Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. 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. Do you really want to relive middle school?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Of the district’s 230 schools, 36 expressed interest in being a test school, eight participated in the pilot and five ultimately received funding and support to launch the wall-to-wall model in Fall 2015. Students at Dan D.

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Learning Math Elementary School Elementary School 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school. But after doing poorly on a math placement exam in middle school, he was placed in a math class for students with learning disabilities.

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Math English Learning Disabilities Disabilities 178

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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Counselling Middle School Middle School Testing 213

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. Seeing my own creation is cool.”

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Schools Science Middle School Middle School 166

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . Formative Assessments and Student Data Are Pathways to Adaptive Learning.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. We’re going to go from the bottom to the top.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

He can take his Praxis exam as soon as this summer and begin looking for a full-time teaching position in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he grew up and currently lives with his wife and six children. One of our kids attends the school that I work at. Three of them are at an elementary school nearby.

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Teachers High School High School Motivation 159

EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For more information on equitable grading systems, see our Standards-Based Learning at Middle Schools and Competency-Based Grading in High Schools research briefs. 7% Parents: 6% Strategic planning: 6% School configuration: 5% Classroom setting: 4.5% Other (e.g., PE, science): 7.5% cell phone policies, dress code, etc.):

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Disabilities English Languages Language 52

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

The education sector was squarely in the middle of China’s fight against COVID and the after effects continue to be felt: In early April, the government announced it would delay important exams, including the gaokao , the university entrance exam in China. Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, was locked down on January 23.

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