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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Typically, information presented to students is either qualitative or too broad, such as during parent-teacher conferences or through course grades. In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultivating an early interest in STEM There is a stigma surrounding math and science that typically begins in elementary and middle schools, perpetuating the idea that math and science is ‘scary,’ too hard or challenging, or a topic meant for boys. Hyper-focused on standardized testing.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, if you’re studying for a biology exam, tagging relevant documents with terms like “photosynthesis” or “cell division” can help you quickly retrieve the information you need. Tools like Google Calendar or My Study Life are popular among high school students for their user-friendly interfaces and customization options.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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JULY 30, 2021

The meteoric rise of Chinese edtech companies has dimmed recently as the Chinese government shifted regulations around online tutoring , in an effort to “ protect students’ right to rest, improve the quality of school education and reduce the burden on parents.” His classes grew in size and number.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. While the content of the course has changed almost completely since I took it 40 years ago, in my opinion it is still way too based on memorizing dozens of formulas for the exams.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Studies in districts like Los Angeles Unified have found that students who passed Algebra I by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate as those who did not. Their Latino peers comprised 25 percent of students in schools that offered Algebra I in eighth grade, but just 18 percent of the students enrolled. Source: U.S.

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JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And perform worse on tests. This health crisis is really a civics crisis in many ways.”

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MAY 13, 2019

She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. Henry County students in grades six through nine participate in district-wide writing prompts three times a year. The writing helps.” New Tech Network.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

. — Sue Kowalski, PhD, Lead Research Scientist, NWEA As we approach 2025, the impact of COVID-19 on academic gains and achievement continues to be a concern, especially in the area of middle school literacy. It’s no longer about relying on traditional exams or a checklist for graduation.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

With insight and oversight from MIT and Maker Ed (a nonprofit partner of MIT), and funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), two dissimilar schools are implementing a new set of assessment tools designed to gauge student mastery in making. “We Community Middle] is going in a direction we would love to envision for all schools."

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. Across all AP exams, there was a marked variation in the percentage of high schools students who scored a 3 or higher on an AP exam. That’s typically considered the passing grade.)

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

While ALVS has provided rigorous and engaging online curriculum to students in grades 6-12 for many years, the pandemic made ALVS see a sudden influx of 5,000 new virtual students. As a result, she positively influenced student results on high-stakes exams, all while mentoring new teachers.

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APRIL 3, 2017

This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. I joined a cohort of 13 eighth grade teachers, representing 1,000 students participating in the research study. We came from diverse school districts—urban, suburban, and rural—spanning several states. The Hero of Middle School.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

a district middle school located in the Bronx. At least that’s what Jean Dalton Encke, the principal of the school thought. Students were expected to finish the exam in about two hours. When school was dismissed at 2:45 pm, Dalton set off to check on students, confident that they were headed home.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Fee or subscription. Click the link for more detail.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. As they transition from first grade, to second, to third, their classroom devices change, too. The cohort consisted of three elementary schools (including Rogers Elementary), one middle school and a new high school that had only ninth graders.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Sara Rowe and Lennelle Gilpin, who teach middle school geography in Wentzville, Mo., Michael Milton, a high school history teacher in Burlington, Mass., The sweet spot for Carmen has always been pegged at about middle school, when kids are just old enough to get the puns and the geography.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. .

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MARCH 20, 2019

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education , middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning. Standard high school coursework.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. We see older readers struggle with foundational literacy skills, which are often only taught up until the third grade.

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APRIL 9, 2017

Unlike the Laurel School, whose programs are open to self-selecting, entrepreneurially-minded students, Louisville Collegiate pushes entrepreneurial thinking into much of its curricular offerings. In the lower and middle-school grades, for example, developing an entrepreneurial mindset is the key to student success.

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APRIL 28, 2020

In fact, the Saxon math curriculum my teachers used when I was in middle school over 25 years ago leveraged interleaving. These activities take no more than 15 minutes and are graded so students are incentivized to try in earnest. This provides an added boost to my student’s retention. Do These Techniques Really Work?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. The takeaway?

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JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. She has a 4.0 Algebra 1 — In 2018, 19.8%

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Since passing a test isn’t necessarily representative of student growth, it is also our responsibility to seek out alternative methods for gauging growth that may not be demonstrated on a state exam. Schools in less economically challenged parts of the district had average scores of 90% or higher. Something didn’t add up.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Is this study even actually relevant to my school, grade, or subject area? He continues: "In a two-year study of high school students, one year Cognitive Tutor students performed the same as students in a regular algebra class, and in another year they scored better. Is the sample size spread across multiple contexts?

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JANUARY 19, 2017

High achievers can accelerate into above-grade level standards, while those move slower can get extra practice. After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

When she showed me the websites her 8th grade students put together–by themselves–I begged her to share with my AATT audience how this came about. I’m an inner city, level 4 middle school teacher that provides free daily breakfasts and lunches to a diverse student population. I decided to test the waters!

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

This is great for third to ninth grade students who want to learn lists of facts such as state capitals, states in the US, state shapes, state culture, and more. This app adds fun to what often is the stressful task of preparing for SAT exams. There is little higher-order thinking requiredf. Education Applications. Conclusion.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

I took a law and policy class my senior year of high school, and so at the end of the year instead of having a final exam, we each were tasked with finding a problem related to policy, government, law of politics and coming up with a way to fix it. Simmons: Sure. What are some assumptions that are baked into courses about students?

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