eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

John Hattie’s meta-study, Visible Learning (2009), changed the way we think about what works in the classroom. His analysis of 50,000 educational studies involving more than 80 million students gave us vital information about the relative effectiveness of different teaching practices on student achievement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. This alarming trend jeopardizes students’ academic achievement, graduation prospects, and life outcomes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Below are some details: The CoSN Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes the achievements of one CoSN member who has provided exemplary support to the organization over the past year. One of his most impactful contributions has been the creation and leadership of a highly successful CETL study group.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. Next page: Additional findings from the study. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best. Passion and belief in their potential go a long way. I couldnt be prouder about what my students are achieving. History I CLEP passed, and 92 percent passed U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2016

Stanford University researchers aim to dispel the belief that students should not use their fingers to learn mathematics. Taking a more visual approach to math instruction at the K-12 and higher-ed levels could dramatically change brain development as it relates to future math success, according to a new paper from Stanford researchers.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

This program helps students turn frustration into achievement by teaching them how to manage tasks effectively and approach learning with a problem-solving mindset. This initiative helps students strengthen their academic foundations, develop better study habits, and build resilience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

However, rather than convenience, we were looking for certification that aligned with our performance-based courses of study. By graduation, those students had achieved an average score of 3.09 This work is about commitment to beliefs and values rather than compliance with a mandate.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

CASEL , The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, defines social and emotional learning (SEL) as the “process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

al (2019), Integrative teaching benefits middle-level learners as it potentially increases student engagement, motivation, and achievement. For instance, principles from science can be linked to literature they are studying in English class. Similarly, concepts from physics can be applied to understand advancements in medical studies.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Wow, you guys are quick studies.” So, how did the Crockett Foundation’s students, most of whom attend Title I schools and live in historically under-resourced communities, achieve this sort of success? I won’t mind,” he said as he explained the first of several coding problems for the day. That is correct!” “Wow,

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

However, Fox noted the importance of having safe WiFi access, as many students can access WiFi in public places like fast food restaurants that do not provide the safest options for high school students to study at night. She holds firm to the belief that student access to technology is the great equalizer. She earned a B.S.

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Internet Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 223

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. Students saved an average of $65 per OER course at colleges participating in the study.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m not talking about people choosing not to study calculus. In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. I mean that college-educated adults often balk at estimating a 20 percent tip without a calculator.

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Math Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 217

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

But studying how the brain learns doesn’t necessarily mean memorizing proteins and brain chemistry. When I was studying at Hopkins, my professor knew I was interested in this. Studies have shown that gaps in reading grow larger among low-income students over summer, while middle class students experienced gains between spring and fall.

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Art Learning Beliefs Achievement 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. As it turns out, the share of American higher ed enrollment that is made up of adults or those who study part-time peaked in the early 1990s at 44 percent of all higher ed enrollment.

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Learning Beliefs Feedback Study 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Two new, large-scale studies—one from New York, the other from California—show that reduced reliance on placement exams increases student access to college-level courses. When it comes to determining which students are assigned to remedial courses, “traditionally faculty do have a strong say,” says Barnett, who co-authored the study.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2021

A Pew Research Study conducted that same month found that only 20 percent of Black adults felt that schools should reopen as soon as possible, even if not all teachers who wanted a vaccination had received it, compared to nearly half of White adults. But some schools are actively seeking to dismantle this legacy of mistrust—and succeeding.

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Counselling Beliefs Schools Participation 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. It’s a wildly popular concept that has led to prevailing beliefs that students perform better if we cater to their natural learning styles.

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Technology Instructors Learning Styles Learning 206

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The positive impact of teachers has been extensively substantiated through years of research highlighting that teacher effectiveness is the most important school-based factor related to student achievement and outcomes. From PLTW research, 67 percent of teachers felt PLTW made them more satisfied with their careers.

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STEM Teachers Students Critical Thinking 180

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Colleges that set online tuition at less than what they charge on campus commonly follow the widely accepted belief that online degrees should be cheaper than those on campus. It took enormous strategic strength and the wisdom of restraint to achieve this unexpected result. million by contrast with $1.2

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

This element of choice amplifies students’ interest in their studies as they feel connected to the material they are learning about. Through this tailored and inclusive approach, differentiation fosters a dynamic and supportive learning environment, empowering each student to thrive and achieve their full potential.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

I assumed many children were not listening, not taking good notes, or not studying. Additionally, a student’s belief in their own ability changes their brain and its ability to process new information. This attitude created a very negative atmosphere in my classroom. Every time we make mistakes, our brain makes new connections.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. To me, it seems that research and best practices have been manipulated to police the education of a particular population of students, thus embodying the adage that systems designed for achievement are failing Black and Brown students. What was I negotiating?

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Culture Failure Students Beliefs 190

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

But Michael Miller, a UC Santa Barbara professor, began to study how the human brain retrieves memory and realized there was no single brain that looked like this mythical average. “We In education, this is particularly harmful to students because it affects pacing guides, textbooks and how states measure who achieves—and who fails.

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Science Textbooks Beliefs Knowledge 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A recent study , conducted by YouGov and commissioned by Microsoft, found that 90 percent of the teachers surveyed have increased their teaching skills in areas such as teaching with technology, instructional design for online learning and using technology for online presentations.

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Hybrid Learning Coaching Beliefs Accessibility 211

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. Nationwide research is also relatively infrequent — the most recent in-depth study of U.S. The answer?

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Languages Language Education English 180

Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Another cause for the achievement gap is that Black and Latino students experiencing poverty are more likely to have teachers with weaker mathematical backgrounds.

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Math Accessibility Education Knowledge 170

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Courtesy: Hello World) Various studies prove that female and underrepresented minority students are more likely than others to experience a lack of confidence in their abilities and imposter syndrome , meaning they believe that they have somehow not earned their achievements as a result of their own efforts or skills.

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Beliefs Exams Science STEM 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The limited but growing body of research on experiential learning suggests it can deliver superior educational outcomes by facilitating practice and feedback, increasing student motivation and helping students achieve higher rates of employment and wages.

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Education Learning Culture STEM 209

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

The science of “learner variability,” as it has become known, aims to study the range of cognitive, social and emotional skills—as well as health and psychological well-being—they bring into the classroom. A large majority of respondents say that students are not reaching high levels of educational achievement today.

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Learning Learning Disabilities Beliefs Disabilities 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One is the assumption that the pedagogy Harvard and other Ivies have always practiced—close-knit groups of students and faculty living and studying together immersively on campus—is the finest in post-secondary education , with no other approach coming close, especially not online.

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Science Secondary Education Beliefs Art 197

eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2016

This new bundle, which is fully integrated with Google Classroom and Apps for Education, provides the hardware, software, and training necessary to achieve a pedagogical shift toward student-led learning. A recent study by Wainhouse Research reinforces the belief that schools need to put greater emphasis on these important “soft skills.”

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Critical Thinking Beliefs Communication Skills 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Recently, one of our 12th grade students, Yazmin Walters, composed a presentation in the style of a TED Talk as an independent study project. As I grappled with what she shared, I began to think that maybe she was right that the achievement gap isn’t necessarily the problem in education to solve.

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Teachers Students Beliefs Grades 212

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

I assumed many children were not listening, not taking good notes, or not studying. Additionally, a student’s belief in their own ability changes their brain and its ability to process new information. This attitude created a very negative atmosphere in my classroom. Every time we make mistakes, our brain makes new connections.

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Teachers Beliefs Knowledge Math 140

Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. In 91 percent of the schools we studied, students rated their intelligence as more malleable than their teachers did. We have found that the real key to changing a student's mindset is to couple beliefs with strategies.”

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Beliefs Teachers Intelligence Elementary School 131

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Despite these differences, there was little disagreement about Kwan’s description of making as “messy” or “chaotic” and Flamm’s belief that making approaches could teach “outside-the-box” thinking through student-directed activity and collaboration.

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 184