ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. The move was partly based on San Francisco public schools, which had delayed algebra until high school for all students in a high-profile experiment. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Our goal is to understand how the patterns of usage shape the interpersonal dynamics of the group members.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2023

Aristotle famously said, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” She is a former educator with 15 years experience in the classroom. For example, the Curriculum Access Team at Cincinnati Public Schools has been using Book Creator to ensure that every student has access to their learning.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Read the first part here. They just need to be reminded that they're capable of that perseverance.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. If we can’t agree on what a fact is.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Salazar is part of a growing movement of educators rethinking homework in light of the pandemic. But educators disagree about how they should respond. But other educators have a different view.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Some of those characteristics are consistent with careers in education.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2022

But that narrative can work against efforts of educational equity, putting the onus on students to achieve, no matter what systemic obstacles are in their way. And she proposes more community-minded alternatives that could improve educational equity.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In one Idaho town , in the southeastern part of the state, families strive to “read, talk, play” with their children every day while the wider community marches toward its goal of achieving universal preschool. Idaho is one of the last remaining states that does not provide any funding for public preschool.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spend time with educators these days—in K-12 or higher ed—and phrases such as these will come up often. It's not a new narrative, but the pandemic has heightened pressures on teachers and professors as it continues to radically reshape the education landscape. Why are we hearing so much about educator burnout and demoralization now?

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Polis, a Democrat who is in his second term as Colorado governor, replied: “We’re excited that Lillian will benefit from universal free preschool and save you some money and get her a very strong start for her education. EdSurge: You have made early childhood education a top priority for your administration. Congratulations.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contains markers like socioeconomic status, financial security, educational attainment, and life expectancy, all of which tells a story of Asian American progress and achievement. And so, she said, ‘We'll consider her the Asian educator and not you.’”

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Balloon archways surrounded the stage as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Alberto Carvalho, last month announced what he hailed as a pioneering use of artificial intelligence in education. So what, specifically, does the system do?

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Tune in to discover why esports might just be the missing piece in your educational toolkit and how you can start a program at your school. Danielle has 15 years of experience in Texas public education in both middle and high school, but will always identify as a middle school World Cultures teacher. and Improving.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. That can work out.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. So does the model work?

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

During a panel discussion at 1EdTech’s Learning Impact Conference in Anaheim this summer, distinguished educators shed light on their districts' digital transformations and emphasized the crucial role of collaboration, professional development and buy-in to ensure the effective integration of technology and curriculum.

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CoderZ

APRIL 29, 2024

to present an “Excellence in STEM Award” to educator Kerstin Dumas who serves as the literacy specialist and robotics coach for the school. to present an “Excellence in STEM Award” to educator Kerstin Dumas who serves as the literacy specialist and robotics coach for the school.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2023

Seventy percent of public schools nationwide reported an increase in students who have sought mental health services since 2020 , yet only 12 percent of educators strongly agreed that their school was able to effectively meet the need. Reach out and thank an educator for making a difference or request their support for your child.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Last year, when Micah Hill was a sophomore in high school, her guidance counselor gave her an application for Mississippi’s student representative program, which allows students to serve on the Mississippi State Board of Education. Hill applied and after two interviews, she was selected as the state’s newest student rep.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We dive deep into teachers' crucial role in driving innovation and improvement in education. In that case, this episode offers actionable insights into teacher leadership, classroom experimentation, and the power of doing less to achieve more. He earned his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the Richard L.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. education at all,” says García, whose organization has been warning about such shortages for years. Student achievement is scored based on test scores and individual improvement. What Makes a Good Teacher?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

Under federal law , homeless students are owed a K-12 education. The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. But it’s always been difficult to deliver on that promise.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, as education leaders, you’re faced with an increasingly diverse student population, each with unique learning styles, abilities, and aspirations. Let’s explore this, considering some innovative strategies and how they are transforming education as we understand it.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last month, the superintendent of New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) and the Orleans Public School Board decided to close our school at the end of the academic year. With parent confidence in public schools plummeting, schools across New Orleans and other major districts are under-enrolled.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. The Texas Education Agency did not respond to EdSurge’s request for comment.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

The moment a teacher decides their students can’t do something, then the battle has already been lost to the monster of educational inequity in our country. The moment a teacher decides their students can’t do something, then the battle has already been lost to the monster of educational inequity in our country.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. In short, social capital theory implies that those with larger and stronger networks, relationships and interpersonal trust excel at achieving their goals.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2023

In today's fast-paced educational landscape, technology plays an increasingly vital role in supporting student learning. First, it seeks to assist educators and district decision-makers in effectively evaluating and expressing requirements for edtech products that align with robust, research-supported instructional practices.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For decades, advocates of competency-based education have been arguing that colleges should award credits based on assessing what students know rather than how many hours they’ve spent in class. And colleges seem more open to trying new approaches as overall enrollment falls and skepticism of higher education is on the rise.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Some said that simply being asked what they think about their high school had already improved their perceptions about education. No justice, no peace , added another.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I took on a role as a teacher recruiter at Achievement First, where my focus was working with principals to hire teachers. I had graduated from a historically Black college (Morehouse College), I am a member of a historically Black fraternity, and many of my family members had ties to the education profession.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges. Department of Education reports show that technology can potentially transform education.

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