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GoGuardian Finds Three Factors That influence K-12 Student Engagement Online and In-Person

eSchool News

The GoGuardian Research and Insights team today announced its comprehensive findings on the factors that create an engaging learning experience in K-12 schools, both online and in-person, in its 2020 State of Engagement Report. Because the COVID-19 Pandemic has restructured U.S.

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OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

The Hechinger Report

In a spring survey in California, nearly one-third of Spanish-speaking families said that they could not understand the distance learning information sent home by their children’s schools. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning.

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Education Technology Industry Network Grows With Addition of Education Industry Association Members

Marketplace K-12

The move adds about 50 percent more members to that division, the Education Technology Industry Network. While most of the members of the EIA are not large and represent regional tutoring and learning centers, there are also some financial institutions on the list, including BMO Capital Markets, First Analysis Corp.,

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Few preschool apps are developmentally appropriate, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Many apps provided rewards like high scores as an incentive although research shows that the learning itself, and getting to new levels of an app, should be the desired reward for children. Related: Can technology improve preschool?

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

The number of undergraduates dropped by nearly 4 percent in the fall compared to the fall of 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, because of families’ financial circumstances, dissatisfaction with online learning and other reasons. Nursing students at Sacred Heart University.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

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. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

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