eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

As part of the research from 2019-2024, the Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP) at the University of Memphis conducted a school-level randomized controlled trial following a cohort of more than 1,600 students. Department of Education. Smithsonian Science for the Classroom is available for schools through Carolina.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Enel, one of the largest renewable energy operators in North America, sponsored this project to inspire students toward a future in STEM fields, including fast-growing careers in renewables. Each book features an A-to-Z format with full-page colorful illustrations of each Superhero and their unique STEM career.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for 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 2024. What are the projections for edtech?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For example, four of the 10 top-selling elementary school books are part of The Baby-Sitters Club , I Survived , and Dog Man series. Mysteries are hot right now for elementary and upper elementary. Sometimes, it’s not what we think… We know what librarians are buying for their students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Our educational institutions, from elementary schools to universities, are not immune to the growing threat of cybercrime. This attitude stems from a misunderstanding of cybercriminals’ motives. These sectors are prime targets for cybercriminals due to the financial and personal information they store.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The STEM pipeline – a metaphor for the development of future scientists, engineers and other high tech workers – likely starts with a narrower funnel in the post-pandemic era. government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Here’s what today’s educators have to say about AI, STEM, SEL, and more: In 2024, education will move to adopt AI–but slowly. Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For K-12 leaders to succeed in creating high-quality CTE programming, here are five key trends and challenges I believe will affect this important field in 2024 and beyond. That is why STEM education is so important in elementary and middle school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

“On the one hand, our elementary students are nearly back to pre-pandemic academic growth and achievement for science, but our older students are still very much struggling.” Lewis and Kuhfeld (2024) found larger achievement gaps across all grades in reading and math, with up to 9.0 This report analyzed data from 621 U.S.

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Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

Here are the honorees for 2024. 2024 Teacher Leader Impact Award winners Alyssa Dillard 5th and 6th Grade Reading Interventionist Metropolitan School District of Warren Township Indianapolis, IN Noemi Jimenez, MA Kindergarten Biliteracy Teacher St. Congratulations! Vrain Valley Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. Schools are expected to face a reckoning after September 2024 when these federal funds expire.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. As students moved from elementary to middle school, the improvement in reading for Black students was dramatic in the 1970s and 1980s. The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. Full survey results are slated to be published in the winter 2024 issue of the MathAMATYC Educator , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Slightly Negative’ Interest in four-day weeks usually stems from the need to recruit or retain teachers in the absence of funding. Because of the lower-than-expected interest, the district had to pivot from its plan to run these care programs in all elementary schools, instead running them in regional "centers" around the city.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

(CAE), a leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills and for subject area assessments, today announced a multiyear collaboration with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the nation’s leading provider of PreK-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Biochemistry can be elementary. Students generally learn about moles, atoms, compounds and the intricacies of the periodic table in college, but Daniel Fried is convinced kids can learn complex biochemistry topics as early as elementary school. Both teachers think the curriculum could bring more diversity to STEM.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). Despite this flexibility, districts must spend their ESSER dollars by September 2024, before this infusion of federal funds winds down.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for 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 2024. What are the projections for edtech?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum and Natick-based MathWorks announced today their continued partnership to bring the Museum’s Traveling Science Workshops to classrooms throughout Massachusetts and beyond for the 2023-2024 school year. This is the fourteenth consecutive school year that MathWorks has invested in the school outreach program.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At least seven states have passed recent legislation requiring schools to identify and support elementary students who are struggling in math. 30, 2024–or else they risk losing this important opportunity. States with similar laws include Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2024

ISTE announced this week the winners of the 2024 Impact Award, Distinguished District Award, Making It Happen Award, and 20 To Watch Awards. The 2024 awardees are: Kara Bobroff, Executive Director, One Generation (Albuquerque, NM) Tom Vander Ark, CEO, Getting Smart (Federal Way, WA) Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Lucas, Ed.D.,

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a super cool app that encourages problem-based learning and STEM skills for students. “ Take the TimePod on a journey across time and space to Mars in 2024 to help solve a series of crises as Earth begins its full colonization of the red planet. Here are 5 TimePod Lessons to try (elementary, middle, and high school).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Little Scholars of Arkansas (LISA) Academy is a tuition-free public charter school with a comprehensive STEM-focused college preparatory program. Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 2, 2021

billion went to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). In the third round, the federal government made its largest contribution to K-12 education: $130 billion to be spent by 2024. She is a recognized STEM education expert, an authority on U.S. Thus, of the $30.7 American Rescue Plan Act (Mar.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

All modules in the updated core science curriculum are rolling out for the 2024-25 school year. The new 2 nd Edition was extensively field tested by educators and will be available for purchase through Carolina for the 2024-25 school year. I will definitely use this when doing future STEM projects.” Teacher support is included.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In addition to learning concepts they’d see in algebra that fall, they were exposed to the stories of famous Black and Latino figures who excelled in STEM, such as Black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and Mexican-American astronaut Jose M. In the summer of 2009, Mims piloted his idea with a group of rising eighth graders.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

VWSD consists of three high schools (grades 9 – 12), three middle schools (grades 7-8), ten elementary schools, and an alternative program. The Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) serves all of Warren County, Mississippi, and has an enrollment of approximately 7,200 students in grades Pre-K through 12.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Marrero’s leadership has been widely recognized with several awards, including Superintendent of the Year by the District Administration Leadership Institute and the Colorado Association of Latino/a Administrators and Superintendents, both for 2024.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects. When asked to create entire assessments, the models failed to develop a set of satisfying questions, resorting to low-quality, elementary questions instead.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2020 review of nearly 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring was particularly helpful in reading during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. But less frequent tutoring, such as having sessions once a week, was not. Kids were falling behind in math before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

PHOENIX – ASU Prep Pilgrim Rest announced a new partnership with Dreamscape Learn , making it the first elementary school in the country to offer students a dynamic new learning experience that blends the power of experiential pedagogy, cinematic engagement, and advanced virtual reality (VR) technology.

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Discovery Education

APRIL 16, 2023

The Elementary and Secondary School Relief Fund (ESSER) are congressionally-approved rounds (3 total) of relief aid totaling $190 billion for school districts. We’re in Round II (due September 30, 2023) and districts and EdTech companies continue to gear up for Round III (due September 30, 2024).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Problems (that we all know about) Educators across the globe are increasingly familiar with the staggering statistics: Between 2010 and 2020, STEM jobs growth will outpace all other jobs at 1 8.7% , leading to an estimated 1.1 million computing jobs by 2024. “I can barely fix a printer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Back in Germany, Becker will finish his internship in September 2024 with expertise in IT services and network security. Although policymakers want to expand the practical element across all levels of education, university still remains the goal for many students and their parents.

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