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MAY 7, 2025

Researchers were surprised to learn, Gillis says, that the most-used sources for historical information are not textbooks but online sites run by museums and the federal government, especially the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and National Archives. Textbooks clearly are diminishing in influence, the AHA report states.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

They can be designed around pre-packaged online curricula or the sorts of adaptive software that are being developed to support learning in math and language arts. Parents remember bells ringing, textbooks, and the teacher as ultimate authority. Some take the added step of creating all or some of their own learning materials.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. Instead, coding is integrated to explore where it fits in “the broader idea of the liberal arts in the traditional Greek sense,” Anderson explains. In other words, coding isn’t just tacked on.

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JUNE 5, 2020

It’s an art competition unlike most others. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. We believe that the line between math, arts and humanities is a lot blurrier than what most people make it out to be,” says Luberoff. One entry looks like an animation straight from a video game.

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MARCH 4, 2019

The gravity-defying choreography in OK Go’s music videos is out of this world—which is also where the American rock band wants to send students’ art experiments. Dubbed “ Art in Space ,” the competition’s organizers want kids to come up with creative experiments that combine arts and sciences to launch into suborbit.

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JULY 5, 2019

Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

Although I love teaching all subjects, I always choose English/language arts and social studies, in part because I love the challenge of engaging young leaners in these important subjects.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Videos that are more than flashy attempts to spice up a chapter from a textbook. The Art Assignment. An engaging look at contemporary art, as well as art history through a contemporary lens. The best of them are shot on location and bring art from around the world into your classroom. The Brain Scoop.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. /

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Students and educators will have access to a collection of more than 1 million online textbooks and image databases that can be used for instruction on subjects, such as social studies, the language arts, and science.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

There are five magnet schools in the elementary levels—a school for arts, aerospace and engineering, medical science, international studies, and technology. When I first started, on July 28, 2014, the superintendent before me had ordered close to a million dollars’ worth of textbooks. We now have about 80 percent.

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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. IXL is currently used by 20 percent of students in Missouri, accounting for more than 210,000 students.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, August 2, 2022) – Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—recently earned the Spaces4Learning New Product Award in the K-12 Remote Learning Technology category for its Sandbox AR app.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2022

It shouldn’t be exclusive to kids who attend schools stocked with new textbooks and state-of-the-art laboratories. Today’s education doesn’t need to be limited to the walls of a classroom. It shouldn’t rely on home internet access, a community hotspot or a ride to the library. Rather, U.S.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. school districts, IXL is an all-inclusive educational platform that provides a comprehensive PK-12 curriculum and instructional resources, actionable analytics and a state-of-the-art assessment suite.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2024

It’s one thing to study a concept in a textbook. A recent study compared two groups of students learning in an art appreciation course–one learning in a more traditional learning model and the other group integrated virtual reality. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” It’s another to see that concept come to life.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Some 3D printing is incorporated into math and science lessons, some geography and some art, but overall, 3D printers are being used as incentives to complete the “normal” lesson. Outdated textbooks with photos from years past are not going to engage the students we need to ensure a robust healthcare workforce years down the road.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This is my 20th year as a science teacher here, and based on my experience with this STEAM solution, my feeling is that every school should be offering science labs and using a platform like this to engage our youngest students in science, technology, engineering, and art–in addition to math.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist. This academic year has been especially pivotal, as we are now in full implementation.

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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. The study investigated hundreds of public schools in Pennsylvania that used IXL Math or IXL ELA.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past. But so far, only one school, Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, has satisfied this requirement and distributed iPads.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In language arts classes, students can write papers or create presentations on their laptops, uploading the file to the web to work on at home and at school. A new arts class at Jay M. The world that they live in is technology based,” said Cindy Pusanik, a sixth-grade language arts teacher at Robinson Middle. “We

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Awards can range from academic excellence and perfect attendance to contributions in sports, arts, and community service. This could include science fairs, art exhibitions, or community service projects. Highlighting success stories : Use newsletters, social media, and school websites to share success stories.

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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 is used by nearly 40 percent of all K-12 students in Kentucky, accounting for more than 283,000 learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Alabama’s Huntsville College Preparatory School (HCPS) today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education , the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Math Techbook.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

Math should be an exciting space to be in, one that’s connected to experiences outside of the textbook or classroom. Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports. Math is joyful! It should be joyful. I’m a first-generation Dominican American.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Some 3D printing is incorporated into math and science lessons, some geography and some art, but overall, 3D printers are being used as incentives to complete the normal lesson. Outdated textbooks with photos from years past are not going to engage the students we need to ensure a robust healthcare workforce years down the road.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Videos that are more than flashy attempts to spice up a chapter from a textbook. The Art Assignment. An engaging look at contemporary art, as well as art history through a contemporary lens. The best of them are shot on location and bring art from around the world into your classroom. Tell us in the comments!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Redbird Advanced Learning , a digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K-12 math, language arts, and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When asked what research and evidence he believes shows one-to-one computing will work in West Virginia, Martirano reiterated that an Internet-accessing digital device doesn’t have the same limits on content that “static” and “finite” textbooks do. He said he’s yet to finalize what that agenda will be.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Now in its third decade, USC Shoah Foundation reaches millions of people on six continents from its home at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. . About Discovery Education.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Triseum's ARTe: Macenas immerses students in art history. through a signup ID supplied by their course instructors, like buying an electronic textbook. Enter Textbook Publishers. Textbook publishers could be the next level of major companies investing in the production of video games in higher education.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 26, 2022) —The Aim Academy of Science and Technology in Minneapolis, MN, today announced it has selected Discovery Education — the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place— to support science and social studies instruction in all grades.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

Higher ed is also leading the way in online presence to attract and retain phigital students , like with state-of-the-art websites [read also what mistakes to avoid in campus website creation here ].

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