eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Similar to earlier research into math and reading, science achievement dropped early in the pandemic. “The trends tell a slightly different story than what we’ve seen in math and reading,” said Sue Kowalski, Lead Research Scientist at NWEA. “Science learning losses are smaller than losses in reading and math.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I vividly remember my English teacher, Mrs. Grant, bringing a stack of 20 well-read copies of A Wrinkle in Time out from the closet for everyone in the class. She would read a chapter or two out loud during class and later we would read independently until it was time to take a test or write a report on what we learned.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. But in 2024, reading scores declined even more for both fourth and eighth graders. newsletters.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students that have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the year receive poor scores. I wondered how the test would affect him after it was over.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Reading is seen as a creative subject. Step 4: Conduct a solution test Set up a space where students can test their paper airplanes and determine the success of their designs. Students will see how reading sparks their creativity, and how STEM can turn their ideas into tangible solutions.

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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. Read part one for background. 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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago. Easy access to valuable data.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

Check back later this month for the next must-read post!]. Further, what if this mindset change led to an increase in student achievement on tests? The technique involves testing students twice: once individually and once in groups. Achievement Gains x 3. There is this passion that really disseminates across the whole room.”.

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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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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. Reading Partners : Assign pairs of students to read to one another after school.

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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 19, 2024

From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. In grades 3-8, if a student was chronically absent, they scored 18% lower in reading on average, and 25% lower in mathematics. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

BOSTON – The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has expanded its ALL in Tutoring reading initiative to include evidence-based resources from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand. Core5 and PowerUp are science of reading-based adaptive blended learning programs that provide students with personalized learning paths.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Education is moving beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic and is surpassing skills assessment through standardized testing. How can we prepare students for the future?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

Check back on Monday, January 23rd for the next must-read post!]. “At 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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It’s a given that students will experience stress as they move through school. Learning new concepts, completing assignments and taking tests, and navigating social experiences all contribute to normal stress. Read more: 3 ways to support youth mental health Chicago students will be able to take mental health days this year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Traditional tests focused on factual recall may instead give way to assessments that better align with NGSS’s emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, and the application of knowledge in real-world contexts. . 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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The pre-K-12 district serves 4000 kids, and that year a new state law requiring that all high school juniors take the ACT went into effect. The test results for Northfield were sobering: just under half the juniors failed to meet the ACT’s college-ready reading benchmark score of 22 out of a possible 36. Source: Reading Plus.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez. My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using robot arms to make french fries, so even a job as straightforward as fry cook will be performed by a human-robot team–even if the human’s part is only maintaining the robot. Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Here, eSchool News highlights the San Diego Unified School District–one of its K-12 Hero Awards winners. Nominee : San Diego Unified School District.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs. Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Powered by K12 Insight , the new online destination features daily original and curated stories, commentary and special features exploring critical issues facing America’s public schools, with a special focus on community engagement, innovative leadership, student safety and school technology. RingCentral, Inc. ,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. The middle of the year is cold, the holidays are over, and we are looking at the high-pressure demands of preparing students for standardized testing.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

And I’ve always had a lot of ideas for projects, like a hoverboard for reading books in the bath. In most of lower school, I was pretty opposed to making because I didn't really know what it was. When my Whack-a-Mole prototype wasn’t working, I would make a list of things that could be wrong and test them individually.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nationwide, the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting educational inequalities and led to steep academic declines in both math and reading that have not yet stabilized. According to National Assessment of Educational Progress test results, roughly two decades of academic progress has been lost during the pandemic.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

The district has 33 schools, ranks in the top 6 or 7 in every category in the state, and is growing by 400 to 500 students per year. Biggest challenge: “In Florida, as in many states, we’d been given mandate after mandate about standardized testing, teacher evaluations, etc.,” says Bill Emerson, assistant superintendent.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Some teachers create their own rules, from zero-tolerance approaches like confiscation to more relaxed policies like allowing phones unless a class devolves into chaos, according to Stephan Menasche, a senior at the 3,400-student school in Queens. She was glad that her school rolled out Yondr pouches in fall 2021. They are distracting.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Keep reading to discover how this school keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. Nominee : Ron Clark Academy.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

At South Carolina’s Saluda Trail Middle School, my room has evolved from this stagnant design to one of innovation. Growth targets for reading almost doubled, growing to 62 percent, up from 35 percent among my previous years’ students. Next page: How this classroom redesign success goes beyond test scores).

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

But math also becomes challenging to teach and learn, and many students–especially girls–lose interest in mathematics beginning in middle schools. Almost 70 percent of community college students and 40 percent of four-year college students enroll without college-level reading and mathematics skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

New report finds Common Core is affecting reading and math — but not test scores. ”, also looked at whether the controversial practice of “student tracking” in middle school was related to AP success in high school, and what successful principal leadership looks like when it comes to instruction.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Here, eSchool News highlights the Taylor School District–one of its K-12 Hero Awards finalists. Nominee : Taylor School District. Nominated by : Trox.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is a commonly used acronym, but what does it mean in the context of day-to-day operations in a school district? Were still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s.

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