accelerated a number of shifts that were already underway in K-12 education. The pandemic, however, brought all these innovative, yet still considered by some to be “alternative” education methods to the forefront in ways that our team could have never predicted.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2021

Among them: better communication strategies and tools that make it easier for special education parents and teachers to interact. If you don’t have good communication, that partnership really breaks down,” she says, referring specifically to parents and educators. “A She’s also a mom to four children, three of whom are deafblind.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report After ruling out stressors in Antonio’s family environment, the Yale team learned more about the challenges he was facing at school, including severe learning difficulties in the classroom and bullies outside of school. Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When we got into the classroom, the students were shy. Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

8 most popular story of 2020. As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. At Laurel Springs School , an online K-12 education provider, we have mastered the art of teaching in an online classroom. Check back each day for the next story in our countdown.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2021

In February, Philadelphia-based early childhood educator Adrienne Briggs found herself in a quandary. Partially in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, state licensing rules had changed in December 2020. She attended a webinar, but the presenter didn’t provide documentation for attendees to reference.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Delaware Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

“It actually paved the way for me to go to school,” Richard said on a spring morning after walking her three children to their classrooms. Derrika Richard walks her three youngest children to their child care classrooms at Clara’s Little Lambs on a March morning in New Orleans. It’s “changed my life.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program offers a comprehensive early childhood program that provides education and clinical services. Lucas’ teachers and therapeutic staff at the Lourie Center were able to provide remarkably nurturing, attentive care and education for Lucas. He is happily preparing for kindergarten next fall.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. And yet, Chilean education expenditure as a percent of GDP (5.35

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NWEA — a not-for-profit, research and educational services provider serving K-12 students — today released new research that illustrates the scale and disproportionate nature of the disruption in student learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. PORTLAND, Ore.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. It just makes me so crazy.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Through my experiences as a classroom teacher and a youth organizer, I know students who lost family members during the pandemic, students who struggled with food insecurity and students whose anxiety and depression spiraled during the fear and isolation of the pandemic’s onset.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Sarah Powell, an assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the founders of the science of math movement. For Sarah Powell, an associate professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, the question was this math problem: Donna and Natasha folded 96 paper cranes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, in a briefing with reporters, called the results “appalling and unacceptable.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As educators, we would tell our students they could become anything, while simultaneously teaching them in a school building that had no soap in the bathrooms, broken computers and a nurse for half a day, only on Fridays. Tougher for parents, for students and for educators. The inequity in the system was tragic and profound.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The GoGuardian Research and Insights team today announced its comprehensive findings on the factors that create an engaging learning experience in K-12 schools, both online and in-person, in its 2020 State of Engagement Report. Being consistent in classroom management. Because the COVID-19 Pandemic has restructured U.S.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Only top three issues included; not to scale and will not add up to 100%; Source: CIRCLE/Tisch College 2020 Pre-Election Youth Poll. And, according to the CIRCLE/Tisch College.Tufts 2020 Pre-Election Youth Poll , for many young people, a top concern is climate change and the environment, along with racism and healthcare.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

Our teammate and Events Director, Al Thomas , a former principal himself, ran the Education Leaders Network Playground, which featured 28 sessions for leaders by leaders, and one session in particular stood out when we talked about it… a session called Leading EdTech Initiatives for Social Good by Jennifer Williams , author of Teach Boldly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. that would keep them in the classroom. So let’s imagine.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. This is a pivotal moment for early childhood education,” Robinson notes. “We We must invest.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores. Related: Reading Remedies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

She brought to the role practical expertise, having spent more than two decades working as an early childhood educator. Most recently, early childhood education won big during the 2020 election , with voters in Colorado and Portland, Ore., approving taxes to support universal preschool programs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. For those 12,000 students, the story is not over,” said Breanna Sommers, a policy analyst with The Education Trust in Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2023

She declined to leave the classroom after her teacher asked her to hand over her cell phone (and it turns out she didn’t have her cell phone). In fact, in the period from 2015 to 2020, Black students were charged under the South Carolina disorderly conduct law at a rate roughly seven times of their white peers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The Newark Board of Education (NBOE) has joined forces with Prudential Financial , Schools That Can , and Discovery Education to create an innovative public-private partnership that supports student academic achievement and builds confidence in math skills through a unique suite of dynamic digital resources.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers. According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This is the fourth year of the Tech Edvocate Awards, which recognizes outstanding edtech products that support students across the Pre-K-20 sector by catering to identified classroom and learning needs. A complete list of winners of the 2020 Tech Edvocate Awards can be found here. About Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

As educators reflect on the disruptions of the past two academic years, they’re increasingly gravitating toward the kind of personalized, “move on when you’re ready” learning being practiced at Parker-Varney. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. It’s a view that’s catching on. Credit: Daniel Joseph.

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