eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. About Vernier Software & Technology. Vernier creates easy-to-use and affordable science interfaces, sensors, and graphing/analysis software.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently partnered with Magnitude.io Then students will have the opportunity to participate in post-flight genetic and data analysis. Educators can sign up for the ExoLab-8 lab using the code VernierInSpace to receive a 10 percent discount (this offer expires February 19, 2021).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” By 2021, that had declined to 15. That was in 2017. “It

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Our recent analysis of teacher representation in edtech leadership revealed that former educators held a variety of top roles in the companies we sampled, heading teams that handled pedagogy, curriculum, product, marketing and sales.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Pandemic school closures and remote instruction made learning to read much harder, especially for young, low-income students who didn’t have adequate technology at home or an adult who could assist them during the day. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 Many older students lost the daily habit of reading. Reading Remedies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5 missed at least 10 percent or more of school days than in 2017-18, according to an Attendance Works analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. Lampkin blames the year and a half his sons were away from school buildings from March 2020 until the fall of 2021. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages. years of school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Studies released during the second half of 2021 confirm that students learned a lot more in person than they did during remote instruction. But since so many students didn’t take spring tests in 2021, the accuracy of these estimates was uncertain. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

While we don’t fully know what the 2020–2021 school year will look like yet, it’s sure that taking care of your overall health and well-being will be essential for students, teachers, and parents alike. For students, digital citizenship is defined as the ability to use technology and the Internet both effectively and appropriately.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. No glitz or gimmicks.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Department of Labor , in 2021, there were nearly 10 million workers in STEM occupations–a total projected to grow by almost 11 percent by 2031. With the belief that STEM skills are best acquired starting at a young age, we start building foundational skills early in elementary school. According to the U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Additional key highlights include: Growing Need for K12 Safety Solutions: Implementations of CrisisAlert doubled from 2021 to 2022, and delivered over 50,000 alerts in the Fall 2022 semester, a 100% increase from Fall 2021 Elementary schools continue to experience the highest rate of alerts out of all school types, averaging 22.8

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Awardees will be announced in early 2021. Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.” As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2021

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 13, 2021 — Vernier Software & Technology is offering new, robust investigations to help middle school teachers engage students in science as they learn in the classroom or they continue to learn from home. About Vernier Software & Technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

This call pictured above was one of more than three million umpire calls analyzed by researchers in a 2021 study finding that short breaks refresh an umpire’s attention span. Thanks to video technology called PITCHf/x , the economists determined the accuracy of the umpires’ calls. Credit: Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In the last few months, AI-powered technologies like ChatGPT and BingAI have received a lot of attention for their potential to transform many aspects of our lives. Take facial recognition technology. When used by police for surveillance purposes, the technology can lead to wrongful arrests or even deadly violence.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The newspaper’s data analysis shows that this form of education is growing quickly , and among different groups of families than in years past.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Her job is to help teachers to use technology to meet the needs of their students. . Teachers are excited to start their elementary students recording their voices. . © Shake Up Learning 2021. Jen shares her background as a teacher for 24 years. Engage Students AND Meet Standards with Student Podcasting! Click To Tweet. .

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction. The Elementary School Journal, 108(2), 115–130. Implementing a Schoolwide Literacy Framework: Improving Achievement in Urban Elementary Schools. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(1), 61–72.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jefferson was the first IFLA North American Regional chair 2021-2023 (The International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions). In 2021 she was presented with the Martin Luther King, Jr., Social Justice Award by the University of South Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We times the rate of white students, according to an analysis of federal data by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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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. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. Your stories.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

million times from 2017-18 to 2021-22 across the 20 states that collect this data. Those, the analysis found, were much less common. Learn more about the data and how we did our analysis.) In the Cranston Public Schools, these two categories accounted for half of the Rhode Island district’s suspensions in 2021-22.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As Jones County leaders will tell you, this dynamic, one-stop-shop of connected solutions and professional learning services positioned the district well to face the unique challenges presented by COVID-19 and the 2020-2021 school year. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

As a result, a recent analysis suggests that students in majority-Black schools are now a full year behind in math compared to their peers in majority-white schools. Then, when testing resumed in 2021, results plummeted. percent in 2021. Massachusetts skipped state testing in 2020. percent in 2019 to just 1.8 The bottom line?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. The analysis highlights thousands of students who may have dropped out of school or missed out on the basics of reading and school routines in kindergarten and first grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. In April 2021, a full year into the pandemic, he announced measures to tackle this shortfall.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. More districts are now working to set up regular testing programs for fall 2021, using fu nding from the American Rescue Pla n , Cogan said. Require masks, and model good masking for kids.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. Under his leadership, CCHS was one of the first schools to implement Samsung’s Flip 3 whiteboard in 2021.

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edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

Careful listening and data analysis can then lead to a strategic diversity plan that includes prioritizing resources, creating multicultural goals, and developing aligned professional development. Shivers taught in the professional learning series overseas at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China. The Path Forward.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

A meta-analysis of 39 studies of children’s picture books finds that children score better on comprehension tests after reading a paper book than after reading a digital book. The technology allowed my daughter to read the Berenstain Bears, a classic picture book series, to a younger cousin over Zoom when a family trip was canceled.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 7, 2022

Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. The use of this technology is equally trending in the education, museum, and professional learning spheres.

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