eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Here are four steps we’ve taken to work through these barriers and create a successful literacy program for students in middle and high school: 1. For me, the rewards also extend beyond the school day and standardized tests. Give them a safe space to learn. I offered snacks and drinks to help them feel more comfortable.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Financial literacy, and the role of K-12 schools in promoting it, is getting lots of attention these days. Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and data from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt hit an all-time high in early August. For youth, the outlook is not much better.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. Far too many states are using these weak tests.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In fact, one state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. The data brief, False Assurances: Many states’ licensure tests don’t signal whether elementary teachers understand reading instruction , provides the most up-to-date analysis on the quality of elementary reading teacher licensure exams being used by each state.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. Instead, they are constantly asking themselves, “How does this connect to my driving question?”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The interventions that teachers provide to support high school students might not be sufficient for their needs, because students want an opportunity to make their own decisions and have a say in anything that they decide to do,” Estrapala said.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the program director and co-founder of Pioneer Academics , which identifies and empowers high-achieving students with university professors so they can take part in challenging and creative research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines while still in high school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. We’re focusing on a pretty unusual story about Bill Demirkapi, who had a pretty odd hobby while he was in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

Unlike Innocent, Muan moves slowly and does not like attention. Like Innocent she is 20 years old, but the eldest of four children, with two of her siblings also attending our school. Called Accelerate to Graduate (A2G) this program is being piloted at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Ky, where I teach.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. Introduce edtech tools to enhance learning Integrating edtech tools is an effective way to capture (and keep) students’ attention and enhance learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

The most recent – and most notable – comes from what some may consider an unlikely source: a series of partnerships between Utah schools and ASU Prep Digital, an accredited online K-12 school based in neighboring Arizona. Utah Education Landscape. For more information, visit asuprepdigital.org.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

Biggest challenge: “In Florida, as in many states, we’d been given mandate after mandate about standardized testing, teacher evaluations, etc.,” We needed to get our students working toward the types of skills they needed to be successful after high school.”. a lot of attention, be careful to not diminish everyone else.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

On its face, the cell phone policy at Forest Hills High School seems clear: Phones cannot be used in school and must be turned off during the day, unless a teacher allows them as part of a lesson. Some educators saw an immediate shift once cell phones were allowed in schools. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The findings come as parents and school leaders across the country engage in fierce debates over whether students should be able to take algebra before high school, and if so, what support students need to do well in the class. Historically, students from low-income families have had less access to algebra in eighth grade, too.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Virginia and Rhode Island education officials who joined the event said their states had seen close links between who was chronically absent and who was struggling in school. The coalition highlighted the work happening in Rhode Island, which brought down its chronic absenteeism rate by 5 percentage points during the 2022-23 school year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of my career, I’ve had some years where my students’ standardized test scores were on the rise , and other years where they stagnated. While educators are engaged in long-winded conversations about how these tests don’t accurately reflect student success, kids are losing out every day. I was wrong.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2016

The approach is unconventional, to be sure, but it recently gained more attention when Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk created a learning alternative for his children embracing unschooling, self-directed learning tenets such as exploration, choice, natural life experiences, and visits to real world learning centers (museums, zoos).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. The new NAEP scores have landed as conservatives push to expand private school choice, public schools grapple with budget cuts, culture war skirmishes persist, and chronic absenteeism remains at historically high levels.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2025

But how AI is being used and what tools scale is also a mirror to what makes us tick: what we as a society prioritize, and where we spend our dollars, time, and attention. Most conversations highlight its enormous breakthrough capabilities. The track record of overcoming those challenges is not great.

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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 31, 2023

I credit my old high school Spanish classroom for my discovery. My curriculum at a project-based learning charter school was mine to invent. My students and I were insulated from many standardized tests and accountability pressures. Outdoor school was a causal part of their success. But it’s hardly new.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. But they weren’t reading from a textbook.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It Students may think they can scroll through and read a question for a test or quiz quickly, as they do with other tools, Picou says.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2025

Across national assessments, like the Nations Report Card, interim assessments, and state summative tests, data shows a continued decline in reading scores between 2022 and 2024. For example, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are recovering at a slower rate than their peers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Girls4Tech is Mastercard’s signature science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program geared towards giving girls in middle and high school access to STEM resources and career exploration tools with an emphasis on payment technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and cyber security. .

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2021

When Carlo Diy throws out a question to his high school entrepreneurship and marketing students, he steels himself for an uncomfortable few moments ahead. It's just crickets,” says Diy, a second-year teacher at Durham Public Schools in North Carolina. So he put it to the test. It was worth a shot, he figured.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a similar vein, educators say they want students to pay attention in class, something they can’t do if they’re fixated on Instagram, Fortnite or the app du jour. Some of them have no idea how many times they check their phones,” says Yvonne Shiu, the principal of San Mateo High School in California.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to maintain a “growth mindset” toward learning—stressing that their minds are like muscles that can get stronger with use—can result in higher test scores. Dweck said other changes were made during the testing process as well. “We Culture really matters,” said Dweck.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Twenty years ago, I was a freshman in high school. I spent the next four years in my assigned seat among the rows of desks, trying to listen to the teacher at the front of the room, completing homework assignments from textbooks, and preparing for tests by making countless flashcards.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. Educators have talked for years about students shortening attention spans and how kids struggle to follow the most basic of instructions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned. When 9/11 happened, my high school English teacher stopped our normal routine, rolled in a TV set, and turned it on.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The engineers who participated liked working with kids, and many shared their frustrations with never receiving much targeted help with career development in school. In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

Yet with small class sizes, Kiski ensures that every student receives personalized attention. The school offers Advanced Placement (AP) courses, Harkness-style discussions, and a robust arts program that encourages creativity and collaboration.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m just going to whatever class they send me to,” Holmes says, adding: “If you’re not paying attention, nobody tells you.” Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The children who heard more words were better prepared for learning when they started school, Hart and Risley found—and these same children, when followed into third grade, had larger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got higher test scores. This is “driving vocabulary acquisition and attention,” Weil said. “It

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

When school systems want to track the role of grit, or help instill it, however, everything gets trickier. Something as simple as testing students for grit.isn’t simple at all. Does their attention drift? As Duckworth observes, the school year already is filled with special-mission tests that interrupt regular course work.

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