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. That is incredibly frustrating. If you look across the world, other countries have handled the pandemic very differently. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, as policy makers determine what that flexibility looks like, they should consider the consequences of pausing testing for another year. Invest in remote proctoring : It is likely that hybrid learning is here to stay, and educators may not be able to administer tests in the typical classroom setting.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For instance, you could test them with the viral image of the blue dress to teach them about different perspectives, then ask them to ponder the science behind the image. Encourage students to embrace failure as a part of the learning process. This hack is great for promoting independent thinking and increases classroom participation!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Test scores, homework completion, and grades have soared and parents who had never visited their student’s classroom now volunteer regularly. Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success. Learning is a community experience.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. If they don’t work, ask to them to figure out why they don’t work so they can make adjustments. all the iPhone iterations).

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. Creativity, leadership, innovation, and collaboration matter as much as standardized test scores and have a much greater impact on their future careers. Yet, our current system often makes kids feel exactly that way.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We can’t test students on their innovation, but we can encourage them to explore new concepts, look at challenges from all sides, and embrace failures as opportunities to try again with more knowledge. Innovation is more than a buzzword today—it’s something educators strive for in their classrooms, schools, and districts.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2024

Jump ahead 19 years, and we were experiencing inconsistent startups (30-40 second blackouts before the generator would start and provide power) when power failure events happened. Through collaboration with facilities, we captured multiple data points about what was happening from the point of failure until the generated power was active.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. We should treat review and practice not as tests of competence or compliance but as stepping stones towards mastery, encouraging a growth mindset in our students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While older students may pause and analyze success and failure in between solutions, younger children tend to move more quickly from one solution to the next. They get to touch, squish, and test the properties of different items. Engineering design process : For early education, this is three steps: explore, create, improve.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

I like to keep parents in the loop at all times, so each day I send out updates about upcoming tests, attach study guides, or include a monthly calendar with upcoming events. A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

At Webb, where about 75 percent of students are on free or reduced lunch, sinking test scores and references to a “failing school” led to low morale among parents and staff. “I want them to fail, but I want them to learn from the failure.” ”

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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. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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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

JUNE 3, 2015

The early warning system must include the following indicators: attendance below 90 percent, suspensions, and course failure or a Level 1 score on state tests in English language arts or mathematics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? At the beginning of my career in Chicago, I taught 7th- and 8th-grade math in a system where students took a test and applied to get into selective high schools. My homework past.

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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. This can feel overwhelming and make the most positive teacher feel less enthusiastic.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Reading difficulties such as dyslexia are generally diagnosed in second or third grade, after repeated failure to learn to read and after the most effective intervention window,” said Carla Small, co-founder and CEO of EarlyBird Education.

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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.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me. In that moment, I began forging my own educational path.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to National Assessment of Educational Progress test results, roughly two decades of academic progress has been lost during the pandemic. Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

This perception of intellectual “haves” and “have nots” is one that Lang Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, recently tested.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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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. If perfection is not a possibility, then a student with anxiety doesn’t see the risk as worth taking.

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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

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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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. Time and resources are often a barrier to providing educators with critical learning opportunities that help them reduce students’ reading failure rate.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The four-year quest for class credits, verified by standardized tests, which students and parents now know, will morph into a pair of two-year sections with multiple paths to graduation. Next page: Room to learn through failure and experience). Many core classes will be taught in those first two years. .”

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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 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? And by then it’s too late. They learned how to learn.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

College math courses often have high failure rates, largely because many new college students lack the foundational math skills needed to be successful. For students entering college, math placement and college level math courses can be a challenge and often one of the contributing reasons that students fall behind or drop out.

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