Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

When state testing season arrives, classroom routines can quickly fall apart. In this blog, I’ll share six strategies that encourage students to explore, create, reflect, and connecteven during the testing season. Wrap Up Testing season doesnt have to mean learning is on hold. Whats one goal you still have moving forward?

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This quiz is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest Social studies is an ever-evolving discipline. Think you’re up to date on the current state of social studies curriculum? Take our quiz, and put your knowledge to the test. Having trouble viewing?

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school. Students who opt for the workforce diploma will not have their ACT test scores included in their schools public reports.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

Social studies. Results in the form of grades, standardized test scores, and student performance. There’s no shortage of important topics the U.S. education system imparts on our youth. And yet, there is a set of skills that’s not given enough attention in the classroom: Executive functioning. . How did we get here?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social studies is poised for a comeback in U.S. While ELA and math priorities have long enjoyed top billing on many district agendas, the importance of investing more in social studies instruction is now coming to the forefront, especially in an era when students are having to decode increasingly complex political and social issues.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2015

“The word PARCC became synonymous with a nightmare test,” said chair of state senate education committee. The longer, tougher PARCC school tests, criticized by many as too time-consuming and full of technological glitches, are gone from Ohio after one year — before students and schools even know their scores.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS — Certell, the creator behind the Poptential family of free social studies course packages, announced a significant update to its digital curriculum and platform designed to help students better understand the principles that have shaped American history while giving teachers tools to better manage their classroom and improve learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

If you’re an educator, the weeks leading up to state testing are likely some of the most stressful and demanding days in your year. You’re focused not only on test preparation, but also on each student’s specific needs. 10 Tips for Testing Success. Ace the Test with Study Island. Assessment For Learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors a variety of content to help students learn about the national debt using pop culture media to engage students. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. the nonprofit behind Poptential. The debt ceiling will be in the news this spring.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

MCSD narrowed the gap between its test scores and the state averages on 12 tests this year: third-grade English language arts, science, and social studies. fourth-grade science and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. eighth-grade social studies.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

For example, before a math test, I create a Quizizz game with problems covering the key concepts. “The competitive environment provided by Quizizz fosters a sense of motivation and engagement that is linked to better performance and higher test scores” (Zhang & Crawford, 2023, p. During a social studies unit on the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In fact, one state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. The data brief, False Assurances: Many states’ licensure tests don’t signal whether elementary teachers understand reading instruction , provides the most up-to-date analysis on the quality of elementary reading teacher licensure exams being used by each state.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Poptential , a family of award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content to illustrate the culture, traditions, and history of Native Americans for National American Indian Heritage Month. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet.

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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. They also used the green screens for social studies lessons, taking an epic selfie with the whole class.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. What’s at stake in social studies education? The content of modern social studies curricula is highly contested, and evolving rapidly and sometimes radically.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

As students cram, her team of four has been scrambling to meet the demand on Fiveable , where she and other teachers broadcast live test-prep sessions. In its first year, she claims, more than 90 percent of the 400-plus students on the platform passed their AP World History and US History tests. More than 2.8

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and data from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt hit an all-time high in early August. 7 states (+DC) require a standardized test on personal finance concepts be administered. As a country, our financial literacy skills are dismal.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

According to that “big” test, the PISA, math and science test scores of all U.S. Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events. So have students learned more? students have been largely flat since about 2000. What about how they have done that learning?

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Poptential , a family of free, award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content about the Civil Rights Movement for instruction during Black History Month. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. history and society.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

“It’s been more than 125 years since the first Labor Day was observed, and the labor movement can seem a little dry to today’s high school students,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc., the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In a new analysis, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use a weak elementary teacher reading licensure test, meaning that they do not effectively measure teachers’ knowledge of scientifically based reading instruction prior to entering the classroom.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best. I also make Modern States (and taking the CLEP test) optional for my students–but I do give extra credit for passing the exam.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The positive benefits extend well beyond the walls of my classroom: overall behaviors improve, and because they can now read proficiently, students also do better in classes like science, social studies, and math–all areas where our test scores have also improved.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Test data from many sources suggest students are still behind where they were before the pandemic. They also urged states to do more user testing of their websites and to be more transparent about the state of academic recovery, even when it’s not good. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Richard Byrne, blogger, speaker, and former high school social studies teacher. In an era of high-stakes testing, inquiry-based learning doesn’t fit the model of “preparing them for the test.” Inquiry-based learning can’t be scheduled into convenient 30-minute blocks the way standardized test-prep is often scheduled.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Achieve3000 delivers a comprehensive suite of digital platforms that significantly accelerate and deepen learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, and ELA. For more than five million students in grades PreK-12, Achieve3000 improves high-stakes test performance and drives college and career readiness. and four U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All tests are registered trademarks of their respective owners. This product has been developed independently from and is not endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization. International Baccalaureate is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Civics Education Is at a Crossroads This knowledge gap is due in large part to the sidelining of K-12 social studies since the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2015

“I love that I get a level for each student’s reading ability right off the bat, and really like the variety of articles Front Row provides, as many of them are in line with what I am teaching in social studies and science, and are things my kids actually find interesting.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Additionally, studies across 70,000 schools in 49 states show that IXL leads to higher test scores , with schools scoring as much as 17 percentile points higher on language arts on state assessments. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tier 1 and Tier 2 research shows undisputed favorable outcomes for schools implementing IXL.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. All content is available via our digital platform, which allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments. Poptential course packages in American History, World History, U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The IXL Diagnostic also provides a more uplifting assessment experience for students because it does not feel like a traditional test. Available in 57 languages, IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Yet my students’ successes indicate that the conditions that often make school difficult for marginalized students—such as required minutes per course, attendance requirements, traditional testing—are neutralized or at least equalized in a competency-based system.

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