Teach Plus: The Quantified Student
A year ago, in the Washington Post, I wrote a blog post called "I am a Bad Teacher," in which I questioned education reform's push for standardized test data. A lot has happened since then. After writing the piece, I decided not to focus on adapting my students to the test, but rather on using the test's requirements to meet my students' needs.
Teachers and students enjoy technology
Teachers and students at Lakewood School are enjoying the benefits of 21st century learning. The initiative, which was implemented by the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board allows students to use technology to learn more about the subjects they are learning in school. Grade eight teacher, Susan McCoy says that one of the benefits is the ability to apply lessons to the real world.
Pilot program helps students with NJASK test in Ringwood
Three teachers related the success of a pilot program that assists students in improving their performances on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJASK) test. The Academic Coaching Academy (ACA), which ran for six weeks this past spring, aimed to bring students hovering around the proficiency score range of 200 to 206 out of that range and into the above-proficiency range.
EdSurge Instruct Edition 018: A Day in the Life of a Teacher; Free Summer Math
Summer is a dandy time to kick back and forget just about everything. To stem that brain drain, online math company, TenMarks, is prepared to give every TFA corps member free premium accounts to use with their students this summer.
Learning Labs 101
The Learning Lab at Los Sueños Academy, in downtown San Jose, is not unlike the computer labs you'd find at many elementary schools-it's just much bigger. Tightly packed computer cubicles, 100 in all, form long rows along the 2,000-square-foot open-plan room.
HHS implements new TenMarks Program
Huntley High School has recently launched a new program for juniors called TenMarks. TenMarks is being used as an ACT remediation program, but is technically math remediation. The class spans eight weeks and takes place during students' advisories.
TenMarks Raises $3 Million For Personalized Math Learning SaaS
Education technology startup TenMarks has raised $3 million in new funding led by Catamount Ventures with Birchmere Ventures participating. James Joaquin, new partner at Catamount Ventures, is joining TenMarks' board.
Interview | Rohit Agarwal and Andrew Joseph: Getting TenMarks
The U.S. is behind most economically developed nations when it comes to students' math skills, ranked 34th according to a PISA report in 2009. "In order for the U.S. to maintain global competitiveness, and for our economic development, it's critical that our students have a better foundation and understanding of math," says Rohit Agarwal, co-founder of TenMarks, a personalized math learning platform.
TenMarks launches New Version of its Free Math Program for Teachers
The team at TenMarks was busy over the summer and worked on a complete overhaul of the free math program for teachers. The new version went live yesterday, as promised just in time for the new school year.
Summer Educators 'Mix Up' Learning with Technology
Educators are rethinking how best to use the summer to help students improve academic proficiency rather than lose a grip on it-especially students who struggle academically or lack access to educational resources during the break.
Math Educators See Right Angles for Digital Tools
While multimedia tools have been slow to penetrate instructional methods in some subjects, the math world is bursting with tales of teaching technologies that visualize concepts, adapt to students' strengths and weaknesses, and align with state academic standards.
Computers Replacing Textbooks
For the past two years Keewatin Public School's Grade 7/8 split class have used their individual laptops for nearly every subject. In their English class they're learning about media awareness by browsing through YouTube, finding television commercials and playing the videos on the classroom's SMART board.
Our Summer Learning Plan
After more than a decade of advocating for summer learning, I'm more conscious than ever about "practicing what I preach" and making sure that our kids have a fun and productive summer. I wanted to share a few specific ideas about what our two boys, who are 10 and 11-years-old, will up up to, as these are activities we would want all kids in this country to experience.
TenMarks Summer Math Program to Prevent Summer Learning Loss in Students
As summer vacation arrives parents may be rightfully concerned about their children undergoing summer learning loss, a process by which students start forgetting, over the course of the two-month break, much of what they learned in school. The loss is especially acute for students struggling to retain various Math skills and concepts; research shows that when students forget much of what they've already learned, schools wind up spending at least a quarter of the year simply helping them review previous year lessons
TenMarks, Education Software Startup, Looks to Improve Kids' Math Skills as Summer Beckons
You wouldn't know it from the weather until yesterday, but summer is on its way. Soon classes will be out of session and students of all ages will be running wild. What that means, besides more Commencement speeches (and, soon, being able to get a seat at a Harvard or Davis Square cafe), is that millions of American grade-school and high-school kids will be doing their best to forget everything they've learned-especially, it seems, in math class.
Preventing the "Summer Slide" in Math Skills
It's the end of the school year, and although most students look forward to vacation, the summer months can have a detrimental impact on students' academic progress. It's called the "Summer Slide": skills gained during the school year melt away with the heat, and that "summer learning loss" translates into teachers spending a good chunk of the academic year playing catch-up before being able to move forward.
TenMarks Helps Students Get 10/10 In Math Class
America is currently, and disappointingly, ranked 34th in mathematical education internationally, and TenMarks is making sure that something is done about the situation. Their plan of action? Teach kids how to succeed.
Killer Startups Features TenMarks
Going back to school is always tricky for children, if only because a vacation goes some way into ensuring that they will lose part of the knowledge that they had assimilated before the holidays started. This company offers parents a solution that minimizes such a latent risk in the one and only way that is truly effective: by making your children study during their vacations.
TenMarks on The Balancing Act
In today's turbulent economic times, government agencies are continuously cutting back funding for important programs, including many dollars designated for education. School administrators are forced to make cuts, and often times summer learning programs are the first to go. During the summer months kids lose valuable skills that must be re-taught at the beginning of the next year, but with TenMarks Education and The Balancing Act, summer learning can be easy and fun.
Mastering Math: TenMarks Education
Summer is just around the corner and that means students are headed out of the classroom and onto the beaches.It's important to make sure kids relax, but it's equally important to make sure they don't forget all they've learned so they're ready for the next level come September. To ensure that doesn't happen -- at least not in math -- there's a great tool on the Web to tell you about.
Young Achievers gives TenMarks ten marks
Today, Tenmarks.com is in the news (click here for this morning's news segment). My City Year Boston team at the Young Achievers School and the students we work with experienced the program first-hand a few weeks ago. In late March, co-founder Andrew Joseph came to the Young Achievers School to show the team how it works and let me say this: if I were a middle school student, I would beg to be part of this program.
TenMarks is Featured on The Daily Grommet
Summer is the time for kids to cut loose and enjoy life outside the classroom. But (there's always a catch) we don't want everything our kids learned during the academic year to melt away like a snow cone on pavement.
Newton Firm Releases Math Videos
A Newton educational materials company is trying to make it a little easier to learn math skills.TenMarks Education has launched a new website, TeacherZone, to provide free math learning videos to teachers in grades 3 through 10.
TeacherZone provides thousands of videos for Teachers to Use in Class and Share
TenMarks Education, a pioneer in personalized math practice and supplemental instruction for third through tenth graders, has launched TeacherZone, a comprehensive library of math video lessons - free for teachers. Teachers have access to thousands of 3-5 minute video lessons for grades 3-10, aligned to state standards. The videos are great for reviewing concepts with the class, embedding in lesson plans, and sharing with parents and students as homework help.
TenMarks featured in Startup Watch by MHT
As part of each week's Startup Report, Mass High Tech highlights five startup companies, and their business goals, that are profiled in the New England Tech Directory.
Boston Startup Enters Education Market
Joining Boston's cluster of e-learning ventures is TenMarks, a company focused on helping kids improve their math skills.
