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JUNE 16, 2025

A Statewide Push for Computer Science To address these challenges and ensure students are well-prepared for both the local and global economies, a partnership of stakeholders developed the Utah Computer Science Education Master Plan in 2019.

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MAY 27, 2025

Advocating for Representation in Education Identity was at the core for many of these fellows, and they sought opportunities to advocate not just for their students identities but also for their surrounding community of parents and alumni. This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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JULY 10, 2025

As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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JUNE 25, 2025

points higher, respectively—on the SBAC Math assessment than students at non-Core5 schools,” said Gaehde. By empowering educators with unparalleled ease of use and the knowledge and tools they need, Lexia helps more students unlock their potential to read, write, and speak with confidence. points and 3.04

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JULY 9, 2025

It seems like luck that I eventually found my way to a lifelong profession as a K-8 educator, which has kept me eager to grow within it, unlike the spin-the-wheel decision-making I had during college. But it didn’t have to be this way.

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APRIL 24, 2025

At the same time Gen Z reached its highest level of children in low-income households, 34 percent of its students reached the proficient designation on the national math assessment the highest rate of students to do so well since 2000 though scores would take a hit from the pandemic after 2019.

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JUNE 13, 2025

Yellow uses may be more of a gray area, such as asking for a step-by-step guide to solve a math problem. A green use may indicate working with AI to brainstorm or develop ideas for an essay. A red use would be inappropriate or unethical, such as asking ChatGPT to write an essay based on an assigned prompt.

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JULY 14, 2025

Five years ago, Alabama's math was literally the worst. On national assessments from 2019, the state was ranked last in the country for math performance. Across the state, only 22 percent of students were proficient in math — a percentage that was lower for Black and low-income students. The turnaround worked. Never Be Prepared?

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MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. Their data show their bets are paying off.

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APRIL 24, 2025

Given persistent teacher workforce shortages and student struggles in math , Holcomb-McCoy says she would like to see additional federal support for training top-notch science, math and technology teachers who can prepare todays students to become tomorrows AI innovators.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Her children were filling out math worksheets before getting to select their own activities. Lillard, who studied play and cognition during her Ph.D. program, eventually sent her own children to a Montessori-branded school — but soon noticed a discrepancy.

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JUNE 9, 2025

The framework was developed with input from district subject matter experts (including computer science, math and science teachers) and external partners.

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JULY 22, 2025

Then, after the “Load Trail” raid, a 2018 workplace raid in Texas, Kirksey noted the rippling effects it had on students: Absenteeism went up, reading and math scores went down and more students left the area.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Here’s some of what we saw: Math. Math games have grown by leaps in the past six years. Among those at this year’s Expo: Researchers at the University of Oregon showed off Numbershire and KinderTek , two math games for young children that teach foundational skills with illustrations and evidence-based practices.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. People often joke about being bad at math, but they often do that with writing as well,” observes Murphy.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Another 25 percent will go towards what Gates called “big bets—innovations with the potential to change the trajectory of public education over the next 10 to 15 years.” His examples included support for research into PreK-12 education, math and workforce preparation for high-school students.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Broader Implications Getting a better glimpse into how much students actually use education software can offer clues to a mystery that has long dogged the edtech industry: Does technology actually help kids learn? For example, DreamBox, an online math software, recommends that students in grades 6-8 use it for 60 to 90 minutes a week.

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MAY 28, 2025

Mancuso, superintendent of Eastern York School District , leads a community of 2,300 students across five schools and brings 36 years of public education experience. Ryan, president of McGraw Hill School Group , has spent two decades in education technology and previously worked in education policy and as a U.S.

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JULY 20, 2017

Math Blaster. Ah yes, Math Blaster. 2017 Equivalent: Most adaptative math programs (IXL Math, Khan Academy, DreamBox) have some gamification element. Let the inquiry begin. . 2017 Equivalent: Modern teachers are incorporating multimedia on the daily these days, it seems. Is nothing sacred?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Improving math achievement has long been a sticking point for U.S. Now, one Maryland school district is seeing substantial improvements in grades 6-8 math scores. Students who completed 10 Speak Agent learning activities experienced a 10 percent higher mean score than their peers on the PGCPS Math Benchmark assessments.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, today announced that its blended core Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in a new report published by EdReports.org. Learn more at [link].). ABOUT CARNEGIE LEARNING, INC.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject.

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APRIL 19, 2023

To meet the needs of the district, Carnegie Learning is expanding their offerings in Gadsden ISD with new K-12 math and literacy, SAT and PSAT preparation to their portfolio of services. Carnegie Learning is the leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

4, 2021) — Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has updated its collection of free resources built around Focus Skills and debuted Trip Steps, which identify math skills students tend to stumble over. BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Trip Steps ask students to grasp much more difficult concepts. About Renaissance.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students.

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JULY 19, 2023

Dallas, TX (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Istation, a leader in educational technology, announced today that the West Virginia Department of Education has selected Istation as a K-3 formative assessment for literacy, numeracy, and indicators of dyslexia selection criteria.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Over the last 20 years, I have worked with education technology in many different ways. When I transitioned to a district employee, technology continued to be a part of my job in a different way. As a teacher, I saw how much time it took to search for and learn about new classroom tech.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The integration of digital tools such as interactive software, cloud-based platforms, and adaptive learning systems has shifted traditional educational models towards more personalized, flexible, and engaging learning experiences. One of the primary benefits of education technology in K-12 is its ability to cater to diverse learning styles.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. I mean, its fun!

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MAY 8, 2023

But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. 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. The teachers just expect her to understand the math right away, she says.

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JUNE 5, 2024

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. In addition, students may struggle with more advanced mathematical concepts and problem-solving tasks as they progress in their education.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. I thought so. Probably not.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

That’s stress and anxiety over math. Even before worries mounted over “ learning loss ” and the ongoing youth mental health crisis , researchers observed math anxiety in children as young as 6. We need to think a lot about how we are preparing students to have a positive math attitude.

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