eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

When Isaac Goyette joined MCSD approximately seven years ago, he saw an opportunity to use his role as Coordinator of Information Technology to make a positive impact on the most important mission of any district: student learning. Goyette’s innovative leadership extends to his strategies for integrating technology in the district.

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MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. Students in these courses enroll in college at higher rates, according to the study.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

This study is the first to investigate the impact of Core5 at scale in California schools,” said Lexia President Nick Gaehde. Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year. “Our points higher than their peers at the non-Core5 schools.

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JUNE 18, 2025

Leigh Arnold, an educational technology specialist from the School District of Palm Beach County, noted that “students enjoyed the opportunity to participate in something they love, while educators were thrilled to see them demonstrate their knowledge through creative builds and presentations.” Focus on teacher support.

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JULY 9, 2025

One time, I planned a novel study around a book my students selected, but I was forced by an administrator to trade it in for standardized test prep. We had taken their interests seriously and made room in the school experience to study a topic of their choice. The results were joyful, a little messy, but entirely theirs.

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JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Understanding these dynamics could reshape your perspective on what effective education looks like today. The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S.

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JULY 16, 2025

A 2019 study by the Library Research Service found that predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more annually than predominantly nonwhite districts, despite serving the same number of students. Local property taxes remain the primary driver of school funding in many states.

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JUNE 3, 2025

Many youth report battling feelings of depression and anxiety, and physical issues such as eating disorders and drug use, according to the Common Sense Media study. I think that really shows that our school counselors often arent allowed to do their true role.

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JUNE 11, 2025

The Creativity Challenge in Computer Science Education Creativity often declines as students progress through school. A 2021 OECD study found that 15-year-olds consistently show lower levels of creativity and curiosity than 10-year-olds globally.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2025

A new study shows trust is the most important factor for parents when choosing child care, with many leaning toward at-home programs or relying on their families, friends and neighbors. Trust was the top priority, according to the study, followed by affordability, availability, location and hours.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2025

The study surveyed nearly 1,400 teen-parent pairs during the fall of 2024. New data from the Pew Research Center shows that nearly half of Gen Z teens say social media harms people their age , and roughly the same share say they spend too much time scrolling. They asked their parents, too.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

“I think Montessori has been around for a very long time, and there have been all kinds of waxes and wanes, with generations discovering Montessori again and again for very different ideas,” Mira Debs, director of education studies at Yale University, says. “As Lillard, who studied play and cognition during her Ph.D.

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MAY 30, 2025

Fulfilled and Frazzled Katharine Strunk, dean of the University of Pennsylvanias Graduate College of Education, wasnt surprised by the studys findings about teachers feeling toward their workplace versus their workload.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

The majority (92 percent) of educational agencies, including elementary schools, say they have enough teachers to staff transitional kindergarten classrooms, according to a report from the Learning Policy Institute, a nonprofit focused on K-12 education policy.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2025

The National Institute for Early Education Research, also known as NIEER, released its annual State of Preschool Yearbook report that details enrollment and spending in state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. The study surveyed preschool administrators across 50 states and the District of Columbia, along with U.S.

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Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

Instead of forming a study group, students can ask AI for help. Julia Freeland-Fisher studies how technology can help or hinder student success at the Clayton Christensen Institute. Alba, 20, attends College of the Canyons, a large community college north of Los Angeles, where he is studying business and history.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Image courtesy of LYLA IN THE LOOP™ / © 2023 Mighty Picnic LLC PBS works with advisers — ranging from educational researchers to psychologists — who create a framework of learning goals based on studies and topics that are age-appropriate for children. A 2015 study showed children who watched “Super Why!”

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2025

The study also found listening to podcasts with family members can boost intergenerational learning, spurring conversations with family members that can further help children’s overall development. “If It feels like it's enabling your creative brain to play.”

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2025

Four in 10 families are experiencing material hardship , according to the study, and over a third of kids aged 0 to 5 show frequently fussy or defiant behavior. This is not a research study that happened three years ago where conditions were different. Just under a quarter show anxious or fearful behavior. It’s real-time data.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

In the fall of 2022, the university, as part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, received a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of the technology on diagnosing and treating speech problems in children.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. Research shows that children who are chronically absent from preschool through second grade are more likely to be reading below grade level by third grade.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A study published in the journal AERA Open found that students earn better marks in college STEM courses when those classrooms have higher percentages of students who are underrepresented racial minorities or the first in their families to participate in higher education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It's a very quantitative perspective to think that just having more participants automatically makes the study better — and that's not necessarily true,” says Andrew Gillen, an assistant teaching professor in the first-year engineering program at Northeastern University.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Edtech is the combination of IT tools and educational practices aimed at facilitating scalable individualized learning. It comprises the whole world of computer-aided education and training, along with the use of digital tools and resources. There are numerous advantages to educational technology.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

For centuries, education has been confined to the walls of schools, colleges, and institutions. Enter the education technology (edtech) boom since 2020 and the very ideology around teaching and learning has been revolutionized. Edtech has completely redefined how knowledge is imparted and how skills are acquired.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As educators and leaders in education technology, it is our responsibility to work on building hybrid solutions to bridge the gaps students are facing. Providing the right education support. Here are some of the most immediate ways we can begin to tackle the COVID slide: 1.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

How access to technology can create equity in schools The latest iteration of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) addresses technology equity in the classroom and takes aim at several obstacles limiting edtech’s ability to transform teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Technologies such as augmented reality (AR) have already proven themselves catalysts for learning, rather than the distractions that many organizations and schools tend to perceive them as. Gen-Z school students recognize the positive impact of advanced technologies in their educational experience.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Enhancing IEP goal progress with data-driven insights using technology: There are a variety of learning platforms that can monitor a students performance in real-time, tailoring to their individual needs and intervening areas for improvement. This study mentions that the ReadWorks program, used for progress monitoring IEP goals, has 1.2

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

. – June 16, 2022 – Gale , part of Cengage Group, is thrilled to announce that its Political Extremism and Radicalism series has been named the best Library Reference or Educational Database of 2022 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. For more information on the Political Extremism and Radicalism series, visit its webpage.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A new impact study at Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) found that students in grades 6 to 8 who used Speak Agent Math+Language outperformed their peers who did not use the program. This is the first large-scale study to find a positive, independent effect at a 99.9% ”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Whether it’s homework help or a study session, students pair up with their private tutor for a personalized 1-on-1 lesson in the advanced lesson space. Each session is archived, so students can conveniently access past lessons to help them with coursework and studying. To learn more, visit www.tutorme.com. About Zovio.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – The personalized literacy solution Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) from Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has received the highest rating of Tier 1 from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE). BOSTON (Feb. The Tier 1 rating means that the LDOE has designated Core5 as “exemplifying quality.”

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