Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

The nonprofit assessment organization NWEA, Peters’ organization, recently released guidance for schools to better identify when students are prepared to take algebra, in the hopes of encouraging schools to use “universally administered” data points when making math placements. In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy.

Advocacy 201

Advocacy Secondary Policies Guidelines 201

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But for many educators, content providers, and policymakers, self-evaluation means self-assessment, and assessment means different things to different people. For some, it is part of a formative assessment process that provides multiple sources of data. For others, assessment equates solely to tests or diagnostic screenings.

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Data Secondary Learning Assessment 167

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Now they ask teachers to check the tool’s data privacy policy and age requirements when making a request, so they have a better understanding of why a tool is—or isn’t—a good fit. Core curriculum products can be quantitatively assessed by looking at whether they are helping meet district goals around student learning.

EdTech 122

EdTech Assessment Policies Data 122

EdNews Daily

JULY 18, 2017

A considerable portion of the courses that I delivered were internally assessed and coursework based. Assessment of these courses did not involve standardized testing, but they did involve standardized criteria to compare learners’ work against; the writing of coursework briefs also needed to comply with sets of standard criteria.

Secondary 176

Secondary Software Analysis Assessment 176

eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2023

TeachAI will bring critical voices across education, policy, and technology to develop a practical framework for teaching with AI and teaching about AI. AI’s rapid pace of development in recent months offers exciting applications for the classroom, but the unprecedented technology also demands deliberation as the implications are vast.

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Khan Academy EdTech Secondary Classroom 111

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The Learning Policy Institute calculates the cost of distance learning at about $500 per student for a total of $3.7 Here are five existing policies that policymakers and local officials are likely to lean on to ensure that funds are used effectively, with regard to investments in remote learning programs and services.

Policies 180

Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 180

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data.

Secondary 359

Secondary Exercises Data Study 359

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

In their July 14, 2019 article “ Why Teachers Quit ,” We Are Teachers summarizes, “A recent study by the Learning Policy Institute shows that if a teacher receives mentoring, collaboration, and extra resources, and is part of a strong teacher network, first-year turnover is cut by more than half. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 355

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Delivering formative assessments is made easier with classroom technology tools. As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time.

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Assessment Tools Secondary Data 75

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities.

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Study Training Differentiated Instruction Trends 265

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

Secondary and middle schools in Ontario, Canada , are banning the use of cell phones during classes effective from September 2019. Whatever way the argument skews, one thing is for sure: schools need to come up with policies to address this issue. He also served on a number of curriculum and assessment committees.

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Smartphone Classroom Digital Citizenship Laptops 262

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

million post-secondary educators are at risk of losing their jobs today by performing one single act: Posting on social media. If you conduct a Google search of colleges with social media policies, a plethora of institutional sites will display their policies, procedures and institutional expectancies of faculty and staff.

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Social Media Policies Secondary Examples 173

Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2017

When schools find ways to welcome student opinions — to partner with students “as stakeholders in their own learning,” especially at the secondary level — they do more than equip students with tools for lifelong success. Engage students in studying and assessing their school.

Handbook 184

Handbook Policies Secondary Meeting 184

eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Nonprofits will seek opportunities to ensure assessments and curricula measure and teach essential skills most important to secondary and higher education students and institutions. Tying CenterPoint’s’ data literacy services to CAE’s assessment approaches offers mutual clients innovative solutions to address potential learning gaps.

Secondary 98

Secondary Assessment Education Outcomes 98

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

A recent study by Policy Study Associates showed that schools that partner with City Year were up to two to three times more likely to improve on math and English assessments. Most of all, City Year’s work delivers results.

Policies 149

Policies Study Secondary Assessment 149

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Meanwhile, digital media, heavily reliant on visuals and text, with audio often secondary, is playing an increasing role in education. Audio is often a secondary consideration; particularly once users can read. Accessibility can’t be an afterthought; it must be a top priority baked into every program, policy and initiative.

Secondary 141

Secondary Industry Policies Accessibility 141

eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As many experts will point out, DEI initiatives are prone to fail when they arent getting at the crux of the issue–existing systemic processes and challenges that prevent promising solutions and DEI-focused policies from being successful. We do it, but we dont do it with fidelity, and thats what is needed.

Chromebook 114

Chromebook EdTech Robotics Elementary 114

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. Bitsize is the BBC’s collection of free short videos and lessons (they’re all bite-sized) on over fifty subjects taught in Primary or Secondary education. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity.

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Video Khan Academy Education Mobility 181

MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue. How Schools Can Acknowledge Secondary Trauma. Explore the resources created by the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative , a collaboration between the Massachusetts Advocates for Children and the Harvard Law School.

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Secondary Education Strategy Assessment 53

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2022

Maybe to assess the health and character of our education system we should look at how our teachers are treated and how they are feeling. It would mean adjusting or changing our policies, class sizes, duties and expectations. Nelson Mandela once said that “The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.”

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System Education Secondary Report 183

The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 29, 2014

Let me tell Secretary Duncan what his policies have done to the schools. In addition, the test-centric school system culture fostered by Arne Duncan''s policies have forced schools to devote inordinate amounts of time to test-prep. This year, I could count the number of secondary teachers I spoke to on one hand.

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Assessment Secondary Policies Comparison 80

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Jessica Mislevy Director of Digital Learning and Technology Policy, SRI Education Recently, EdSurge spoke with education researchers Kerry Friedman and Jessica Mislevy about the importance of integrating evidence-based practices, educator input and a systems lens from the earliest stages of product development.

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Learning Outcomes Policies System 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s teaching to the test — the assessment is all that matters,” Whitehouse said. He has since left the school system, in part over frustration with the policy, and now teaches overseas. But as a matter of policy, the status quo will largely remain for now. Students will find that, and they’ll game the system.

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System Meeting Training Policies 214

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Quite often, these teams collaborated to create policies around technology and to problem-solve whatever challenges would arise. Initiative 2: Reconsidering Internet Filtering — Filtering policies had originally been set up to protect students, but they often frustrated secondary educators and students alike.

EdTech 157

EdTech Accessibility Policies Digital Citizenship 157

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2023

During the edLeader Panel “ A Roadmap to Employability: Integrating Higher-Order Skills Into Curricula and Assessment ,” distinguished speakers shed light on crucial aspects of education policy, funding, and curriculum development, with a focus on preparing students for employability and entrepreneurship.

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Secondary Assessment Outcomes Policies 90

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

But how are we addressing the ways that the system has failed our secondary students when they first learned to read? Conversations about the science of reading are happening primarily with elementary and early childhood educators. Those conversations are preventing further literacy injustice and disenfranchisement.

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Policies Elementary Secondary Trends 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Policy Center , a nonpartisan research organization. Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. National assessments tell us that 20 years of academic progress were erased in a year.

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Secondary Trends Report Policies 109

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Yet without a coordinated national response to the crisis, reliable data that could help inform policy is scarce. Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. The sweep of the coronavirus across the U.S. has produced an information paradox.

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Data Education Guidelines Secondary 161

MindShift

MAY 11, 2020

Their solutions included switching to a pass/incomplete system at secondary schools and focusing on narrative feedback at elementary schools. For the fourth quarter, San Leandro’s secondary students will receive a “pass” or “incomplete” instead of a letter grade. aside postID=”mindshift_52813″ hero=”[link].

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Policies Secondary Elementary Chromebook 68

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 114

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

schools, their needs are often seen and treated as secondary rather than as of equal importance to their peers’. And that has resulted in policies, textbooks, training and assessments for our nation’s 5 million ELs that seem like an afterthought. Though English learners are the fastest-growing student population in U.S.

Academic Standards 126

Academic Standards Secondary Policies System 126

Neo LMS

JULY 31, 2018

As a campus administrator, you need to assess whether your institution is competitively positioned over other organizations offering students similar courses. Use the Data Lab provided by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) to assess where your campus stands against others in your niche. Campus competitive analysis.

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Outcomes Data Analysis LMS 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25. Yet their prospects are perilous. In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school.

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EdTech Pearson Company Industry 137

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cyberbullying in particular is fueled by a lack of proper policies and wide access to smartphones and other devices. ” At the center of the study was a new, easy-to-implement protocol for secondary school teachers to use to help increase reading fluency of their students. school district in 2022-23.

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Data EdTech Smartphone Elementary 117

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With educational technology shaping the future and assessment literacy becoming a focal point of discussions, keeping up with scholarly articles and findings is not just a good-to-have—it’s a must. This is a journal that is as concerned with the hows of effective teaching, learning, and assessment as it is with the whys.

Education 110

Education Policies Analysis STEM 110

edWeb.net

MAY 12, 2022

He emphasized the importance of having all the structures and systems working together and based on the science of reading, as well as having the district policies and funding in place to purchase appropriate curriculum materials and provide the professional development needed to use the materials effectively. At the Secondary Level.

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Secondary Professional Learning Advocacy System 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy , where I serve as a research analyst, investigated the country’s strongest models — and lessons learned from abroad — and released a policy report late last month. Ensure a seamless transition to post-secondary education. We recommend two practical mechanisms.

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Secondary Policies Industry Training 75