eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Most of these homes don’t have internet, so now you have another problem, because it’s very expensive. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. We’re still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Most of these homes dont have internet, so now you have another problem, because its very expensive. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. Were still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This would not be possible without the efforts of our Information Technology Department successfully providing all of our students with Chromebooks and internet access during the pandemic shutdown. All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. Ronald Taylor, Superintendent of the Schools of South Orange and Maplewood.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of services, including math, science, reading, writing assistance, and college prep, all available online from anywhere with an internet connection. Skill-Building Tools Practice tests, lessons, and study guides tailored to individual learning needs.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. Students often came into my program from all over the world with limited English language skills in their late teens, which makes them at risk for aging out of earning a traditional high school diploma.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2019

Of our 30,000 students, 34 percent are English learners (EL), and 52 percent are students living in poverty. Prior to rolling out our implementation plan, we engaged researchers from Rutgers University to conduct a study on internet access in our communities living in poverty. We’re located approximately five miles from the U.S.-Mexico

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2015

Many Americans, especially public-school parents, give low marks to rating a teacher based partly on how students perform on standardized tests, according to a survey. The Gallup Poll released Sunday found 55 percent opposed linking teacher evaluations to their students’ test scores.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Tests were administered via digital devices (though there are options for paper-and-pencil). Besides measuring student achievement, they also were an indicator of school facility to administer green digital tests instead of the traditional paper-and-pencil versions. This includes the safe and effective use of the internet.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Studies show that the pandemic caused a drop in test scores in reading and math, with the students who were already struggling showing the largest declines. But educators disagree about how they should respond.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2019

The system is fast, reliable, and flexible (students register from anywhere they have internet access), and it lists graduation requirements during registration. Next week: See how a high school English teacher turned around students’ confidence and test scores.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Some had tested positive for COVID-19, or had a parent in the hospital, or were paying out of pocket for school because there was some glitch with their FAFSA, or their internet was slow. When 9/11 happened, my high school English teacher stopped our normal routine, rolled in a TV set, and turned it on.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

With price packages that range from from 499 rupees (about $7) a month to 1,499 rupees (about $20) for two years, EduRev offers videos, notes and practice tests on subjects that range from business and programming to engineering and economics. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2020

Back then, the company specialized in standardized test prep. Adding to his troubles, Bigai lacked proficiency in English. His own lessons around that time with an English tutor inspired him to switch his company to language learning. But English is the most common language studied by 40 percent of all Preply learners.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy. The institution’s digital literacy specialist, Don Michael, says he would like to be able to test all students on digital skills before they enter college, and provide extra attention to those who need it.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Currently, Roybi has about 500 lessons, stories and songs, promising to introduce children in school or at home to over 70,000 words in English, Spanish and Chinese. Such features in other internet-connected devices that can record children have proven controversial in the past. The company did not disclose their names.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

More than half of the student population is Latino, and many of these students come from poor households where English isn’t spoken. This gap is even wider when students grow up in non-English speaking households. The product features interactive books that can “read themselves” to children in English or Spanish, Nemko said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. This is my third year teaching at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

That means a math teacher can group all activities related to fractions, or an English teacher can post recurring assignments in just one place (instead of having to post to the stream every time). Chromebooks are very much used for testing,” Yeskel notes, “and what I think is powerful is that this [new feature] puts the teachers in control.”

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

How do you extrapolate that to the to the to the Internet? Part of it is the pandemic spurred a lot more adoption of computers, laptops, better Internet bandwidth, all those pieces. If it doesn’t already exist, we’re not far from being able to say OK, now give me a version of that course for an English language learner.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2021

Below are the top reasons why kids should learn Python: Ease of Learning : Boasting a syntax that is very similar to that of English, Python is easy to learn, especially when compared to most other programming languages. Students even get a free trial to test the quality of lessons before they join the program.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If your product or services can easily pivot to English-teaching or improving students’ readiness for standardized tests, then Asia may provide a big potential market Back home, I’m a Chicago teacher, but I spend my summers consulting with edtech companies in Asia. ThinkCERCA is definitely not the first U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. Millions of students take English lessons online now, and I’d like to think at least some ESL companies are doing good work, though the extent of their impact still remains to be seen.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Imagine a classroom with students deeply engaged in their lessons, eagerly solving math problems and exploring English skills through fun digital games. Students using Prodigy Math or Prodigy English enjoy the storyline and get excited about the learning content. Prodigy conducted two studies that are relevant here. Last year, over 3.6

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

With virtual learning a reality for many families for the rest of the school year, the Learning at Home Center is an educational and fun supplement that features daily activities, printable worksheets, test prep quizzes, videos, and book vocabulary lists. Written by the Dictionary.com editors with the help of educators from around the U.S.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

We know our students will be tested on the knowledge that we’ve been trusted to impart to them. Our livelihoods directly depend on whether or not they will excel at the resulting tests. There isn’t room in our workdays to deviate far from the material that will be covered on the tests. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

We also know that prioritizing underserved students means better literacy tools that support ELL students, which requires more internet access for students.”. To build a stronger infrastructure and get to better internet access, the district needed a strong team of decision-makers, so the story of Renton really starts with its people.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Years before phrases like “fake news” and “alternative facts” made their way into the English lexicon, Alan Miller realized that a time was coming when the truth would need defending. The journalists were one part of that. (A One of the things students like the best about Checkology is it’s real world,” Miller says. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Jenny Billings, Chair of Curriculum English, Developmental Reading, and English and Study skills at Rowan Cabarrus Community College (RCCC) in Salisbury, NC, jumped at the chance to spearhead an e-textbook initiative when the college’s Vice Principal approached her with the idea in 2012. That’s when I knew we had truly succeeded.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

I think we were hoping to see, or were curious to see, if districts would say, ‘This is where we can test out a blended model,’” says Gill, referring to the mix of online and in-person instruction that might become necessary as COVID-19 infections continue. Obviously the small groups are certainly helpful given social distancing guidelines.”

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

K-12 schools are Chromebooks, and now NComputing Chromebooks – with the vSpace client – provides easy, multi-user access to the Windows, Java or Silverlight applications often necessary for learning and testing applications. Young Song, NComputing CEO, explains: “Our U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We still do not have a coherent national approach to rapid-results testing. What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. That is incredibly frustrating. Those should be available to everyone.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Her perseverance has expanded healthcare access for students, and she has demonstrated what it means to be a leader in K-12 education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Just as the technological revolution of the printing press democratized the authorship and distribution of books, so too does social media and the internet allow for more voices to be heard and for a wide variety of authors—including our students—to connect with audiences around the world. engagement and passion.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Suguey created a skill that allows English and Spanish-speaking immigrants to get answers to questions related to their rights. If you want to ask Alexa to do specific things, such as power on your Xbox or order a pizza, your Alexa has to have that “skill.” For example, users may ask Alexa, “Am I allowed to get my driver’s license?”

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

There you're trying to meet the needs of everyone in the classroom and meet guidelines and expectations, and you want to have high test scores. LaShundra Wigfall Instagram: @Teacher_Chronicles Facebook What are some of the challenges of teaching English online? Perform an Internet connection test and receive system training.

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