ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. Futernick shares these recorded discussions on his podcast, “ Courageous Conversations About Our Schools. ”

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. We look at things like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. That's amazing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Here’s the complete overview on the role of assistive tech in encouraging inclusivity in education: What does that mead? How do you create one in your class or school? In the US, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) served around 7.3 million students with disabilities for the school year 2021 to 2022.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But while that may sound like typical Silicon Valley hype, the education system is taking it seriously. But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Do you ever worry that core subjects are getting lost in the muddle of all the other stuff that is becoming part of the accepted curriculum in K-12 schools? AS THE COUNTRY engages in a heated debate over what civic education should look like, a new report by The Thomas B. getting good grades on civics, history. Civics games.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Unveil the evolving future of writing education with AI through these suggestions from the Ask a Tech Teacher team. In the fast-changing digital world, integrating AI into education is both a breakthrough and a problem. This technology will transform education by personalizing learning and meeting various student demands.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. Or in K-12 settings, where the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum used by many high schools has an oral component. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. EdSurge: What problems in education is ViewSonic hoping to address with the launch of UNIVERSE ? ViewSonic's Recommended Resources: Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning? Do the dynamics change?

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a unique opportunity to identify the dangerous side of the “fake it until you make it” argument, as Theranos not only wasted millions of dollars, but put some patients’ health in jeopardy. But who was—or is—the Theranos of the education sector? He wrote: “And what did Ventilla learn as he stepped aside as leader.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. EdSurge: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, you piloted a multifaceted AI program to support the teaching of argumentative writing.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students. These include: 1.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I had just received a notice from my school about the push for teachers and leaders to return to school for in-person learning. What would I do with my children that are on different schedules and attend schools in different neighborhoods? Decisions and policies are often made without the input of teachers and school leaders.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. The emergence of generative AI has brought the term “disruption” back to headlines and along with it, the idea that education is stuck in the past and needs tech to drag it into the future.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

But it turns out that plenty of schools make it hard for teens to get the amount of sleep that doctors recommend. This has led to heated debates in recent years over school start times. Our guest is Lisa Lewis, an education journalist turned advocate for later start times. And 2015 was when he started high school.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

He’s an English teacher at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and he also writes a newsletter about the issues AI raises in education. How is it being used in education? I understand that there was recently a time at your school when this approach came in handy. Hear the full story on this week’s episode.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. The AI is trying to fix the writing process and the format—fix what is already there, not trying to understand what they intended to say."

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

Are schools too quick to turn student disturbances into criminal matters? Schools around the country have been wrestling with that issue in recent years, including whether to have police in schools , and if so, when to use them. A law in South Carolina long held that a student can be arrested for “disturbing” school.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

Department of Education opened a civil rights inquiry into Harvard University’s use of legacy admissions, after three Boston-area groups filed a complaint charging that the practices appeared especially unfair now that the consideration of race has been barred. But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

One big theme in education-innovation circles is that the professional world is changing faster than ever, and so schools and colleges must adjust how they teach to meet those needs. One college in St.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2022

What happened to this market that many analysts consistently describe as profitable and growing, and that many critics fret would take over and privatize much of higher education? The argument is that it is easier for 2U to market lower-tuition programs, and that it is the right thing to do.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2022

Jonathan, who wrote columns for EdSurge among his many pursuits, was a wonderful thinker, in education and in life. The recent author of the book Critical Thinking , a topic about which he cared deeply, Haber had contributed in significant ways to a variety of important education projects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

3 Fun Ways to Use Tech in the Classroom in the Run-Up to Summer Summer is right around the corner and as a teacher, you might be in search of creative ways to leverage technology to ensure your classroom remains an entertaining, engaging and educational space. Fear not, we’ve got you covered!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2019

They feel no guilt, don’t understand the legal risk they face, and think the argument that “everyone does it” makes it OK. I was excited when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Milyn Anne, offered this article explaining the why behind plagiarizing: What Factors Influence Your Tendency to Plagiarize in School?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. They must connect to opponent’s arguments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. Educational links.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

To explore this relationship, we interviewed 27 middle school writing teachers nationwide and looked at their teaching materials and student work. argument coherence) for teachers. Ready to leave your mark on education? Apply to become an Educator Mentor for the VITAL Prize Challenge !

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National Science Foundation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Teacher diversity is a contemporary issue in education circles that is prevalent in the current educational discussions. Few would discount the power and promise of diversifying the teaching force, especially in STEM fields; however, our research offers the field of STEM education new insight into the conversation.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 3, 2022

Honestly, I missed people and a lot of people I know in CS Education and CS Ed research are here. The argument for Python is multiple. FWIW, the school I retired from added Python in part because the Physics teachers encouraged it. I am finding the arguments for Python more convincing than I expected.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. And that's the kind of model that dominates our education system.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The father, Paul Carr, is 47, and he’s pushing to finish a college degree he started right after high school but stopped pursuing when he found out his then-girlfriend was pregnant with their first child. And there's no way that they can know coming out of high school what that really looks like. It used to work.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

Which schools deserve to top lists of the best colleges in the U.S.? But if the point of higher education is to buoy economic mobility, those lists that make headlines every year aren’t showing the whole picture. That’s the argument made by researchers at the think tank Third Way, who developed a new way to rank the nation’s colleges.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and conform while growing up in white schools. I sense this same feeling of difference in a student who recently transferred to my school from a predominantly Black school in Milwaukee.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes. We’ve been talking about SEL in education for decades.”

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

Our education system is having its own Henny Penny moment, with loud voices from the right generating and spreading panic that social and emotional learning, or SEL, endangers and “ indoctrinates ” students. Instead, evaluate the facts. Like Henny, we must now evaluate the facts around SEL. The sky is not falling. They’re common sense.

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