Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. These educational practices can be powerful tools for information retrieval. quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., lectures)” (p.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide. Here are the top five ways that the cloud is changing education today; many of them may surprise you.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Education is too fundamentally important to the health of our society.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. This is where Mastery Education’s Measuring Up can help. How curriculum-based assessment improves education. In math, it was 41 percent. What is Measuring Up?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. Other investors include Upfront Ventures, Thrive Capital and Rethink Education. She says so herself.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The revamped event, appropriately named " Ignite ", is a great example of a national organization breaking away from traditional conference constructs to create a relevant and meaningful learning experience for it''s membership Content selection. 21st Century Leadership connected educators educational leadership Ignite NASSP'

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

The educational system as we know it needs a revamp. The educational system needs to be restructured. There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. The idea is noble.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Personalized learning is currently emerging as one of the biggest trends in education. So, how can educational institutions offer a personalized learning environment for students without having to divide them into smaller groups based on their interests and level and get a separate teacher for each group? What is personalized learning?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In the current higher education landscape — one where disinvestment and falling enrollment is driving colleges to compete with their peers in new and increasingly controversial ways — institutions are under more pressure than ever to prioritize business over student success. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

For years, Black males have been underrepresented in PK-12 education. While there have been many efforts to diversify classrooms by adding more Black male educators, there are still obstacles preventing us from successfully reaching this goal. His story is a great example of the impact of diversity in today’s classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Is online the educational and economic game changer I thought it was? Or so I thought. community colleges.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2018

I find myself without strong enthusiasm for the task of writing a conventional set of predictions about education technology in 2018. Many education technology companies do the opposite: they deepen the moat around the castles of affluence. The most urgent needs of the most vulnerable children in this nation involve other technologies.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress. For example, let’s say you’ve never played basketball before. In K-12, social learning theory examples can emerge in a few ways. On later occasions, this coded information serves as a guide for action.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As this figure continues to grow year over year, true bilingual education is becoming more vital to equitably support student success. How do we ensure students achieve proficiency with the English language while receiving a rich and comprehensive education? It should be recognized that bilingual education lifts all boats.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Related: Leading by example: Black male teachers make students ‘feel proud’. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. After the 1954 Brown v. Over 50 percent of students in U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for everyone. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success. Getty Images. We’ve always done this.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

One school district in Pennsylvania, for example, partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to build maker spaces in its middle and high schools, encouraging students to use technology to design and build their own creations. Next page: How many projects are focused on the classroom?).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% For students who may not have access to these tools and are near an Ancora Education partner school, access to computer labs is available at no charge.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. But there's this new distance education thing, and if you want to keep your preferred provider status, you have to start offering that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Her answer: Users or educators need only request their Standards be added and it can be done quickly. Educational Applications. This was an authentic example for students of on-the-fly problem-solving. Insider Tips.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The pandemic disrupted the “when I grow up” dreams of too many students, leaving fewer prepared for education and training after high school. Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 19, 2016

This is not easy to answer, because in most states, large numbers of students never take a college-entrance exam (in California, for example, at most 43 percent of high-school students sit for the SAT or the ACT). How many high-school students are capable of meeting the College Board benchmark? via [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. For example, let’s examine the following sentence: “Until it is managed by a new, more effective, and more understanding administration, the teachers will continue to strike.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

At California’s Pomona College, for example, some circulated petitions demanding the school do more to help students who don’t have housing alternatives.* Just ask a parent trying to take the place of educators while working from home.). Honestly, we’ve reached an unprecedented point in higher education,” Lalande said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Austin Community College is one of 50 community colleges in Texas that researchers analyzed to determine how much ought to be spent educating students. But these institutions, which educate 10 million students a year or 44 percent of all undergraduates , have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Higher Education. Some educators see a need to start sooner, so they turn to their middle schools. Representatives of the police department’s forensics lab are contributing to a lesson, for example. Related: Using vocational education to teach academic courses. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Some experts think institutions of higher education—not former students—are partly to blame. Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why.

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