Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. In tandem, educators often have the ability to purchase or acquire materials that students do not have access to at home or otherwise.

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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

MAY 30, 2018

However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an organization that has been mapping proficiency standards for 15 years, says the gap between how states define proficiency is narrowing. NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. million fund that Danner and a partner (who he declined to name) launched in 2019, with their own money, to make angel investments in education companies. In 2018, he focused on education, backing nine such startups.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Between 2005 and 2017, Mississippi increased its scores in all grade and subject areas of the national exam. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Expanding our phonics ecosystem to support fourth and fifth grade is the direct result of educators asking us for a solution to fill the continued, growing need for explicit Tier 1 phonics and word study skill development beyond the third grade,” said Stewart. Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Most people associate Khan Academy with online videos, and that’s largely what it has been since 2005 when founder and CEO Sal Khan began recording instructional clips from his closet to help his cousin better understand math. The five county offices of education will be “endorsing” Khan Academy’s new tool for the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional. “I

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As for the Ontario Association for Media Literacy (AML) (cited in Duncan, 2005) “Media literacy is concerned with developing an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. Ask them to apply critical thinking questions to assess its credibility.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, announced today the Utah State Board of Education approved its flagship 95 Phonics Core Program ® and 95 Phonics Intervention and 95 Phonological Awareness Intervention as Recommended Supplemental Literacy Curriculum Resources. Lincolnshire, Ill. –

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 21, 2019

For example, I’ve been co-writing OER textbooks with students since my Spring 2005 course Advanced Topics in Learning Object Design and Reuse, followed by Project Management for Instructional Designers , and then An Open Education Reader.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Those of us who have spent time in math classrooms or helping our kids with homework around the dining room table tend to have plenty of anecdotal fuel for our passion to change the way we approach math education. In recent decades, the concept of “ big ideas ” has come to the forefront in math education, among other disciplines.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

An estimated 100,000 students were displaced by Katrina when the levees failed after the hurricane in August of 2005. Related: Don’t ever conflate disaster recovery with education reform. Many students never recovered from the displacement of 2005. Students pushed out by Katrina needed resources to return to “normalcy.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

million students access its digital course materials, including those at 750 of the top 1,000 higher education institutions in North America. Bluedoor was founded in 2005 and is based in Minneapolis. Last year, the company ceased sales of individual assessment tools to instead offer a bundle of its products.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2019

Quizlet , the studying tool he built in 2005, is now one of the most widely used education apps, claiming more than 50 million active users in 130 countries who have created over 300 million study sets. The kid was just trying to pass high school French. Fast forward 14 years.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Initially–and ironically–they were designed to foster diversity in higher education. However, a 2018 American University study found that from 2005 to 2016, high school GPAs increased more at wealthier private and suburban schools than lower-income urban public schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005. Over the last 12 years, Pedersen has completely transformed his classroom, making it a model for other educators in the region and winning accolades (including a 2016 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching).

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

He was also the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Department of Education for three years during the Obama Administration. He is currently the head of assessment and learning sciences at Roblox, an online gaming company. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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

JULY 16, 2017

On the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, African-American fourth graders performed 26 points lower than white fourth graders in measures of reading. They were tracked from the age of about 8 months until they finished sixth grade in 2005. Read more about early education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

Regardless of where one stands on the education reform spectrum, we all must do everything possible to find the best, most comprehensive solutions to address this crisis. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 25 percent of students nationwide are writing on grade level, and 3 percent are considered advanced.

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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. The Magnolia State has been making steady progress on NAEP since 2005.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2012

Join me Wednesday, August 8th, at an early time , for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com panel with Stephen Downes, Howard Gardner, Alfie Kohn, and Gary Stager to talk about the need to reform the education reform movement. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Case managers, who have between 40 and 80 students each, start with an assessment of a student’s skills, weaknesses and career goals. Forty-five percent of African-American CPI participants earned a degree or certificate, compared with 17 percent of African-American community college students in Arkansas overall, between 2005 and 2013.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

During my two-year data education fellowship with SDP, I completed a capstone project and presented my findings at our convening in Chicago in May 2023. In addition to our own RCT , we annually conduct many different QED studies on a wide range of state assessments and demographic backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Over my 25 years as an educator, I have worked as a teacher and principal, and I have also worked in philanthropy. I have seen how our nation’s public education system is not serving its students equitably, especially students of color and students from low-income backgrounds. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. psid=2011-09-13.1430.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This post first appeared on EdTech Researcher at Education Week. In his 2005 Scientific American Mind article, Unleashing Creativity , Ulrich Kraft explained that creativity could be nurtured, arguing that new solutions emerge from configuring existing knowledge and understanding in infinite and unique ways. References: Gregory, E.,

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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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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 23, 2012

Overbaugh and Schultz (2005) suggest that in Anderson's model, Bloom's Synthesis is replaced by 'Creating', and that Bloom's 'Evaluation' and 'Synthesis' therefore trade places. A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: a Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. 2005) Bloom's Taxonomy. Overbaugh, R.

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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. 2005 – In Shanghai I helped to set up, run and train teachers to go Virtual School-though we didn’t end up closing due to SARS. Again, video is the key!

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Since its founding in 2005, the lab has tested a variety of games. A recent study of more than 300 participants found that kids who used a Project: Evo game showed significant improvements on a special test designed to assess attention compared with a control group that played a different, non-brain-training video game.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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