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MARCH 12, 2018

As we walk towards the new Career Launch Center, Anabel Garza, principal at Reagan Early College High School in Austin, Texas, greets two young men in the hallway. Garza’s story is well-chronicled, the age-old tale of a principal trying to turn around an impoverished school with failing tests scores. Completion is the goal.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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APRIL 15, 2020

The College Board says it is preparing to offer digital versions of the SAT test in students’ homes later this year, “in the unlikely event” that schools remain closed through the fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We That’s a different approach than what the organization is taking to make its AP exams available at home in May.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

Previously, Larkin served as the Director of Academic Programs for DCPS’ Office of Special Education from 2011 to 2016. Under her, District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System (DC CAS) exam scores increased by 10 points in a single academic year. Students in eighth grade made the fourth largest gains.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Priscilla Rodriguez, vice president of College Readiness Assessments for the College Board, and others affiliated with the design made the case in a call with reporters that the test now offers a “more approachable and less stressful experience” for students and educators, a goal that they say was “at the center” of the new changes.

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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. As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With schools and testing centers closed across the country, COVID-19 has prevented at least one million students in the high school class of 2021 from taking the ACT or SAT exams. Many hundreds of thousands of students are still waiting to take an exam. Both exams were canceled. Is There a ‘Better Way’?

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JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling. College’s Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds By Jeffrey R. What should teenagers do after high school in these changing times?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Originally an elementary school music teacher and site lead technology educator, Neal Kellogg is the Director of Educational Technology Services for Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS)—serving 34,000 K–12 students across 33 elementary schools, 12 middle schools, 8 high schools, 4 alternative schools, and 6 charter schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The once novel technology behind chess- and gameshow-playing computers is all but commonplace today; it’s in everything from medical diagnostic applications to Gmail spam filters—and as some high school and college students are finding out, a new generation of online tools for foreign language learning.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Who do you think will be better prepared to pass standardized tests, get admitted into and graduate from college, and be equipped to secure a high-paying job? But it’s not just Maria who is falling behind due to her lack of access to educational technology and resources. I think we all know the answer.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. states , as well as the ACT, SAT and International Baccalaureate exams, now rely on Desmos to power its online graphing tools.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Despite growing up with Spanish-speaking parents, Oscar eventually lost proficiency in the language and decided to take Spanish classes during high school. “In Interviewee “Oscar” had the opposite problem. I had to pick [to speak Spanish to] the students because they are the ones who get the most affected.”

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MARCH 18, 2020

Name: EduRev HQ: Gurgaon, India Founded: 2017 This startup aims to help students in India between 15 and 23 years old study for a variety of entrance and occupational exams. Now, he leads the team at Pahamify , which provides an app for college entrance exam test prep for students in Indonesia.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. While the content of the course has changed almost completely since I took it 40 years ago, in my opinion it is still way too based on memorizing dozens of formulas for the exams.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. Earlier this year, she was supposed to take an exam. She never took the exam. Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far. You can find the full report here , and a snapshot of highlights below. Want to know more about what these students had to say?

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JUNE 8, 2022

This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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APRIL 19, 2017

stammered Estrada, a native Spanish-speaking sophomore from Yes Prep High School in Texas. “My Estrada fell for a girl who only spoke English his freshman year in high school but refused to let a language barrier divide them. National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exams. “There was this girl.,”

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. These days more four-year colleges are dropping their SAT and ACT requirements. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. The new course “is convincing a lot of my kids to pursue computer science degrees,” according to Art Lopez, an Advanced Placement teacher at Sweetwater High School in National City, Calif. “I

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

My son's high school is obsessed with getting us to check Canvas, which is [the learning management system] they use, and it's where all the assignments are. Kids shouldn't be able to during the school day, if you're sitting in one class and you can get your grades in another class. How do you mean?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

1 tool students use to study for the college entrance exam, according to the College Board. Fee waivers allow low-income students to request that their fees—on things like college entrance exams and college admissions applications—be excused. What the College Board uses now is a “virtual easy pass,” Singer explains.

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JULY 25, 2016

Back in 1988, the College Board offered high schools two options for AP computer science courses: AP Computer Science A, which covered one college semester’s worth of learning a programming language (first Pascal, then C++ and now Java), and AP Computer Science AB, which covered two semesters.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Students know that a lot is riding on state exams, and inevitably, students who experience test anxiety feel the extreme pressure to do well. This blog post highlights three easy tips that can help you boost your school culture during test time, so all the hard work and energy pay off. How do you take the fear out of testing day?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That meant early-morning bus rides to school, loads of after-school classes, and by high school, spending 12 hours a day on coursework. Xu grew up in northwestern China, and the reason for all that studying was a high-stakes test called the Gaokao, a nationwide college-entrance exam. The Gaokao ? Yeah, yeah.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

It’s a question I often ask myself and educators in my professional network. In fact, this question has become the cornerstone of my personal educational philosophy, and a guiding principle for my team of high school social studies educators at Fairfax County Public Schools. They shouldn’t.

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JULY 22, 2019

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. In 2013, among B.S.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. . At Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C.,

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Although it’s true that the law requires this kind of assistive technology at some schools, I believe ASR is now more than just assistive technology; it’s on its way to becoming foundational educational technology for all students. Source: Echo360.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Education is serious business in Japan. 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.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

The demands of raising her daughter made it challenging for Terrero, who has a high school education, to find stable work that fit her child care schedule. She worked part time at a beauty salon for awhile, but her child care needs were too high, so she had to quit her job and was unemployed.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

As a high school student in Louisiana, he spent hour upon hour practicing SAT questions through the Princeton Review and official practice exams. So it is with some authority that he sings the praises of adaptive test prep technology. The game has totally changed since I was in high school,” he says.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. My students were labeled “at-risk” of dropping out because they were 16-21 years old and previously unsuccessful in high school.

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