eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. Further, while some courses appear to be suitable, they are often too narrow in scope (e.g.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2018

On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. Infographics in Education with Eileen Lennon. So I started with her, creating the social media guidelines for the New York City Department of Education. What do you think about that comparison? Listen Now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). It’s one of the only tests that can be used for comparisons across states and generations.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

My Own Chapter: M oving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0:

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2018

In contrast with their middle-class peers who may benefit from various summer enrichment activities, economically disadvantaged students tend to lose a lot of educational ground over the summer. Some chose classics, but some students also chose books that would not be normally handed out by educators. How Choice Works.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In Maggie Waldner’s elementary school classroom in downtown Denver, math lessons rarely focus on rote memorization.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. One such way educators are trying to introduce “thinking” back into the classroom is by “flipping the classroom”. Computational Glue – Decentralized Environment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

American education, often a battlefront for operationalized prejudice, is fraught with discriminatory outcomes. Schools are no exception to race-based codes and racialized justice systems, and educators are not immune from the biases our nation has fomented. Related: COLUMN: The educational value of a Black teacher.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

It’s no surprise that a recent study found that Algebra 1 is the most repeated class in high school, and that both students’ performance on state tests and their grades decrease each time they repeat the course. Incorporating game-based learning in your class does not require a complete revision of your practice or a course in coding.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Even proponents of educational technology admit that a lot of software sold to schools isn’t very good. Most of the universities combined the software with human instruction, but a few courses were delivered entirely online. What SRI found was sobering. “It shouldn’t be regarded as though this is the last word. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. So as we finish up, 30 second pitch to educators who need to consider flexible seating and why? I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. . Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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The Mobile Native

APRIL 25, 2014

The research comes from an evaluation study, conducted by the International Society for Technology in Education , of an innovative and comprehensive teacher professional development program, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools. The program aims to train 1,000 teachers over the next year, beginning this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Students in the small classrooms gained the equivalent of four extra months of education over the course of three years compared with their peers who learned in larger classrooms of about 22 students. The new job openings attracted veteran educators. Its success was replicated in Wisconsin in the 1990s.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A lesson in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College, focused on teaching students how to combine sentences in a variety of ways to prepare them for writing in college-level classes. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. That’s us.”.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 13, 2020

Bloom’s taxonomy is designed to address three domains of education and learning. education like what we see in classrooms focuses on the cognitive. Their objective was to place educational goals into. the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. elementary modules to draw connections between ideas and utilize.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

We know that growth is a better measure of educational quality than achievement,” said David Houston, an assistant professor of education at George Mason University, who conducted the online experiment together with Jeffrey Henig at Teachers College, Columbia University. “It’s A third group saw both achievement and growth.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

A lot of people will need more education to get back into the workforce, and they’ll need to get it quickly, at the lowest possible cost and in subjects directly relevant to available jobs. Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future. People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The conversation around how technology can enhance education can be a controversial topic, and that carries over into the tutoring industry as well. This week is National Tutoring Week : a decade old celebration of how important Tutors are to students’ education. Business Management. Virtual Whiteboards.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Of course, the very notion of a “carefree” childhood reflects a more Westernized attitude, which doesn’t acknowledge the fact that young people often “grow up with heavy stuff that does not fit within the notion of childhood as being a ‘carefree’ existence,” said Kate Cairns, a childhood studies expert at Rutgers University-Camden.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S. Some educators and advocates have begun to argue that more shared information and pricing transparency would help schools save money.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 18, 2014

I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my most recent post I featured Hull''s Drive Reduction theory and its applications to education. In this post, we will explore the work of Bärbel Inhelder on deductive reasoning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2016

of Education’s new teacher prep regulations serve as a necessary and indeed hopeful development. Related: To increase teacher diversity, ignore selectivity of teacher education programs? “A It perpetuates the low status of the education major on college campuses. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi. billion on elementary and secondary education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Parks hates that comparison, quipping that she’s never sat on a baby in her life.) Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students. This is par for the course across the U.S. We shouldn’t be surprised — or punish educators — when the students we’ve identified as such perform that way.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

I was recently asked to provide a workshop that supported Differentiated Learning through the use of educational technology in the Project Based learning Classroom (PBL). I have also provided some wonderful links that will allow you to learn more about differentiated learning blended with technology, and of course … PBL.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

An educational consultant offers his reasons for opting his oldest child out of the state test in New York. I always appreciate hearing about other writers’ struggles, of course not to revel in them but to feel okay about my own many rejections. ” Where Ideas Go to Die by Brad Gustafson ( Adjusting Course ).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 18, 2014

I'm working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my most recent post I featured Hull's Drive Reduction theory and its applications to education. In this post, we will explore the work of Bärbel Inhelder on deductive reasoning.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The power of these books is both in the illustrations themselves and in how parents and educators talk about the pictures with children, says Julie Dillemuth , a spatial cognition geographer. Every turn of the page continues to zoom out to show that what was large is now small in comparison to a newly introduced object. –Horning.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. Education systems and perceptions of what is and isn’t homework can vary remarkably overseas. Well, here goes. How much homework do U.S. students get?

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