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Category: Educational Forms


Educational Forms, Formal Education

3 keys to successful summer reading (regardless of the languages students speak)

March 12, 2024

Via: eSchool News

When I began teaching English as a second language (ESL), I had anywhere from seven to 13 different languages in my classroom because our district was in an area with a lot of recent immigration. It was an entry point […]


Educational Forms, Formal Education

Let’s Have Better Debates About Standardized Tests

March 11, 2024

Via: Inside Higher Ed

Reasonable people can come to different conclusions about the proper role of standardized testing, what qualities should be measured and how to measure them. Those debates are healthy and productive. It’s less productive when we stake out our positions without […]


Educational Forms, Informal learning

Demand for Online Classes Prompts Closure of Satellite Centers in Iowa

March 7, 2024

Via: Inside Higher Ed

The University of Iowa’s Board of Regents recently recommended closing three off-campus learning centers and moving the graduate programs they hosted online. “We would offer classes and end up having to close or not offer 50 to 80 percent of […]


Educational Forms, Formal Education

Doing Educational Equity Right: The Homework Gap

March 4, 2024

Via: Education Next

The casual observer might be surprised that there’s much controversy about homework. A common sense, man-on-the-street view would be straightforward: Teachers should assign homework, and students should do it. After all, practice makes perfect, and kids can’t learn without exerting […]


Educational Forms, Informal learning

Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

February 22, 2024

Via: Ed Surge

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

Campus career centers are a boon to women pursuing tech jobs

February 5, 2024

Via: eCampus News

Women pursuing careers in the technical fields can benefit from taking advantage of the services provided by their campus career center, according to a joint study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and Break Through Tech, […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

States need more students to finish higher education to meet job needs

January 29, 2024

Via: eCampus News

Tennessee’s education system must do more to help minority and economically disadvantaged students earn postsecondary degrees in order to meet the state’s workforce needs, a report by an education policy and advocacy organization warned. The State Collaborative on Reforming Education’s […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

Survey: How AI Is Impacting Students’ Career Choices

January 10, 2024

Via: Inside Higher Ed

Some students—like those studying in the University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business Center for Marketing and Sales Innovation Customer Experience and Behavioral AI Lab—are already being exposed to how artificial intelligence can help them in the workforce. The […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

3 ways to support special education students with college and career readiness

January 5, 2024

Via: eSchool News

There are more than 140,000 special education (SPED) students in the state of Washington. Often, these students don’t have access to the same level of resources that are available to general education students. While we have made great strides in […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

Why states are placing more value in career and technical learning

December 20, 2023

Via: K-12 Dive

Hyslop says any student can benefit from CTE options, regardless of whether they’re choosing to extend their education after high school graduation. Classes that provide some exposure to potential fields — and the details learners may encounter — before they […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

As teens rethink college and career options, counselors are trying to adapt

November 27, 2023

Via: eSchool News

When students come into Danielle Insel’s college and career advising office with their sights set on higher education, she has a checklist of next steps ready. For years, around nine out of 10 kids fell into that camp, she estimates. […]


Educational Forms, Informal learning

Special education leader aims to raise expectations for students

October 31, 2023

Via: K-12 Dive

Driving passengers in Teslas along the Vegas Loop, an underground tunnel system in Las Vegas, was not exactly how Glenna Wright-Gallo thought she’d spend her time as she waited for the U.S. Senate to confirm her nomination as assistant secretary […]


Educational Forms, Informal learning

Westat to lead resource center on equity in special education

October 12, 2023

Via: K-12 Dive

Westat, a research and professional services company, will lead a new technical assistance center to address data quality for significant disproportionality in special education, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services announced Thursday. The five-year […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

Education Department issues ‘landmark’ final rule to protect students in career education programs

September 27, 2023

Via: Higher Ed Dive

College career programs will once again need to prove they won’t burden students with overwhelming debt, under a highly anticipated regulation that the U.S. Department of Education unveiled Wednesday. The Biden administration released a draft version of what’s called the […]


Educational Forms, Formal Education

“Ambitious growth” is needed to accelerate learning recovery

September 15, 2023

Via: eSchool News

A new report from Curriculum Associates demonstrates what happens when educators set ambitious targets for students–and what happens when they meet them. The report comes at a time when students continue to struggle academically in the wake of the pandemic […]


Educational Forms, Formal Education

Florida System Adopts the Classic Learning Test

September 11, 2023

Via: Inside Higher Ed

The Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida voted Friday to accept the Classic Learning Test, a controversial standardized testing alternative to the SAT and ACT, on applications to its 12 campuses starting this fall. Florida is […]


Educational Forms, Formal Education

A recipe for using explicit phonics instruction in reading lessons

August 30, 2023

Via: eSchool News

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next new thing” in reading instruction, the […]


Educational Forms, Informal learning

Students are more satisfied and confident with online learning

August 10, 2023

Via: eCampus News

The COVID pandemic emphasized the need for robust online and hybrid learning options for students, particularly as the nontraditional student population, which needs flexibility due to personal, professional, and family obligations, grows. Now, BestColleges’ ninth annual Online Education Trends Report […]


Educational Forms, Informal learning

3 strategies to optimize virtual learning in special education

August 8, 2023

Via: eSchool News

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), K-12 public schools faced significant teacher shortages in 2022, with nearly half reporting vacancies. Special education was one of the areas hit hardest, with 45 percent of schools needing to fill […]


Continuous Development, Educational Forms

4 ways schools are approaching nontraditional postsecondary pathways

August 2, 2023

Via: K-12 Dive

Corey Mohn is not a big fan of forcing students on a “right” path. Instead, the president and CEO of CAPS Network, a nonprofit supporting education-to-employment pathways, says students should have the right to explore their options and find the […]