ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically. This is a dilemma.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina. And since the beginning of this school year, he’s taught first grade in Fulton County Schools, in northern Georgia. “I He’s taught music, drawing on his experiences in music production.

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Schooling Learning Teaching Education 287

ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. 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.

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Math Algebra Calculus Mathematics 300

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. But my school doesn’t work that way. Morita, you were wrong.

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Schooling Flexibility Publication Critical Thinking 283

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2023

Just because this school year has ended doesn’t mean the crisis facing our nation’s youth is over. During the 2022-23 school year, suicide skyrocketed to the second leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in the United States. Nearly 1 in 3 high school girls said they had considered suicide. right now is guns.

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Achievement Schooling Publication Physics 315

ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

For thousands of high school students who are graduating, this time of year is all about looking to the future — namely, preparing for college in the fall. States with 1,000 or more undocumented high school graduates are shown. estimates that 120,000 undocumented students are graduating from high school this year. Source: FWD.us

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Schooling Publication Accessibility Research 229

ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

We feel this with each school shooting we endure. As the founder of an organization that provides social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences for preK-12 students, educators and families, and a mother of three, I spend a great deal of time considering what this crisis means for schools and communities. Enough is enough.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Lately, he’s in good spirits, in part because he feels ownership over how he spends his time after school. Being given a space to explore keeps Christian engaged.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I recently asked a teacher friend how the school year was going. This apprehensive optimism and continued fear is something I hear regularly from school staff in my work with schools and districts across the U.S. School-based staff expressed feeling stressed, stretched, afraid and overwhelmed.

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Schooling Argumentation Economics Achievement 256

ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. School was once thought of as a safe place for students and educators, but many students, staff and families have lost a sense of safety and security. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The right team, professional development and buy-in are essential to transformative digital learning, according to leaders of some of the largest K–12 school districts in the U.S. To achieve this, Carrozza's district is streamlining platforms, tools and curriculum choices to develop a unified digital learning ecosystem.

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Curriculum Technology Innovation Personalized Learning 246

ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. What may surprise you, however, is the average K12 school district uses a whopping 1,447 edtech products per month.

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EdTech Publication Achievement Innovation 308

ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. These students are also at an increased risk for chronic absenteeism, missing 10 percent — or more — of the school year.

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Publication Accessibility Achievement Primary 246

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Not only do teachers earn less than other professionals, but in most school districts their salary increases are not dependent on performance. Student achievement is scored based on test scores and individual improvement.

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Logistics Achievement Publication Teaching 270

Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 19, 2023

Serving at Reagan High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Misa has made a profound impact through her dynamic approach to educational leadership. Under her guidance, the school has not only seen significant growth in its International Baccalaureate (IB) Career Program, but also received numerous awards for student achievement.

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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 assumed that all Black students experienced Black teachers in school. One of them — the principal at Achievement First Brooklyn high school — hired six Black teachers that year, including me.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the last 10 years — particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — schools and colleges have had to adapt and evolve their approaches to learning and collaboration, opening the door to the “learn from anywhere” world. The main three are: public, private, and hybrid clouds.

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Education Education Data Analytics Publication 267

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

These decisions are informed by analyzing various types of data, such as academic achievement, non-academic factors, program and systems data, and perception data. In turn, this analysis helps educators make informed choices that directly affect student learning and school effectiveness.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. Even though I work at a small, all-girls Catholic school in Minnesota , we have students whose families emigrated to the U.S.,

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Economics Achievement Schooling Education 235

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2023

This is the case at my school, and I’m concerned that teacher-administrator bonds will suffer as a result. The role of a school administrator is demanding. While the pandemic may have raised public awareness of the plight of education and the stress teachers and administrators face, this has always been a reality.

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Schooling Problem Solving Construction Education 256

ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that as of 2021, more than one-third of high school students, including nearly three in five teen girls, had persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Mental health is a vital public health issue.

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Publication Biology Accessibility Schooling 235

ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality. In response, more than half of all U.S.

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Learning Achievement Calculus Research 300

ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the coming academic year, SOLER will partner with faculty in Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Office of Academic Integrity to examine student attitudes about the use of ChatGPT. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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Education Education Research Research 321

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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Critical Thinking Learning Publication Problem Solving 260

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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STEM Education Education Chemistry 315

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. school and university system, I wanted to find out how microaggressions shape the experiences of Asian American K-12 educators.

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Schooling Education Education Energy 204

Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This year, I introduced the free screencasting tool, Screencastify, the first week of school to all of my students so they could record screencasts. Thomas Arnett from the Christensen Institute Shares What the Insitute has learned from administrators and teachers about best practices for teaching during the pandemic. Sponsor: Screencastify.

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Blended Learning Learning Innovation Publication 239

ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of three educators and an edtech CEO: What is the greatest strength that Latinos can leverage to transform public education? Read the first part here.

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Education Education EdTech Computer Science 246

Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 7, 2024

Relationships may not be easily measurable but have a significant impact on student achievement. He gives suggestions for schools that help them frame school behavior and understand students' dreams, needs and abilities in a way we can put into our classroom practice. He is the author/co-author of 25 books.

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Achievement Schooling Education Education 243

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. It’s part of a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” ethos embedded in American mythology.

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Education Education Achievement Publication 252

ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Over 40 percent of students report that they’re sleeping less, and close to 3 in 5 students say they’re more stressed about school than they were before. hours before the pandemic.

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Education Education Flexibility Achievement 342

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Still, the challenges we face in our public education system rank right up there with war in Ukraine in the existential crises keeping me up at night. The pandemic has turned a slow-moving problem into a crisis, as schools scramble to staff classrooms and schools of education continue to see declines in enrollment.

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Education Education Publication Government 347

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. The answer?

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Education Education Communications Publication 270

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2022 she became the CEO of Tools for Schools, the developers of Book Creator – an inclusive, creative edtech tool. But it was also a time when I would start thinking about the upcoming school year. An open-ended task in Book Creator is a great way to achieve these objectives. Good luck with the new school year!

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Education Education Accessibility Curriculum 307

ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

Christopher Bugaj Assistive Technology Specialist, Loudoun County Public Schools One way for educators to meet the needs of students is to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into their instructional practices. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.

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UDL Accessibility Equality EdTech 307

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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Achievement Publication Elementary Schooling 204

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To achieve a comprehensive understanding, over 50 experts from 20 countries were convened, aiming to provide practical, implementable and secure recommendations for educational institutions. A Strategic Roadmap for Integrating Gen AI Into Schools 1. Involve various stakeholders, including boards of directors and caregivers.

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Teaching Artificial Intelligence Learning Research 209