eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The insight comes from the 2024 AI in Academia Study by Copyleaks. Key findings from the study include: Frequent AI usage Thirty-four percent of educators use AI very frequently to draft or review assignments, showing high adoption among educators. The report offers a comprehensive look at AI’s role in education.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Perfect as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or brain breaks for high school , these five-minute writing ideas are a great way to get students into a writing state of mind right after the bell rings. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

But we want to do all that in a really careful way and make sure the AI we’re using is fair and unbiased. In thinking about education, you can use AI to tailor education to individual students, to improve mundane tasks, and to look at large data sets and identify trends. We want to make sure student data stays safe.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While high school GPAs provide valuable insight, grade inflation can mar their reliability. However, a 2018 American University study found that from 2005 to 2016, high school GPAs increased more at wealthier private and suburban schools than lower-income urban public schools. in 2009 to 3.11

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One of our schools provides advanced math and computer courses for various IT certifications, while another has a dual enrollment program that allows high school students to graduate with an associate degree and a high school diploma. But what about when you’re teaching English or social studies?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

With the median high school teacher salary being around $62,870, educators often don’t have a lot of leeway to pay for physical and mental wellness resources themselves. While all administrators should consider it a priority to arrange fair pay, it’s also important to look at what other resources you can offer.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Im heartened by their clear frontrunner: Source : Gallup poll; Walton Family Foundation-Gallup Voices of Gen Z Study The survey confirms that students crave a sense of care and trust, which are hallmarks of human connection. The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Ruthie Zhang from Littleton High School in Massachusetts was the other $1,000 scholarship winner. Without VHS Learning, I would not have taken the initiative in studying what I find interesting,” she stated. Suhaila Islam from Razi School in New York was one of the $500 scholarship winners. Government and Psychology I.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Morgan, an associate professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University. Of those children in the study who had low levels of general knowledge, 62 percent struggled with science in third grade and 54 percent struggled with science in eighth grade. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

College career fairs look like an awkward high school dance: Students circle around company booths, unsure whether to stop and drop off a resume. One company is making a business out of helping student associations and companies connect beyond the walls of tri-folds and stacks of resumes at career fairs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But are those who study at all-online programs making the same connections—or are they finding other ways to connect to the job market after earning their diploma? percent for high school graduates with no college. Think of the giant digital companies formed by founders who met in a dorm (most notably, Facebook and Microsoft).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

For that, students require study. Students can create a group Realtime Board to work on projects, study, or share research. Choose either the study or browse mode. Lower rated flashcards are repeated more often to assist with studying. Recipients receive permission to study or edit. Conclusion. Conclusion.

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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. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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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. Not only was I unprepared for the levels of math and study skills required, but as a bleeding-heart, 17-year-old, I wanted to do something to help my community. Specifically, I asked, “Can cell phones cause cancer?”

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. Only about half reported doing something interesting in school everyday.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. “It was like going back to school again. It was pretty difficult.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

high school students. The report included data on school connectedness, which the CDC defines as “the feeling among adolescents that people at their school care about them, their well-being, and success.” Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. What’s an example? That's a massive effect.

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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

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. By and large, it’s working. The Pennsylvania Legislature is joining the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

The goal wasn’t to count the number of 3D printers or robotics clubs, but rather to take a more “ethnographic” view of the phenomena, says Youngmoo Kim, the director of Drexel’s ExCITe Center and an author of the study. And it didn’t stop there—gender bias was even more pronounced, which the report called “deeply unsettling.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Laurent Dubois, who directs democracy programs at the University of Virginia, takes it back further, to the period he studies, the Age of Enlightenment. The very process of studying “can really embody some democratic ideals,” Dubois adds. Davis III studies student organizing—he and Morgan co-edited a book on the subject.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

She describes a time at a previous school she worked at when students and teachers collaborated on a project and how that inspired her and other educators to feel re-energized around what they teach. This particular year they were teaching the World's Fair, and I worked with the students to create websites.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2021

I get a lot of interest from high school teachers about teaching databases. Obviously they will need to continue learning and developing their abilities throughout their academic studies, but instilling them with the basics early on will put them ahead of their peers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Early studies, such as ones from international researcher Richard Van Hooijdonk , show that virtual and augmented reality tools can increase student engagement and motivation while increasing knowledge construction. I hope that it’s used to provide greater access to high quality educational content and tools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In January 2022, a review of 17 research studies showed that young kids can learn from “guided play” as well as if they were being directly instructed by an adult or a teacher. 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You may have seen the photos of stadiums packed to the gills with crazed fans or photos of young high school- and college-aged players hoisting sparkling trophies high into the air as they pull in million-dollar prize purses. From one institution to 35-plus in three years is fairly rapid growth in the world of higher education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. But there’s complicating evidence, with one study showing that this approach may even be harmful in 10-to-12-year-old students. I mean, to me, this is not fair to students,” she says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country. Who’s in your neighborhood? explained Schwartz.

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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 also taught geography and then English as well.

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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 charge students 0.1

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2016

In conjunction with The White House Science Fair 2016, Oracle and The White House recently announced Oracle’s plan to invest $200 million in direct and in-kind support for computer science education in the United States over the next 18 months. Part of $3.3 Connecting world class innovators with educators and students.

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