eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

With kids now learning from home, these resources are aimed at providing both parents and teachers alike with the resources they need to continue schooling remotely. The resources are available on PBS LearningMedia and include educational materials for middle and high school teachers and students.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Perris Union School District in Riverside, Calif., has partnered with Story2 , a company that teaches students to tell their stories out loud and write authentic admission essays, to use the Story2 EssayBuilder Plus platform to improve college access and readiness among its high school students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. He set a high bar for clearly articulated theses, well-structured paragraphs, well-crafted sentences, and supporting quotes from the text.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our school is a five-year program that works to create first-generation college students. North Carolina is a leading state in the number of “early colleges,” which allow students to earn a college degree with their high school diploma. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The initiative, called Genius, Joy and Love: A Focus on Black Students, is the brainchild of Valerie Kinloch, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Students in the inaugural cohort pose for a photo with Pitt School of Education Dean Valerie Kinloch (far left) during the Genius, Joy, and Love Celebration Luncheon on Aug.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a former high school teacher and current content author for AP History and Social Sciences, I’ve learned several key strategies to help your students earn the AP scores they need to assist them in their academic careers—and retain the material that they have learned.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) — TutorMe , an online tutoring solution creating access and opportunity for all students, announces a partnership with Snowline Joint Unified School District (JUSD). This partnership provides high school students in the rural community with accessible tutoring support to meet graduation requirements.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

They want to know exactly how I have managed that as a high school English teacher. If students are working 0n an essay, I dedicate one station each day to providing real-time feedback as they write. Then on the second argumentative essay, I may focus on 1) quality of their evidence and 2) analysis.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2020

Future of School (FoS), a national public charity focused on access to quality public education, today announced its 2020 Student Scholarship Program (SSP) winners. High school graduates from 23 states were awarded this competitive scholarship of up to $10,000 each. However, I can say that my schooling was unaffected.

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Secondary Education Essay Schools Blended Learning 236

eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2021

The number of high school graduates going straight to college decreased by 22 percent this fall , and higher ed lost about 400,000 students in the US. Ivy League schools take pride in their low acceptance rates, and the admissions process demoralizes those students who don’t get selected to their top schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s generally easy to determine if students have used an AI tool to generate a response to a writing assignment or to generate an entire essay. We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

After launching Magnolia High School’s innovative Magnolia Cybersecurity Institute at Anaheim Union High School District, English Teacher Lindsay Paananen soon realized that participating students loved hardcore gaming as much as they loved tech – so much so that it was coming through in their writing.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Infobase, the award-winning provider of digital reference content to the school and library community, today announced that it has created a variety of distance learning packages to help schools, colleges and universities, and public libraries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Together, the companies will offer a comprehensive CCR platform that will support all students, regardless of their preferred path after high school. Today, most high schools and CCR programs are focused primarily on college preparation, despite the U.S. parents want more non-college paths for their high school students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. take practice tests. Freemium, iOS.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

million students on the Paper platform just in time for the 2022-2023 school year. Paper Live will help to address systemic inequities by providing an entertaining, educational after-school activity at no cost to parents. Today’s students take many different paths after high school. Launch your Career with Paper Hired.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Victor Machado, an ESL teacher at East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, won the $10,000 grand prize, along with a schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

The problem is especially challenging for high school teachers, who might have as many as five classes of 30 students each. That’s 150 essays they would have to read and respond to for every writing assignment they give. Revision Assistant isn’t just essay grading software. By that time, the teachable moment is gone.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. Mitchelson says the school hopes to bring that number up to 85 to 90 percent.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Demographics: Hillsboro High School is part of the Hillsboro Independent School District in Hillsboro, Texas. Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Focus on growth, not scores.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The competition is expanding to 27 states for the 2023-2024 school year, tripling its reach from nine states last year. Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Students may apply for the competition here. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating. Guidelines could include what stage of writing an essay students can use AI–for example, using it to brainstorm a topic, conduct research, or to revise a conclusion.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders. Before we usher in the 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows, we want to reflect on the important themes our recent cohort of fellows wrote about in their personal essays.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Agency is a key element in personalizing education, and research has found that students who have agency in their learning are happier in school and more likely to achieve success. Whether they go on to college or begin a career immediately after high school, they will no longer have somebody telling them what to do and when to do it.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” Learn more about the flow of dollars and deals in Chapter 2 of our State of Edtech Report. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. Mitchelson says the school hopes to bring that number up to 85 to 90 percent.

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Essay Languages Language Intelligence 103

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Students of teachers who participated in the Pathway Project, which includes 46 hours of training in the “cognitive strategies” instructional approach, scored higher on an academic writing assessment and had higher pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam than students whose teachers did not receive the training.

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Writing Exams Essay Students 210

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? But that’s only a risk if schools and teachers hold a low bar for what they expect of their students. Just as the internet revolutionized learning, AI will be the next game-changer. Now prove me wrong.”

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 304

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.” Third, school districts could consider teacher motivations as part of their hiring process.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. Now I can make this a reality as district administrator for social emotional learning (SEL) for the Windsor Public Schools. Then Dr. Hill invested in SEL specialists who work in all of our schools, from K-12.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills. They are also valuable teaching tools.

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