Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. In Ramsay’s science class, students are putting together an insect zoo, but have a $100 budget.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

  – 3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) named Sirish Subash, a 9 th grader at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Snellville, Georgia, the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Traveling the United States from the vantage point of a selfie video, students discover how science-based strategies can enhance mental wellness and how happiness changes the brain. Testing the Limits Virtual Field Trip with Boeing Premiere: September 30 th at 1 PM ET. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 7-12.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

A plain-ole paper-and-pencil test tends to get dry and dull pretty quickly, so take this opportunity to experiment with new assessment strategies and determine which ones work best for your students. Here is an example of a Present and Defend protocol used in science investigations.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Like the smile from acing a test or the joy of earning a reward, those flashes of satisfaction are unforgettable. Plan hands-on science experiments for kids that bring learning to life. These hands-on science experiments for preschoolers are full of excitement! Ready to make more of those moments?

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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. They also were required to pass a test on national and state civil rights laws and professional ethics, as well as a rigorous state test required for the grade-level and subject-matter area.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Linda Darling-Hammond Project Lead the Way, or PLTW as it’s known for short, is a K-12 STEM curriculum that’s big on hands-on learning and having groups of students co-design solutions to science and engineering problems. Testing for such skills relies heavily on technology and required a significant retooling. Their goal? Several U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders. Anonymous student.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

A plain-ole paper-and-pencil test tends to get dry and dull pretty quickly, so take this opportunity to experiment with new assessment strategies and determine which ones work best for your students. Here is an example of a Present and Defend protocol used in science investigations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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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. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, was the first where students designed a satellite that was actually launched into space. So who gets to go?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs. What do teachers want?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. Admissions With Algorithms One of those ways may be through mobile games.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For education startups, the National Science Foundation has provided what may be the closest thing: upwards of $20 million every year to support their research and development efforts. There’s a Phase I award that offers around $250,000 for building and testing prototypes. There is no such thing as free money. million in funding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Looking for resources for your students?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to reinforce the fundamental scaffolding that determines whether a child has a fair shot at success later in life. Recently, NAEP determined a new reading assessment framework aimed at making the test more equitable. Students entering kindergarten today will graduate high school in 2034. Several efforts are underway.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

Successful makerspaces will focus not only on the tools (there are no requirements for specific pieces of technology) but on the process of manufacturing, testing, and demonstrating ideas. For the challenge, entrants must sketch out their ideal makerspace and make it work within existing space already available.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

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. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

He chalks that up to the fact that many professors using the model don’t test whether students are actually learning the material presented in lecture videos, and so some students who skip the videos or watch them on double-speed arrive in class unprepared for the activities.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. How do we recruit and retain a diverse student body in elective STEM classes such as computer science and engineering? Ask students to help you present at fairs and carnivals, school events and parent nights.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. 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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

One of the $1,000 scholarship winners, Selina Tran from Fontbonne The Early College of Boston, took AP Computer Science Principles , AP Computer Science A , and AP Statistics. Her choice to take a VHS Learning Sociology course led her to discover she had an affinity for social science, something she had never taken before.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship. And FH Gizmos was born.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Just look on popular Facebook groups and Reddit threads for tips on getting into selective colleges, and you’ll likely find posts recommending that students participate in intensive research or compete in science competitions as a way to stand out on college applications.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Higher test scores. Inspirational vs. aspirational “I absolutely just want to spend my day nagging my students to finish an endless pile of worksheets and practice tests that will be totally fulfilling and meaningful.,” But how do I apply service to science? Better graduation rates. Increased lifetime earning potential.

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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. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. Then each topic gets intertwined with biotechnology. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

You can help facilitate that connection by trying to find assignments that students can work on together, such as virtual science fair projects or book clubs, in which students meet regularly online to present projects or discuss books they’re reading. If not, don’t share it or say it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

My science lessons are very collaborative and inquiry based, so students are working together in groups or pairs, and sometimes she struggled with it. Abigail Joseph: When I was at my previous school, every year the seventh- and eighth-grade students studied either the Silk Road or the World's Fair.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2020

The email, from provost Mark Richards and the chair of the faculty senate, Joseph Janes, said it is up to each professor to determine whether classes can move online, or whether there is enough student work already to assign a fair letter grade at the end of the quarter. We believe in making science based decisions,” she said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. The difference may be more pronounced in science classes. In spreadsheets, he manually recorded each interaction he had with students during discussion.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

John Krajewski, the founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games, said game-based startups should find a way to test assumptions about their products early in order to avoid having a long period of risk where they’re unsure if their idea will work. It was a disaster,” he said.

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