eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. The new survey data doesn’t look at whether tracking helps or hurts students’ math outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , K-3 students receive an average of 18 minutes of instruction per day in science, compared to 89 minutes in ELA and 57 minutes in math. This story about U.S. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Students created a survey to send out to all Manchester, N.H. They then analyzed over 2,500 surveys and began to research options, looking at model programs in the United States and exemplars from Finland.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S. More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). A recent eSchool News article highlighted that most teachers don’t feel fully prepared for remote learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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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. Teachers with high ratings could earn an extra $6,000 to $10,000 (depending upon their individual ratings) to work at these struggling elementary and middle schools.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Gallup has conducted more than 5 million surveys with students in grades five through 12 over the past several years. Almost half of students who responded to the survey are engaged with school (47%), with approximately one-fourth “not engaged” (29%) and the remainder “actively disengaged” (24%).A

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

Preliminary results from a new survey of school districts confirm what many parents learned through the Zoom grapevine. But the amount of time was not the only difference, according to a recent survey: the type of instruction students received also diverged dramatically. “One Only 32 percent of high-poverty districts offered this. .

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. Fortunately, after an initial survey, it was clear that the upcoming fourth-graders were eager to take the lead.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

In preparation for the launch of a new Principal Leadership Community , edWeb conducted a survey of principals in May of 2019 to probe the topics of most interest to principals in current times. Principal Survey | May 2019. Download the Principal Leadership Survey Results. Input from 150 principals was analyzed.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Interest Surveys. The post 6 Ideas For Using Buncee in the Elementary Classroom appeared first on Buncee Blog. On each page of my Buncee I can add boxes and include either a picture or word inside. I can then print out these pages, cut out the boxes, and glue them together to create these flashcards. Click here for an example.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2023

A 2022 survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows that more than 80 percent of U.S. That’s way up from pre-pandemic numbers, where about two of three high schools and middle schools were one-to-one and less than half of elementary schools had a device for each student. schools now have a device for each K-12 student.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. As many as 80 percent of students surveyed said either they or a friend or family member had been affected by a cyberattack. shailaja.neela….

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

While there are still many challenges that remain, schools have an opportunity now to review their processes in order to make them more equitable.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Elementary school teachers often face a significant challenge when it comes to teaching math: their own discomfort with numbers. As our early childhood reporter Ariel Gilreath recently reported, elementary school teachers often struggle with teaching this subject. Sign up for our early childhood newsletter.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

That’s according to the approximately 1,200 parents surveyed by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) between mid-May and early June of this year. The more parents learn about student data privacy, the more concerned they become, the survey found.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In a Gallup survey of K–12 district superintendents, 67 percent of respondents said the number of new teacher candidates is decreasing; 39 percent said quality is also declining. He spent two years as an elementary teacher, two years as an educational trainer, 10 years as a director of technology and six years as a school superintendent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

That’s a major takeaway from a survey of more than 700 teachers in 40 states conducted this spring, just after schools first shifted to remote instruction due to the pandemic. Pacheco-Guffrey, an associate professor of science education at Bridgewater State University who led the survey effort.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. In a recent survey, one preservice teacher wrote, “I love the beginning check-ins, not all professors care about your well-being.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The diaries had been collected over the years, dating back to 1997, as part of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) , a large nationally representative household survey overseen by the University of Michigan. She wonders what would happen if little kids were less scheduled in elementary school.

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Neo LMS

MAY 3, 2022

A survey done by Amy from Leap Of Faith Crafting identified teachers’ preferences when it comes to gifts. The same survey disclosed that teachers receive plenty of, or too many, mugs, home decor and accessories such as scarves. 22 Teacher Appreciation Week 2022 ideas to try out. Classroom door decor.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since the 2020-2021 school year began, school principals have had to change their learning mode, and top concerns remain safety, attendance, funding, and learning loss, according to a survey from National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Earl Franks, Ed.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Adding outdoor classrooms to elementary schools. According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , which compiled the information on minutes spent learning science, only 17 percent of early elementary classes had science lessons most days of the week. “We

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A new survey of K-8 teachers and students from LEGO Education found that nearly all (98%) of students say purposeful play helps them learn and the majority (96%) of teachers believe it’s more effective than traditional methods like lectures or textbooks. 19th, 2023, using an email invitation and an online survey. 13th and Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Department of Education released a national survey of more than 800 schools on Aug. Instead, as counterintuitive as it might seem, Schwartz found that 77 percent of schools went on a hiring spree in 2021-22 as $190 billion in federal pandemic funds started flowing, according to a RAND survey released on July 19, 2022. Indeed, the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Fleming says whether the district sets up a makerspace in an elementary school library, in a middle school classroom or in a high school cafeteria, each makerspace has a unique quality. Some schools send out formal paper surveys, while others hold informal discussions in the classroom. Start by seeking student input.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A survey of college professors indicates that most fields of study don’t require many of the math topics that high school students learn in high school. Martin and his colleagues later realized that the survey had implications for high school math too, and presented these results at an Oct. But that’s maybe 20 percent.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2020

Some districts are just now getting around to surveying their parents. Will it work for your parents if we’re open only two days a week for elementary and two days for middle […]. There are discussions happening everywhere about how to really pull this hybrid learning model off.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. It has influence at the preschool, elementary, middle and high school, and college levels.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

In order to prepare, we need to consider how this experience may have changed our students: How have elementary learners grown through this experience, and how do we as educators adapt to meet their new needs? Many parents at my elementary school have shared that their child uses technology better than they do. Creativity Abounds.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

A nationally representative survey of teachers by RAND Education and Labor in late January and early February 2021 found that educators were feeling depressed and burned out from their jobs at higher rates than the general population. I have been teaching in a public elementary school for 23 years. So, what can be done?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But it’s also important to note that the whole range of scale scores was represented in the survey results, so we did have some students who reported frequent or extreme anxiety about climate change.” There appears to be yet another to add to the list. Photo courtesy of Perkins&Will.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

At my elementary school in the Bronx, 86 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-priced school lunch. Use surveys to check on basic needs like access to food. Once a week, we used an app called Kinvolved to text families a survey checking in on access to food, technology, and wi-fi.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

It also examines survey results and statewide policies to understand the extent to which principals have access to high-quality learning opportunities and the role of policies in increasing access. Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters?

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