Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2021

Two elementary schools currently offer full dual immersion in English/Spanish to kindergarteners and first graders. ( More than 27,000 students attend 34 schools in the district including traditional high schools, alternative high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, and 16 preschools, including a federally funded Head Start program.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You must have enough teachers, the right technology, and lessons that infuse STEM into all classes including history and English/language arts, just to name a few. But what about when you’re teaching English or social studies? Best practices for a running a successful STEM school Running a STEM-focused school can have its challenges.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With demonstrated effectiveness with special populations, CogAT is uniquely positioned to meet the ADE’s requirements, supporting all learners including students with a disability or students acquiring the English language.

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Grades Fairness Disabilities Education 246

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

…It is essential to ensure that tests are fair, are of high quality, take up the minimum necessary time, and reflect the expectation that students will be prepared for success in college and careers,” according to an Oct. Fair–and supportive of fairness–in equity in educational opportunity. Worth taking.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. Longfellow Middle School students are using green screen technology to transport themselves and their classmates to new worlds of learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

First, rarely are they appropriate for students with limited English proficiency, or any speakers of dialects other than General American English. Disaggregate data to shift the focus from the average student to every student From an equity lens, norm referenced tests—essentially all standardized tests—are particularly problematic.

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Education Testing Feedback English 296

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and more than half of students are learning English. The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math.

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Schools Math English Reading 285

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

“Students shouldn’t just be hearing about these pathways at career fairs, but at multiple points throughout the curriculum.”. Whether you’re going to major in English or engineering, you’re eventually going to start a career,” Janda says.

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High School High School Fairness Schools 203

Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

The “think” step gives introverted students or English language learners time to gather their thoughts, while the “pair” stage gives students a low-key way to talk through their ideas and see if they make sense before sharing them with the whole group. Think-Pair-Share levels the playing field.

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Fairness Social Studies Questions Science 77

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the time, I could not speak English, so it was easy for me to be overlooked by my peers and teachers. For this reason, it is important to review and ensure that hiring practices are fair, reasonable and equitable. It was such a challenge to not be able to communicate and relate to anyone.

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Education Fairness Schools Language 213

eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

The elementary English teacher who is using a blended learning approach in her classroom, for example, has come to rely on that cart of fully-charged iPads or Chromebooks that’s rolled into her classroom at 8 a.m., Unfortunately, a lot can go wrong between the time those devices were last used and the English teacher’s first class.

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Mobile Devices Fairness Instructors English 151

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

Errors, along with a plain English explanation of how to fix them, are presented to users. We took on an initiative, working with the Michigan Educational Technology Leaders (METL), trying to get our hands wrapped around data governance, and that’s like a greased pig at the county fair,” Sharpsteen said.

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Fairness English Motivation Evaluation 260

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Available for free in English, Spanish and Arabic, these guides provide background resources, scaffolded interactive activities and related extensions that can be used by teachers across grades and content areas to teach about the development, application and impact of AI technologies.

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Ethics Intelligence Education Plagiarism 217

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. that would use a technology-based language development and literacy program to English language learners (ELLs) in grades K-6.Approximately

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Teaching Exams Disabilities Learning 177

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teachers want fair funding for all schools. We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). It’s time to return the education field to the educators. What do teachers want?

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Teachers Schools Disabilities Fairness 215

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

It started with an underwhelming science fair—the type we’re all familiar with: students standing next to handmade posters, listlessly describing their projects, usually alone. She took on the role despite her lack of engineering experience, but it turned out that her English Language Arts background came in handy. Make it cheap.

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Art Languages Language STEM 161

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Hybrid Courses Languages Language English 83

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

This is why youll see many of these books available in online book fairs, through vendors and bookstores, and in a basket next to the potty.

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Reading Fairness History English 217

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

For example, our last school comprised a mix of English and Spanish speaking families, as well as some from Yemen. We coordinate a lot of different training sessions across our many different platforms, and support principals during staff meetings and on professional development days.

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Communication Schools Fairness Languages 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2021

From the perspective of teaching school kids to code, SQL has the upper hand over many of its counterparts in that the syntax involved is comparatively straightforward, relying on common English words and phrases to formulate queries which can be interpreted logically both by human users and by database systems which rely on it.

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Teaching Language Languages Schools 171

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

This year, a seventh grade English class designed games to highlight the theme in “The Giver” and a second grade class built gingerbread models of Chicago landmarks for an interdisciplinary math and social studies unit. Teachers can bring their classes to visit and use the space to enhance their lessons.

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Fairness Confidentiality Students Interdisciplinary 163

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

The English language arts department debuted its curriculum in the 2015-16 school year, and the math, science and social studies departments will introduce curricula during each consecutive school year. The Pennsylvania Legislature is joining the U.S.

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Textbooks Fairness Social Studies Math 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Soon after, I fell in love with education by volunteering to teach English as a Second Language outside my classes. Due to my background in engineering, I was selected for a physics teaching credential program instead of my first choice of English. Specifically, I asked, “Can cell phones cause cancer?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

At a city-sponsored early childhood education fair where we met, mental health resources, classes, and after-school programs were on display for enrollment. For parents whose native language is not English, these gradient scales are also more useful: parents themselves may be learning to translate the terms on their students’ report cards.

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Grades Fairness Language Languages 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Since he now had the opportunity to manage his own time, Ratnam had the chance to drive his children to school and after-school activities, working with their school’s PTA, volunteering for the science fair and helping with homework every evening. Ratnam did his best to explain the word and they moved on.

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Languages Language Assignments Reading 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention,” says Ballone, a former seventh-grade English teacher. “It This philosophy does not provide equity and fairness. We have shared the responsibility across many disciplines, not just the English department. It might mean acceleration or it might mean remediation.

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English Reading Achievement Grades 161

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

Around 6 o’clock on a fall morning in 2018, Jordan sat down at her desk, donned her headset, and logged in to her account with VIPKid , a Beijing-based company that connects native English-speaking teachers like her with children in China for live, online video lessons. Then the marathon began. billion industry by 2022.

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Teaching English Instructors Culture 167

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

The federal agency is charged with protecting investors and maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets. The report cited a litany of complaints, including content that could not be fully adapted for students with limited English skills, a large group in L.A. Unified acknowledged meeting with an agency attorney.

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Fairness Testing Curriculum Questions 173

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Fourth graders put finishing touches on pamphlets and presentations about how individuals can make a difference in cleaning up our local watershed to share at their River Fair. We always start with the content defined by our state standards in science, social studies, and English language arts.

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Fairness Students Knowledge Science 150

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

English teacher Alice Chen creates separate Docs for each of her students, then uses the extension to populate it with a rubric created in Google Forms. In all fairness, it was pretty sweet. Read Aloud is a rather self-explanatory extension for listening to websites or text selections in spoken form.

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This scene is the result of a national, coordinated program to provide safe, structured play to students and, in effect, instill in them foundational social-emotional skills such as conflict resolution, fairness, leadership and communication. For Chappell, the answer might just be yes.

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Coaching Fairness Elementary School Elementary School 159

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. Note that these tools are notoriously unreliable, inaccurate, and biased against non-native English speakers and students with disabilities; Liang et al.,

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

One year, I had a new student from Sweden who didn’t speak English. All of the blocks, dinosaurs, paints, puppets and dominoes the class hadn’t had time to explore were now fair game. Recognizing the hurt she caused just by looking at his face, she immediately responded with, “I’m sorry. Can I help you rebuild it?”.

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Testing Fairness Language Languages 218

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school. A new survey reveals discontent with length, logistics.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Which ones are getting more than their fair share of district funds but producing below-average outcomes? Discrepancies in school spending may also be explained by other factors, such as the number of students who are English Language Learners or have special needs.

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Science Fairness English Attention 149

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2019

Despite these benefits, many districts’ infrastructures do not meet the standards of the Federal Trade Commission’s Principles of Fair Information Practice , which outline best practices to ensure student privacy and protection. by Katelyn Sweeney. Katelyn has a degree in Childhood and Adolescent Education.

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