Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

8 Crucial Steps for University Admission Success for High School Students Applying for university is a significant milestone for high school students. Here are eight crucial steps to help high school students navigate the university admission process effectively. GPA, check out colleges that accept a 3.5

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

Every year, around the country, high school students get their hands dirty with science projects—chemistry labs, robotics, that model of a volcano. But one school just outside of Washington, D.C., And that's just one example of how extraordinary this school is. News and World Report ranking of public high schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At my district’s high schools, personalized learning is fairly easy to see. Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. This document helped standardize what good teaching looks like at elementary, middle and high school levels.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2023

Add to this the fact that districts often emphasize and require science teachers to host and participate in school and district Science Fairs, and it is no wonder that good science teachers are hard to come by.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

More than four out of five (82 percent) higher education students have used AI technologies compared to just 58 percent of high school students. More college students also report that their institutions have established a code of conduct regarding AI use compared to high school students (41 percent vs. 18 percent).

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?” But we want to do all that in a really careful way and make sure the AI we’re using is fair and unbiased. This isn’t the age of Rosie the Robot taking over jobs–there will be jobs. We want to make sure student data stays safe.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

MindSpark defines RAI with the following 5 pillars – RAI is community-centric; it is monitorable and secure; ethical and fair; justifiable and accountable; as well as explainable and transparent. The course deeply addresses the question of the ethical and responsible use of AI within our world.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The debate over using test scores in college admissions has oscillated between requiring them and questioning their necessity in favor of relying more on student grade point averages (GPAs). While high school GPAs provide valuable insight, grade inflation can mar their reliability. More students now have straight A’s and 4.0

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Through DiscoverE, a group of students can spend the day in an engineer’s lab, meet his/her colleagues, see a project they’re working on, and ask questions. If the interest at your school is bigger, engineers can make an all-school presentation at a middle- or high-school career day. for High School.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof. Responses to student questions) Thank you for clarifying. Make it known that we desire their feedback, because by doing so, we implicitly communicate to them that we trust their needs. Partners are also accountable to each other. Im glad you asked.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

Biggest challenge: Three years ago, when I started as executive director for high school instruction, our state of student achievement was average. We typically see 40 new teachers in our high schools each year. In between meetings, we’ve seen five-minute interventions having a massive impact on our high school teachers.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2022

Now, here’s the main question – how can web filtering possibly be of harm for the kids? Both opinions have their right to exist, both seem fair. It protects them from things their minds are not ready for, it saves them from being hacked. However, sometimes blocking way too much content might limit the kids’ learning process.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

All scholarship recipients created videos that answered the scholarship program’s question for this year: “Please describe the skills you have learned in your VHS Learning course that you feel will be helpful in college or your career, and why.”. Ruthie Zhang from Littleton High School in Massachusetts was the other $1,000 scholarship winner.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

One of the obligatory questions in the interview process is What will you do if you disagree with the Governor? After last week’s veto of school funding by Governor Terry Branstad, I’m really happy that I’m not the one that has to stand in front of educators over the next few months and defend that decision. Your thoughts?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. The question of who’s most likely to succeed also drives the world of selective college admissions. We believe in you.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2018

This is a common question administrators and educational practitioners ask when considering LMS adoption at the district level. Is it really possible for young learners to effectively use a learning management system (LMS)? Young learners are already surrounded by technology.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

The landscape of higher ed has changed, though, and these days more colleges are looking to start fully online degree programs, out of a mix of rising acceptance of such programs and changing demographics that could mean fewer high-school graduates looking for traditional programs.

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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. This year, in Indiana, sixth graders will take an inaugural civics course in the spring semester.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served. Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They were asked to agree or disagree with statements about college and career plans, how they’re faring in school and with their mental health, among other topics. Amongst the high school seniors, most reported having applied to trade school, community college or a university along with federal financial aid.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

The first day of high school is usually filled with icebreakers, like the classic, two truths and a lie. If I had learned in high school what a motor and a generator were, and seen that they are simply wires around magnets, I think I might have chosen to continue in engineering and spent more time loving science instead of hating it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. 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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says. To find out what was in each room, the players have to ask yes/no questions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. Hey, We’re All on the Same Team Here’ Fans of flipped learning had some questions about the new study’s conclusions.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

A recent survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found that less than half of Gen Z students enrolled in middle and high school felt motivated to go to school. Only about half reported doing something interesting in school everyday.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It was much like her high school experience, she says: “Lots of work, but not lots of development.” There were a number of questions she wanted to answer back then, questions she’s still asking now: “How do you change a high school curriculum, and why is it so hard to change?”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The communication component of SparkCare+ asks the participant questions and elaborates on the Hamilton Anxiety and Depression rating scales, providing insight for the AI. an eighth-grader at Dodgen Middle School in Cobb County High School Area 1. In third place, Snigtha Mohanraj from West Haven, Conn.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Survey respondents were overwhelmingly extremely negative in their response to every question, according to a summary of the survey results the released Monday, ahead of Tuesday. Both tests were given on computer to every student in grades three through eight plus high school juniors.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. And rather than earning points based on the number of subject-matter questions they answer correctly, they advance based on their performance at other gameplay tasks. In a game, you are 100 percent OK with failing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And that leads to a psychological process, where they question, ‘Is this an environment in which I can truly belong and which people will receive me well and treat me fairly and include me?’ And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Students were energetic, interested, asked great questions, engaged in excellent collaboration. They learn why high school geometry, a topic most of them intend to teach in the future, is the way it is and why its results are true. I think it’s fair to say that ungraders would like there to be no game (or grades) at all.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” For those who plan on graduate school, their immediate future is pretty much set. percent for high school graduates with no college. But for most, what happens next is often in doubt. percent, compared with 5.8

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Then, Clear Creek Independent School District librarians Shirley Dickey, Laura Gladney-Lemon and Mindy Hutt began to see the real educational value in their MakerBot machines. Students also have printed tessellations and a Pythagorean cup, Dickey, a librarian at Clear Lake High School in Houston, said. “We

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

How educators respond to this next pandemic –students’ anxiety and stress–will certainly remain a critically important priority for school administrators, counselors and psychologists in 2021. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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