eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

After successfully providing a number of Network member schools with access to Slooh’s robotic telescopes and patented Mission Interface last year, West Sound STEM Network is now expanding the program to reach 250 teachers and 10,000 students. Kareen Borders, executive director of the West Sound STEM Network. About Slooh.

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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. Vernier Software & Technology has led the innovation of educational, scientific data-collection technology for 40 years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images The STEM Action Center made other adjustments too.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

BEAVERTON, Oregon, December 13, 2021 — Vernier Software & Technology has named the 40 recipients of its 40th anniversary educator grants. The grantees are: Elementary School. Erik Buck of Lincoln Elementary in Fresno, California. Amy Coffey of Lyle Creek Elementary in Hickory, North Carolina.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2022

Using Slooh’s education platform, educators and students can additionally collect data and images to analyze what is taking place beyond Earth’s atmosphere. We need students from all backgrounds and with a diversity of experience, especially girls and those underrepresented in STEM fields. About Slooh.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When Kim Rider and her team contact a former student, they aren’t just checking in — they’re also gathering data. Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. That sparked some uncomfortable conversations,” said Witcher, who retired from the district in 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

It’s been nearly two decades since the Yale study was published, and the discipline problem persists — data from 2021 shows that half of the 17,000 preschoolers who were expelled that year were Black boys.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

In addition to online telescope access, this new solution provides elementary through college-level teachers integrated curriculum-based lesson plans that can be used with students and ongoing professional development to help educators easily use the technology. “I Slooh was also named an “Elite 200” startup by the 2022 ASU-GSV Summit.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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). This month, Magnitude.io Through our partnership with Magnitude.io

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them.

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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. Teachers can help spark curiosity and collaboration among students with standards-aligned curriculum.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Expanding upon its award-winning Vernier Graphical Analysis app, Vernier Software & Technology is launching the Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro app to engage students—either remotely or in the lab—in more advanced analysis of data from biology, chemistry, and physics experiments. About Vernier Software & Technology.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). They should use data to identify programs that are the least effective to assess if they can streamline efficiencies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Other data analyses have also shown benefits to bypassing remedial education, but this was one of the only real-life experiments, like a clinical trial, and so it carried a lot of weight. The confusion stems from the study design. And the numbers of students in this pre-college remedial program are swelling.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BEAVERTON, Oregon, June 8, 2021 — Vernier Software & Technology has enhanced its Vernier Video Analysis app with new features and now offers the accompanying Vernier Video Analysis: Motion and Sports e-book for high school and college-level introductory physics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2023

In 2021, the organization started a “moonshot grants” fund for school districts in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia in an effort to help expand or create programs to improve schools and communities. The class is being launched with the help of education nonprofit Remake Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

At some STEM-themed schools in New York City, students score below the citywide average on the state standardized math test. Several STEM-themed schools weren’t even meeting that low bar. Attending a themed school offers no guarantee of success in the focus subject, either. Close to a third have disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. Yet early data suggests that the pandemic is aggravating the leaky bucket problem. Into a burning house.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

With no prior background in cybersecurity, she spent the next several months learning about the field — everything from developing network and data security, encryptions and binary coding to looking at how artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies and quantum computing work.

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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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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. One tutor, Kingsley Esezobor, 38, is a graduate student in computational data science and engineering at North Carolina A&T State University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down.

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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. It’s time to face this literacy loss head-on.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Within weeks of the transition, New Visions for Public Schools also began working with a pilot group of schools to provide rich data about students’ patterns of engagement with remote learning, requests for remote learning devices and responses to surveys about internet access.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The Summer Youth Employment Program alone will employ 75,000 young people in 2021. In New York City, for example, in 2018 more than 71,000 of the 328,000 public high school students took career and technical education courses, including ones in fashion design, pharmacology and accounting.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2024

The data show that students with disabilities, like Kyra, are more likely than their peers to be punished for such violations. Similar patterns played out in other states with available data including Massachusetts, Montana and Vermont. In fact, they’re often more likely to be suspended for these reasons than for other infractions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Students who fall behind academically are very likely to remain behind — and elementary school test scores are a strong predictor of meeting future milestones like high school graduation. They’ll be less prepared to do well in college STEM courses and less hirable by tech companies upon graduation. percent in 2021.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In January 2021, Seage decided it was time to leap into the education field, leveraging the skills he acquired to make a difference at his alma mater, Christopher Columbus High School. Under his leadership, CCHS was one of the first schools to implement Samsung’s Flip 3 whiteboard in 2021.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Test data paints a dire picture: Educational assessment nonprofit NWEA found that seventh and eighth graders’ scores on its math assessments fell in 2022, the only group of kids for whom that was true. About 42 percent of Northside Middle School students qualify for free and reduced price lunch, just below the state average.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly-qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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