eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Key points: To personalize learning, teachers need actionable data more frequently A new partnership in Montana will support student achievement in just this manner See related article: What’s the state of K-12 assessment? I am confident that teachers, students, and families will benefit from these programs that increase academic achievement.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Key points: Relevancy has great power in math instruction Reaching peak engagement in K-12 science education Helping science-averse teachers integrate STEM and literacy For more news on STEM subjects, visit eSNs STEM & STEAM hub How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nations dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems?

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2025

Grand Prairie Independent School District achieved a 32 percent “save rate” through early intervention, meaning nearly a third of students who received one attendance intervention did not need additional follow-ups to prevent chronic absence patterns.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

High-dose tutoring as part of a promising solution High-dose tutoring (HDT) is one encouraging solution that has helped accelerate learning and reduce achievement gaps. HDT is tutoring provided to one or two students per tutor, in person, three or more times per week. Virtual HDT has made great strides in addressing some of these challenges.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years. Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements. It also will lead to more students at all levels of educational achievement needing remedial help.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2021

Early studies are showing significant learning loss in math due to the pandemic. Over a decade ago, Vail School District overhauled our math curriculum and intervention plan and have continued to make updates as our students’ needs have evolved. In this article, I’ll share my top five “must haves” for any math intervention initiative.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

They are distant during class, uninterested in engaging with the material, and their beliefs confirmed every time they get a question wrong – “I can’t do math.” Furthermore, research suggests that having a positive attitude toward math can boost math achievement. Make math relevant. Develop a growth mindset.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

New research from FEV Tutor shows that live 1:1 tutoring with a subject matter expert can help students progress and close achievement gaps. The data showed that students who participated in 21 or more online tutoring sessions with FEV Tutor showed greater improvements in ELA and math relative to their peers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As students return to class this fall, K–12 teachers and administrators face many challenges—and math instruction is high on the list. Educators now face the daunting task of making up for lost instructional time from the COVID-19 pandemic, while at the same time, addressing drops in math achievement and teaching grade-level content.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Content areas, such as math and science, and other areas like memory, executive function, and social-emotional development are being informed by research. Another study showed that in mathematics, students exposed to brain-based instruction not only achieved higher scores but developed a deeper conceptual understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2024

Just as we don’t become fluent in art, language, or sports through repetitive drills over a few weeks, mastering math requires a different approach. Using this approach, parents can reinforce foundational math skills over the summer with games that help children maintain and retain key concepts in a fun, exploratory way.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 14 million students, announced that it has been added to Utah’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software Grant list by the state’s STEM Action Center.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

. — MIND Education , an organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world’s most challenging problems, today released the results of its annual ST Math Teacher Survey, conducted by MIND Research Institute, its social impact organization specializing in education and neuroscience research.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Discovery Education’s school-based, K-12 partners who adopt Otus will be empowered to analyze assessment data from programs such as DreamBox Math and Science Techbook , alongside other district-level metrics, for a comprehensive view of student performance. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2023

Key points: Alarming declines in NAEP scores are prompting educators to look for ways to increase academic achievement Understanding each individual student helps educators design supplemental educational programs See related article: What do superintendents really think of the NAEP?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Grade K students again demonstrate a delayed impact of pandemic disruptions for mathematics, with comparable trends from fall 2019 to fall 2021, but show small declines in achievement in fall 2022 and 2023. points, respectively, from 2019 to 2023. “The Our students have faced tremendous hardship, and the road ahead will not be easy.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Lets be honest, math doesnt have the best reputation. According to this survey , 42% of Americans disliked math classes during their K-12 education. For many, math feels like swimming upstream. As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Keeping math relevant and interactive is key.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2022

Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with that same content on the final exam—or students who have a hard time grasping more advanced concepts because they’ve forgotten the foundational learning that came before. Long-term math retention can be elusive.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

BALTIMORE, Maryland — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, has unveiled the findings of a Johns Hopkins University study that affirms IXL Math’s effectiveness in boosting student achievement. ” Visit our research page for more information about IXL’s studies.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2023

At the same time, administrators, teachers, and parents are finding new ways to help these students address learning loss.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

To meet the needs of the district, Carnegie Learning is expanding their offerings in Gadsden ISD with new K-12 math and literacy, SAT and PSAT preparation to their portfolio of services. Students and their families are already feeling the impact of tutoring. Robust pre- and post- assessments to regularly track student growth and performance.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We were already managing low proficiency rates on math and ELA state assessments prior to the pandemic, and the move to remote learning made it even more difficult for teachers to engage with students who couldn’t be on campus. Our urban Title I district serves a population of 78 percent at-risk students and 84 percent low-income families.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Math As Humanities?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

— The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) is pleased to announce the generous support of TC Energy through a $100,000 grant to bolster the training of Virginia teachers. NMSI’s Laying the Foundation program aims to deepen student understanding and achievement in mathematics and science. DALLAS AND NORFOLK, VA.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) is proud to announce a new partnership with the South Carolina Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs ( SC GEAR UP ) to deliver high-quality STEM professional development to educators across seven school districts in the state. DALLAS / COLUMBIA, S.C.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A new research report from NWEA , a K-12 assessment and research organization, explores trends in science achievement since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Similar to earlier research into math and reading, science achievement dropped early in the pandemic. months lost in math. months lost in reading, and up to 9.3

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2024

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. While procedural fluency is important, conceptual understanding provides a framework for students to build mental relationships between math concepts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2023

During the 2023-2024 school year, K-3 student achievement benchmarks will directly benefit from having Istation available.” With Istation, schools get a time-saving program that powers pre-K through eighth grade student achievement in reading, math, and Spanish literacy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. Instead of focusing on what students cant do, we emphasize what they can achieve. teaching math vocabulary, chunking word-problems, etc.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. The teachers just expect her to understand the math right away, she says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines. They must also submit a recommendation letter from a math instructor, and be under the age of 18.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

MIND Education, a leader in neuroscience-driven math education solutions, has released transformative upgrades to the ST Math experience for students and teachers. ST Math’s new enhancements will accelerate math learning and conceptual understanding in less time,” said Jason Mendenhall, chief product officer at MIND Education. “ST

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