eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. At the same time, the percentage of students who say they read for pleasure is declining : Fewer than half of all children ages 8-18 (43 percent) say they enjoy reading in their spare time, down from 58 percent in 2016.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

They would do well on timed tests, just acing timed tests. It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure. I read their paper, I tried to set up the class designed around their principles. They seemed to be engaged.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For instance, some people still like to read physical books (I’m one of them). Sometimes, you don’t want to hold the book while reading it. Have them create their inventions and test them out. Here’s the kicker: if they aren’t able to create a working prototype in the allotted time, don’t see that as a failure.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We still do not have a coherent national approach to rapid-results testing. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. Kids should see characters in the texts that they read that are diverse. That is incredibly frustrating. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

It Helps Schools Identify Children at Risk for Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties — Even Before They Learn to Read. fourth graders are not reading at a proficient level, and reading difficulties are often identified too late for students to catch up with their peers, even with intervention.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

The middle of the year is cold, the holidays are over, and we are looking at the high-pressure demands of preparing students for standardized testing. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. Read a team-building quote and have teachers reflect on it for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. ESL students need stellar writing skills to pass exams and language tests or enter the university. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

What if you’re a new first grade teacher, and you realize the classroom methods you’re using to teach your students to read just aren’t working. The 80-minute documentary is called “ The Right to Read ,” and it is making the festival circuit of screenings, including a showing at the recent SXSW EDU Festival.

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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

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Read on to see what’s in store for 2019… Berj Akian, CEO, ClassLink. As a result, districts will recognize that student “Net Promoter Scores” (a measurement of customer experience) are more reliable and valid indicators of program excellence and student learning outcomes than standardized tests.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Keep reading to discover how this district keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. Nominee : Newark Public Schools. Nominated by : Lexia Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. 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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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

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. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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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. A disclaimer for all educators: During my testing, ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, and other AI tools would routinely generate rudimentary questions in response to my prompts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using robot arms to make french fries, so even a job as straightforward as fry cook will be performed by a human-robot team–even if the human’s part is only maintaining the robot. 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

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When I saw her speak, I found it easy to get swept up in her vision to democratize blood testing and save lives. Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

New national test scores, released Monday, reveal that the disruption may have been even more severe than already anticipated. Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. It has by far been read more than any other blog post that we’ve written. They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? I thought of this while reading a fascinating and provocative article titled “ Want to Fix Public Schools?

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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. Kennedy’s support for the arts in America.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And the action is everywhere: an indoor plastic pool awaits student design teams testing their ship prototypes, while in the courtyard, groups of students engage in a game that both explores and challenges their perception of themselves as mathematicians.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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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. So, are there collateral effects where kids are motivated to read, write, learn math—so they get better at the game? But it’s very hard to create tests that measure 21st-century skills. Absolutely.

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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

APRIL 20, 2020

When kids are in a school setting and they read a book and they take a test about the theme of that book and they fail, they feel so devastated inside. They don't see it as a failure. I think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Listen to the conversation using the player on this page, or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. At the after party I help them with some of the reading. I condense some of the reading and do it orally. So there should be failure in all of our classes. And then I get feedback and I try again.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Another session examines the business of edtech, first by asking the class to read a seminal paper authored in 2007 (but still relevant to this day) about the industry.

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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. It ranks first in the country on lists from Education Week and U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I was just starting myON , where we all predicted that a digital reading environment was key in the coming years. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Accelerated Reader , a product that started more than 30 years ago, still motivates kids to read.

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