eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

In an effort to help ensure that students are prepared for fall classes, McGraw Hill is offering new customers a free two-month trial of its ALEKS MathReady program, allowing current and rising college-age students and others to refresh their math skills efficiently and effectively. month after, visit: [link].

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

For students with anxiety, the fear of the unknown, of potential judgement, and/or of failure is so intense that the solution is often to pull the pendulum as far back in the opposite direction as possible. However, for the ease with which math and science came to him/her, English and history did not.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers in three North Carolina counties report their students, who are trying to close math learning gaps caused by COVID-related school disruptions, are making progress thanks to an innovative digital learning platform. The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. And the Americans?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nationwide, the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting educational inequalities and led to steep academic declines in both math and reading that have not yet stabilized. According to National Assessment of Educational Progress test results, roughly two decades of academic progress has been lost during the pandemic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. It was assumed that students would struggle.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images. They don’t need a solution from me, and I don’t have to be a robotics or programming expert.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. Last July, California adopted a new K-12 math framework. Algebra has long been considered a "gateway" to higher math. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. We would never ask in a P.E. Part of that is justifying a grade.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

While summer school often conjures up images of reluctant students sitting in rows, watching the clock or gazing out the window, the scene inside Santa Fe’s Math Adventure Camp could not be more different. Students who are struggling with the math concepts work them through using visual modeling (as well as traditional pen-and-paper).

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. He knew that if he made a mistake with a math problem, I wouldn’t be disappointed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? How can schools use your findings going forward?

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A few weeks ago, while perusing Twitter for news stories, a few folks on the EdSurge team came across a Tweet by math blogger, former teacher and current Desmos Chief Academic Officer Dan Meyer. My goal as the person representing in some ways a more traditional style of instruction, less personalized, and emphasizing certain parts of math.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules. But that hasn’t always been the case for me.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. The soft bigotry of low expectations.” via [link].

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

Saga, a national nonprofit, provides a research-backed math curriculum with a track record of success for middle and secondary grades. The randomized controlled trials also found that Saga’s tutoring model reduced math course failure rates by 60 percent. About Saga Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

If you like math and science, you are off to a great start. Searching for Unobtanium Discover the story behind materials, failures, and practice materials characterization methods in the USNA EE labs. In this module you will test your design within a small wind tunnel located in the USNA Hydro Lab. News & World Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. Before I knew it, I was teaching a seventh grade math class with little support on a tiny salary and barely any teaching experience.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

News , and is singled out for its high reading and math achievement, as well as its relatively narrow equity gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in academic performance. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful. In my old district, Lawrence Public Schools, We used ST Math.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. Anhil was much more knowledgeable than any other 6th grader about the solar system but his math skills were seriously deficient.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. You hear people say, “I’m no good at math” or “I’m no good at science.” So, are there collateral effects where kids are motivated to read, write, learn math—so they get better at the game?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

I’ve seen a number of tools that pass the privacy tests and offer tutoring on specific national and state standards and exams which are very attractive to schools if the price is right. If we do, then I think there’s a real chance that, within a decade, the math class of today will feel like the distant past.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. The two main courses currently offered are engineering and industrial design.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. While we believe that it is essential for all students to be proficient in math, literacy, and the sciences, we believe that that is not enough.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores. Literacy is the foundation of overall educational success. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure. The 2015-2016 math scores were similarly impressive, with growth across the board. It’s important to note that MSD’s students of color and low-income students still fall below state averages in terms of math proficiency.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

. … Unfortunately there are things like stereotype threat, in which the research will show that historically marginalized populations, when they go in there thinking, “Oh, I’m not good at math because of X, Y, or Z …, ” that stress of a high-stakes exam will, statistically speaking, have a negative academic effect on them. One quick example.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons. 12 it would drop TTO altogether.

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