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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. This year, in Indiana, sixth graders will take an inaugural civics course in the spring semester.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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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. public speaking. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. Write an ebook.

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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. public speaking. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. persuasion.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting." How did public opinion evolve? I always wonder why that is the case. declared war on Germany in April 1917.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s the argument made by Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking about the issue in recent months. We look at things like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. That's amazing. What does a college need to do differently for this generation?

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

These artificial assistants, the argument goes, will be able to automate tasks, freeing up teacher time for interacting with students, while also providing instant feedback for students like a tireless (free-to-use) tutor. In this case, it is also to mollify concerns that AI will lead to less autonomy and less respect for teachers.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. It seems like there's a lot of common sense to this argument that is very accessible to a non-philosopher. And they might both end up winning, then?

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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. Unsurprisingly, the highly-publicized plan to deploy Knewton’s technology in service of incarcerated youth never happened.

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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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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students. Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more. These include: 1.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 23, 2020

There are actions they can take as part of their home schooling. Quite frequently, not only do state standards permit teachers and schools to support student activism, but they encourage student activism as a means by which to develop civic understanding. This also true for kids and young people.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

SEL and “critical race theory”—a little-understood academic concept that conservatives have capitalized on to stoke fear among parents—have been willfully conflated in recent public discourse by disingenuous, politically motivated agitators , causing hysteria. Like Henny, we must now evaluate the facts around SEL. They’re common sense.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

The Socratic Method requires cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, asking and answering questions that stimulate critical thinking and draw out underlying presumptions. The goal has nothing to do with who wins the argument but how evidence and ideas are presented. — image credit: Fresno Public Schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

People who happen to be good at school and college are often described as ‘smart,’ and our systems tend to reward them with cultural status and good jobs. That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.”

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. The first student has an extremely high grade point average (GPA) from their school exams, while the second student’s GPA is still good, but not as high.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

software engineering school Makers Academy, and Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. There are two key weaknesses to our argument.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is a nexus—kids and climate—where research is becoming more and more robust, yet public awareness and understanding lag far behind. One example that's stuck with me is the Pacific Northwest “ heat dome ” last year, when the public pools had to close because the ground around it was unsafe to walk on. That's my argument.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2018

In 2015, Idaho adopted an open-enrollment policy allowing families to send students to their school of choice. School leaders credit a multi-faceted senior writing project, new curricula, and instructional technology for bringing new students to their doors. Middle school is prime time [to teach about process and citation],”.

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User Generated Education

MAY 6, 2018

I, along with many others, have been impressed with how articulate the Parkland students have been regarding their school shooting and gun laws. When students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High debated gun control in class last November, they never imagined they were preparing to lead a national discussion on how to prevent school shootings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

Because of its multimedia approach and appealing blend of text, color, movement, sound, and images, it has fast become one of the most popular writing exercises in schools. This is a great visual way to act out experiences, teach lessons, share how-tos, make public service announcements, and tell a story from different points of view.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

He asked me to compare it to existing school CS curriculum with which I’m familiar. I’m most familiar with elementary and high school curricula in the United States. Each US state has control over its own school system (i.e., I gave it a shot. Technological knowledge and skills which describes the tools (e.g.,

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While formal science education – the science we study in school or college – provides important scientific skills and knowledge, a lot of learning occurs outside of formal settings. I completed a master’s degree in public administration and environmental policy and pursued my doctorate in environmental geography.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 4, 2013

But in those cases “go to hell” was just a way to break the tension, to end an argument that was going nowhere. The words were spoken by my nine-year-old son, Scott, in the principal’s office of the public elementary school. This time it was serious. This time I felt, maybe, I really would go to hell. I want more ».

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The Maker Mom

MARCH 18, 2023

Availability of Technology The broad availability and affordability of mobile devices have been a boon for schools. Online Tutoring Is a Growing Field Online learning opens the doors to educational opportunities outside of school hours. Educational software and applications are close behind at 65%.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Developing teacher leaders to help facilitate change in their schools’ mathematics programs was a major component of the TEAM-Math partnership (Martin et al., Teachers were identified as school- and district-level teacher leaders by their principals and district personnel.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

Pathway from school to materials science and engineering • Ryan suggests physics and chemistry as the subjects most relevant for MS&E. I had great arguments about mathematical proofs with my amazing grade school maths teachers and was a regular at Boston’s science museum. Do a lot of science stuff outside of school.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon.

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DR ABENAA OWUSU-BEMPAH Associate Professor of Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. PATHWAY FROM SCHOOL TO LAW. •

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Through evaluating evidence and mapping out arguments, students can practice this important aspect of scientific communication. Coursework sometimes involves engaging with younger students, for example, by doing outreach at local high schools. Also, many public talks and seminars happen regularly across campus.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This paves the way for its use among the general public in the near future. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

At the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, we see the inherent problem of putting out 25 (!) One area of connection we’re currently working on is STEM – discussing a goal of transdisciplinary STEM literacy that we hope all students gain by the time they graduate from high school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. As a result, an increasing number of schools are making micro-credentials a fundamental piece in their professional development plan. . public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

My interest was grabbed, therefore, by this thoughtfully composed piece in Chalkbeat, “ Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students.” I was struck by the tight argumentation in the recent Vox essay, “ The incredible shrinking future of college ,” written by New America’s Kevin Carey.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2021

Each team builds a case to address the particular environmental concern they consider to be the most critical by researching, building a convincing argument, and then presenting it to their audience. More on ecology: Why Earth Day May be the Most Important Event at School. You won’t be disappointed. Storyboard That!

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