Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

It is important to note that teachers and schools offered from March through May was, in most cases, not best practice online learning. It was emergency do-the-best-we-can-with-no-notice learning. Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). Science (Even physics! Social Studies.

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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. Online learning played a major role , but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Almost a year later, in February 2021, the results are in: a mere three online learning technologies have clear evidence for improving student achievement. Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. The third is an online algebra course for eighth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Yet other studies have concluded that students were harmed and learned less in a flipped classroom. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Cottingham, associate director of strategic partnerships at Stanford University’s Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), who recently co-authored a brief urging school districts to use this summer to develop clear guidance on AI use, said there’s little evidence right now that AI detection tools are effective. Benjamin W.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

Others, like genius hour and bite-sized learning, are recently arrived educational trends that may have a helpful place in your classroom. This year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to adjust their curriculum, many teachers, students, and parents gained new appreciation for the value of self-care.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. However the failure to adapt to, and embrace, new learning technologies as well as other advanced technologies such as AI, data analysis and machine learning will undoubtedly be the death-knell for most colleges. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Here are five online math resources that will turn boring math into a favorite subject: Mathletics. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If elementary and middle school students don’t learn these subjects well, the steady ramp up from arithmetic to algebra becomes a ninety-degree wall, according to Hung-Hsi Wu, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. First, let’s take a closer look at middle school learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Koedinger and his team’s data analysis was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, in March 2023. The study offers the hope that “anyone can learn anything they want” if they get well-designed practice exercises and put some effort into it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

One December 2021 analysis by consulting firm McKinsey & Company noted that students in majority Black schools are five months behind where they usually are in both math and reading while students in majority white schools are now just two months behind where they have been historically. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

million in the same period last year, according to an analysis for The Hechinger Report conducted by the consulting firm Kantar Media. million in that period, almost quadruple last year’s spending, the analysis showed. She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

Missing out on social connections is hard for middle schoolers in general, and especially so for kids in sixth grade who are just beginning to create their social networks, said Geoffrey Borman, a professor of education policy and analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. public and private school teachers and 27 percent of principals, according to a recent analysis from the American Enterprise Institute. 210,000 — The number of bus drivers working directly for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Teachers have long spent their own money to outfit their classrooms — on average, teachers spend $459 out of pocket on school supplies annually, according to an analysis of 2011-12 data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. How would she set up those screens in the first place?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

Only six out of every 100 Mississippi families with children in poverty have access to cash through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families , compared to a national average of 22 per 100, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released this month.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the summer of 2020 after schools had been shuttered for about three months, another nonprofit maker of math software for elementary schools called Zearn was thinking about a way to keep kids on grade level. If just-in-time supply delivery works for production, might just-in-time review work for learning?

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Imagine Learning Acquires Think Through Learning: Imagine Learning , a provider of elementary language and literacy software solutions, has acquired Pittsburgh-based Think Through Learning , a developer of an online supplemental math program, for an undisclosed sum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. Thoughtless expansion of tech tools into the classroom can exacerbate the discrimination Black and Hispanic students already face, experts warn. Take facial recognition technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, Virginia’s Fairfax County used federal funds toward implementing an online, optional tutoring program, but saw limited student participation in 2022. Their internal analysis cited the program’s late-year roll-out as one of the biggest adoption challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

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.

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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. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. That long commute is not uncommon in New York and elsewhere, especially for Black students, who in one analysis of five major cities, had longer school commutes than their white and Hispanic counterparts.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2015

It examines the instructional programs of online charter schools; methods used to engage students and parents, along with expectations of parental involvement; the teachers and principals of online charter schools; and the schools’ management and governance.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center, South Park Township, PA. Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. Developer: Dr. Ayanna Howard, CTO, Zyrobotics. and Mark C.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Testing this fall revealed that students started this school year behind , with progress stalling most in math ; and students of color lost more ground than white students, according to at least one analysis. Meanwhile, several districts are reporting a surge in students failing their fall classes. It’s critical right now,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Before the pandemic, preparing for a new school year was a litany of planning for instruction (data analysis, curriculum and assessment, professional development) and logistics (scheduling teachers and students, hiring, formulating a budget).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

times the rate of white students, according to an analysis of federal data by the New York Civil Liberties Union. It’s one way pandemic adjustments can address discipline inequities long-term. During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 The disparity was slightly steeper on average (3.9

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Kim had previously been an Executive Vice President at Edison Learning, a for-profit education management organization.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. Related: Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. education system.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Learning Environment. One Way of Introducing Heutagogy: Chris Kenyon. My Chapter: Moving From Education 1.0

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Absences were more prevalent among Latino, Black and low-income students, according to Dee’s analysis. They cost crucial classroom time as schools work to recover from massive learning setbacks. James, 12, has autism and struggled first with online learning and then with a hybrid model.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Examples of applications like this include most educational apps sold in the Apple and Google app stores, and some online learning sites. These applications can support both storage of and analysis on data collected in a variety of applications. The life of a data trail matters.

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