Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hawaii experienced a spike in retirements during the 2020-21 school year. And a recent Louisiana Educator Workforce Snapshot revealed that 26 percent of teachers who left their jobs in the 2020-2021 academic year had 21 or more years of experience. In the 2020-21 school year: 12.4 And what can schools change to get them to stay?

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Between May and June of 2020, our students had collectively read 77,000 minutes on the Amira platform. “Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. A longtime administrator in Rio Rancho, Aaker led the district-wide transition of elementary students to online learning when Covid struck. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. But it is troubling that the lowest achieving students in our schools lost the most ground between 2020 and 2022. Department of Education released disastrous test results.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

In a July 27 report, consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that 800,000 elementary school children were five months behind in math and four months behind in reading , on average, compared to similar students before the pandemic. Still, as imperfect as the figures are, they paint a dismal picture.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. Oftentimes tech companies didn’t really seem to understand the experience of Black and Brown students in the classroom,” Hebbar said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

But Lynn, right now, you’re excited about what you’re calling TL 2020. What is TL 2020? TL 2020 is our teaching and learning initiative in Salisbury Township School District. We spent quite a bit of time visioning for TL 2020, and continuing to evolve our vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He is a frequent keynote speaker who challenges and inspires audiences with stories and real-life examples from his classroom. 00;03;46;09 – 00;04;02;04 Jon Bergmann Part of the test, for example, and this one was they actually had to hit something. So for example, actually I had a big AHA when writing the book.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. But not all educators in Oxnard were on board.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. For example, research by McKinsey & Company found that Black and Hispanic students are less likely to have access to technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Some relief came in 2020 through the CARES Act with an initial $13 billion allotment to K-12 schools. A new funding package from the federal government in December 2020 dedicated an additional $54.3 Creating an itemized budget may require some research and preliminary conversations with edtech and software companies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina. percent to 22.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. This helps students understand who would use those materials.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At a legislative hearing in 2020, a Louisiana education department official said the reporting lapse could cost the state $21 million in annual federal funding for career education. (A For example, a 2020 analysis found that only 18 percent of the credentials CTE students earn are sought by employers in job postings.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. And, among the students who needed tutoring the most because they had failed a class with a D or an F in the fall of 2020, only 12 percent ever logged on.

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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. In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Salvatore’s employer is Paper, which is based in Montreal, Canada and says it is the largest online tutoring company in the United States. Then, in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic erupted, Soka sent students home.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The World Economic Forum predicts that 85 million jobs in roles like data entry, accounting clerks, and secretaries are likely to be displaced from 2020 to 2025, 97 million new jobs are likely to be created, such as artificial intelligence specialists, data scientists, and information security analysts. Externships bridge that gap.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

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. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2022

Somewhere in 2020, I broke my foot, and I was so busy taking care of distance learning, the kids, and the teachers that I did not stop and go to the doctor for myself. Vicki Davis: And one thing I have learned is, for example, now, if I'm exhausted, I go to sleep. But we have to take that time for ourselves. [00:03:09]

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. The idea was met with nods by three of Chandler’s classmates as they sat discussing the future in the principal’s office of their 400-student elementary school, a red-brick structure in a suburb of Portland. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. In that video, Karl imagines he is the commencement speaker for the Arapahoe High School (AHS) Class of 2020, reflecting back on the past 13 years of schooling for that cohort.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A September 2020 meta-analysis found that student achievement tended to improve after a school turnaround. One idea has been to bring in a new principal and make drastic changes to turn the school around quickly like the way corporate turnaround artists revive a bankrupt company. But not always. Education experts argue over this a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. There’s a role, he says, for a hot spot for a student who becomes homeless, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The civil unrest of spring 2020 laid bare racial inequities and accelerated the job market’s readiness to embrace young and diverse workers. The benefits would be greatly amplified if high school teachers integrated the work-based learning with classroom academics and helped students reflect on their internship experiences. The time is right.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. Cathi has served as an elementary principal for nine years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

After agreeing to take on 10 summer interns from the Prepare Rhode Island program last summer, Cathy Desjarlais, a human resources manager at biotech company Amgen’s Rhode Island site, had reservations about the new interns, apprehensive they would display the behavior issues Butler described. Photo courtesy of Vilson Gamez.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years. Gallup’s Jonathan Rothwell reports that the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 11, 2018

Today, esports pioneer James O’Hagan explains the phenomenon and how Gamer-Scholars are emerging as successful examples of a new sport. So when we think of sports, you go under that umbrella and you’ll think baseball, basketball, football, for example. SMART’s Give Greatness contest is today’s sponsor. Vicki: Wow. What’s our fifth?

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 28, 2020

Here we are, January of 2020. Entering the year 2020 mostly feels so fresh and cool, but every time I enter a new year, I have that little voice inside my head that asks, “What have I accomplished in the past year? What is an example of a realistic goal? Something about that date just makes me feel like we’re in the future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

This story also appeared in Fast Company Now, facing staffing shortages, the district of more than 16,000 students dumped extra work on those who remained. Educator strikes have also increased across the country since 2020, not only among teachers, but among the school staff who support them. People were feeling trauma.

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