eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

. – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today debuted a new Assessment Playbook focused on streamlining the evaluation of dyslexia, the most common learning disability, affecting 20% of the population.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2022

Last month, the College Board, which develops and administers the SAT, announced that the test would move entirely online by 2024. Many states already have an online option for standardized tests, which allowed students to take assessments digitally during remote learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

23, 2022 – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) selected Riverside Insight’s Cognitive Abilities Test ( CogAT ® ), the most respected and widely used test of student ability, to screen Grade 2 students state-wide for gifted programs. ITASCA, Ill. –

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) renewed our national focus on the least-restrictive environment. 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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

We knew we needed to do something to support all students,” says Perez, “especially English learners and students with disabilities.” We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities. There are so many functions that support English language learners.”

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

We knew we needed to do something to support all students,” says Perez, “especially English learners and students with disabilities.” We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities. There are so many functions that support English language learners.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Test data from many sources suggest students are still behind where they were before the pandemic. They also searched for information about chronic absenteeism or regular attendance , high school graduation rates, and English learner proficiency. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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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

JULY 26, 2015

To further insure sustainable learning gains, TTM Geometry includes a wide variety of interactive item types; ensuring students are well prepared for the more sophisticated test items being used on state-level assessments. “As TTM lessons and on-line tutoring are both available in both English and Spanish.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

…It is essential to ensure that tests are fair, are of high quality, take up the minimum necessary time, and reflect the expectation that students will be prepared for success in college and careers,” according to an Oct. Expertise to states and school districts looking to reduce time spent on testing.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2023

It has also been recognized as EdTech Digest’s 2021 Cool Tool for Best Tutoring Solution and as the 2021 Best Tutoring/Test Prep App or Tool by Tech Edvocate. FEV Tutor has a track record of closing equity and achievement gaps for priority and high needs students,” added Tormey.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. If memorized, those facts will quickly be forgotten after a test or quiz, and the child may never use them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We highly recommend that you take the race implicit bias test.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In a new analysis, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use a weak elementary teacher reading licensure test, meaning that they do not effectively measure teachers’ knowledge of scientifically based reading instruction prior to entering the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs. What do teachers want?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

Two English professors have outlined a vision of restrained generative AI, and theyve built a software tool to test their idea for using technology to turn notes into prose. Many Students Dont Inform Their Colleges About Their Disability. Professors Try Restrained AI Approach to Help Teach Writing By Jeffrey R. By Jeffrey R.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

School leaders hope that will be enough time to teach students key skills they missed and boost test scores. “We About three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and more than half of students are learning English. There are challenges, I’m not going to sit here and say that there’s not.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In real life, curb cuts on sidewalks are intentionally designed for people with disabilities. It has been shown that dual-language learning leads to developmental gains for English language learners (ELLs). is raised in a family where English is not the primary language spoken at home, and this number continues to grow.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

UDL provides a framework for designing and delivering lessons that address the diverse needs of all learners, including those with disabilities and other learning challenges. Many students with disabilities read below grade level and benefit from the text-to-speech tool that is universally available across computer and mobile devices.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. Next year, John is taking an Advanced Placement English class. He wasn’t alone. I checked in frequently the next year to see how he was doing.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. I teach three sections of English III to juniors and three sections of English IV Contemporary Literature to seniors.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Additionally, students can complete the program sooner by transferring previously earned high school credits or credits from any of the four GED subject areas tests that were passed at a Performance Level 2 or above (145+).

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? Students will receive refunds if they already registered for May, their March test centers were closed or they did not receive March scores. What about AP tests?

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Sadie had been struggling in my English class too, but not in these ways. I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services. I was baffled. So, What’s Alternative About Our School?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Often this is done via paper tests—despite the growing usage of predictive analytics in schools, where there are seemingly as many data dashboards as students in a classroom. With paper- and pen-based tests, it’s quite hard to read the results and takes a lot of time. Educators] ask, ‘Who are the kids we think have difficulties?’

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2017

This is where they should test out technology—at the university,” says Cannady, a former English teacher. Colemere says this could be useful for some students with learning disabilities. “It This is where they should test out technology—at the university. It makes the books come alive in a different way,” she says.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. In recent decades, the number of students with disabilities who spend more than 80% of their time in general education classrooms has more than doubled, equating to nearly 65% of those students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2020).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The country regularly ranks among the highest in mathematics, science and reading on international tests like the PISA exam. Qooco , a smartphone app, aims to help users develop fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese. Education is serious business in Japan. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

For these parents, understanding how local school systems are serving the needs of English Language Learners (ELL) is critical. When students enter middle and high school, proficiency in English can have big consequences. We need numbers and figures to help us make informed decisions, to say yes or no,” explains Coreas in Spanish.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We highly recommend that you take the race implicit bias test.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Collaboration technology improves accessibility for students with disabilities, illnesses, and other impediments to in-person learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Districts expressed interest in additional DreamBox products that address other pandemic-related problems, like its new predictive analytics tool, designed to assess student progress and learning loss in lieu of now-canceled standardized tests. And customers seem grateful. “If

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Some online multiplayer games have become so ridden with profanity that many players disable chat functions. (I As digital social and gaming platforms meld and evolve, so too will definitions of digital citizenship change, says Paul Devarsi, an English and media teacher based in Toronto. “To I write from personal experience.)

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

At the time, our state test was based upon performance assessment, and learning the thinking skills framework. So we were just testing memory [after] 10 weeks out, which is similar to the summer slide. My first book was in 2003 (1*), and that book was all about connecting research with effective teaching.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. Note that these tools are notoriously unreliable, inaccurate, and biased against non-native English speakers and students with disabilities; Liang et al.,

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