Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

And those that are planned aren’t taking place in person, according to a recent analysis from the Center for Reinventing Public Education, or CRPE. “A That approach might miss an opportunity for addressing learning loss caused by missed instruction during the switch to remote learning, according to the CRPE analysis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Here are five online math resources that will turn boring math into a favorite subject: Mathletics. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Yet other studies have concluded that students were harmed and learned less in a flipped classroom. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. Related: Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I’m heartbroken for the impossible situation families have been put in, especially families with no resources, going to schools that don’t have the luxury of fancy online learning or giant schoolyards or under-crowded classrooms,” Latané says. In June, the group mobilized. See methodology for this project here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. Online learning played a major role , but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If elementary and middle school students don’t learn these subjects well, the steady ramp up from arithmetic to algebra becomes a ninety-degree wall, according to Hung-Hsi Wu, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. First, let’s take a closer look at middle school learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

Missing out on social connections is hard for middle schoolers in general, and especially so for kids in sixth grade who are just beginning to create their social networks, said Geoffrey Borman, a professor of education policy and analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

All the focus on the logistics of getting kids back in schools gave short shrift to planning quality distance education this summer, said Benjamin Cottingham, associate director of strategic partnership at Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).

Learning 141

Learning Blackboard Student Engagement Social Media 141

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. A new analysis released from the Center on Reinventing Public Education shows just how much ground there might be to cover. But administrators still found that online learning wasn’t enough to help all students master grade level content.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

million in the same period last year, according to an analysis for The Hechinger Report conducted by the consulting firm Kantar Media. million in that period, almost quadruple last year’s spending, the analysis showed. She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. public and private school teachers and 27 percent of principals, according to a recent analysis from the American Enterprise Institute. 210,000 — The number of bus drivers working directly for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

One December 2021 analysis by consulting firm McKinsey & Company noted that students in majority Black schools are five months behind where they usually are in both math and reading while students in majority white schools are now just two months behind where they have been historically. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Cottingham, associate director of strategic partnerships at Stanford University’s Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), who recently co-authored a brief urging school districts to use this summer to develop clear guidance on AI use, said there’s little evidence right now that AI detection tools are effective. Benjamin W.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Teachers have long spent their own money to outfit their classrooms — on average, teachers spend $459 out of pocket on school supplies annually, according to an analysis of 2011-12 data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. How would she set up those screens in the first place?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Absences were more prevalent among Latino, Black and low-income students, according to Dee’s analysis. They cost crucial classroom time as schools work to recover from massive learning setbacks. James, 12, has autism and struggled first with online learning and then with a hybrid model.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform.

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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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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Learning Environment. One Way of Introducing Heutagogy: Chris Kenyon. My Chapter: Moving From Education 1.0

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2024

Credit: Getty Images Studies show that students of all ages, from elementary school to college, tend to absorb more when they’re reading on paper rather than screens. I wish, however, the children had been asked to do something involving more analysis to buttress their argument that students had engaged in deeper reading on paper.

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Exercises Study Laptops Report 111

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ultimately, from Upchurch and the technology team to leadership districtwide, AISD knows how important technology is in today’s learning environment and wants every student to have the same opportunity to be successful. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a spring survey in California, nearly one-third of Spanish-speaking families said that they could not understand the distance learning information sent home by their children’s schools.

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Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the summer of 2020 after schools had been shuttered for about three months, another nonprofit maker of math software for elementary schools called Zearn was thinking about a way to keep kids on grade level. If just-in-time supply delivery works for production, might just-in-time review work for learning?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Koedinger and his team’s data analysis was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, in March 2023. The study offers the hope that “anyone can learn anything they want” if they get well-designed practice exercises and put some effort into it.

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Exercises Software Study Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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Study Data Report Elementary 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. That long commute is not uncommon in New York and elsewhere, especially for Black students, who in one analysis of five major cities, had longer school commutes than their white and Hispanic counterparts.

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Personalized Learning Report Survey Training 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Though families told Chalkbeat they’re mostly happy with the education their children are getting online, cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania have reported lower standardized test scores and graduation rates than all schools statewide. Cordes’ analysis, though, didn’t back up that assertion at the high school level.)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home. The data analysis underlying this project primarily led us to profile rural communities, which may have gotten lucky with low Covid-19 case numbers in previous phases of the pandemic — but are now unable to escape Delta.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

All reading audio is captured and recorded for teacher playback, a feature essential for blended (remote and in-person online) learning. Provides Running Record Charts to record and track students’ word analysis capabilities. Reports in Real Time key reading skill scores and shows trend data.

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Company Tools Assessment Pearson 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

Only six out of every 100 Mississippi families with children in poverty have access to cash through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families , compared to a national average of 22 per 100, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released this month.

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Policies Analysis Trends Industry 74

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. Thoughtless expansion of tech tools into the classroom can exacerbate the discrimination Black and Hispanic students already face, experts warn. Take facial recognition technology.

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EdTech Company Data Software 132

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

times the rate of white students, according to an analysis of federal data by the New York Civil Liberties Union. It’s one way pandemic adjustments can address discipline inequities long-term. During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 The disparity was slightly steeper on average (3.9

Learning 144

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Students with the internet at home could access online learning activities offered by the district or participate in virtual classrooms, while packets were provided for children without the ability to log on.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145