The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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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. Middle school students in Robert Lane’s STEM class dig through a box of supplies for a class project. Lane the STEM Guy.” CHANTILLY, Va. – This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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Elementary Policies STEM Exercises 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Studies show bias is a big problem in early education programs, and experts say not enough has been done to address it. In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. That’s why a lot of our standards don’t just say, ‘Teachers, teach reading.’”

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Training Study Elementary Policies 127

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 5, 2021

The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation. The study was not a fully experimental, randomized control trial (RCT) and is not evidence of causal impact. A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation.

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Program Evaluation STEM Analysis Software 52

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

Study of grades 3-5 students showed improved math achievement with personalized learning approach. A research study from the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University demonstrates a link between an adaptive learning program and improvement in mathematics achievement for students in grades 3-5.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Morningside College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the University of South Dakota. She is also a former teacher and principal, leading one of the first elementary STEM schools in Iowa. She received her M.Ed.

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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. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He was speaking during a break in a city program for promising local high school students to study calculus for five hours a day throughout the summer at Northeastern University. Among the students who decide to study STEM in college, more than a third end up changing their majors , according to the U.S. Tran also loves math.

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STEM Report Study Industry 135

eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Chosen by a panel of NSTA-appointed experts, this year’s winning educators—three high school teachers and one college professor—demonstrated how they innovatively use data-collection technology to engage students in science and STEM learning. Category: College. Katrina Henry, Virginia Wesleyan University, Virginia Beach, VA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. Garcia and the scientists wanted to study conditions on the 300-foot-deep lakebed where the frogs live to see if changes there were responsible for the species’ dramatic decline. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three. I never prayed so much in my life.” Census Bureau.

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Policies Strategy STEM Advocacy 183

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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STEM Data Education Course 138

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. Do former CTE students find jobs in the industries they studied?

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Outcomes Data Education Report 119

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a super cool app that encourages problem-based learning and STEM skills for students. Subjects: math, science, engineering Age group: K-12 Technology needed: iPhone or iPad The app leverages augmented reality and encourages design thinking and STEM learning to engage students in both space and future STEM careers.

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STEM Digital Divide Elementary iPhone 72

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The Learning Policy Institute calculates the cost of distance learning at about $500 per student for a total of $3.7 Here are five existing policies that policymakers and local officials are likely to lean on to ensure that funds are used effectively, with regard to investments in remote learning programs and services.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 132

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher.

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Report Elementary Course Secondary 133

MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a consensus study report in October 2018 entitled English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives. You can read the full report. Below is a summary and commentary on certain points within the report. The Math Crisis.

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STEM Report Learning Assessment 45

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

That’s why we should give serious consideration to paying students 16 and older to attend after-school enrichment programs, extended summer learning and work-study programs. It should be possible with the help of over $190 billion in education stimulus via the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds.

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Education Outcomes Secondary Elementary 86

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

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Elementary Report Exercises Study 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. There was no policy which governed video use, no unified technical platform, and no way to control branding or evaluate the quality of video instruction. Defined STEM. Describe how you used the product.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. We did a study of 100,000 hours of audio of non-TeachFX users. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession. Poskin says. Seven seconds, per hour.”

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Data Training Outcomes Tools 218

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.

Elementary 82

Elementary Report Training Classroom 82

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 78

EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Beginning in the early 2000s, civic education and social studies classes were de-emphasized and defunded as No Child Left Behind focused efforts on improving reading and STEM skills. The result was nearly 30 percent less instructional time in elementary, middle, and high school. Civics is the same.

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Social Media Education STEM Study 115

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added. Claffey says. What does the research say on that?”

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Online Learning Learning Social Media STEM 216

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2021

The sensor’s automatic temperature compensation, which can be turned off to perform conductivity studies, allows students to calibrate the sensor in the lab and then make measurements outdoors without temperature changes affecting data. Vernier creates easy-to-use and affordable science interfaces, sensors, and graphing/analysis software.

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Software Technology Analysis STEM 59

techlearning

MAY 8, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 8, 2018 — The new Vernier Thermal Analysis Plus for FLIR ONE app from Vernier Software & Technology allows students to use the latest versions of FLIR ONE cameras—the FLIR ONE Pro Thermal Camera and FLIR ONE Gen 3 Thermal Camera—as they study thermal energy concepts. For more information, visit [link]. # # #.

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Analysis Study Software BYOD 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Related: ‘Kids who have less, need more’: The fight over school funding School funding stems from three major sources: federal, state and local. I spent the previous five years in California training teachers and studying school improvement. Looking at average breakdowns from recent data , we see that U.S.

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Report Advocacy Case Study Study 96

User Generated Education

JULY 24, 2017

I work part-time with elementary learners – with gifted learners during the school year and teaching maker education camps during the summer. So it is no wonder that when learners are given hands-on tasks such as those common to maker education, STEM, and STEAM, they sometimes struggle with their completion. Struggles are good.

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Khan Academy STEM Strategy Differentiated Instruction 436

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

In addition to traditional physics concepts such as velocity, acceleration, and projectile motion, investigations of sports science expand learning opportunities and further connect the study of motion to students’ daily lives. Vernier creates easy-to-use and affordable science interfaces, sensors, and graphing/analysis software.

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Analysis Software Video Technology 52

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level. One of the complications of implementation and accountability stems from the fact that the TEAACH Act requires “a unit of instruction” dedicated to Asian American history, which is vague and open to interpretation.

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Training Advocacy Resources Instructional Materials 153

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Principal Christy Walters has big plans for her suburban elementary school this year. Witch Hazel Elementary, where Walters has been in charge since 2018, has a student poverty rate of 95 percent and an upbeat staff. HILLSBORO, Ore. This story also appeared in NBC News. “I’m I’m always excited for innovation,” she said. “I’m

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Elementary Report Outcomes Strategy 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

In January, Rosa Bermudez brought home a colorful worksheet from Stansbury Elementary School, meant to guide her “power plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology. In January, Rosa Bermudez filled out her “Power Plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology, one of her early assignments from Stansbury Elementary School.

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Policies Elementary Report System 94

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Privacy policies in many districts bar teachers from requiring students to keep their cameras on, and some students don’t. If school closures continue through the end of this year, childhood obesity rates will climb by more than 2 percent, according to estimates in a recent study by a researcher at Washington University in St.

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Exercises Elementary Guidelines Report 144

edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

Dr. Ash Vasudeva is Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, where he oversees the Carnegie Foundation’s policy and communications efforts to build the field’s capacity for improvement research and networked improvement communities. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters. Dr. Ash Vasudeva.

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Learning Conference Outcomes Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2021

To build back better, we must enact policies that support working people and their families” — including “a permanent, national, paid family and medical leave program.”. is the only OECD country that does not have at least some version of a national paid maternity leave policy for mothers and birthing parents. In the U.S., Jahdziah St.

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Policies Accessibility Analysis STEM 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Students in Germany can embark on apprenticeships directly after finishing general education at age 16 in grade 10, attending vocational schools that offer theoretical study, alongside practical training at a company. And there’s not only apprenticeship or university, there are some studies in between.” But is it all just branding?

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Training Report Company Study 121