eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

According to an article from Screencastify , “a Columbia University study showed a 12 percent increase in attendance and a 27 percent decrease in course failures when parents received weekly texts about student progress.” Something as simple as text messages has the power to be highly effective in reaching those busy parents.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. Last July, California adopted a new K-12 math framework. Algebra has long been considered a "gateway" to higher math. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. The emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? How can schools use your findings going forward?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 18, 2017

Rainesford Stauffer said: As children, we’re trained to avoid failure, not learn from it. I think this is the hidden cost of a K-12 curriculum that is achievement-oriented. Failure is never presented to us as a different kind of educational experience, a universal (and ceaseless) part of being human. via [link]. Which is yours?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The aforementioned tools align with my stance, allowing teachers to fine-tune and modify the generated output using natural language prompts to achieve an end goal that works for them and for their students. Chatterbot AI is similar to ChatGPT and can be used to create assessments for mathematics, physics, and other analytical subjects.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 289

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. –Rhonda Evatt, Health Science Educator, Anderson Institute of Technology Our education system is still grappling with the ongoing challenges of incomplete learning and lower student achievement. If we do, then I think there’s a real chance that, within a decade, the math class of today will feel like the distant past.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. Two areas for sure: poverty and inequitable academic achievement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It’s common for students who are used to learning math from lectures to be reluctant to think critically at first, learning assistants from the study say. Zuniga, now graduated, learned calculus through the active learning model, and it led her to pursue math courses outside of the degree requirements, she says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. Before I knew it, I was teaching a seventh grade math class with little support on a tiny salary and barely any teaching experience. At that moment, it all made sense.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. Effective teachers care about the student, their goals, and their achievement of goals. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. You see it right away.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Exams English Math Instructors 174

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

NCLB asked districts to invest in supplemental interventions for students who were at-risk of not achieving grade-level proficiency, according to the state’s math and reading exams. Program compliance was relatively straightforward: invest in supplemental math and reading interventions.

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Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 109

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. Fear of failure can lead to a lack of creative thought and progress within communities. I’ve pointed out the social skills that band, orchestra and choir ensembles build.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 309

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. Suddenly, Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice take on a whole new importance: What Math Standard Expects. The game’s nature requires students interact with others to discern who can assist in achieving goals.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Literacy is the foundation of overall educational success. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems. At Khan Academy, employees have been focusing their efforts on mobile devices in order to achieve one-to-one for students.

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Educational Technologies Technology Mobile Devices Education 166

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or, we have a math teacher who uses Minecraft as an assessment. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." What stood out was that our middle and high school students achieved significant growth in 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving and communication.

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Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 189

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

News , and is singled out for its high reading and math achievement, as well as its relatively narrow equity gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in academic performance. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful. In my old district, Lawrence Public Schools, We used ST Math.

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Education Critical Thinking Elementary School Elementary School 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

about half the teachers who responded said their [Massachusetts] districts had adopted scripted programs in math and writing – and 60 percent in phonics and spelling – which reduce a teacher’s autonomy in instruction. Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. Clarke Fowler found that . Dreaming big at Iowa BIG.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Teachers and students have to take time out to do the screening, in addition to other assessments (state and quarterly/trimester reading and math assessments, plus additional testing for special ed students). 23 Ohio state’s 4-year Dyslexia Pilot Project on grades 1-3 did not reduce the risk of reading failure in 3 rd graders ($960,000).

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Language 282

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. High achievers can accelerate into above-grade level standards, while those move slower can get extra practice.

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 147

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Many of them have a low tolerance for frustration—but the same kid who gives up after trying a math problem once will watch Super Mario fall into a hole a dozen times and try again a thirteenth time to get it right. Bartle defined the four main categories as achievers, explorers, socializers and killers. Why is that?

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Motivation Students Special Education Math 147

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Students know there will be consequences if they are caught cheating, but they weigh them against the consequences of not achieving. When the pressure to achieve exceeds the fear of being caught, students easily rationalize why cheating is a logical, justifiable choice (Challenge Success, 2021). Affirm students at the starting line.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The concept of wellness encompasses various interconnected dimensions of our lives, aiming to achieve a balanced and fulfilling state of well-being. I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom.

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Middle School Middle School Students Coaching 119

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. Then they don’t want us to leave because they wonder, ‘What can I do now?’”

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Local Government Schools English Exams 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

I also have colleagues who think it takes a special brain to understand tech (the same way students think about math and science)–one they don’t have. A lot of learning happens through failure. If either of these educators are you, here are ten tips that will take the fear out of infusing tech into your lesson plans.

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Technology Teachers Critical Thinking Failure 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. The achievement gap v. The soft bigotry of low expectations.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. The Common Core is not a curriculum, rather a collection of forty-one overarching Standards in reading, writing, language, math, and speaking/listening that shape a student’s quest for college and career. ’ Responding with Wonderment and Awe.

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Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 140

Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

For example, if they always think that they are bad at math, they must fact check this belief by physically looking at old math papers to show themselves that they have done well sometime in the past in math. Instead of seeing a bad grade as a failure, frame it as an opportunity to learn and improve.

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Failure Beliefs Students Math 79

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2024

This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If For experts like Gray, the elephant in the room is that the CHIPS fund is trying to compensate for failures at the federal level to pass comprehensive child care legislation.“How

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Failure English Languages Language 196

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. In math, it was even worse — only 41 percent. Success in an MBL program is defined by the achievement of competencies , not intangible performance measures or student-to-student comparisons.

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Learning Achievement Failure Math 89

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In order for children and adults to move through these stages, we need to invite them into the kinds of assessment processes that allow them to think about what they are trying to achieve, the degree to which they’re being successful in that moment and how to plan for future engagement—like what they’re going to do next.

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Testing Schools Art Feedback 168

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

To that end, the school aims to pilot developmental math sections as Z-courses, partnering with XanEdu , Barnes & Noble and TCC Auxiliary Services to provide on-demand printed textbooks for students who prefer them to digital resources. There are always challenges with any innovation,” says Tidewater’s Williams.

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Textbooks Failure Instructors Learning 102

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Dropping out sounds like it’s some failure of the student,” says Julie Ajinkya, vice president of applied research at the institute. Neglecting to get official credit for this work may not matter much for students who actually achieve those more-ambitious education goals. These can be specific math courses or even swim tests.

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Students Failure Art Testing 145