EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

About two weeks ago, via LinkedIn, I shared Josh Steimle’s book review of Susan Cain ’s bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. In her book , Cain explains, “At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. Written by: Robyn D. Change Participation Requirements.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 22, 2016

The notice in the Federal Register shared that 50 percent of all grant funds, more than $13 million , are reserved for use by school libraries serving high need LEAs. Here’s the text from the Federal Register : We are clarifying that, in accordance with the Senate report that accompanied the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“I’m still thinking about how I’m going to pay for that last year” after the benefit runs out, she said in Spanish, in a glass-walled conference room in the university’s busy library. But gratuidad doesn’t cover other costs, including rent, food, books and transportation, which remain a barrier to lower-income students. “To

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Photo: Ankur Singh for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Ankur Singh for The Hechinger Report. But, even as the number of students declined, the schools still served a secondary purpose as community hubs — hubs that residents are intent on getting back. “ Photo: Ankur Singh for The Hechinger Report. “I Goyco school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. Just under three-quarters of students in rural India can’t subtract two-digit numbers by grade three, and only half of grade five students can read at a second-grade level, according to a recent World Bank report. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. A good life’. With over 1.3

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I was able to learn the app very quickly this weekend in preparation for introducing it to secondary fine arts teachers from my school district this morning. Create a book teaser/trailer to get peers or students interested in reading a book. Create a news report recounting the important facts of a current or historical event.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Previously , I wrote about the tension surrounding book choice in schools from four main parties: parents, teachers, students, and admin. Guiding students in book choices is not an administrator’s role, as I understand it; we trust the mentors directly speaking into students’ lives for that. Maybe you’re angry about book bans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Bryant expects a similar proportion this year.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. Microsoft Academic offers more that 150 million entities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. MONTPELIER, Vt.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

National data show that almost 70 percent of eighth graders are not considered proficient in reading based on 2022 test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card. New technology in the library or for your counselors? Do you need infrastructure updates?

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

And, personally, I think that Wikipedia kind of gets downed a little bit, but I know that most colleges don’t, and I don’t think my teacher would enjoy that, so I would not use Wikipedia in my report. I find Google a lot easier than going to the library website.” Connaway, L. Lanclos, D., & Hood, E.

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iLearn Technology

JULY 10, 2016

I must admit, that some of this hesitation comes from experience with digital badges within EPIC Kids books , an app we love at Anastasis. because it brings us so many books and expands our classroom libraries and feeds our students desire to read. Each time a student reads a book, they earn a badge within EPIC.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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MindShift

AUGUST 22, 2016

From the Page to the Stage was developed by Kentucky Shakespeare in conjunction with the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1991, as a way to help teachers get the most out of teaching Shakespeare to their classes, and has been honored by the Library as an exemplary program and used as a model for other professional development programs.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. Who’s gonna check out 400 books?”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

billion on elementary and secondary education. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. “We As in most states, school funding in Mississippi has not yet returned to pre-recession levels.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I recently came upon a pair of contradictory articles about what colleges will be charging for tuition next academic year: One reporting that Ohio State University found reasons last month to nearly double its online tuition , and another noting that some colleges are in a race to lower tuition. million by contrast with $1.2

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

National data show that almost 70 percent of eighth graders are not considered proficient in reading based on 2022 test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card. New technology in the library or for your counselors? Do you need infrastructure updates?

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. So here’s the second point. patches/hour (p.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

APACALL Book Series Volume 3. This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal. Connectivist Learning: Reaching Students through Teacher Professional Development. In Son, J.-B. Computer-assisted language learning: Learners, teachers and tools. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign. But department leaders are encouraging professors to take a close look at the Cengage books to get the deal. How do you do Cengage Unlimited unless your entire campus goes to Cengage? It was a horrible experience.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The second, which is my path, is to make common cause with others who are working on solving the problem of the cost of attending a post-secondary institution, like Martha Kanter , Morely Winograd , and others making slow but steady progress eliminating tuition as a barrier to students. Yes, there is far more than licensing at work here.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a CoSN report , more than half of school districts and about one-third of public schools in the United States are in rural areas. You are invited to connect with him on Twitter and share your favorite leadership book at @pj_aiken. He has served as Principal at the secondary level as well as Assistant Superintendent.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 28, 2018

To maximize study time I took books-on-CD out at the public library. I still recall more of these two books than possibly anything I’ve read in print since. Despite knowing this, not once in all those years did I ever listen to another book. Listening to books is no cure for the attention deficient among us.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It’s a thing we do at the end of a book. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level. On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting" by Thomas Guskey. Don’t let writing get scary. It’s a thing we do at the end of a unit.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 12, 2015

StudyBlue Studyblue.com offers one of the biggest libraries of study materials online. Study Guide Zone provides various resources and study guides that you can use in taking business tests, primary and secondary tests, undergraduate tests, etc. The site has printable notes, digital library, study guides and other online materials.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. “We I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 3, 2018

Buildings included libraries, post offices, hotels, prisons, churches, schools, and homes. Their process was also open, at least in terms of preparing materials for the web and working openly with people (students, staff, teachers) at their schools and other institutions (historical societies, libraries, buildings themselves).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Inspired by Alexander’s success, educators at Morris Elementary also use Istation’s reports and printable resources to promote academic growth in reading and math. To combat this issue, the district purchased Adapt4 Charging Stations for its secondary schools to alleviate the challenges of uncharged devices in the classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

A comprehensive, or the American equivalent of public, school, Calderstones takes students from inner-city Liverpool, whose neighborhoods a Church of England charity reports include five of the 10 poorest in the country. say that there is also huge value in simply exposing youngsters in primary and secondary schools to college students.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

COVID’s impact on schools was so substantial that Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. Action 1: Spend Money on Long-Term Initiatives.

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