Hapara

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tabernacle Township School District’s 665 elementary and middle school students are one-to-one with devices. Following a year of hybrid instruction where student cohorts were in school for a half day every other day, then virtual on alternate days and in the afternoon, students returned to regular full days in the classroom in September 2021.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

The past several years have seen a rapid rise in the use of edtech in classrooms, accelerated by the pandemic and the sudden shift to remote learning. In the 2021-22 school year, the district piloted Google Sites in a small group of classrooms and collected feedback from the pilot teachers and students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 9, 2021

February 3, 2021. Kathryn Kahler-Rickman Elementary School Math Teacher, LAUSD. Many students have experienced success learning with ST Math because the program has demonstrated an ability to reduce math anxiety , a significant barrier to the learning experience. Old Math vs. New Math. Gameplay Makes Math Accessible.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Studies released during the second half of 2021 confirm that students learned a lot more in person than they did during remote instruction. But since so many students didn’t take spring tests in 2021, the accuracy of these estimates was uncertain. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2024

Here are three ways school administrators can use remaining ESSER III funds to add or enhance a digital learning program in their school or district. To promptly address these staffing challenges, I propose school and district leaders leverage remaining ESSER III funds by forming partnerships with reputable online learning providers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. Amanda Amtmanis, the PE instructor at Macdonough Elementary, hands a fifth grader a card with a QR code for tracking her mileage. Whoa, look at Dominic!”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Almost a year later, in February 2021, the results are in: a mere three online learning technologies have clear evidence for improving student achievement. Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. The third is an online algebra course for eighth graders.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2021

30, 2021 – VHS Learning, a nonprofit empowering schools with the industry’s best teacher-led online learning programs, today announced that schools in New Jersey, North Carolina, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, along with Sierra Leone, are now offering their students access to more than 250 core and elective courses online.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic. In 2021, mid-pandemic, the exact same proportion of students gave this positive response.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. Another Boston student became severely depressed during online learning and was hospitalized for months.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home. Require masks, and model good masking for kids. Conclusion.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). ” Continued waves of infection have forced many districts to alternate between in-person, hybrid, and fully-online learning. But why aren’t schools spending the money?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

6, 2021 – VHS Learning, an accredited non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s best online learning programs, has appointed Dr. Yolanda D. Boston – Dec. Johnson to its board of directors. Courses are approved for initial eligibility by NCAA.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 19, 2021

KMcCray85) January 8, 2021. Watch this quick video to learn how! Megan says that there are a lot of differences between online learning and face-to-face, but that many things do remain the same. Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Learning Expectations. Is Online Learning Good for ALL Types of Learners?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TutorMe , the online tutoring solution of the future, and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) today announced an agreement to provide more than 35,000 K-12 students with free access to TutorMe’s online 24/7 tutoring service for the 2021-2022 school year. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse. Lampkin blames the year and a half his sons were away from school buildings from March 2020 until the fall of 2021.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

For teachers who want to continue with CoderZ, Amazon will also sponsor free access to the yearlong curriculum for 100,000 students from underserved communities within the United States for a full semester during 2020 – 2021. CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. About CoderZ.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Back in April, as schools across the country shifted to online instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Scott Muri saw firsthand just how damaging lack of internet access can be for students and families. We have to do something about that, especially now that so many of our students are learning remotely,” Muri said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? Mayor, ensure that all K-12 students who opted for remote learning have the opportunity to return to classrooms before the end of the year, and take ownership of your original, flawed decision to not consider doing so. But the mayor said he isn’t yet sure about the high school kids.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At Northside, the share of eighth graders passing the state math standards test fell by 19 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, to 68 percent. (No Many of his peers were similarly struggling: The share of the school’s seventh graders passing the state’s standardized math test dropped by almost 30 percentage points from 2019 to 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 3,600 students 1 In-person enrollment: 86 percent after reopening for a four-day week in March 2 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 5 cases in the fall (identified by the state in two elementary school outbreaks) 3 17 cases in the spring (15 rapid test positives, 2 PCR test positives); none identified by the state as outbreaks 4.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school. When the district’s schools were forced to transition to online learning in March 2020, access to devices was paramount. All the schools worked together to pool available laptops and iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With the pandemic raging in Los Angeles, the 2021 Grammys have been postponed until March 14. During the pandemic, elementary and high school students have still been getting access to quality music education in some cases, as their teachers learn to adapt. Music and music education have been critical to my life.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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Elementary Assessment Report Outcomes 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2023

Four out of five child care centers across the United States are understaffed, according to a 2021 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) survey. Child care workers are paid on average a third of what elementary teachers make. The center where I teach is one of them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. It’s harder. school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

What is alarming for advocates and policy-makers, is that even for families that do have broadband internet access at home, the survey found that most are “ under-connected ,” or lacking devices or service that are sufficient and reliable enough for remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

During the pandemic, Krystal Clifton, a veteran fourth-grade teacher in Kankakee, Illinois, 60 miles south of Chicago, ran a study in her classroom to see how well her students were learning, both remotely and in-person. His nonprofit arm, the Learning Agency Lab, launched the Teacher Run Experiment Network this 2020-21 school year.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, April 21, 2021 – At Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) in Massachusetts, the Media Arts team produces content for schools, departments, and teachers while offering students a wide array of media classes, clubs, and work study opportunities.

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