eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. not noticeable overtly).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

.” Peres, an advocate for student-led initiatives, has played an instrumental role in establishing and developing two student stores that provide clothing and other branded items to the high school, middle and elementary schools within the district.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In addition, the pressure to learn math creates anxiety for students, parents, and even teachers, according to research , where almost 50% of elementary school students , 20% of U.S. The games are not perceived as a task or test that puts students in direct competition with peers, too.”. Games Help Alleviate Math Anxiety.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. Cofounder Byju Raveendran built a reputation as a compelling and successful tutor, helping students gear up to take India’s Common Admission Test, the entrance exam for the country’s top graduate management schools.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. EdSurge: How has your experience with AI Explorations impacted your practice?

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Test: Go back to your humans to test them out. Bring back some feedback, and continue iterating on your point of view and testing your ideas until you’ve got something that really addresses the need. Ideate: Think of as many possible ways to address these needs. Prototype: Build some representations of your potential solutions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

The Source of Teachers’ Concerns Years ago, I learned about artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in student writing in an online forum for English teachers. Teachers tested prompt after prompt, and while the essays ChatGPT spit out weren’t exemplary, it was human enough for students to pass the work off as their own.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

In her remarks, Chan mentioned Nottingham Elementary School , which closed for nearly four weeks after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but invested in mental wellness and belonging in its recovery, and later saw test scores rise. It’s not always an easy task to develop a successful digital tool that aids social-emotional growth.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Halloween is a big deal at my school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Students can start as early as upper elementary school with programs like Ozaria , a narrative adventure game that sets a foundation of core computer science (CS) concepts. Players then run test matches against competitors, allowing the AI to simulate hundreds of asynchronous battles on the global leaderboard in seconds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. When the reader skips a word, or mispronounces it, Amira displays the kind of dispassionate instruction that only artificially created avatars can.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The following stories offer a glimpse into how teachers, school leaders and researchers are using what we know about how people learn to improve schools and student outcomes that go beyond test scores, such as suspension rates and even the number of hours kids sleep at night.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024.

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k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Students recently programmed the schools 3D printer to craft ornaments for the Christmas treea delightful blend of tech and tradition. Through a thoughtful blend of academic rigor, emotional intelligence, and cutting-edge tech, St. Service, Leadership, and Growing Hearts At St.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

When students have underqualified teachers or full-time substitutes , they’re more likely to experience learning delays, low graduation rates, and test scores below grade level. Falling reading levels, staff shortages, and a lack of quality teaching are all more likely to affect poorer school districts.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

7% Parents: 6% Strategic planning: 6% School configuration: 5% Classroom setting: 4.5% Exams and testing: 4% Grading practices (as a district policy): 3% School closure/merger: 3% #3: People management Following in a distant third among our most requested topics, people management questions comprised 14% of this year’s AskEAB requests.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2020

He started his career as an elementary school teacher. Then he became a high school guidance counselor and dean of students. After that, he founded his own public middle school in the Bronx and served as its principal for 10 years. So I’ve always fought for and believed in integrated schools because of my experiences.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The campus technology people, the assistant principals, school staff, it’s been a big task. His team likes to beta test new technologies to explore the benefits for all of their end users, including security technologies that help keep the district safe. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

To do that, the organization plans to work with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the folks behind standardized tests including the GRE and the Praxis — to create new tools designed to assess what students are able to do, not how much time they spent studying to do it. Embracing Flexibility?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

What we know is that these jobs will heavily involve coding, artificial intelligence and iterating on user experiences. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are constantly being written, tested, surveyed and changed. Claire Cummings is a third grade teacher at Lomie Heard Elementary School, a Marzano Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

All of this effort may get schools to the starting line in the short-term, but schools need to be thinking about the long-term, too. Schools will never return to business as usual,” predicts futurist Andrea Saveri. Every Friday, Lab School educators hold a Zoom space for sharing and processing.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2017

For the past six and half years, she has led DreamBox Learning , growing the company from a startup into one of the leading providers of online math tools for elementary school children. Tell us about an idea that you pressure tested at DreamBox that didn't hold up. It's hard to figure out how to sell to schools and districts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Starting in elementary school, roughly half of the program’s students would be native Spanish speakers and the other half native English speakers. In your view, do schools or teachers see themselves as having a role in this kind of critical thinking about race and how they shape it? In terms of its history.

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