Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. But it's a valid question."

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

As students plan investigations to answer a question posed to them, they conduct tests, record and analyze data, and communicate their results. They’re actually “doing science,” not just memorizing terms and concepts for a test. I have students design structures and then test their designs on a simple shake table.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2019

A Challenge-Based Learning model pioneered by Apple is now helping teachers engage middle school students in deep learning through projects that combine developing questions, investigating scientific phenomena, and solving problems in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Unlike traditional tests, Wakelet empowers students to demonstrate understanding in a personalized and reflective way. Reviewing their collections provides a richer, more comprehensive view of their understanding than a standard test would. It also facilitates peer and teacher feedback, making assessment a more collaborative process.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

From there, an activity can be built using the students questions and observations. For Flight School , an easy STEM activity would be to have students construct a paper airplane capable of sustained flight. However, dont be afraid to try another idea if it proves popular with the class!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s why at Jacksonville Independent School District we like to combine social-emotional learning with coding education. Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school. At the time, we did not have a robotics course for middle grades at all, though we did have an after-school STEM club.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

The fact that 70 percent of middle school students in a recent study could not distinguish between fake news and authentic news on the web shows that we, as educators, have to do a better job of teaching media literacy in the digital age. If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Since more than 90 percent of teens have access to smartphones and mobile devices, ASA’s suite of digital experiences provides an equitable way to ensure all youth can explore career possibilities that match their interests — as early as middle school – and test and try in high school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Just as in classrooms nationwide, Montana’s teachers place an intense focus on supporting literacy in elementary school instruction. As a veteran teacher of 17 years who has taught in both elementary and middle school classrooms, I have found that there are a number of powerful edtech tools available to support student literacy.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over. I just check with them and their parents that the studying was done and give credit for that.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. The new NAEP scores have landed as conservatives push to expand private school choice, public schools grapple with budget cuts, culture war skirmishes persist, and chronic absenteeism remains at historically high levels.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature. Something didn’t add up.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

. –Rebecca Bergstrom, Induction Coordinator, Adams 12 Five Star Schools In 2025 we will continue to see a shift toward learning opportunities that allow students to make real change in their communities. As the NGSS continues to gain traction, we can expect a shift in how student learning is assessed.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

One study showed that high school student interest and motivation in physics were significantly boosted with the introduction of probeware to physics classes, and similar trends have been reported in vocational schools as well as elementary and middle school classes.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

The number of times children raise their hands in class is data; the percentage of students who missed the same question on a test is data. Everything is housed in the school Google and Microsoft OneDrive accounts,” said Brittney Reeves, assistant principal at Gulf Shores Middle School, in her Future of Education…

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

Naviance Test Prep aims to support students preparing for the redesigned version of the SAT exam. Hobsons has launched Naviance Test Prep, a new online learning platform that is intended to make test prep engaging and personalized for students. Naviance Test Prep was built with schools and educators in mind.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. To find out what was in each room, the players have to ask yes/no questions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

New report finds Common Core is affecting reading and math — but not test scores. The question of whether students should focus on analyzing fiction, which has been traditionally favored by schools, or nonfiction, which is favored by the CCSS, was considered a major implementation hurdle just a few years ago.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

Students taking part in the Project BioEYES program were tested before and after the one-week program and demonstrated significant positive gains in learning in the post-test. Of eight knowledge questions, elementary students demonstrated significant positive gains on seven.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For example, our middle school program Career Explorations has embedded real-world, industry-specific soft skill exercises, including applied math, graphics literacy and reading comprehension. It addresses the common student question “Where will I ever use this?” by demonstrating practical applications of knowledge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. It begins with supporting the “change.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. I had questions and I wanted to know more. Most of the oldest students of this generation are now in middle school. If not, how can we find out?”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Brainly’s student population relies on the app for help when they can’t understand a teacher’s explanation, for additional information on a topic or to double-check their test prep. They can get the help they need to understand a concept from class or delve deeper into subjects and figure out how to solve questions independently.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

A Challenge-Based Learning model pioneered by Apple is now helping teachers engage middle school students in deep learning through projects that combine developing questions, investigating scientific phenomena, and solving problems in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2021

Who gets to go to the best public high school in the country? That has been a contentious question for a community just outside of Washington, D.C., after school officials made changes to the admissions process for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology last year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

A new study co-authored by one of the world’s most prominent researchers on the effectiveness of edtech, Richard Mayer, offers some answers to that question. The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science. This is groundbreaking. This is different.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. It also helps that kids are most excited about school when they’re young. But it rarely starts any younger.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

The state around her is grappling with similar questions. But there's a lot of variation in how schools decide who’s ready for algebra, leading to fewer low-income students, rural students or English learners taking this course in middle school. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Context matters, and we have to ask the questions to understand the context for each and every student. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. Without question. I think the issue is more affordability.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

But there are questions about how to accomplish it equitably, making sure that students who can handle difficult math content aren’t having their talents squandered, she argues. Based on her research, the factors that are used to determine how to group students differ depending both on the state and the type of school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Context matters, and we have to ask the questions to understand the context for each and every student. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. Without question. I think the issue is more affordability.

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Internet Accessibility Local Government Activities 282

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Students are the problem.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

These are the tough questions I asked myself when taking over as superintendent of Maury County Schools in Tennessee in August 2015. As a district leader, how do I support our teachers and ensure that they are challenging students who are at a higher level while providing struggling students with proper support?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

“What if schools could offer a different approach to STEM education that provided students with truly immersive learning opportunities?” During this week, schools replace their usual curriculum with projects aimed at building lunar colonies, creating interactive monsters, designing digital games, and practicing surgical techniques.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways. The campaign became draining for my family and tested the values that I chose to uphold and run on.

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