eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. The report also details the extent to which students are separated based on their perceived math abilities, starting as young as elementary school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Holmes had been “tracked,” or grouped, into the lower-performing math class. “I Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. I was just a kid.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2024

We are proud to partner with Michigan Virtual, as well as this collaborative group of professionals, to embrace and empower AI for education across our state.” Statewide, this is the first group to come together and establish an AI workgroup or focus on AI learning in schools, led by Michigan Virtual’s recently established AI Lab.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. I don’t think it’s so much the planning time.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” By the time we get a handle on the one-, three-, five-year plan, it's changing right underneath our noses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A national group that seeks to curb student absenteeism is sounding an alarm after finding that the number of chronically absent students continued to surge even as pandemic closings abated. She also recommends advisory groups for middle and high school students to build connections with faculty. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Whether you teach elementary, core subjects or electives, making digital citizenship part of your instruction is essential for all of your learners. Read on for digital citizenship activities you can use in elementary, middle school or high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

These differences appear in personal actions, such as wearing masks (or not), and governmental policies, such as those that make testing and equipment freely available (or not). The post OPINION: Distrust of science in the coronavirus era reminds us why we must boost elementary science education appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Made more apparent in recent years with the widespread expansion of school-choice policies nationwide, the latest college admissions scandal may be the final nail in the coffin of the myth of meritocracy in U.S. The fallacy of education as a level playing field is something that large swaths of the public have known for a long time.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2024

The committee’s roughly 250-page report also made recommendations for governmental policies and future research on the topic. Media Literacy Education Many students start using social media when they’re in elementary school, Reich says, before they’re typically presented with school-based education on digital media literacy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

These let the teacher: View all student experiences in one place Edit and View Experiences in one place Share Student Experiences as a group Metaverse is free for teachers and students to create as many AR experiences as you want. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Study participants were split into groups that received different educational materials. Groups that were given analog games and parental messaging saw improvements, too. The result?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. Teachers are relying on parents to foster consistent home learning environments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

Markus Ceniceros, a high school senior who was recently elected to the Littleton Elementary School District Governing Board, west of Phoenix, Arizona As a board member he worked to keep focus on the new climate plan, helping the district get funding to convert to electric school buses. The difference is you have a vote.”

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

And don’t overlook the Topics tool , which lets you label and group posts in Classwork. . Options for resources within this page might include schedules, data, professional development requirements, campus and district policies and procedures, and emergency response protocols. Organize Student and Faculty Resources. by Denise Neeb.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff? Are we getting to the root of the departures and career pivots?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. On a day in early fall, a large group of students tossed their backpacks in a messy pile and made a beeline towards the school’s blacktop for pickup basketball and soccer games.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Speaking quietly to her 4-year-old students, she picked one boy from the group to count his classmates: 22. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. The plan is that the $2.7

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

The salary for this vital position reflects various factors, including location, educational background, and individual school policies. During my time in the field, I’ve observed that areas with strong policy support for early education often reflect a commitment to quality teaching through better compensation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. The third graders at A.J. Justin Middaugh, an engineer from Michelin, watches as students at A.J.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

There’s not a concrete definition, but it can be any form of expression (online or off) intended to “vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or class of people.” It’s different in that it specifically targets someone or a group of people for their characteristics.[10]. Cyberbullying in Elementary School.”

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Hapara

MAY 23, 2022

Responsible Use Policies. Responsible Use Policies (RUPs) outline how learners and staff across the school or district should use technology and the internet. These policies are created with input from stakeholders across the school community and are focused on digital citizenship and positive expectations. .

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The Thinking Stick

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They emphasize the importance of teacher voice and perspective, as well as the need for a blended research approach using surveys, interviews, and focus groups. A blended research approach, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups, provides a comprehensive understanding of the education landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. Alabama passed a comprehensive early literacy policy in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And the group found that in the fall of 2020-21, 20 percent of undergraduate teacher-education programs had seen enrollment drops of 11 percent or more because of the pandemic. Such outreach might be especially important to draw teachers from groups that are underrepresented in teaching. “As So how are teacher prep programs responding?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One possibility is that these disproportionately low rates simply reflect differences in academic achievement across demographic groups. We based our research on an analysis of gifted placements in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study , which tracked a nationally representative sample of kindergartners throughout elementary school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. Randle said it is board policy to refer all media inquiries to Nohelty. The board approved the deal 4-2.

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Elementary Training Laptops Technology 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2024

So Murray’s group, ACTS (Achieving Community Tasks Successfully), has been partnering for almost a decade with urban planning expert Robert Bullard at Texas Southern University, to do their own air quality monitoring. “We We need the principle of environmental justice embedded in our climate policies.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

Individuals from diverse or historically marginalized populations are more likely to feel part of the group and safe to contribute. Learners in general, including those from majority groups, are more likely to empathize with, respect and relate to individuals unlike themselves if they are exposed early to diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. The students in both groups were demographically similar: One quarter of the students were Black, two-thirds were Hispanic. Disciplinary infractions were 3.6

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Survey Study Elementary Analysis 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Don’t give up on the protagonist until the story is told,” said William Gormley, a professor of government and public policy at Georgetown University and co-director of its Center for Research on Children in the United States, which has overseen much of the Tulsa research. The remaining 50 percent decided against attending either.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2017

CS for All: Teaching CS in Elementary Schools SXSWedu 2017 Workshop As the Computer Science for All initiative jump starts around the world, more students in grades 6-12 have the opportunity to take computer science courses. Have groups of students create a list of steps to accomplish something. (Ex: Agenda : bit.ly/CSforAllinElementary

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