k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

In a 2023 national survey by Hanover Research, only 27% of American high school students said they felt what they were learning was relevant to the real world. We use clear rubrics, reflective feedback, and skill progression models that prioritize growth over grades. That number should stop us in our tracks. It’s contagious.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

Fortunately, a wide range of high-quality digital tools can help K-12 learners stay curious and build STEM skills throughout the summer months. These “snacks” are short, creative experiments that use easily accessible materials to teach key scientific principles.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math anxiety, a new global survey shows. The survey polled 1,500 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

In a 2023 national survey by Hanover Research, only 27% of American high school students said they felt what they were learning was relevant to the real world. We use clear rubrics, reflective feedback, and skill progression models that prioritize growth over grades. That number should stop us in our tracks. It’s contagious.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer science principles could enhance early literacy instruction — and ended up transforming her classroom in the process. Nationwide, high-quality CS education programs and equitable access lag behind demand. “Let’s do it!”

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

When a high school student uses AI to design a community mural or a college freshman collaborates with peers across continents on a digital storytelling project, it’s clear the boundaries of learning are shifting. What’s different now — and what our research showed — is that AI has changed that misalignment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

Technology is not neutral,” says Joshua Jonas, a curriculum and instruction researcher at Baylor University and former high school teacher. “It We ask vendors to take our survey for curriculum tools that specifically looks at accessibility,” says Samantha Reid, educational technology coordinator. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Phase 3 Live Finale: Elementary, middle and high school teams competed in a 30-minute esports showdown, held at the Levan Center of Innovation at Nova Southeastern University, to design climate-resilient schools. The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level. Leverage accessible tools.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states. The perceived lack of judgment and the 24/7 availability of a chatbot can lower the barrier to seeking help.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) 10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Yes, even math! What would you do?

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

The first book series I remember reading was in fourth and fifth grade. We even did it every Monday in my own high school and called it ISR (actually, then it stood for “Intensive Silent Reading” because the 70s were crazy). And 9 th grade seems like a good foundational place to start. So now we go Old School.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. The 2021 class of high school graduates saw the percentage of low-performing math students tick up even more, to 22%.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy. Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy. Computer science should begin early and continue throughout elementary, middle and high school. The courses support computing from basic skills to advanced theory, serving grades K-12.

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k12

JUNE 5, 2025

As more teens explore alternatives to traditional college , families are rethinking what it means to launch a successful career after high school. Our recent analysis of job markets, pay potential, and education access across 99 U.S. million in the past year, with queries for “trade school” topping 828,000.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

The 12 students whose families are party to the lawsuit range in age from pre-kindergarten to high school and attend DoDEA schools in Quantico, Virginia; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Aviano, Italy; and Misawa, Japan. The administration has now made that verboten in DoDEA schools. The plaintiffs paint another picture of DoDEA.

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. For starters, my online school allows me to have flexibility in my class and assignment schedule. My 9th grade year, I earned my Adobe InDesign certification. Thank you, Kylah!

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

My family moved to Athens, Greece when I was in 4th grade. I don't specifically recall many of the books, but there was an engrossing one about the Bermuda Triangle and another aspirational one about high school football. This is when I first became aware of Scholastic Books. They want, as they should, the whole thing.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

When traditional icebreakers just dont cut it, try switching things up with Would You Rather questions for high school. Ease into the new year with these fun and lighthearted Would You Rather questions for high school students. Try them for a morning meeting, first-week-of-school activity, or SEL check-in.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Research shows that children who are chronically absent from preschool through second grade are more likely to be reading below grade level by third grade. It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too. The nature of the resources that are available and also the gaps in access are different.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

Career and Technical Education (CTE) has played a major role in preparing students for success beyond high school, whether that means higher education, industry certifications or entering the workforce directly. Middle school is a pivotal time when students begin forming their academic and career identities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

public high schools has a positive effect on students’ social networks, psycho-social outcomes, and health behaviors. Academic tracking” is a common practice in high schools through which lower-performing students are clustered with others of similar academic achievement. The findings, published Dec.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ARLINGTON, Texas/PRNewswire/ — Workforce solutions provider Ancora has developed a new relationship with McGraw Hill to launch Ancora High School. The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It features national and state-level policy and implementation data, focusing on high school data. Eleven states now require students to earn credit in computer science to graduate from high school. public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Responding to a critical gap in technology education, CompTIA Spark has launched free technology curriculum specifically for middle grade classrooms, grades 5-8. Getting students excited about technology and growing their confidence with hands-on learning is critical at the middle school level.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

In her two years of high school at Dearborn Public Schools’ Virtual K-12 school, rising junior Weaam AlAliyi has already learned about computer programming, understanding algorithms, and data analysis in three computer science courses. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most high school graduates (75 percent) do not feel prepared to make college or career decisions after graduation, according to a survey from YouScience , a college and career readiness company. Aptitude assessments are still not widely available, but students feel they would be helpful to engage them in their learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

NAPERVILLE, Illinois and BARBERTON, Ohio (PRNewswire-PRWeb) — Metrasens , a leading provider of advanced detection systems for security and safety applications, is pleased to announce its partnership with Barberton High School (BHS), the primary high school within the Barberton City School District.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Meanwhile, just 20% of principals said their school offered the class in eighth grade and that any student could take it. According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Key points: Students have an affordable, accessible pathway to higher education 5 ways kids will learn about careers in 2025 Students need clarity on their postsecondary pathways For more news on college readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As an educator, Im continuously searching for ways to give my students a leg up.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Middle College High School, a public charter school within Gallup-McKinley County Public School District, today announced it has selected Discovery Education’s innovative digital resources to support student science explorations. Discovery Education’s Business Development Representative.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The company has launched Gale In Context: Literature, a new resource for literature instruction and learning that helps high schoolers engage and thrive in English language arts (ELA). Full Text: access to select full works of literature in an easy-to-use eBook format.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

Three years later, Malekpour, who teaches in Queens, doesn’t think twice about assigning and grading in-class work that requires a device. After COVID shuttered campuses in March 2020, forcing schools to pivot to remote learning, the city spent more than $360 million to buy 725,000 iPads and Chromebooks.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. What accessibility features might make this space more user-friendly? Grading is the most time-consuming task teachers are responsible for beyond the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded by Aadhav Prabu and Akshar Raikanti, The Steam Foundation is a California-based nonprofit with a mission to make STEAM education equally accessible to all students in kindergarten through 12 th grade. Prabu and Raikanti are currently juniors at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, Calif., FULL STEAM AHEAD.

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