ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of inclusive education is to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or abilities, has an equal opportunity to learn and succeed. Chris Bugaj , an assistive technology specialist for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, is quick to advise teachers new to UDL to provide options to their students.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Culatta aptly observes that while most discussions primarily focus on the first facet, there is a concerning lack of attention given to the equally vital second dimension. The second dimension pertains to teaching young individuals how to harness AI for their future careers, leadership roles and learning opportunities.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. The typical open access model makes scholarly articles free to the public by charging authors a processing fee to have their work published in the journal. Now it's life of the author plus 70 years.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Texas , where roughly 40 percent of residents are Hispanic, nearly 1 million students in public schools are English learners who speak Spanish at home. While both Esmeralda and Oscar eventually went on to master English and Spanish, their experiences give examples of how both languages are not equally valued in schools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

Whitney Aragaki “ How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools ” was the most meaningful story for me. Fortunately, I was able to share an experience that offered a lens into the ways we intentionally and unintentionally frame public education. Here’s what they had to say.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

According to the Center for Reinventing Public Education, more than half of districts plan to use federal recovery dollars to support summer programming. As Tulsa Public Schools’ Director of Expanded Learning, Jessica Goodman, told me, “Ready, Set, Summer” gives students plenty of ways to learn in fun and innovative ways.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The steepest declines are at public two-year and four-year institutions, the more-affordable options that serve larger percentages of poor, working-class and minority students. In those years, the public supported higher ed equally for both its private and public benefits—on the whole, we were a nation that honored higher education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At the time, I had just finished my Teach For America commitment at my placement school, Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where I had the benefit of working in a historically Black community at a public high school with a majority Black staff and leadership team with members who looked like me.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That’s one of the key questions raised by the book “ Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.” As “Broke” explores, state dollars for public universities have been shrinking just as more and more students who want a college degree are less and less able to pay high tuition bills.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

We’re evolving from a niche industry to an essential service that’s attracting national media attention and public debate. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. Altogether, 30 public (or recently public) companies make up the Index.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2022

Although some experts originally thought the pandemic would be the great equalizer in health care delivery and outcomes, it quickly became clear that the crisis exacerbated glaring disparities. Working in health care on a college campus in a political climate that did not always embrace public health guidance made our jobs more challenging.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In fact, there is a number of other equally interesting and even more powerful academic search engines that you can use to search for academic and scholarly literature including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, scientific periodicals, reports, and many more. However, Google Scholar is not the be-all and end-all of academic search.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While there are no right or wrong languages to learn, languages are certainly not equal. According to Ethnologue (language reference publication) and Fact Book , the most spoken languages are: 1. Factors such as geo-politics, number of speakers, economy, among others, make certain languages more influential and popular than others.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not all image generators are equal; Adobe’s generative AI tools, powered by Adobe Firefly , were trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content where copyright has expired. When selecting a generative AI tool, examine creators, training methods and ethical transparency.

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Defined Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Students might learn something about their topic, but there isn’t much critical thinking in these “dessert” projects , or any of the six features of High-Quality PBL : Intellectual Challenge and Accomplishment, Authenticity, Collaboration, Public Product, Project Management, or Reflection. Defined Learning’s U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Qualitative data remains equally impactful in this regard. High-quality data management systems that automate the collection and analysis processes are key for institutions seeking to shift toward a data-driven model.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation.

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STEM Education Works

MARCH 21, 2024

KEY POINTS Use fun extracurricular STEM opportunities to engage and educate the public. One promising solution to this equity gap in STEM lies in public libraries and their interaction with the communities around them. Invest in free resources to expand access to the community.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Size Equals Difficulty Myth Size doesn’t always matter. Q: How can I overcome the fear of public speaking in presentations? Myths and Truths: Unraveling the Complexity Let’s start our exploration by debunking some common myths and uncovering the truths about student assignments and projects. A: Practice is the key.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Students should be equal participants in their learning,” says Phipps. All teachers should have equal access to tools that can improve their teaching. She’s taught fifth grade for 25 years in the Aurora Public School system in Colorado. With that feedback, Phipps brought down the ratio of teacher-to-student talk to 50:50.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Dyslexia is a condition that affects people of all ages, male and female equally, and causes them to mix up letters and words they read making what for most is a joy-filled act challenging and frustrating. At the time of this publication, Chrome offered twelve apps and extensions for reading-challenged users. What is Dyslexia?

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Another equally engaging task is by creating a classroom newspaper. For instance, you can make it public, unlisted, password locked, or private. A great way to engage students and empower their voice is through providing them with spaces where they can publish and share their creations and document their learning experiences.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cathy Davidson: So let me first back up just a little bit and tell your listeners about a wonderful study that Scott Freeman conducted for the Publications of the National Academy of Science in 2014, which is a meta study of 225 separate studies of learning. But] it regulates or equalizes who's speaking in a classroom. So it's fun.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2023

The biggest concern discussed at the event was making sure students around the world have equal access to new AI tools — and that educators have access to training to use them effectively and ethically. Having access to these tools is going to be very essential.”

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. How does Emil study the efficiency of differential treatment?

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

Not every student has an equal opportunity to learn modern, basic technology that is essential to lucrative careers, such as in STEM fields. And its sustainability relies upon public-awareness building and partner management. EdSurge: What inspired the creation of CoolThink@JC? We want to close the wealth gap.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Nearly everyone in the country is feeling the effects of that one way or another, yet as with so many other challenges, the burden is not borne equally. She has begun offering a stipend to teachers who use public transportation to get to work and is considering creating one for drivers, to cover the cost of gas.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds. i in the last two years.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

They don't need to sort of feel threatened if one of them, say, gets this great publication, because they both stand a chance of getting the tenured positions that they're after. And that's not just about whether we have an equal society or equal system. And they might both end up winning, then? They could both get tenure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Dyslexia is a condition that affects people of all ages, male and female equally, and causes them to mix up letters and words they read making what for most is a joy-filled act challenging and frustrating. At the time of this publication, Chrome offered twelve apps and extensions for reading-challenged users. What is Dyslexia?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

And while higher education generally leads to higher-paying jobs for graduates, research shows it doesn’t equally impact first-generation or low-income college students. The data shows that, particularly among public and private non-profit colleges, low-income students’ earnings increase as schools’ low-income graduation rate increases.

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STEM Education Works

JUNE 12, 2023

It was during this pondering session that he stumbled upon the idea that the buoyant force is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by an object, and BOOM! He compared the weight of the displaced water to the weight of an equal volume of pure gold and, alas, the crown fell short. Archimedes’ Principle was born.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 18, 2023

I enjoy offering “the public” similar activities as I do with my gifted students during the school year. I think a few campers liked it, but overall, the struggle making it didn’t equal the rewards. Each summer, I teach a toy making and hacking camp for 3rd through 6th graders. It wasn’t successful.

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STEMe

APRIL 28, 2023

Equality & Respect: Good leaders rely on his/her connections to actively bring people on the topic and treat all equally. Bosses tend to scold in public, which brings embarrassment and guilt. Bosses have a certain brick of isolation, blocking useful advice, which unfortunately causes displeasing actions and results.

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STEMe

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Water infrastructure can help society in a variety of ways, some of which include: Providing clean and safe drinking water: Adequate water infrastructure ensures that communities can have access to clean and safe drinking water, which is essential for maintaining public health and preventing waterborne illnesses.

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