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Incorporate Literacy Tools in K–12 STEM Subjects

EdTech Magazine

Reading levels for 13-year-old students have been declining since 2012, with the sharpest drop between 2020 and 2023, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s long-term trend assessment. Interestingly, mathematics scores closely follow the same drops, the assessment report shows. “If

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The League Meets the West Coast: A Look Into the Fall 2022 League Convening

Digital Promise

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. Opening panel moderated by Digital Promise’s President and CEO, Jean-Claude Brizard.

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How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995

Edsurge

The average math score among both fourth and eighth graders in 2023 was statistically the same as in 1995 when some of todays students' own parents were in grade school themselves. Looking at the Big Picture Fourth graders scored an average of 517 points in math in 2023, putting them just one point lower than the average score in 1995.

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Smithsonian and Carolina Biological Announce New Study Results and Effectiveness of their K – 5 Science Curriculum

eSchool News

On the SAT10, students who are often underrepresented in STEM careers, including: female students, the economically disadvantaged, those with individualized education programs (IEPs), and those who are Black, Indigenous, people of color still outperformed their peers in science. Department of Education.

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Why aren’t female students sticking with STEM?

eSchool News

Female middle and high school students have a high aptitude fit with, but low interest in, STEM careers, such as technology, manufacturing, and architecture, among others, according to the 2023 Female Student and STEM Career Exposure Gap Report from YouScience.

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37 predictions about edtech’s impact in 2023

eSchool News

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2023. They will continue to step up in 2023 to meet the challenge.

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Cultivating STEM excellence in an all-girls Catholic high school

eSchool News

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. We became STEM certified in 2016 because we wanted independent verification of our program’s quality. Mercy’s curriculum requires at least 75 percent of a course’s assessment points to be for performance tasks addressing real-world problems.

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