Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Several fellows also craved more learning experiences that reflected their everyday lives, whether that comes via more experiential learning opportunities or through bringing in personal histories to classrooms and curriculum. Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther was my student five years ago at my former school, where I taught in an accelerated learning pilot program designed to service students in danger of aging out of high school due to their age at enrollment. schools for less than two years. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Licensed nonfiction books explain more complicated topics like science or history through the voice of a known and loved character. This is why youll see many of these books available in online book fairs, through vendors and bookstores, and in a basket next to the potty. Simply engaging in reading practice is foundational.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. The goal was to use this VR simulation with German high school students so that they could better understand the experiences of their new Syrian classmates.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

Today, I teach marketing at the same high school I attended. Many students referred to the school as “ratchet Round Rock.” Round Rock High School celebrated its centennial in 2013, and while our school buildings were not quite 100 years old, it sure felt that way to some students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I That’s frustrating.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2021

I get a lot of interest from high school teachers about teaching databases. Like many of the other languages used in coding, SQL has a fairly extensive history, having originally been developed almost half a century ago. These digital tools allow users to query vast amounts of information based on specific areas of interest.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials. I currently work in an alternative high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

colleges got into the democracy business, and you may get a bit of a history lesson. It’s very easy to do a service learning experience but not learn that we don’t have free and fair elections in some parts of this country. “What are we not going to equivocate on and not be willing to settle on?” ‘No

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

We defined digital learning as all these instances where students are learning outside of the time and place constraints that you see in a traditional school in a traditional. Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare. Take the US history course you develop it.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Looney (who, as a reminder, has yet to implement this type of elevation at his school), believes it will be fairly similar to traditional grading. Imagine you teach World History,” Looney explains. For most schools, getting a staff committed to the system—and willing to ride out the waves—is crucial. So how to bridge the chasm?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You look back on the history of other benefits, and often they were driven by some sort of market force, or a desire to either enhance an employer experience or drive to parity,” says Guild’s CEO and co-founder, Rachel Carlson. “The I think there's a movement around fair scheduling that's really important.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

Clifford Crone Middle School, Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204 Samarth Mahapatra , Marietta, Ga., Dodgen Middle School, Cobb County High School Area 1 Snigtha Mohanraj , West Haven, Conn., Engineering and Science University Magnet School, New Haven Public School District Veda Murthy , Herndon, Va.,

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Like when we have states that say they're trying to recruit diverse educators, but [are] also telling them, “Erase yourself and your history as you're filling out that application.” And this summer, we have 200 Black and brown teachers, apprentices, in high school and college, who are interested in teaching. Board was a tactic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With schools and testing centers closed across the country, COVID-19 has prevented at least one million students in the high school class of 2021 from taking the ACT or SAT exams. In fact, doing otherwise has never seriously been considered by the public research institution, says Mike Drish, director of first-year admissions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

Many years ago, I also ran a college prep mentoring program, so I had some experience working with middle school and high school students. While I was studying at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, I did a lot of work with the Harvard Education school, and that was fantastic. Danish Kurani.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

When I worked as a carhop in high school, we were not allowed to carry calculators, and no one fathomed that one day we would have a calculator right on our cell phone in our pocket! Schools are places of lasting relationships and memories that endure. So, what really happened?

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. So when they experience success, it really motivates them to continue. Chaidez wants to go further.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

MindSpark was once Share Fair Nation. For Lenz, despite a 30-year history the Buck Institute name was simply not descriptive enough. Thus Share Fair was spun out into a new nonprofit in 2017, to offer longer term, customizable professional development for a fee. ScriptED begat Code Nation. AltSchool became Altitude Learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Also by the NEA , this site includes Middle School lesson plans on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and anti-slavery, background resources, interactive maps, games, quizzes, video, and audio. Activities for High School. History and background. Each President’s archive is anchored by his official Presidential portrait.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Yet, these days the issue seems more complicated, as political debates frame equity policies as in conflict with ideals of fairness and tradition. It's part of that child's history. It’s a question of equity, a goal that is generally assumed to be one most educators want to achieve.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Nicholas Lemann, a journalism professor at Columbia University who wrote a book in 1999 about the history of the SAT called “ The Big Test ,” says such contradictions put these admissions-test makers in a tough, even impossible, spot. I didn’t know how to say it. I wasn’t comfortable with that until I was 35.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2017

Fair, Honest Product Valuation When a developer has built a new edtech product with blood, sweat and tears, it’s easy for her to see its worth. However, at one of our SCEC high schools, we had no ELA users. Instead, we were placed in math, science and history classrooms. But this isn’t always obvious from the outside.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

–Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. In March 2020, many were either starting school for the first time or in critical developmental years and had to go to school virtually.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

There are a couple of bad guys in the history of our field and he's one of them. That's been the guiding mantra of fairness in our system. But in my case, I was kicked out of high school. For most of my life, school really didn't work. I'm guessing you're not a fan of his. Not really. GPA my senior year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Alex was an enthusiastic 9th grader in my World History course and had just been issued a Chromebook as part of our district’s 1:1 implementation. I knew of other educators and schools that encouraged students to go to Starbucks or McDonald’s for free WiFi, but this didn’t seem realistic or a fair substitute to home access.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. This is a fair criticism.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. A Question on Testing When building the new tests, PLTW gathered panels of industry experts, educators and psychometricians, or scientists who study how to make tests fair.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. And so then I moved to a comprehensive high school with a really, Dr. Brandee Ramirez Dr. Brandee Ramirez A major need for intervention. And so it’s not fair if kids can’t access it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

Because card decks can be listed as ‘public’ on the site, you can access other teacher’s contributions on topics like AP history, French, and GRE Vocabulary. Brainscape is accessible from desktops, smartphones, and tablets and synced across all devices when the user creates an account. Conclusion.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

–Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. In March 2020, many were either starting school for the first time or in critical developmental years and had to go to school virtually.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This is what’s called the high Desert Antelope Valley in my school district, there are 30. We are actually a kinder through 8th grade school district. We bought a high school four years ago. But initially when I first came into the school district, you know, everything’s about timing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Additionally, for some independent schools, the potentially disruptive nature of these devices and online spaces presents perceived threats to institutional history and norms. A few middle schools and high schools go even further and assign teachers their own individual student technology mentors.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Yet, of 112 those tests, only 16 or 17 were large-scale, federally-mandated but state-specific standardized tests (Math and ELA, once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, plus possibly a science assessment.) Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press.

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