eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It compares 2021–2022 student data with mid- and pre-pandemic data and also offers qualitative insights on impactful practices for accelerating student learning from leaders at schools that are exceeding expectations. Students in upper elementary and lower middle school grades showed the greatest persisting setbacks in 2022.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration. The new civics-focused series, Need toKnow Jr., Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Their science achievement gaps remained fairly stable from third grade through eighth grade. Waiting to address science achievement gaps by middle or high school may be waiting too long.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

million English language learners (ELLs) in elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Supporting ELLs requires a commitment to a shift in practices that involves the entire school and also branches out to the community. For many of the 4.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Students in any school or district, regardless of zip code or economic situation, deserve the opportunity to have access to the tools and resources that will prepare them for the future as 21st-century citizens. The initiative involved three projects: wireless networks at schools. the deployment of mobile devices.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. They must also submit a recommendation letter from a math instructor, and be under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. 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. When America’s math performance is lagging , it could have big consequences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. This isn’t unusual: Students often get weird concepts of math, developing logical-seeming routes for answering questions, Barclay says.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

The program also targets knowledge and training gaps in local schools. Currently, the program offers a math program and could soon include biology, English, and potentially physics or psychology. We have to look at all of this: What do the high schools need? It is important that it is a collaboration, Usher says.

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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. Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

At Marlboro Township (NJ) Public Schools, a K-8 district, we are doing several things to ensure that our students are on a path to college and career readiness before they move on to high school. Moreover, we have the largest number of students in our area who are accepted into highly competitive vocational schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Goodness gracious.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. That is a crucial skill that students really need for entering middle school. newsletters.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Attendance and achievement predict students’ probability of graduating high school, which in turn predicts lifetime earnings.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Some superintendents across the city even require dedicated time for math and reading practice on computers. When I started teaching middle school in Brooklyn last year, I realized that my students experienced this tech onslaught so much earlier than I did. How did they grow without the much-needed free play?

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eSchool News

MAY 18, 2017

Cox Middle School, we are committed to a “whatever it takes” approach to success for each student entrusted to our care. The model we created focuses on achieving proficiency in reading and math for our entire student body, along with proficiency in identified social-emotional skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

This year’s recipient was Rose Moe, a 6th-grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) was selected as District PBL Champion for their commitment to better engage their middle school students. About the Champions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

. –Jean Eddy, President & CEO, American Student Assistance Research shows that executive function (EF) skills are strongly correlated with math achievement. However, EFs are not broadly taken up in math education practice – in part because the field is still learning how to incorporate EFs effectively and equitably.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2024

We call this high-impact tutoring, and it’s delivered to small groups of students during the school day. This type of tutoring can especially help in the early grades for literacy and in middle school math. This happens in other subjects, but math is the most common driver of academic disengagement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For much of my teaching career, I taught eighth grade math students who needed extra support. Most of the students already hated math and believed that they were bad at it and would never improve. They had received poor grades in the past, found math to be boring, and expected much of the same from us. How could I blame them?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM careers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. My personal favorites are MLK: Now is the Time , Anne Frank Annex Tour , and Prisms Math Education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. For example, a student will get partial credit on a math problem when steps are correct, but they make an arithmetic mistake because arithmetic is not the topic being examined.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Also announced today were a host of improvements to DreamBox Math by Discovery Education. DreamBox Math offers adaptive, engaging, and scaffolded lessons that adjust in real time to personalize learning so that students can build confidence and skills at their own pace.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

This paradigm shift could revolutionize how schools, students, and families approach this critical aspect of education. Imagine a world where attendance is taught with the same rigor and methodology as math or science. Here’s why we should consider attendance as part of the curriculum.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers in three North Carolina counties report their students, who are trying to close math learning gaps caused by COVID-related school disruptions, are making progress thanks to an innovative digital learning platform. The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

ARIZONA – July 12, 2021 – ASU Prep Digital today announced a new $9 million, three-year partnership with the Arizona Department of Education to address challenges students are experiencing with math education in the state. By succeeding in math, students also build important critical thinking skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2018

When I became principal of a middle school in New Jersey, I heard how supportive our parents were. What a wonderful venue to teach parents about and collaborate with them on ways to help their child achieve in school. Quick math tells me that we jumped from 1.1 I thought it was a typo.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The new initiative is designed to address math learning gaps among students in grades 6-9 across the state. Carnegie Learning is the only approved tutoring provider with perfect scores for Middle School Math by EdReports , and one point shy of perfect for High School Math. About Carnegie Learning, Inc.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Keep reading to discover how this school keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. The Ron Clark Academy (RCA) is a highly acclaimed, nonprofit middle school located in Southeast Atlanta. Nominee : Ron Clark Academy. Nominated by : Promethean World. What makes this nominee a hero?

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