Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

There is also a growing skills mismatch between employers and employees, which a Deloitte study estimates will cost our economy $2.5 For education institutions, a common skills language will bring greater consistency and interoperability to course descriptions and outcomes, credentials, and academic records.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Right now, the closest we can come to that is training peers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. Serving as the cornerstone of special education ( Yell et al., under review ).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of the hardest hit are students with unique needs that require services from qualified professionals, such as speech-language pathologists, sign-language interpreters, teachers for the vision and hearing impaired and special education teachers. Burnout is one of the leading causes of workforce shortages in U.S.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

Archon Fung and Stephen Kosack reviewed the state of governance transparency and noted that the research literature on transparency programs “has thus far yielded frustratingly mixed conclusions: some studies conclude that transparency has huge effects; others show little or no effect.” So, it appears that transparency is not enough.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Black/African American students, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx students, and Native American/Alaskan students are less likely to attend a high school that offers foundational computer science. The research reveals that offering just one computer science course in high school can increase students’ earnings by at least 8 percent by age 24.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1. Enhancing accessibility AI tools can make learning more inclusive. Educators can explore how AI can create a more equitable learning environment.

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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. They need school staff who speak the home languages of the students and teachers who reflect the students’ ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With demonstrated effectiveness with special populations, CogAT is uniquely positioned to meet the ADE’s requirements, supporting all learners including students with a disability or students acquiring the English language. About Riverside Insights.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. Next page: Additional findings from the study.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Here are two case studies of how carefully planned and executed pilots helped districts make informed choices—and improve teaching and learning. Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist. Listen and Learn. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. But it would be pretty hard to figure that out from most states’ school report cards.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Detailed study of multiple subjects Venkat’s recommended resources. that are dependent on it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

The Common Core app organizes the Common Core standards by subject area (math traditional, math integrated, language arts, history/Social Studies, and science and technology) and grade level. Common Core ConceptBank , another free app, explores K-8 mathematics and English Language Arts standards by grade level in a greater depth.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

The study utilizes anonymized data from over 30,000 confidential sessions teens held on the AI-powered app during the 2023-24 school year. million US students — 15% of all students — have disabilities that qualify them for Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). More than 78% reported difficulty in hiring special education staff.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. created the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, a facility that resembles a modern professional setting more than a school building. Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

The report summarizes findings from a two-year study assessing the progress of these ambitious reforms and describing the changes that occurred as a result of the new policy. As a result, the study finds that preparation programs experienced substantial, but not unexpected, declines in enrollment.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2024

Accessible conferences ensure that all attendees, regardless of physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities, can participate fully and engage with the content and networking opportunities. This involves engaging with disabled individuals directly, seeking their insights and perspectives to inform decision-making.

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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.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2022

Studies have found, however, that students generally perform poorly on online assessments compared with written exams. Additionally, critics have voiced concerns about digital equity, a sentiment supported by research that shows that students from low-income families, English language learners and students with disabilities…

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Alongside colleagues from universities across the country, our team systematically analyzed over 400 studies from the last 13 years, representing the experiences of over half a million K-12 students from more than 50 countries. Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

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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. Sixty-two percent of Montgomery students are English language learners (ELL).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to a recent study , this ratio has stayed stable for years, but teachers are under more pressure and are working more hours than ever before – an average of 52-58 hours per week. So, what is the root of the problem, and what can we do about it?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Educators noted that, with the increase in expectations of students, they were also increasing the demands on parents, since most students with disabilities needed support from parents to execute remote lessons—from setting and regulating their students' schedules, to helping them access (i.e.

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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. Sixty-two percent of Montgomery students are English language learners (ELL).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. Students who struggle because they have reading disabilities or struggle to read on a computer screen because of blurred vision. For that,] a text-to-speech software saves us.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It gives language for the dissonance of the repeated realization of a fractured personhood and how we persistently reassemble ourselves. My department simultaneously professed concern while ignoring my needs and rights under the American Disabilities Act. It took four more years to get it fully under control.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. 20k+ per year).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Thomas Kane, a Harvard education professor who has studied learning loss during the pandemic, said “it’s great to see” districts like Cicero adding instructional time. “It The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

This insight was among those released today by NWEA in an overview of current research studies that examined K-8 student progress during a typical school year (non pandemic) and over the summer. However, students with disabilities lose more ground every summer, which contributes to widening disparities in achievement. public schools.”.

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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. Every ESSER III plan (part of the American Rescue Plan) submitted to the federal education department includes reference to mental health supports.

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