eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam will be taken entirely online next year. Many other states already have fully online tests—and in response to the pandemic, graduate entrance and career certification exams have shifted online as well.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) is continually seeking effective ways to support educators as they work to help English language learners (ELLs) develop academic English fluency. On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body. IXL’s TEKS alignment has been independently reviewed by Learning List.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

— IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced that the Pennsylvania Evidence Resource Center (ERC) has added IXL Math and IXL English Language Arts (ELA) to its list of evidence-based resources. ” How Pennsylvania educators use IXL’s award-winning platform.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this partnership, all 33 schools in the district will use IXL to supplement math, English language arts, science and social studies instruction. The district is home to eight National Blue Ribbon Schools and serves a large bilingual and English language learner population. IXL’s personalized learning platform.

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JULY 26, 2016

In my course students will be asked to explore the connection between computation and graffiti, through the engagement of people who use code to reimagine this cultural art form. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. Dr. Gaskins is director of the STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy. .

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. that would use a technology-based language development and literacy program to English language learners (ELLs) in grades K-6.Approximately

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Specializing in career-focused courses and certification exam preparation for middle and high school students, Pointful Education offers a wide range of virtual and blended learning solutions that engage students in career exploration and prepare them for the workforce.

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Exams Education Learning Blended Learning 139

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JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. But there may be a solution on the horizon, one that will help ensure students have to put more effort into their schoolwork than entering a prompt into a large language model. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Duolingo, the language-learning app developer, announced it had secured $35 million in a Series H round from private equity firms Durable Capital Partners LP and General Atlantic. The new capital, according to a statement, will support continued research and development efforts to expand its language learning offerings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

You can also take foreign languages, social studies, and arts. Prepare for college entrance exams College entrance exams enable higher learning institutions to choose the best students to join their colleges. Adequate preparation is the best way to pass these exams and secure your spot in your preferred college.

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JULY 25, 2016

Back in 1988, the College Board offered high schools two options for AP computer science courses: AP Computer Science A, which covered one college semester’s worth of learning a programming language (first Pascal, then C++ and now Java), and AP Computer Science AB, which covered two semesters.

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Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 114

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art Comics Holiday Widget Team Challenge Thanksgiving Poll Thinking Games Themed ASCII Art Time required: Less than one class ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

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APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. high schoolers can tune into KCET for shows about language arts (“The Great American Read”), social studies (“African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”) and science (“Rivers of Life: The Amazon”). For example, from 9 a.m.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Learning Internet 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2024

Whether they are having trouble getting to grips with core concepts, or they need a little extra assistance with exam prep, there are all sorts of reasons to take this route. Subject Proficiency : Ensure the tutor specializes in the specific subject your child needs help with, whether it’s math and science, or language and arts.

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Exams English Participation Intelligence 158

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Holiday Poll.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

And when it comes to proving what they’ve learned, students can take Adobe Certified Professional exams — we’ve been offering these for 17 years and have issued over 1.8 We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own.

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Technology Students Skills Exams 190

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Hybrid Courses Languages Language English 81

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. You pick your subject area, let’s say it’s language, and you have a set of standards, like the Common Core standards.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

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AUGUST 30, 2016

In a partnership with game-development platform Unity Technologies , the university’s Entertainment Arts & Engineering program will help students become certified in using the tool to create their own games. The Unity Certified Developer program involves online training and a final exam. His students use all three. “We

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Suddenly, lessons on the physics of energy were tied to teaching kids how to be theme park engineers, and language arts and math lessons were anchored in running and marketing a profitable startup. At Cajon Valley, students don’t actually take RIASEC exams until middle school, in line with most recommendations.

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Counselling Middle School Middle School Testing 215

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MAY 27, 2019

Within the Chinese education sector, three sectors saw a concentration of investments: competency-based education; language learning; education “informazation.”. In the language-learning market, Dada raised $255 million in its Series D round. Source: JMDedu By contrast, venture investing overall in China dropped 87 percent to $35.9

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English Exams Languages Language 144

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. NWEA’s solution, which it calls “through-year assessments,” is to give students shorter exams lasting about 45 minutes per subject in the fall, winter and spring.

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Exams Peer Review Testing English 103

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AUGUST 4, 2021

With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. High-stakes entrance exams determine which students are admitted to the top high schools, then the top colleges, then the top jobs in cities that citizens view as “ first-tier.” “You just do it secretly,” she says. Jiao asks. “I

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 161

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

The amount of engagement you are going to have because you are incorporating technology into a language arts lesson is going to go way up. . I think the second group of students are going to retain more information for that assessment because they had that experience with technology, because that's the language that our kids speak.

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Technology Textbooks Education Testing 167

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JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. percent of students met proficiency targets on math and English language arts exams during the 2016-17 school year and only 8.38

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Local Government Schools English Exams 140

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MAY 13, 2019

The public charter school provides every student with a Chromebook and purchases licenses to online curricula for subjects including English language arts, math and computer science. Last fall, students in Goslee’s class learned to code on Scratch, the MIT-developed, block-based programming language designed for children.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Students learn to think beyond the parameters of passing an exam. Music unleashes creative powers in the classroom. They open up their brains to deeper critical thinking. And they learn that they can connect with one another through a single, common thread.

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Teaching Teaching Philosophy Assignments Exams 129

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism.

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Since passing a test isn’t necessarily representative of student growth, it is also our responsibility to seek out alternative methods for gauging growth that may not be demonstrated on a state exam. So, what does success look like for an at-risk student, and how do we measure it? Something didn’t add up.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Holiday Poll.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Mindsnacks is a series of education apps on topics like geography, vocabulary, languages, and SAT. This app adds fun to what often is the stressful task of preparing for SAT exams. There are multiple language apps including French, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Italian. Education Applications.

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Language Languages Learning History 102

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

I struggled from an early age with comprehension and performed below the average on national reading exams. I struggled from an early age with comprehension and performed below the average on national reading exams. However, this one-time weakness ultimately became an advantage in the classroom.

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Exams English Students Assignments 131

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

At Navigator charter school Hollister Prep, 85 percent of Latino students scored proficient in English Language Arts (ELA) on the state assessment, compared to 37 percent of Latino students in the rest of the district. What gives the Silicon Schools team hope is the performance of students in a subset of their schools.

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Schools Beliefs Exams Blended Learning 117

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Founded in 1986, the company is perhaps best known for its Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs, along with its STAR formative assessments that help teachers and students prepare for their end-of-year state exams. The company claims to service a third of U.S. schools and more than 90 countries.

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Schools Failure Learning Exams 96

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism.

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

James Kim, co-founder and executive director of BEAT (short for Bridging Education & Art Together), is on a mission to “take the ‘speech’ and the ‘therapy’ out of speech therapy,” he says. Tony Weaver, founder and CEO of Weird Enough Productions, dons a superhero’s cape (Photo Credit: Chloe Jackman for Camelback Ventures).

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Counselling Education Coaching Essay 146