Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Offering prison education programs is key to community safety.” I’m trying,” she tells them.

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Education Report Course Accessibility 128

EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Between 2014-2016 the University of South Australia has been using the pedagogy associated with both playing and designing LBMLGs to blaze a trail that is informing the development of a contextually-based mobile learning framework for higher education. Background. The games developed have been played over 1,700 times.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Empower is hardly the only education company that has had to adapt its wares to support shifting trends in data interoperability. Why Interoperability Is so Critical for Empower Empower Learning, which offers an LMS and gradebook, is designed to support schools transitioning to a competency-based education model.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

Mariale Hardiman, vice dean of academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and and director of Johns Hopkins’ Neuro-Education Initiative. And in my own doctoral work here at Johns Hopkins I became interested in looking at the research on neuro and cognitive sciences and what of that is relevant to educators.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. Image credit: [link] With all the change the world is now experiencing it is quite dumbfounding, to say the least, as to why schools and education remain static when it comes to change.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The purpose of this study was to determine how educators can best improve educational opportunity for all children, particularly low socioeconomic status (SES) and marginalized students. Other studies have already proposed that the achievement gap is actually an educational opportunity gap.[4]

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse for literacy does not contain any study that has a significant positive effect on broad reading achievement for this group.

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Differentiated Instruction Training Analysis Assessment 113

edWeb.net

JUNE 11, 2019

Whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran teacher, classroom and system-wide assessments can be a time of high anxiety and stress for everyone involved. in School Counseling Program, Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices (2003), Belinda Williams identified four needs of students. After you draft your questions, assess them to be sure you avoid any questions that are unlawful. There are concrete ways to implement and assess rigor in classrooms. Needs of Students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States. Stephen Pruitt is president of the Southern Regional Education Board.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This includes specific facts, theories, and principles that they have learned in past educational experiences or through personal pursuits.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s often possible to further your training while continuing to teach thanks to self-paced online courses: for example, this comprehensive prep course for Praxis Core exams and Subject Assessments. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. Stay current in your field. Let’s say you teach high school biology. London: Routledge, 1982, 2014.

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 8, 2020

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. 2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. Again, video is the key!

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. An intervention agent must help to hire and train babysitters, respite providers, in-home education service staff and job coaches. Giacin, T.A.,

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Training System Analysis Examples 120

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. Think about matching the right online tool to the assessment.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). ST Unitas , South Korea’s largest education business, acquired Princeton Review , the iconic U.S. Yet education ministries across Asia recognize they need more than test-takers; they need students who can ideate, create and compete in a global economy. Last month. Authess $2.2

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. 14] Also set a few student goals for the upcoming semester during the meeting to involve parents in the assessment process.[8]. Avoid using educational jargon, which can confuse parents who aren’t as familiar with elementary teaching terms.[7]. Sources : Quiroz, B.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

All students start their academic journey at the college by sitting with counselors who assess their mental health needs. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Read the series. READ MORE. “We Now that rate is about 36%, school officials said.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. What Should Assessments “Do”? In short (depending on the assessment form, purpose, context, type, etc.),

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Assessment Data Learning Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2013

James Popham, author of (among many other books) The Truth About Testing : An Educator''s Call to Action and Unlearned Lessons : Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools Success. Why is it," Jim writes, "that today''s educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors'' blunders?" It is really dull reading.

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Blackboard Assessment Analysis Study 63

The 21st Century Principal

MAY 26, 2019

"The problem with conformity in education is that people are not standardized to begin with." Sir Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education Let's face it, our public education system is still all about conformity and standardization. Check out their web site here: [link] ).

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Software Company Assessment Strategy 70

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. Today, the company claims its technology can power assessments for phonics, sentences and other fluency measurements. Let's call the whole thing off!

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Exercises Company Assessment Data 79

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Focusing on student engagement, student empowerment, and equity in education, they shared key lessons educators learned during the lockdown. Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. Overall, the latest results reveal important changes in the education conversation.

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Blackboard Learning Strategy Data 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Since developing this system, named “ GradeCraft ,” five years ago with two colleagues, education professor Barry Fishman gleefully admits he’s awarding many more A’s. Related: Fitbit for education: Turning school into a data-tracking game. Higher grades and more motivated students sound good.

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Outcomes System Course Report 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Across the hall, Beth Schefelker and Claire Madden, two other math education specialists, led a group of teachers and principals in adding fractions. Huinker, a professor who advised Hedges’ doctorate in math education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a legend among Milwaukee’s math teachers.

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Elementary Report Training Data 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Harvard case (with a final hearing scheduled for mid-February) focuses narrowly on race and procedural questions about how Harvard assesses Asian-American applicants versus others during admissions reviews. Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan in 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Unlike formal schooling, individual content knowledge is not necessarily assessed through testing (Diaz, et al, 1999). It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001).

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The trajectory of eSpark Learning has been marked by what I like to call “magic moments,” instances in which fearless educators and administrators have aligned with our team to work towards a vision in which every student, regardless of circumstance or background, has the opportunity to set and realize an ambitious dream.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Elementary iPad 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Parents saw curriculums narrowing.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 83

MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 26, 2021

ST Math's educational content is conveyed in a game-like format. Games have the potential to be perceived as an enjoyable and fun activity and, with that, might provide a preferred means to teach math (Bragg, 2003). and 0.31, respectively, for math scale scores on standardized state assessments. and 0.35, respectively.

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Comparison Software Game-Based Learning Guidelines 59

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2016

While overall, the amount of time teacher preparation programs spend on the five components of early literacy (phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension) has increased since 2003, the number of instructional hours and the amount of time programs require aspiring teachers to spend in classrooms varies greatly.

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

To help educators who now find themselves starting another fast-changing and potentially problematic school year, former U.S. And throughout the pandemic, he has been sharing the lessons he has learned with educators and students via online video calls. Blog post by Robert Low based on this edLeader Panel. Micro Goals and Mindsets.

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Veative

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

By creating specially designed virtual environments for the detection, assessment and treatment of this disorder, Virtual Reality can serve both as a diagnostic tool and an effective therapeutic strategy in the rehabilitation of children with ADHD. How can VR help children with ADHD. Due to its high ecological validity, Rizzo et al.

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