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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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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

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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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2019

High school graduation rates have reached record highs in recent years. We face an unfortunate reality where students of color, with disabilities , and in lower socioeconomic brackets have fewer resources and opportunities. Yet, one matter remains clear: there’s still a lot of work to be done. More than 1.2

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MARCH 17, 2023

Parents want their children to have learning opportunities across a variety of modalities, and they want learning to be assessed through demonstration of mastery as opposed to traditional assessments like standardized tests. Throughout history, Americans have always been willing to pay (through taxation) to educate our country’s youth.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Lower test scores only illuminate some of the problems caused by chronic absenteeism. Students who miss school also miss important social interaction with their peers, access to regular meals and special services such as speech therapy or counseling. Begin tracking chronic absence data early, no later than kindergarten.

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JULY 26, 2015

Think Through Learning, creators of Think Through Math (TTM), an instructional system for grades 3 and above, announced plans to expand its high school software line to include geometry. New offering will combine live tutoring and adaptive math instruction. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

And when did so many high school students start taking community college courses (and what does that mean for college access)? 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. By Jeffrey R.

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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. But it would be pretty hard to figure that out from most states’ school report cards. They also searched for information about chronic absenteeism or regular attendance , high school graduation rates, and English learner proficiency.

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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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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

APRIL 16, 2019

Demographics: West Broward High School , located in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Biggest challenge: Results on standardized tests revealed that about a quarter of our 9th- and 10th-grade students weren’t reading at grade level. Some were students with learning disabilities.

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MAY 31, 2023

Christopher Bugaj Assistive Technology Specialist, Loudoun County Public Schools One way for educators to meet the needs of students is to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into their instructional practices. Compass High teachers aim to provide a personalized learning environment for every student as much as possible.

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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. Five formative assessment strategies to improve distance learning outcomes for students with disabilities. World Bank. National Center on Educational Outcomes.

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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. “We

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APRIL 4, 2020

A major sticking point is not the access gap, but provisions under three federal laws: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Without a doubt, students with special needs deserve equal access to high quality education.

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MAY 8, 2017

Yet some test-makers are taking notice and, more importantly, action. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), which administers standardized tests for 15 U.S. Smarter Balanced contracts with the American Institute of Research to develop and deliver the online tests via a secure web browser.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

And Jason was upset because he feared they would lose their home and have to move before he completed high school. There were no records beyond state standardized testing data available for me to review. Besides these test scores, I had no idea who Jason was as a student or what his needs were. But he had a problem.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Fellows explicitly called out the need for college leaders to do more to support and provide access to high-quality education to groups such as low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities and mental health issues, refugees, first-generation college students and women and non-binary students.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. Once he graduated, he would have less support than he did in high school.

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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

This is my third year teaching at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware. by law , “the number of students with disabilities in an Integrated Co-Teaching class may not exceed 40% of the class with a maximum of 12 students with disabilities.” However, in most states.

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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. 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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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024. Looking ahead to 2024, the industry is poised to transition to an offensive stance.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities. By Daniel Mollenkamp In April, the U.S. Here's What Does.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

A private admissions counselor allegedly bribed a proctor of an SAT test, and in some cases paid someone to take the test for a student, or have someone change answers to improve a student’s score. A few students were able to switch the school where they tested. The integrity of the test is critically important.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The country regularly ranks among the highest in mathematics, science and reading on international tests like the PISA exam. Yet that comes at a cost: immense academic pressure to do well on exams, which critics believe is a factor that fuels bullying in schools. Education is serious business in Japan.

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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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APRIL 23, 2019

Round tables are one of the unique ways we work together to meet each student’s needs at Collier High School, which is operated by a non-profit organization, Collier Youth Services. So, What’s Alternative About Our School? Situated atop a 260-acre campus in Marlboro, N.J., Our motto: “Where small miracles happen everyday.”

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APRIL 15, 2020

It just so happened that a group of about 50 biology students were testing products from Hands-On Labs, a company that offers at-home lab kits coupled with online instruction and assessments. And she also understands schools’ desire for simulations to avoid expensive equipment and dangerous chemicals.

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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. For adult learners with ADHD and other learning disabilities (e.g., adults are diagnosed with ADHD—up from 3.41% in 2007.

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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. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Earlier this month, a group of high school students in New York City took to the streets to protest their school’s online program, Summit Learning. Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning.

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JULY 19, 2017

He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. Beal’s effort will build on a statewide effort to improve student performance on a statewide algebra standard for high school students. she asks. “We

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