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8 Eerily Educational Halloween Costumes

By Shannon Sweetser On October 29, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Education: General, Education: Industry, General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring, Tutoring
Cloroplasts,? Accelerators? and Planetary Systems, oh my! It”s that time of year again. Time to get out our camera”s and get ready to snap photos of our most favorite costumes. At Socrato, though, we do things a little differently. We”ve put together a collect of educational themed costumes that would make any science or math educator proud! [...]
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9 Technology Factors to Improve Education Success in Schools

By Shannon Sweetser On October 28, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Education Techology, Education: Technology, In The News, Socrato: System, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
In this week’s 5 Education Articles to Start Your Week, we pointed out some interesting articles and studies which zeroed in on engaging students with technology. One particular article which caught our eye was about the Project RED (Revolutionizing Education) research team”s recent findings on education; it really energized us about the benefits technology can [...]
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5 Education Articles to Start Your Week: If You Give a Student a Cell Phone…

By Shannon Sweetser On October 25, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Education Techology, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, In The News, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
This week in “What You Missed in Education,” we remember the famous children’s book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Do you know what happens when you give a mouse a cookie? The classic children’s book claims, “If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s gonna want a glass of milk.” However, what about [...]
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5 Articles in Education You Missed this Week: Universities, School Funding and Print Books Under Fire

By Shannon Sweetser On October 18, 2010 · 4 Comments · In In The News, Teaching
If you’re in the education industry, chances are that you are walking a balancing act between the old methods of teaching and learning and a changing world that is full of distraction and wonder for young people. This week we take a look at some articles, studies and statistics which paint a picture of the [...]
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Technology Adoption in Schools: What is the Purpose?

By Socrato Admin On August 24, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Education: Industry, Education: Technology, Teaching
The following is a guest post by Edward Davey, a History Teacher and Instructional Technology Specialist in Suburban Boston. As schools prepare to open for the 2010-2011 school year, discussions inevitably turn to the new technologies available to educators. Teachers preparing for opening day, often learn of new equipment and software available for implementation. Too [...]
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High Scores for Brooklyn School Students Despite Poverty

By Socrato Admin On April 30, 2010 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
Earlier this week the New York Times ran an eye-opening article about students from the Beacon School of Excellence in Brooklyn. Despite their poverty these young fourth graders scored higher on their standardized tests than students in neighboring schools with more resources and affluent backgrounds. This is not a story about underdogs and rich versus [...]
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Can one teacher’s or tutor’s hardwork benefit others? Leveraging our “Follow” feature for educational content.

By Raju Gupta On August 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Content, Education: General, Socrato, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
One of the interesting features of Twitter is the ability to “follow” anyone and then listen to their tweets. Effectively the person you are following becomes the “filter” for you for certain types of content and information.  You receive immediate updates on what’s going on. While working with a number of teachers and tutors, we [...]
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According to Dept. of Edu. Study – Blended courses (online and face-to-face instruction) are the best.

By Raju Gupta On July 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
According to US Department of Education study students who took “blended” courses — those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction — appeared to do best of all. The study finds this after detailed review of 51 high quality research reports out of over 1000 research studies. Looking at in detail, the key [...]
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End of “Cut and Paste” to create custom assessments and worksheets for state standardized tests

By Raju Gupta On June 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Content, Teaching
A good article by Bailey on how to leverage MCAS material to supplement classroom or home instruction. Teachers and tutors can leverage any state standardized test material, or even National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) material. After each assessment, NAEP releases dozens of sample questions to the public—more than 2,000 questions are currently available to [...]
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Interesting articles on Educational data analysis, usage and access

By Raju Gupta On June 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Teaching
How Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state. Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to online casinos Use  Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student educational and learning data to [...]
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