Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As we look ahead to 2018, we are honored to continue working with 93 League districts in 33 states, representing close to 4,000 schools, to help them tackle their biggest challenges and scale their successes in order to create excellent, equitable learning opportunities for all students.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2018

SXSWEDU 2018 wrapped up last week and once again I was struck by the wealth of information, experience, and innovation being shared across so many sessions. The post SXSWEDU 2018 Wrap-up: Systems Change for Adult Learners? As usual, my focus was on adult learners and workforce development. It’s not about a single piece of technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 23, 2021

Another meta-analysis on over 400 studies indicated strong positive results (Stockard et al., The effectiveness of this pedagogical technique relies on it being only a small component of a lesson while using strategies that foster engagement and set the stage for empowered learning. Stockard, Jean & W.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Here is a quote from Kentucky Education Commissioner, Dr. Wayne Lewis (who is a friend of mine). The context is a statewide conversation about higher education standards for Kentucky high school graduates. On Tuesday, Lewis said the current system already penalizes students by not actually preparing them for success.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. The post Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas appeared first on Digital Promise. This year, Digital Promise has proposed a record 15 (!) Participants will walk away with new ideas!

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 19, 2018

You can learn more about our work over the past year in our reflection on 2018 , and today, we’re sharing this year’s most popular posts on the blog.

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Education Elements

MAY 9, 2018

It is hard to make something better each year and yet, somehow, as I reflect on the Education Elements Personalized Learning Summit 2018 , it feels like we have done it. It’s five days since the Summit ended and I am still energized by the energy and passion of every one of the 750 people who attended.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2024

We first met Nakia, a student at Chilhowee Middle School in rural Benton, Tennessee, in 2018. These six schools were part of Cohorts 4 and 5, first joining the program in 2017 or 2018. Polk County is one of the counties you don’t think about very much,” she said of her town of fewer than 2,000 people.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Research continues to provide further evidence that the conventional wisdom about learning styles should be rejected by educators and students alike (Kirschner, 2017; Husmann & O'Loughlin, 2018; Riener & Willingham, 2010). There isn't one best way to learn as the path and preference are different for everyone.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 7, 2024

In 2018, she founded Experiential Learning Depot to train educators in PBL, which she still does today. Sara Segar’s first career was in field ecology, and this authentic experience inspired her to pursue experiential education. She taught at a student-led project-based high school for ten years, where PBL was the entire curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Tulane University, where the proportion of students admitted through early decision rose from 28 percent in 2018 to 68 percent in 2022. This also fuels an industry of private college counselors, tutors and test prep companies. Universities use early decision to lock in a declining supply of applicants.

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Education Elements

MAY 17, 2018

Personalized learning, like so much of what we value most in our schools, should be aligned to the particular educational needs of individual learners – that’s what it’s all about.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

NA #> 5 Afghanistan AF AFG 2018 93.4 We can at least say with confidence that 2018 observations can only affect 2019 observations (in the dependent variable), and that 2019 cannot affect 2018. 1.46 #> 5 New Zealand NZ NZL 2018 100 -4.05 15.0 #> 5 Afghanistan AF AFG 2018 93.4 Let’s observe what this does.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 3, 2018

I’ve mentioned to a few people that I’m having my education mid-life crisis. After almost 20 years in education, I’ve seen various initiatives, software solutions, and programs come and go. Hundreds of millions are spent each year trying to move the needle, yet we continue to get similar results.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

One compelling reason for bringing this type of research into the classroom is that according to psychologists, family histories can link with our ongoing psychological ‘project of the self’ and might have a therapeutic benefit for our wellbeing (Nicholson, 2018). 2018) Family trees, selfies and our search for identity. Nicolson, P.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland and the Slovak Republic, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. Source: Flickr/Kurman Communications LLC The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border. They ignore the invasions by the United States in countries around the world — as well as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

That four-year average had doubled to 14 by 2014 before reaching 32 by 2018. From 2008 to 2011, an average of seven colleges and universities shut down each year in the wake of the financial crisis. In recent years, the annual number of closures began to plateau, with an average of 16 colleges and universities closing between 2020 and 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Down to the Haxenhaus, where we had visited previously in 2018. We got the bus back to the city centre and it was out for the Conference dinner which was provided for those who had presented. Some typical German fare of schnitzels and sauerkraut. We then had a wander and the city was busy.

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I met Shriee Srinivas, Orion's founder and CEO, back in 2018 when she was a student in the Neuroscience of Learning course at Harvard. We met for 90 minutes to look at how the way we parent can nurture strong brain development from infancy through adolescence.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2024

Discovered in 2018 in the Shanidar Cave of Iraqi Kurdistan, her remains have sparked fascination and intrigue among researchers seeking to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. Researchers unearthed the skull used in the reconstruction in 2018. Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan was first excavated in the 1950s.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy. North Carolina, which passed a version of this in 2018, released a review of its program that suggested it’s had some success. In these systems, students are automatically enrolled in algebra — unless they choose to opt out — after they achieve high scores on standard tests.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, reinforcing the concept of a classroom being a community, a research study performed in 2018 on student engagement across multiple subjects in four different schools showed that you, the teacher, have a significant impact on student engagement. Nguyen et al.,

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson looks at a replica of Lucy in 2018. Along with the 1978 discovery in Tanzania of fossilized footprint trails 3.6 million years old, made by members of her species, Lucy proved unequivocally that standing and walking upright was the first step in becoming human.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

September is in full swing, and it’s the time of year that we start heading back into the classroom - some of us are already in school, and some of us are still counting down our last few precious days of summer vacation. Setting the stage for a new school year is crucial, but it can also be a complex undertaking.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Answering a question in front of the class activates the same fight or flight response as if a “tiger was in a classroom” (Posey, 2018). References CAST (2018). A kid with a learning difference will be even more worried about saving face and hiding their weaknesses. Problem-solving and reasoning are important beyond math! UDL now! :

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Education Elements

MARCH 5, 2024

Research shows that the number of chronically absent students has nearly doubled , from about 15 percent in the 2018-2019 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-2022. Schools across the country are grappling with fewer students in classrooms, causing a ripple effect on learning, funding, and engagement.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2018, a researcher recruited more than 300 volunteer “Squirrel Sighters” to conduct the Central Park Squirrel Census. MULTISPECIES DISCRIMINATION Our study refutes the notion that black squirrels are more aggressive than gray ones—at least for the resident rodents of Central Park in 2018.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

In 2018, back when Austin had just earned her Ph.D. In 2018, Nicola Osgood was serving on active duty and considering resuming the higher education she had paused years before. Running the Experiment Back at ASU, Austin prepared all spring semester for her first cohort of online learners to travel to campus in summer 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Cold Springs Elementary was bursting at its nearly 90-year-old seams when it shut its doors in late 2018 and its students moved to a new facility. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Cold Springs Elementary closed in 2018, opening up space for the launch of Missoula Child Care Advantage in 2024.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Matt finished by showing a tool called SUNO , which is an AI tool that generates a musical track or song in just a few sentences, based on If you're interested in this, also check out some previous work by James Riley of the Perse School which was presented at a Teachmeet in Sheffield in 2018. He explored the representations of place.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He edited TAH’s core document collection, The Cold War (2018) , and has also written two World War II spy thrillers, The Dead Don’t Bleed (2016) and Rip the Angels from Heaven (2018), both published by Pegasus Crime. Bibliography Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. New York: D.

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APSA Educate

JUNE 7, 2024

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 Reflections By Paige Tan ( etan3@radford.edu ), Heather Keith ( hkeith1@radford.edu ), and Tay Keong Tan ( ttan2@radford.edu ) In response to a book group on Paul Hanstedt’s Creating Wicked Students (2018) , … The post Reflections on Developing Wicked Problem Solvers appeared first on APSA.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

percent) during the 2018-19 school year to 846 out of 1,637 students (51.7 In 2018, scores were higher still, with 24 percent of students meeting ELA standards and 15 percent meeting math standards. percent) in 2021-22. This one district is just one example of a nationwide issue. In 2021-22, 6.5 million more students across the U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2018 or so Elon Musk said there would be fleets of driverless Teslas everywhere by 2020. And he stressed that while colleges should pay attention, the changes to these fields and their related workplaces won’t happen overnight. “It It takes a really long time before technology has these really dramatic changes,” he says. “In

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