eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2023

He comes to CoderZ from Festo Didactic, the technical education equipment and solution provider where he held several executive positions, most recently vice president of sales for the company’s North America division. CoderZ is a STEM solution built to create educational impact.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

APRIL 25, 2023

The Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) has named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment for Reading an approved assessment for the state’s Missouri Read, Lead, Exceed literacy initiative.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools re-envisioned what career-focused education could look like. That effort began in the early 1990s and spurred a systemwide resurgence in career and technical education. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools re-envisioned what career-focused education could look like. That effort began in the early 1990s and spurred a systemwide resurgence in career and technical education. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Department of Education hopes that the blockchain technology transforming the finance and logistics industries could play a role in making education records more portable and transparent. Education Blockchain Initiative steering committee members include: Gayatri Agnew, Walmart Foundation. Kerri Lemoie, OpenWorks Group.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To help, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) partnered with VHS Learning to create the STEM Advanced Placement Access Expansion Opportunity , which enables up to 1,500 students within the state to take free AP® courses during the 2022-2023 academic year. Boston – Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. Voc-tech students graduate with industry-recognized credentials and the ability to pursue college if they choose.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

VHS Learning has once again received accreditation from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS), a worldwide leader in accreditation and school improvement.

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Secondary Learning Elementary Education 52

Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

The biggest shifts may occur at the intersections of K-12, higher education and workforce learning. Often these areas are treated as their own distinct silos in the education market, but the coronavirus crisis has revealed how interdependent these sectors may be. Will Education Still Be Countercyclical to the Market?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. Students today should have a multiplicity of pathways from education into careers—and the educational experiences that shape workforce success must begin long before high school graduation.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2022

Tampa, FL – July 14, 2022 – The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has partnered with Vector Solutions to provide all school districts in the state with free access to Vector’s library of Student Safety & Wellness Courses. Department of Education grant. About Vector Solutions for K-12 Education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 17, 2019

contributed by Anita Lamoureux In Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon, we recently launched a pilot program that leverages partnerships with local industry to enhance our Career and Technical Education (CTE) offerings and shape career pathways that start in elementary and extend through high school and post-secondary.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rivera, who is the former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education and currently serves as president of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Pennsylvania, was named the Director of Region 6 Northeast. Rodriguez, who is superintendent of the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina, was named director of Region 7 Southeast. “Our

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Even before the pandemic, many students — especially those from historically underserved groups — were leaving high school unprepared for the educational demands of good jobs and too few were completing degrees. This does not bode well for the future of a country that requires a well-educated citizenry.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Typically, that results in a rush of people looking to higher education for new skills and credentials. Before joining JFF, Lexi spent nearly a decade in public service at the federal level, including working on Capitol Hill for six years, and serving as a policy advisor to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

The education sector continues to get slammed by cyberattacks. Microsoft’s Global Threat Activity Map by Industry shows that, as of June 16, education institutions had been victims of 5.9 Education IT leaders and chief information security officers must continually worry about protecting key information systems and data.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

MARCH 31, 2023

The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading Foundations to its list of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for foundational skills in English language arts.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The courses are authored by experts and are appropriate for general education teachers, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and principals. About Vector Solutions for K-12 Education. Its professional development solutions encompass educator evaluations and tracking professional development activities.

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

From Teacher Appreciation Week to shifting technologies, it’s a busy time in education. For this edition of the DE EdTech News Roundup, we’ll cover: Appreciating Teachers The "Tech" in EdTech Insights from Education Leaders Appreciating Teachers In case you missed it, May 8 – 12 was Teacher Appreciation Week! million educators.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

During the edLeader Panel, “ Utilizing ESSER Funding to Implement PBL + STEM Initiatives ,” a panel of educational peers engaged in a lively discussion about how to best invest funding from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) in high-impact project-based learning (PBL) and STEM initiatives across the nation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

In addition to online telescope access, this new solution provides elementary through college-level teachers integrated curriculum-based lesson plans that can be used with students and ongoing professional development to help educators easily use the technology. Most schools have microscopes, yet do not have access to telescopes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“ The next few years will be a chance for parents, educators, and children to come together and understand how we strike a healthy digital balance, reaping the rewards technology brings while also keeping the youngest in society safe from online harm.” New tools are needed in cybersecurity to fight AI attacks with AI protection.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2022

Through this partnership, middle school through college-level educators can engage students in discovery-based science using Slooh’s Online Telescope and TransAstra’s breakthrough Sutter Telescope Technology. Commercial space opportunities and missions like Artemis continue to inspire and engage learners of all ages. About TransAstra.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Benjamin W.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2022

What major industry still operates like that? The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) was approved in three packages in 2020 and 2021. The answer, unfortunately, is too many schools.

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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. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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MindSpark

APRIL 26, 2023

by Rose Gaylen Teaching Career Literacy in Early Grades: Why it Matters It’s not too early for both primary and secondary students to begin their work-based learning and career exploration journeys. Perhaps work based learning and career training sound too advanced for elementary or middle school students, as if it’s not relevant yet.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

American education, often a battlefront for operationalized prejudice, is fraught with discriminatory outcomes. Schools are no exception to race-based codes and racialized justice systems, and educators are not immune from the biases our nation has fomented. Related: COLUMN: The educational value of a Black teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

It’s a powerful advantage for young people: Career and technical education (CTE) prepares graduates with skills to enter the workforce directly after high school. Students can avoid the expense of higher education and get head starts on careers. Students still believe higher education can be a great complement to CTE.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Preparing all students for college and 21 st century careers can no longer be the sole responsibility of K-12 educators. Increasingly, district administrators need to add another task to their already long checklists—forging partnerships with organizations that can supplement and enhance the education being provided by local schools.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. The survey is written to contextualize education from a multi-industry tech progression reality, not just internal comparatives.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

At 17 years old, Christine Johns sat in a university classroom surrounded by men and women who were devastated as Pittsburgh's steel industry collapsed around them. Displaced steelworkers and stay-at-home mothers found themselves desperate for an education—and the work it would help secure. Education, I believe, is that ticket.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

This month’s election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. He is also a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education. By Robert Low.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Similar to other industries (healthcare, financial, etc.), House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the U.S. Records of 12,000 special education students who attend public and charter schools in Washington D.C. – Future of Privacy Forum.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Amidst the tectonic shifts that may be on the global horizon, there’s a comparatively smaller phenomenon brewing in US K-12 education. These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. But will microschools prove disruptive?

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