Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. Lalor is the director of the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training, which studies education strategies and outcomes for students who have learning disabilities.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

In a recent report by Populace (2022), 55 percent of American parents expressed their desire for educators to rethink how today’s K-12 schools are educating our children. Instead, the study reported, today’s parents would like to see their children develop practical skills “for both life and career” (p.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It was with great trepidation — knowing that I could not live up to this model but wanting to do my best — that I took my job teaching social studies at a small public high school in the Bronx. I spent the next decade at that same small school, and my time there reshaped my view of what makes a good teacher.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. Related: How our district uses tech to fight cyberbullying.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In Enlarged City School District of Middletown (N.Y.), where 75 percent of students are low-income, high school students can take college-level courses through a partnership with Syracuse University. Vancouver Public Schools (Wash.) Blue Valley Public Schools (Kans.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

How should teaching change for a group of students whose studies and social lives were disrupted by COVID-19 (and instructors who had a crash-course in online teaching)? And when did so many high school students start taking community college courses (and what does that mean for college access)? That Needs to Change.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

But it would be pretty hard to figure that out from most states’ school report cards. A new study from the Center on Reinventing Public Education –CRPE–graded these state report cards on how easy it was to find information about student achievement from before COVID to the present day, as well as on their general usability.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But for many students in the nation’s largest school system — particularly girls, Black students, and Latinos — by the time they get to high school, it’s too late. Many get turned off before they make it to the high-level courses Newton-Rodriguez teaches at the Bronx Academy for Software Engineering, or BASE.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

The inaugural report aims to uncover timely factors contributing to the current teen mental health crisis as described by the app’s users—middle and high school students. The study utilizes anonymized data from over 30,000 confidential sessions teens held on the AI-powered app during the 2023-24 school year.

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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. Detailed study of multiple subjects Venkat’s recommended resources. Bring on the learning revolution!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As a newly minted middle school English teacher, I was shocked by the number of students who entered my classroom unable to decode text. As I got to know them, I saw that herculean efforts to mask their reading disabilities revealed intelligence, determination, and traumatic relationships to school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Across these 15 weak licensure tests: Ten do not adequately address all five components of the science of reading and five combine reading with other subjects, such as social studies or science. Note, one test fits into both categories listed above.) One includes too much emphasis on content contrary to research-based practices.

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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. Five combine reading with other subjects, such as social studies or science.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Janae Montgomery has walked the halls of the same school building for much of the last 10 years — first as a high school student, then as a paraprofessional and, as of a few months ago, as a special education teacher. I would always be like, ‘Oh, let's play school, and I'll be the teacher’ — things like that.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

high school students. The report included data on school connectedness, which the CDC defines as “the feeling among adolescents that people at their school care about them, their well-being, and success.” Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. Instead of investing the time and effort required to study and prepare, they may turn to AI or other shortcuts to complete the task quickly. World Bank.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. At a macro level, disability organizations are finding ways to work together that would never have happened before the pandemic. At East High School in Rochester, N.Y.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success. Passing Algebra I is also a requirement for high school graduation. Or through studying the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

In Enlarged City School District of Middletown (N.Y.), where 75 percent of students are low-income, high school students can take college-level courses through a partnership with Syracuse University. Vancouver Public Schools (Wash.) Blue Valley Public Schools (Kans.)

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same. Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

For decades, online schooling quietly grew in the shadows of our public school system under the “independent study” category, generally reserved for kids with illness or disability. Another key learning is that social-emotional learning has become the priority. The pandemic has exacerbated this crisis.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When parents question things like assignments, or the practice of teaching that they see through their lenses, they may not be aware of the overall state of the class, or the range of abilities, disabilities, interests and considerations that go into the planning and teaching.” See also: Want to Show Teachers You Appreciate Them?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

These are middle and high school students who have developed solutions to major economic and social challenges, ranging from health care and transportation to agriculture and the environment. When my children went to school, I went to school also. I became a high school teacher. I have a unique background.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Apply a fresh coat of paint at Southeast Alaska Independent Living, a nonprofit that serves people with disabilities. Cook breakfast for a classmate celebrating a birthday.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

College is our country’s post-high school default, and it doesn’t have to be. An ASA study (link) shows that 70% of students believe they have to go to college to get a job, while 80% of employers are open to hiring employees without degrees. It is clear that students are not leaving high school with these essential skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The tests are designed to last less than nine hours, or 1 percent of the school year. A study by the Council of the Great City Schools found that Portland and Oregon students are some of the least-tested in the country when it comes to mandated standardized exams.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Founded in the United Kingdom, the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to inspire young people to study computer science by inventing a programmable computer for the price of a textbook. He is now studying for his undergraduate degree in computer science and cybersecurity at Newcastle University, the first in his family to attend university.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

But I was even more taken with digital learning’s ability to let underrepresented students leap virtually over high campus gates to earn college degrees as never before. Then came several new studies concluding that low-income students at U.S. community colleges may not be as well served online as their residential peers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2015

Tech-infused alternatives to granular education activities such as note-taking, math, and reading allow students with specialized needs to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). Sonocent offers a school pack that includes lesson plans and sample files for elementary and high school.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Two ways to improve support services for adult learners with learning disabilities In our new survey , 100% of university presidents and provosts identified graduate and adult learner enrollment as a priority. Between 2007 and 2016, a study found a 43% increase in in adults with newly diagnosed ADHD.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As a high school English teacher, I had the special privilege of teaching a variety of learners, including high-achieving pre-AP students, English language learners, students with social and emotional disabilities, and students with IEPs (Individualized Learning Plans) carrying a wide range of special needs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Also, if senior citizens can also visit vocational schools or technology high schools once in a while to get hands-on experience, that would be really interesting. Senior citizens learned one way in school with teachers. You can’t study or learn unless it’s fun. So you explore from the battery to the handbag.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

At Hunters Lane High School in Tennessee, some teachers have done just that. With the Titanic, the kids did a lot of research on the boats first,” Weaver said in an AMD case study. Students studying information technology took advantage of the VR headsets to create computer programs and troubleshoot technology issues.

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