eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Singapore and Mumbai, India– May 19, 2021 – Emeritus , the global leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire iD Tech , the world leader in youth STEM education for $200 million.

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MindShift

MARCH 30, 2021

Video classes, she learned, don’t convey height very well. ’ ” When Arcola Elementary School reopened in person in mid-March, Barksdale’s students had to adjust to a very different classroom. With this form of in-person learning, I don’t know that they’re getting a good education.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By spring 2021, the school held a near-normal graduation ceremony. In late July, just before the 2021-22 school year kicked off, the Delta variant slammed into New Orleans, filling hospitals to 2020 levels. A July 2021 study by McKinsey & Company estimated that, on average, U.S. It was a definite setback.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Jersey City Public Schools, which only opened for in-person learning at the end of April, long after many other districts, seemed unsafe for learning even before the pandemic. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, virtual learning has worked for her son, who has autism and ADHD. She’s also exploring private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. But the foundational knowledge, the skills to be able to learn and do well in school later are so important. Kindergarten matters a lot.”. They are doing just fine.”.

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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. In the Cranston Public Schools, these two categories accounted for half of the Rhode Island district’s suspensions in 2021-22. For education departments that do provide definitions to districts, subjectivity is frequently built in.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2021

She found that, outside the walls of the school building (“real school,” as she calls in-person learning), she was actually a much better student. “I In January, the district surveyed its families about their interest in a new online-learning program for the 2021-22 school year and for after the pandemic.

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MindShift

AUGUST 24, 2021

School districts are committed to having students back in school buildings even as the delta variant of the coronavirus threatens to derail in-person learning. Educators can also help students form better connections with their peers, which will be critical to students’ wellbeing and ability to learn.

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MindShift

MARCH 12, 2021

And today, just under 1 in 4 public school students attends a district that still hasn’t held a single day of in-person learning. Colleges have seen widespread disruption, too: In the fall, only about 20% of four-year colleges offered any classes in person. 1, Nelson was back in the classroom at Ortega Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. So it’s a juggle.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In March, federal lawmakers approved $800 million to help school districts identify, enroll and support homeless students — about eight times the amount appropriated for the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Youth program in fiscal year 2021 and more than the combined funding for the program in the last 10 years. That’s true in St.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That would be by April 30, 2021.) That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

In January, Rosa Bermudez brought home a colorful worksheet from Stansbury Elementary School, meant to guide her “power plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology. In January, Rosa Bermudez filled out her “Power Plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology, one of her early assignments from Stansbury Elementary School.

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