Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

” Merriam Webster offers this definition: “…the study of social relationships and the functioning of society, usually made up of courses in history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography, and anthropology” At primary levels, this includes history, science, and language arts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thus, the standards by which school quality and student achievement are defined serve as a significant barrier to more equitable and inclusive models and learner-centered systems. Youth leadership groups such as student councils and student governments can serve in a decision-making capacity beyond basic school culture domains.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Not only are you communicating what the data is, but you're doing it in a way that can be used by people and machines, verifying various academic and workplace achievements. The Open Badges and the CLR standards help learners express the skills and knowledge they have achieved. That's where the credential value comes in.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students. Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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STEMe

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

" "What principles govern the natural world?" Their achievements are not just historical footnotes; they are the cornerstones of scientific thought that continue to influence how we explore, discover, and innovate in the 21st century. "What are the building blocks of matter?"

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

That makes employers happy, but, clearly, it takes more than that to achieve national wellbeing and unity—as we are finding out. Imagine lower drug use and crime, more competence and care, and a greater sense of control, achievement and dignity replacing fear of failure. Or, think even bigger. What if the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

government. Achieved through direct instruction, presenting big ideas first engages students for subsequent details in many social studies classrooms. Consider this: In 1918, Congress passed the Sedition Act, forbidding “disloyal language” about the U.S. His June 1918 speech resulted in a ten-year prison sentence.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Education and government leaders are talking about mental health and well-being more directly. Priority 3: Accelerate academic achievement. The borrowed words of Congressman John Lewis often echo in my mind: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” In 2021, U.S. Priority 4: Support educator and staff stability and well-being.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

If done right, “it could be more than just a gimmick,” creating a tool that does what Waze achieves for drivers trying to find the best route on a road, only for getting through school or college. He said officials at the school district should develop some kind of “governance model” to evaluate and check the data in its systems.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. And doing worksheets in the library isn’t a reward for high-achievers, she added. Photo by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge. I teach them to love to read,” Hensley said. “If

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5 If we keep providing all students with the same “this is the way we do things” approach to education, neurodivergent students will continue to experience diminished academic achievement , increased punitive disciplinary practices and exclusionary placements.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Its popularity grew dramatically, and Cooke’s efforts were formalized by the US government which established the North American Bird Phenology Program. Begin looking for upcoming or ongoing citizen science projects in the newspapers, magazines, or on relevant government and organizational websites. Why is Citizen Science Important?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When I was deemed a “winner” for good behavior or academic achievement, I’d hear my nana’s cheer. Of course, it was full circle when I stood at the podium and awarded my own students their trophies for academic achievement and good behavior as their family members sat beaming in the audience. Our antics produced mixed results.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Due to the way current education systems are structured and how governments, philanthropy and others choose to invest their resources, these children will not get access to the quality early learning they deserve. However, it's challenging to achieve this at scale without technology. Programmatically, we reach about 1.5

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 23, 2023

Government and the Economy – GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the government’s impact on the economy, inflation, and other government-related economic impacts. Buying and Selling – Trade, domestic and international trade, and how trade impacts a country’s economy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

To achieve the Passport, students collect points and pass levels that are tabulated in a class leaderboard. For example, our 3rd graders end the year with a (heavy) discussion on worldwide governments. I get them into iCivics for simulated games on the government process.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

The cost-sharing model, in which the state government, the employer and the employee each pay for one-third of the cost of child care, first launched in 2021 in Michigan , where it is furthest along. The states are at various stages of planning and implementation.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Testing students on genocide does indeed seem problematic, particularly when we consider the outcomes Gressang’s students were able to achieve with the choice to demonstrate their learning in more novel ways. Gressang’s subsequent tweets reveal what some of the students enrolled in her class created for this final assignment.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 10, 2023

And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. The embrace of competencies over credentials is driven by ongoing shortages of talent in many sectors, which was underlined just last week, when the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

One district shifted its measure of success from end-of-year test scores to monthly targets, which helped highlight teachers’ achievements throughout the year. One of the report’s recommendations calls on the federal government to extend the deadline for emergency fund use , coming up soon in January 2023.

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Stem Education News

AUGUST 24, 2024

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the central government’s flagship program for the Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE). It focuses on ensuring that every child masters basic skills such as reading and writing. As per ASER 2018, 25.5% of Grade 3 children could read Grade 2 level text in rural India, down from 27.3%

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Stem Education News

AUGUST 24, 2024

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the central government’s flagship program for the Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE). It focuses on ensuring that every child masters basic skills such as reading and writing. As per ASER 2018, 25.5% of Grade 3 children could read Grade 2 level text in rural India, down from 27.3%

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

“I want NAEYC to be a place where, no matter how you got to this field, you see yourself here, you are included and accepted, and you want to be part of this organization because of what we represent and want to achieve,” Kang shared in an interview during her third week as CEO.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I took 14 AP classes, had significant achievements and leadership roles in seven clubs, scored a 35 on the ACT, and took college courses during the summer so that I could graduate with my associate degree. So work I did. I got straight As—and even wrote a book advising other students how to do the same.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Focusing on education, education reform — whatever you want to call it — achieving better educational outcomes, as a philanthropist, is a good way to become humble rather quickly, because it usually doesn’t go as folks hope.” “If you look at the sum total of the efforts, I’m not sure you’d give them the highest grades,” he said.

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CSTEM

AUGUST 30, 2022

This can be achieved with hands-on projects and real-world examples relatable to students of every background. A study released in July by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that early intervention programs help students achieve academic success in higher education and STEM majors. The post U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

A pre-pandemic meta-analysis found that 1:1 laptop programs positively impacted student performance in English, writing, mathematics and science, with some mixed results about whether these findings were equally true for students of lower socioeconomic backgrounds and whether 1:1 initiatives could help bridge the achievement gap.

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How to STEM

AUGUST 23, 2021

The Australian Government Department of Education commissioned the National STEM School Education Resources Toolkit in response to a STEM Partnerships Forum recommendation. Scotland has a long tradition of expertise, innovation and achievement in STEM, viewing it as an integral part of their future economic and social development.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As someone who used to fight with city governments over public records, I like to imagine the Chron reporters buying antacids in bulk to deal with all the heartburn.) Reporters made an eye-popping 600 public information requests to school districts in their efforts to find out which books were coming under scrutiny.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

It doesn't accurately measure student achievement, and there’s lots of suspicion that this will deepen the mistrust because of the way most of us were surprised by this.” The addition of an opaque, automated scoring system isn’t helping state education officials build trust.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

To achieve the Passport, students collect points and pass levels that are tabulated in a class leaderboard. For example, our 3rd graders end the year with a (heavy) discussion on worldwide governments. They visit iCivics for simulated games on the government process.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

What is exciting to teachers is what they call C-Span Classroom, where free video-based lesson plans and bell ringers are provided on topical and historical subjects such as AP US Government, civil rights, comparative government, financial literacy, environmental policy, federalism, foreign policy, and more. Futures Channel.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 1, 2013

We--parents, students, and teachers--were promised a revolutionary new system that would narrow the achievement gaps in reading and math, create environments for deeper and critical thinking, and prepare our students for life, career, and college. This is why I wrote Children of the Core. What we’re finding is that none of this is true.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But those requirements might deter students who have valuable perspectives but are not academically high-achieving in a school setting. And some of the states that do involve student voice have barriers to involvement, such as grade point average requirements. In some cases, those are required by law, Pierrottet says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I think that kids would really miss out on strengthening foundational life skills that support academic achievement, graduation rates, college and career readiness, the ability to make and keep friends and have healthy relationships, and to cope with stress or other social and academic challenges that they're gonna have.

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