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MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

The app offers a personalized feed of entertaining and educational videos, images, questions, and memes, ensuring that students remain engaged while mastering the material. All TeachTap course material is trained on the exact curriculum set by the College Board and Common Core educational standards.

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APRIL 24, 2025

Since Zoomers began to reach age 16 in 2013, the rate of students who drop out of high school has fallen to its lowest level and remained steady at 4 percent. For millennials, about 11 percent of people ages 16 to 19 left school without a degree.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Each judge scored the products on a numeric basis from 1-10, based on a series of questions regarding functionality, value, customer service experience and overall satisfaction. MLA judge Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School (platinum award) : A 21.5-credit, It has so many resources and the patrons love it!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Megan Schlagel, a high school math teacher in St. Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colo., is an award-winning educator who is dedicated to the continuous improvement of her teaching practices. Professional development needs to be relevant, engaging, and personalized.

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MAY 27, 2025

Addressing Systemic Challenges and Supporting Educator Sustainability Last but not least, educators were not only adamant about the systemic challenges of K-12 education, but also expressed ways schools and districts can work to better support the retention of educators in our schools.

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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. With the rise of AI comes AR/VR.

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MAY 30, 2025

Part of that may be the ambiguity of the question, and this is a time where we see ESSER dollars have been running out, she says of fall 2024 when the data was collected. Strunk was intrigued by the researchs companion report on Gen Zers, particularly the finding on what students said made school interesting.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But what is this topic exactly and why is it important for moving education forward? During the November 2024 meeting of CoSNs EdTech Innovation Committee , participants were asked those same questions, and shared their perspectives on what educators should do about the topic. Read on for 10 key takeaways from the discussion.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Online high schools were a growing trend even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and some online schools were beginning to have a global reach. Now that the whole world has been forced to experiment more with online delivery, where does that leave the international market for online education at the K-12 level?

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

With this exceptionally valuable resource, educators get to learn about AI, by engaging with AI in a demystified manner. The course deeply addresses the question of the ethical and responsible use of AI within our world.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class. Let’s take a trip back to high school. I’m paying attention.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

1 story was about how to provide adequate education to those who cant view screens. Many of the top stories raise fundamental questions about higher education. And when did so many high school students start taking community college courses (and what does that mean for college access)? But the No.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In her latest film, “Bird Woman: Sacagawea,” viewers not only watch the story of Sacagawea — the young woman from the Soshone tribe who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition back in 1804 — they can chat with her and ask questions about her life. That's why gaming became such a big genre, is because you're in it.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. zSpace, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As a result, there’s a significant gap between students’ soft skill attainment as they leave high school and what’s needed to be successful in the workforce and as happy contributors to society. Why is Career and Technical Education particularly well-suited for developing soft skills?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them. There’s no question that schools must equitably provide support to struggling students.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The question for the adults who care about girls like Sailor, Woods says, then becomes: How do we sustain that interest? While women are not just outpacing men in degrees — girls are doing better academically and completing high school on time more frequently than boys — the push for parity has been moving at a glacial pace in STEM.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

The premise of “free college” programs popping up around the country in recent years is that bringing the price of higher education down to nearly nothing will spur more students to enroll and earn degrees. That can be a lot to ask a 17- or 18-year-old finishing high school to navigate. “We But is that what actually happens?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

That’s in part because the framework prioritized alternatives to calculus and also recommended delaying Algebra I, an onramp course to high school math and a critical juncture in the race to calculus, until ninth grade for most students. The students, broken up into groups around tables, considered the question.

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JUNE 17, 2024

In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It It actually was such a frequent comment that I started asking the question if teachers didn’t bring it up,” Picou says. “We

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At an information session about applying to college held at Central High School at the start of this school year, students listened as Tory Park, a career and college readiness coordinator, gave advice on how to narrow down a list of where to apply. PAUL, Minn. — I’ll probably just do it for my parents’ sake.”

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

In our survey, we asked educators to identify the skills and concepts they taught using instructional technology and over 30 percent of respondents named problem-solving, collaboration, and/or perseverance. They’re going ahead and using Drive not just to organize themselves, but to collaborate with other students.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. Students learned the answer to that last question this past October. One saved Oli’s number in her phone as “Helpful Education Robot.”

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JULY 24, 2024

Programs at member colleges include hosting summer learning opportunities and on-campus recruitment events for high schoolers, sending more admissions staff out to high schools in small towns, and tapping current college students to serve as peer mentors to freshmen arriving from places with sparse populations or low density.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says.

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JULY 31, 2024

Holding several new books, I was transported back to my high school years, a time before smartphones and social media, when I would cautiously approach the gay and lesbian section of my local bookstore. Then, I ask students the following questions: Who writes the stories? Who is missing from the stories?

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MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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APRIL 30, 2025

Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps?

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the past four years, I’ve come to immensely enjoy this question, both because it seems so urgently important and because it is a stumper. Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions.

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MAY 3, 2021

When Carlo Diy throws out a question to his high school entrepreneurship and marketing students, he steels himself for an uncomfortable few moments ahead. It's just crickets,” says Diy, a second-year teacher at Durham Public Schools in North Carolina. To spark engagement, Diy has had to get creative.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

We regularly poll our students and one question we ask is for them to identify what feels most daunting about the college essay writing process. In response, some colleges have adapted by incorporating supplemental questions designed to allow students to share more about themselves and their lived experiences in essay form.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

The first day of high school is usually filled with icebreakers, like the classic, two truths and a lie. If I had learned in high school what a motor and a generator were, and seen that they are simply wires around magnets, I think I might have chosen to continue in engineering and spent more time loving science instead of hating it.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

And community college enrollment dropped the most from low-income high schools. In reflection of these realities for our nation’s community colleges, now is the time to integrate new ideas , new technologies , new mindsets , and a new commitment toward the removal of every barrier to student success. percentage points to 51.6

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