Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

After politics and religion, few issues are as contentious as standardized tests. To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of tests. students were taking about eight tests a year.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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Secondary Education Grades Art Language 257

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

Sometimes it’s about empathy —or in the case of some of the latest research coming out of Johns Hopkins, it’s about understanding how art plays a role in learning. EdSurge sat down with Hardiman recently to learn about the Initiative’ recent findings around how injecting art into lessons across disciplines can boost memory and retention.

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Art Learning Beliefs Achievement 167

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Standardized tests are an important part of a linguistic profile, but we need to also consider a student’s background and exposure – what languages they speak at home and with whom do they speak those languages – in order to build a more comprehensive picture. Teachers should make efforts not to turn to the whiteboard to write while speaking.

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English Language Languages Testing 316

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. A former art teacher, White is now an education consultant who criss-crosses the continent giving workshops, coaching teachers in her local Saskatchewan district and writing books.

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Testing Schools Art Feedback 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. The middle school has been in operation for 10 years, with innovation and the arts woven into its original charter.

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Testing Schools Interdisciplinary Middle School 167

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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Education Testing Feedback English 296

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now, with the evolution of art in STEAM, educators have the opportunity to structure their coursework in non-traditional ways that create excitement and fun around learning. There is an art form to teaching STEAM principles in creative ways outside of writing out math equations that make kids excited to go to school and learn.

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STEM Art Science Math 279

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

Artful annotation inspires them to record their responses in their own unique ways. Andrea Castellano Irene Yannascoli High School Process: Collaborative Annotation Whether at the secondary or elementary level ( click here to jump up to elementary), the art of annotation is in making it meaningful. They write this on their posters.

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Art Teaching Feedback Reading 145

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

English language arts (ELA) standards identify a set of foundational skills students must master in their progression to becoming skilled readers. K-5 student test scores plummeted in math and reading nationwide this year, erasing two decades of progress. But that statistic may soon change.

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Skills English Students Knowledge 286

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Sarah Blaine said: ten years into private practice, I don’t draw on my two months of intensive bar test prep to advise my clients or manage my work. Test prep works. Test prep taught me to immerse myself in the logic of the test-makers, and how to effectively game the system to achieve my goal: a passing score.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Essay History 93

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. engagement and passion.

Writing 167

Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

WIthin the lessons there is a wide variety of ideas presented from SEL lessons, to art lessons, to science lessons and so much more. They get to practice their reading skills, but writing skills as well. There are questions about each passage and then students have to make connections between the passages and write about it.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

That is truer today than ever as new technology has increased the instructional possibilities, and evidence-based, on-demand testing has forced me to get creative. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The acquisition of Emmersion deepens IXL Learning’s line of language and literacy products, which include the world-renowned Rosetta Stone , IXL English Language Arts , Vocabulary.com , SpanishDict , inglés.com and Fluencia. Emmersion’s cofounders, Brigham Tomco and Dr. Jacob Burdis, will remain with the company.

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Language Languages Exams English 230

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

When we met for her annual review this year, one of her goals revolved around her learning how to extend her writing. Last year, I’d bought a marble composition notebook, and I told her that we would write every day. Although it wasn’t the easiest idea to implement (I mean, it still required reading and writing during her break!),

Writing 153

Writing Feedback Reading Questions 153

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The Cobb County Teaching and Learning Standards in English Language Arts provide a rigorous set of proficiencies in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and language. In some schools, however, our data and test scores indicated that students were struggling.

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English Language Languages Evaluation 219

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature. Something didn’t add up.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 133

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

MCSD narrowed the gap between its test scores and the state averages on 12 tests this year: third-grade English language arts, science, and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. high school biology.

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Social Studies English Schools Art 238

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2021

Surveying the obsessions that dominate instruction time in many classrooms, including standardized tests, Newstok finds them at odds with the practices that he believes are essential to developing a “fully deployed mind” like Shakespeare’s own. That's a complex art.”

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Education Art English Knowledge 210

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.” In addition to the numerous social, emotional, and creative benefits Dungeons & Dragons provides, kids get hands-on practice with math, reading, and writing. “Dungeons & Dragons is the best metacognitive tool for education that I’ve seen.

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Schools Middle School Middle School Art 259

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. This product has been developed independently from and is not endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization. International Baccalaureate is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

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Quizzes Achievement Students Social Studies 235

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair. She ended up doing an art installation and website on the theme “Rightfully Ours.”

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Technology Fairness Schools Ethics 409

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. Next school year’s budget includes a $6.8

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 262

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 173

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

State test math scores remain a cause for concern, as Newark’s overall passing rate sits at 15% for students in grades 3 to 9. My favorite lesson is how to solve and write algebraic equations because algebra is the foundation to all mathematics. As a Newark resident, I see new restaurants, shows, and opportunities for culture and arts.

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Middle School Middle School Math Teachers 263

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

Create a timeline that includes important dates such as application deadlines, standardized test dates, and scholarship deadlines. For students interested in arts, exploring the best art schools in the US can provide insights into top institutions offering excellent art programs.

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High School High School Essay Fairness 158

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

myView Literacy © 2025 is a core English Language Arts (ELA) program for grades K-5 that empowers teachers and transforms students. The new edition also features streamlined student navigation, more student practice opportunities, and an increased focus on foundational writing instruction.

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Achievement Math Reading Education 256

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

A meta-analysis of studies, including data from 145,000 students in 33 nations, tell two notable truths: By age six, kids already see girls as worse than boys at computing and engineering Kids see girls as far superior in reading and writing by age eight, a belief that strengthens over time. Find out by taking a test designed to measure bias.

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STEM Reading Beliefs Middle School 243

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Tests were administered via digital devices (though there are options for paper-and-pencil). Besides measuring student achievement, they also were an indicator of school facility to administer green digital tests instead of the traditional paper-and-pencil versions. Write a letter. That’ll do it. Basic computer skills.

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Testing Students Communication English 102

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

What’s interesting to me is that students are more concerned about their writing being effective and well done, knowing their peers or people outside their school are going to read it versus just the teacher. Cotton has committed his own community to making sure its students learn how to write effectively; here too technology plays a role.

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 124

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

was free, and people had to pay at least $20 a month to get access to the state-of-the-art model. It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, students might train a machine learning system to recognize patterns in math class or test a text-to-speech system to see if it can differentiate between homonyms in English Language Arts.

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Intelligence Education Learning Ethics 206

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 208

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2017

But from there, with the help of a headset, you can circle the Earth, fight zombies or create 3-D art. Then, they can test different learning environments to see if they are more or less conducive to learning, he said. Then, more developers are likely to write more programs for the technology.

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Laboratory Education Art STEM 205