Guide: Understand how Federal Funding can support K-12 technology investments
With over $130 billion in federal funding for K-12, there is no better time than now to improve the school ... Read more
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Study: Instructional Mode Played No Significant Role in COVID-19-Related Learning Loss in Indiana Public Schools in 2020-21
MUNCIE, Indiana – Students, teachers, and administrators across the country have faced unprecedented challenges since the onset of the COVID-19 ... Read more
e-Book: How Cloud-Based Infrastructure Can Save the Day in K-12
As classrooms moved to virtual learning, IT teams had to act quickly to create efficient, safe learning environments. Learn how ... Read more
Personalized Learning for Post-Pandemic Success
Personalizing instruction to address each child’s unique learning needs is a proven strategy for improving academic achievement, and it’s especially critical ... Read more
Leveraging digital testing to build student confidence
Year after year and in study after study, we see the same thing: Confident students are better students. But, as one student pointed out in a 2019 survey,…
How 3D tech can help overcome learning hurdles
Over the past year, virtual learning proved to be a mixed bag of success. Some students adapted; but for others, learn-from-home was a gargantuan hurdle. Many school systems,…
How Lincoln Public Schools Leaders Used Data to Inform Their Decisions
Lincoln Public Schools’ (LPS) leadership team had a very specific objective: Gain visibility into the paid tools being used by ... Read more
Calculate the Value of Software and Inform Licensing Using Data
Aggregated data, while certainly valuable and informative, is just one key component of the data analytics equation. In this brief ... Read more
Study Shows Children Saw Improved Mental Well-Being Early on During the COVID-19 Pandemic
NEW YORK – JULY 28, 2021 — Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence, and Dr. Peter Gray, a professor ... Read more
7 in 10 Parents Say Children’s Post-Pandemic Social Skills Are at Risk, Per Osmo Study
Palo Alto–According to a new study of 2,000 U.S. parents of school aged-children (5-14 years), parents have tried a myriad ... Read more
National Lexile Study Shows Accelerated Reading Growth Across Ethnic Groups
Red Bank, NJ, July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Lexile Study, a respected and recognized independent research analysis ... Read more
3 ways to support students with disabilities post-pandemic
These strategies can help educators as they address the needs of students with disabilities after a year of learning during a pandemic.
Data doesn’t talk–people do
Professor Andrea Jones-Rooy brilliantly stated in Quartz: “Data doesn’t say anything. Humans say things. We’ve conflated data with truth. And this has dangerous implications for our ability to…
Tightrope’s Cablecast Platform Enables Flexible and Robust Online Video Hosting and Delivery for Cambridge Public Schools
Powerful VOD capabilities enable school district to easily and reliably share high-quality student, teacher, and board-produced videos as medium takes ... Read more
Every single middle school student can benefit from financial literacy education according to new study
University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute study holds promise that financial literacy education can help students nationwide build important financial foundations Newly ... Read more
PBL students excel compared to peers in typical classrooms
Students in project-based learning (PBL) classrooms across the United States significantly outperform students in typical classrooms, according to four studies released from Lucas Education Research.
High Prevalence of Mental Health Risk Amid COVID Pandemic Taking a Serious Toll on U.S. Students’ Cognition
Neuroscientific research conducted by Total Brain and the Center for Adolescent Research and Education shows students’ focus, planning, memory and ... Read more
World’s Largest Annual Study of K–12 Reading Habits Finds Digital Reading Doubled from Fall 2019 to Fall 2020
Renaissance, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today released its much anticipated What Kids Are Reading report for 2021. The ... Read more
Lexia Learning’s PowerUp Literacy Program is 2.5x More Effective in Helping English Learners Close Critical Reading Gaps
Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for ... Read more
Pandemic Leads to a Significant Increase in Streaming Video Usage That is Expected to Continue, Study Shows
As more people stayed at home during 2020 due to the pandemic, they were streaming a lot more videos for ... Read more
MiEN Company Introduces New Furniture Product Offerings to Solve Learning Space Challenges
Educators are rethinking the layout of classrooms and other learning spaces in terms of optimizing use of those spaces for ... Read more
Newly Minted Career Sparks National Nonprofit Links Kids with Professionals
Today marks the official launch of Career Sparks, a nonprofit organization aimed at connecting real-world career professionals with K-12 students, ... Read more
International Code Council releases recommended practices for remote virtual inspections
– The International Code Council recently published “Recommended Practices for Remote Virtual Inspections,” a guideline document that governmental jurisdictions should ... Read more
8 reasons game-based learning is growing
Revenue for game-based learning and education is projected to reach more than $24 billion by 2024, according to a new market forecast. Metaari’s 2019-2024 Global Game-based Learning Market…
Bridging the gap in cybersecurity education
Experience Education (ExperienceAmerica.com), a leading organization in experiential learning, has partnered with Education Service Center (ESC) Region 20 in Texas ... Read more
Courses Designed to Address Learning Loss Due to COVID-19
While student regression during summer months is not uncommon under normal circumstances, the effects of the COVID crisis on student ... Read more
10 reasons edtech works sometimes, but not all the time
There are a number of factors—10, to be specific—that have a sizeable impact on the success (or failure) of edtech implementations. The EdTech Genome Project, a collaborative effort…
How to balance work and study as a teacher
According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report, 93 per cent of employees would stay at a company longer if their ... Read more
Transform your staff lounge to support teacher wellbeing
According to a study done by the University of Missouri, 93% of teachers are experiencing high levels of work-related stress. Mindfulness has already been proven to boost the…
Is it time to say goodbye to textbooks?
People have been predicting the end of the traditional, paper-based textbook for years.
4 ways I make learning fun in the classroom
As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school.
Disrupting opportunity gaps will hinge on networks
Recently, Stanford researcher Raj Chetty came out with yet another new study on the jagged landscape of opportunity facing America. Analyzing the relationship between young people’s exposure to…
Disrupting opportunity gaps will hinge on networks
Recently, Stanford researcher Raj Chetty came out with yet another new study on the jagged landscape of opportunity facing America. ... Read more
The changing role of literacy today, part 2
We know we must teach children to read proficiently, yet the age-old challenge of getting a child to read on grade level still persists. Fortunately, science and technology…
Study: Here’s what makes parents turn to charter schools
Public school parents who are “very dissatisfied” with their child’s school are 2.5 times more likely to switch to a charter school than parents who are “very satisfied,”…
5 questions we should be asking about student screen addiction
Numerous voices have emerged in the last two years to warn us about the effects of digital screen addiction on ... Read more
NEA Learning and Leadership Grants
Learning & Leadership Grants support NEA members for one of the following two purposes: Grants to individuals fund participation in ... Read more
Things might be looking up for online language learning
A recent report notes that a decline in U.S. foreign language learning could have negative impacts on the U.S. workforce, but new forecasts indicate the demand for language…
Study.com selected by Department of Education for EQUIP experiment
Study.com, in partnership with Thomas Edison State University and Quality Matters, has been selected to participate in the Department of ... Read more
The link between arts-based learning and STEM
The Art of Science Learning (AoSL), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded initiative, spearheaded by its Principal Investigator, Harvey Seifter, has ... Read more