eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Both tests were given on computer to every student in grades three through eight plus high school juniors. Smarter Balanced, by contrast, required students to manipulate some shapes and objects with a computer mouse and to type in some of their own answers, including numbers, phrases, sentences and whole essays.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 124

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. When he transitioned his high school classroom in Phoenix to distance learning, Neal was already using ClassDojo as a way to track positive behaviors.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Our English programs are often centered around what we deem worthy—classic, can’t-leave-high-school-without-reading titles. In elementary school, we often insist that students have a chapter book with them at all times.

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Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. This is a fair criticism.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The era of trying to measure aptitude is finally over,” wrote the College Board’s president, David Coleman, in an essay in The Atlantic earlier this summer, referring to the version of the test that has been in place since 2014, when the SAT was last revised. I didn’t know how to say it. I wasn’t comfortable with that until I was 35.

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Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 160

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

And one of the reasons we decided to create the edge is we felt that students in their middle and high school years did not really feel those skills were learnable. Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always. Not making his high school basketball team and the cool thing is the video format.

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Essay Skills Curriculum Communication 153

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. So when they experience success, it really motivates them to continue. Chaidez wants to go further.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 95

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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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. And so then I moved to a comprehensive high school with a really, Dr. Brandee Ramirez Dr. Brandee Ramirez A major need for intervention. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing?

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. The Power of Personal Essays for Online Students Perhaps the biggest tool in an online student’s arsenal is the college essay.

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Essay Students Testing Participation 52

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So before I came to Let's Get Ready, I've worked with a number of community-based organizations to directly support high school students on their post-secondary planning, and I actually started my work at Let's Get Ready in our direct student work as well. So I think it's a fair question that many people have.

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Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

EAB

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To recap some basics, on October 31 the Supreme Court heard arguments related to lawsuits that Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, in connection with these institutions’ race-conscious admissions practices. The situation in brief. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. October 18, 2022.

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Discussions Counselling Art Essay 52

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And a significant portion of my work revolves around engaging these institutions and being more effective in terms of, one, recruiting these students, but also marketing to the community’s organizations, the advocates, the advisors, the counselors, high school teachers who might be also engaged in this work, too. But Penn is hard.

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Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. XQ Institute, which is partnering with the Carnegie Foundation and whose CEO sits on the foundation’s board , recently notched a victory in Rhode Island by eliminating school seat time requirements.

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Skills Learning Testing High School 217

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. If the essay also seems to conjure up android instructors who chat cheerfully about philosophy, well now you’re thinking like Billy—as friends, and Maria Bot, call Barry. Maria Bot agrees. “I

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. On the other hand, only one-fourth (25%) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 48% trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools. Virgin Islands.

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Middle School Middle School Education STEM 143

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Take grammar: Many students come into my classroom unable to tell me what a predicate or preposition is, and yet they are able to intuitively use both in the production of wonderful stories and essays. I can recall hating trigonometry in high school because I was bad at it and math largely made sense up to that point.

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