Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

King now serves as president and CEO of Education Trust, a nonprofit that aims to close educational opportunities and achievement gaps. We still do not have a coherent national approach to rapid-results testing. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Related: 4 evidence-based ways parents improve student achievement. I like to keep parents in the loop at all times, so each day I send out updates about upcoming tests, attach study guides, or include a monthly calendar with upcoming events. Establish a positive relationship. Use social media to share students’ work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

I know that teachers—tasked with helping students achieve and dealing with adolescents—can quickly become energy depleted , even disenfranchised, seeing slow progress for the most at-risk and time-consuming among our students. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. A disclaimer for all educators: During my testing, ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, and other AI tools would routinely generate rudimentary questions in response to my prompts.

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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. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. It was assumed that students would struggle.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. Sharing assessment with students is a critical first step.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

In two randomized controlled trials, students who received Saga tutoring learned as much as an extra two and a half years of math in one academic year – the equivalent to closing up to 50 percent of the black-white test score gap in one school year. About Saga Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. The continuing failure to meet the needs of a growing number of students will demand different approaches and practices taught in Colleges of Education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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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. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote. In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials. His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. New insights on scale, global achievement gaps, open science, & personalization.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators. The achievement gap v. The soft bigotry of low expectations.” Bush … or at least his speech writer. via [link].

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

And the most successful were those that shared their work—their successes and their failures—as well as those who were empathetic and learned from others. Sensing the Future – being open to new ideas, solutions, and processes, and testing them quickly. This requires flexibility in thinking and a willingness to admit mistakes.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing more achievement tests and public education began to focus more on raising standardized test scores in math and science, which led to decreasing time spent in the very courses that instill, teach and develop creativity and personal identity.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure. Due to the pandemic, experts believe such digital tools are increasingly important as standardized test results show the typical U.S. ” About NexGen.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The campaign became draining for my family and tested the values that I chose to uphold and run on. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure. It did not take very long for me to feel like I was just a name and face — and everyone created their idea of who I was behind it. At that moment, it all made sense.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. While this concept sounds simple, applying it is actually quite complicated, because it involves veering away from the accepted model of drill-test-repeat of student skills.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

The economists found that banning mobile phones helped improve student achievement on standardized test scores , with the biggest gains seen by low-achieving and at-risk students. Here are my thoughts on this… The outcome measure is standardized test score improvement. if they did, how sad is that?).

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

The cloud can serve as a force multiplier in achieving this goal, putting additional tools to enhance student learning directly into the hands of educators. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

More succinctly: “…repeated, direct assessment of targeted skills in basic areas using materials taken directly from the teaching curriculum” While CBA is assessment based on the curriculum, it isn’t chapter tests from a text. Use the collected data to assist in group placement where appropriate.

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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. It ranks first in the country on lists from Education Week and U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That isn’t something that can be achieved in a day, of course. We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. or “How can you test whether your prices are too low?” For our students, the process goes much deeper.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Yet even though the school is zoned for a wealthy area of Manhattan, where achievement is highly prized, standardized test scores were nothing special. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The takeaway? Quest students learned skills like problem solving at a much faster rate than students in college.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Excellent Schools New Mexico will fund ongoing school redesign work for these five teams, who have committed six months of their time, labor and expertise to exploring three fundamental questions: What are our students’ aspirations and what needs to be done to achieve them? Why must we reimagine school?

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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. Share information about school counseling services and online resources that offer additional support.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

Test the tool. When I got my first computer, most people didn’t have one so I taught myself by testing, trying, failing, researching, or whatever worked. A lot of learning happens through failure. Try to figure it out yourself. You won’t break the computer. The hardest part of this hint is believing you can do it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Failure is a learning tool.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments. In other words, compared to more traditional schools, these schools ROCK IT on many of the outcomes that we say that we are trying to achieve for our students. Dreaming big at Iowa BIG.

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