Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It then compared annual growth from fall 2019 to fall 2020 to average annual fall-to-fall growth rates in previous years. But its comparison was both more constrained in time—comparing results of students who took assessments in fall 2019 and fall 2020—as well as more expansive in absolute numbers, citing “5.3

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2021

The 2019-2020 school year faced unprecedented challenges with the abrupt shift to remote learning brought about by the pandemic. Given that the IT department and cybersecurity budget in most districts and schools significantly pale in comparison to that of a typical SMB, this is hardly surprising.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

“While learning disruptions are well-known and documented for school-age students due to the pandemic, less is known regarding the impact on children who were in early childhood or pre-K settings in 2020 and 2021. points, respectively, from 2019 to 2023.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amidst the chaos of 2020 we lost a true leader in education in late August just as schools were trying to reopen. As Sir Ken says in the video above, perhaps the better comparison is not the factory as much as it is the monoculture-based industrial farm. . It was, of course, not the first impactful thing he said, nor the last.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Back in 2020 I was invited to write a very brief piece about how OER research might inform pandemic practice. 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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the spring of 2020, we obtained unlimited licenses for the literacy program, which the company was offering at no charge due to the pandemic, and rostered all of our elementary and middle school students so they could use it at home. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s one of the only tests that can be used for comparisons across states and generations. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020. NAEP tests reading and math in both fourth and eighth grades every two years in order to track educational progress.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

In comparison, those districts not meeting the goal are paying well above that median price at $1.55 In 2023, the national median cost per megabit for districts meeting or exceeding the school internet connectivity speed goal dropped to just 85 cents. per megabit. school districts now meet or exceed the FCC goal That’s an increase of 57.4

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

NAEP’s 2022 data shows that “average scores at both grades [eighth and fourth] were not significantly different in comparison to the first reading assessment [20 years prior] in 1992.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We’re beginning the third full academic year since the pandemic began, and many school communities are still grappling with the impact of the massive 2020 disruptions,” said Dr. Kristen Huff, vice president of assessment and research at Curriculum Associates. In math, student achievement in all grades is still below pre-pandemic levels.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Assessment scores from all 50 states and the District of Columbia were included in the sample, which consisted of students in grades 1–8 who took Star Early Literacy, Star Reading, or Star Math assessments during fall 2019, fall 2020, and winter 2020–2021.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A study released by Proving Ground , part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found that students who increased their average weekly usage in ST Math practice show higher math test score gains compared to the matched comparison group whose use remained the same. October 3, 2020. November 6, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

When schools shut down in the spring of 2020, the researchers scrapped the planned social studies units for second graders. In the end, children in the original 15 schools received one year of social studies lessons and three years of science lessons compared to only one year of science in the comparison group.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In fact, most US colleges have chosen the hybrid learning model for the fall semester of 2020. Modern tools allow running student papers for comparison with many different sources. It allows combining both online and in-person education’s strong sides, along with reducing the risk of spreading the virus in school settings.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For more information on leveraging edtech to accelerate learning, as well as comparisons between leading tools, see the Accelerate Learning Kits from K-12 Blueprint, or visit Microsoft Education.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A recent study released by Proving Ground , part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found that students who increased their average weekly usage in ST Math practice show higher math test score gains compared to the matched comparison group whose use remained the same. October 3, 2020. September 29, 2020.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

Due to rapidly escalating health concerns relating to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the 2020 APS March Meeting in Denver, CO, has been canceled. — APS Physics (@APSphysics) March 1, 2020. Yang (@Dali_Yang) March 3, 2020. — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 3, 2020. — Dali L.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

Because of these small increases in the rate of learning, some students were able to make up as much as a quarter or a third of the so-called learning loss that they suffered during the school closures and remote instruction of 2020 and 2021. A comparison of spring achievement scores before and after the pandemic on NWEA’s MAP tests.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

The remaining 600 students didn’t receive anything special in the mail, but were tracked as a comparison control group. About 200 of these students were admitted and 150 students, roughly a quarter of them, subsequently enrolled in 2020. The clear winner was the upfront guarantee of zero tuition.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2023

Students who used i-Ready Personalized Instruction and students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic but did not use i-Ready Personalized Instruction were matched to create similar instruction and comparison groups.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Amid the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020, calls to Abolish Greek Life gathered momentum. Gallup’s data analysts tried to make apples-to-apples comparisons by controlling for some differences, such as demographics, income, parents’ education and student loans. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Successful Practices Network (SPN) and the Center for College and Career Readiness (CCCR) released these findings today, which are some of the very first published results using current data of students’ learning from Fall 2020. Recommendations to help educators accelerate learning are also included in the new study.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

This year’s report reviews multiple comparisons of readiness levels within several demographic categories, a four-year comparison to determine the impact of the pandemic on learner readiness, and specifically how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted learner readiness over the quarantine period.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. In comparison, students who did not have access to the hints got the next problem correct 54 percent of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

The paper, “ A Pleasure That Hurts: The Ambiguous Effects of Elite Tutoring on Underprivileged High School Students ,” was published online in the April 2020 issue of the Journal of Labor Economics. The remaining unselected 250 students became a comparison group and the researchers tracked their progress too.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

m, by comparison, has about 100 full-time employees. All three companies say existing school and district customers have indicated they will renew contracts for the upcoming academic year in fall 2020, an encouraging sign for resuming business once the U.S. The company raised $22 million in a new round of funding in February.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

At the beginning of May 2020 , 80 percent of teachers said that student motivation was lower than it had been pre-lockdown. The report analyzed U.S. education research, finding that approximately 29 percent of students stated that they were “not engaged” before the COVID-19 lockdown.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 1, 2020

While millions of students took these MAP tests in the winter of 2020, few took them again in the spring as schools raced (and many struggled) to provide learning online. Copyright 2020 NPR. But this fall, nearly 4.4 million children did take the test, either from home or back in a classroom. To see more, visit [link].

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

billion by 2020. That sum paled in comparison to its previous Series B fundraise, which totaled more than $20 million.) There are plenty of dollars behind that idea. Emerging Strategy, a market research firm, estimates that the U.S. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 But those efforts did not pay off.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 3, 2020

Honestly, 2020 has been so challenging for so many and the tips I share have also helped me during this time. It is easy to get a focus on things that you don’t have or play the comparison game with others. 2019 was the year I tried to take back my own health and wellness, both mentally and physically.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 26, 2021

MIND has evaluated ST Math at school-wide levels since 2002, performing more than 100 internal quasi-experimental matched comparison group studies focusing on growth in grade-average mean scale scores and focusing on the percentage of students exceeding state math test standards. Summary of Efficacy. 2014, 2019). Rutherford, T., Scherer, E.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. boasts merely 120,000 enrollments. Five other, mostly online universities—all in Asia—enroll more than a million each.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to United States Census Bureau projections , by the year 2034, there will be 77 million people ages 65 and older in comparison to 76.5 And if that wasn’t enough to cause pause, older people will soon outnumber children for the first time in U.S. million persons under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Narine Hall, data science assistant professor and academic program director at Champlain College,and leading software and video engineer Haykanush Lputyan, launchedInSpace in 2020, sparked by frustrations with how existing virtual meeting platforms limited student-teacher interactions.

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