eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. With more than 75 billion questions asked and answered around the world, IXL is helping schools successfully boost student achievement.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Schools can also leverage IXL’s Learn to Read and Reading Intervention skill plans that align perfectly to popular textbooks so educators can steadily and methodically narrow reading gaps. It guides students from simple to complex skills, adapting to individual student needs and offering explicit instruction with real-time feedback.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

English Language Proficiency Standards ( ELPS ) are integrated throughout in a way that requires students to think critically, understand and learn new concepts, process complex academic material, and interact and communicate in English within the science classroom. Chapter introductions provide students with clear learning outcomes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL is used by nearly 40 percent of all K-12 students in Kentucky, accounting for more than 283,000 learners.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

— IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced that the Pennsylvania Evidence Resource Center (ERC) has added IXL Math and IXL English Language Arts (ELA) to its list of evidence-based resources. ” How Pennsylvania educators use IXL’s award-winning platform.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A report released last month by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an international group of 34 partner countries, also raised questions about the effectiveness of technology implementation in schools in general. He said he’s yet to finalize what that agenda will be.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

” This is a critical question that teachers should ask themselves as they design the parts of their lesson. Simply type the question and options you want to appear on the Mentimeter slide and project it. English teachers can ask students to share an image of an annotated poem.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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MAY 3, 2019

Mandarin Chinese is challenging on many levels for English speakers,” says H. To put it another way, to gain the same proficiency level in Spanish would require 24 weeks, according to the FSI, whose website includes Mandarin on its list of “super-hard languages” for native English speakers, along with Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Faculty need to clearly answer these questions in their syllabi so students will know, “here's what you do with this information and here's why it'll matter to you in your class,” she adds.

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MAY 1, 2020

The Content Trap When you look at moving a school online, the first question is often, “What content do we need to make available?” Immediately everybody’s mind goes to uploading chapters of the textbook and worksheets to Google Classroom. If you’re having a math class, posting a silly question like “what is a vampire number?” (yes,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of teachers who relied on curriculum outside of textbooks created their own materials in 2023, and that pattern is likely to continue. Shed be better off with entirely software-directed instruction, not a hybrid.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. How Micro-credentials Support English learners . public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). According to the National Center for Education Statistics , an average of 9 percent of students in U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Units are designed to continually spark curiosity, prompt questions, and offer students opportunities to engage in engineering practices to make sense of the science around them. Active investigation of phenomena which prompts students to ask questions, build models, and develop explanations to generate evidence of sensemaking.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Their approach contrasts with classic reading comprehension questions, which students typically respond to after completing a reading assignment. It is also an opportunity to identify any areas of confusion or questions that still exist.

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APRIL 27, 2023

The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” A startup with offices in New York and São Paulo, Brazil, the company has raised millions of dollars for its adaptive software designed to teach English to people who want to learn it for work.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Before my second year of teaching, my principal suggested that I pilot a class set of 35 Chromebooks in my ninth- and 11th-grade English classes. I set up all students with traditional paper-pencil textbook work on their assigned literary movement.

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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. Why should my students care about it?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many have struggled to transition their business from print to digital. And in reading, we were able to win 56 percent share of the Texas [English Language Arts] adoption. And we asked them four questions. How did the teachers responded to the first question?

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JUNE 16, 2019

Lemma Shomali: Our research tells us that as K-12 education moves away from scripted textbooks, teachers must evaluate digital resources from many sources: the open web, content providers, etc. history students, and I want to insert questions for students to think about while reading. Often, they become overwhelmed by too much content.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

With educators duking it out in the so-called “math wars” over the curriculum changes in California — which recommended delaying algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus in K-12 — the question rose to the fore this year. A professor from Indiana: “I've taught calculus dozens of times, with diverse textbooks, quite successfully.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12. Textbook Alignment Courses.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Slow Growth Amazon would not answer questions about how fast the service is growing. It showed 7,200 results for English Language Arts, and now shows about 8,300. Department of Education challenge called #GoOpen , which encourages replacing commercial textbooks with openly-licensed online materials.

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JULY 8, 2020

Then he checked by discipline, comparing math to science to English/language arts. The trend raises a lot of questions, Seaman says, such as whether OER can follow a similar path in other disciplines, or whether math is somewhat unique. He says it’s not a question he can answer now, but is one he intends to research in the future.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Yet, news literacy is not universally taught, largely because of systemic obstacles: It is not commonly part of curriculum standards, districts tend to focus on standardized testing and STEM, and lessons may be greatly limited or built around a textbook. But these challenges are surmountable. Regardless of state borders, U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. Going back seven or eight years ago, another colleague and I pitched an idea: Why don’t we move away from the standard use of a textbook? That’s a good point. My advice to young teachers is to go for it.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. For others, the new restrictions have so far mostly raised questions. With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

IXL was also chosen because its skills align perfectly to Maryland’s state standards , the district’s Illustrative Mathematics textbooks and the NWEA MAP Growth assessment. With more than 150 billion questions asked and answered around the world, IXL is helping schools and parents successfully boost student achievement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Chalk this up as another trivia question in the category of “Did you know Amplify also provided this?” The California department of education—one of the country’s most influential textbook adoption states—adopted the company’s English and Language Arts curriculum for grades 6 to 8 last year.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Although many educators choose to present the Holocaust through fictional texts taught in English Language Arts classes, we believe that actual stories—found in diaries, letters, eyewitness accounts, and memoirs—do better justice to this complex history.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

For decades, print textbook publishers have owned K-12 distribution channels, usually through fleets of sales representatives that hone relationships with schools and districts. Content may be king. But distribution determines the fate of kingdoms.

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