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. For school districts seeking quick solutions, Culatta emphasizes the futility of blocking AI, as it is swiftly becoming a ubiquitous presence.

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

As another school year comes to a close, so does another cycle of our Voices of Change Writing Fellowship — a program that brings together a diverse cohort of K-12 educators and school leaders to share their experiences. And they explored how their own identities and backgrounds shape their experiences. Here’s what they had to say.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. That's why I'm also their cheerleader.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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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. I was wrong.

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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

APRIL 10, 2024

In turn, this analysis helps educators make informed choices that directly affect student learning and school effectiveness. School leaders and teachers may need more time, tools, expertise and professional development to collect, analyze and interpret data effectively. Qualitative data remains equally impactful in this regard.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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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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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thankfully, school systems have made meaningful headway in the past decade by integrating new media literacy and digital citizenship skills into the curricula, such that responsible AI can be a new addition to existing modules. Navigate the ethics of generative AI in education.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

(and around the world) stopped showing up to school. 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. Hypothesis 2: Tech-Infused Schools Every classroom and workplace now has reliable access to the internet.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2023

The free online conference, called AI x Education , aimed at getting teachers at colleges and high schools up to speed on the latest AI tools like ChatGPT, and to encourage them to try to use them this fall. But one national event for teachers this month had a very unusual trait: It was started and organized by students.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, schools are recognizing the importance of equipping every student with a personal device to facilitate digital learning. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School? We announced, “iPads are coming! Devices are coming!”

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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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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. Successful professional development creates a sustainable teaching capacity inside the school system. Global Benchmarking of Computational Thinking Education in Primary Schools.

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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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

As juniors and seniors return to high school this fall, part of their school day likely will include thinking about which colleges and universities they’ll apply to. 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.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

My friends and I spent our high school days on AsianAvenue.com , an affinity website for Asian Americans, to build community, yet we were perpetually exposed to the hypersexualization of Asian American women. This year, I spent most of my time in a public-facing role representing Hawai?i i in the last two years.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

Russell studies the intersection of philosophy and business ethics, and, like Hussain did, he hopes to challenge the assumption that it’s OK for business leaders to suspend some traditional morality in the name of market competition—something sometimes taught at business schools. And they might both end up winning, then?

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Schools and educators can play a crucial role by focusing on effort and perseverance over innate ability, thus, reinforcing the idea that skills in STEM can be learned and improved upon. Workshops and seminars can equip educators with the tools to encourage and support both male and female students equally.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2021

However, over the past few months, kids have largely been cooped up at home due to the impact of COVID-19; the lack of access to a tried-and-true schooling process and resources will result in young children missing out on foundational concepts in literature, math and science that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.

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Career in STEM

MAY 12, 2022

From after-school programs to online communities to access to scholarships, there are plenty of sources to help girls of all ages get the support and inspiration they need to succeed in science and STEM. Not only does Techbridge offer after-school programs in California, Seattle and D.C.,

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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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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And I will tell you, I'm going to go ahead and plug it now because if I was still in the classroom, I would be equally as excited about this. It is public. You never have to make it public. It just works really well to showcase those items, and the parents are equally blown away by their students where it happened every year.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 10, 2013

This puts the number of homeschoolers in the nation about equal to those attending charter schools. He shares that the number of families that homeschool today for religious purposes is on the decline as the choice today is more likely to be the result of dissatisfaction with the government schooling system.

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CSTEM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As we hit stride with a new school year, it’s time to take another look at the underrepresented and underserved students we can help through STEM. This is only the students who are able to go to school, and does not take into account students who do not attend due to lack of resources or family support. today, more than 1.2

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Newton STEM

APRIL 23, 2023

MITES runs three programs: MITES Semester : Hybrid STEM program for rising high school seniors, June–December (formerly MOSTEC). MITES Summer : Six-week, residential STEM program for rising high school seniors (formerly MITES).

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Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY? Most people need to travel to school or to work, or to go to the shops or the doctors. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Human Rights Act emphasises the need to provide equal opportunities for engagement in the arts,” says Gilles. Pathway from school to music for mental health • “It is important to note that you do not have to choose between studying music and science,” says Gilles. psychology, rehabilitation, biomedical engineering, etc.)

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STEM Education Works

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Libraries have long been an equalizer in providing equitable access to information. Whether your library is public, school, academic, or specialty, your patrons need the skills and knowledge to compete for future careers. What if all it took to gain access to 3D printing technology was your library card?

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the landmark ruling that established racially segregated schools unconstitutional. In the following decade, over 35,000 teachers and school leaders lost their jobs in those seventeen states (Hudson & Holmes, 1994). In May 2024, the country will see the 70 th anniversary of Brown v. The Brown v.

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STEM Next

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Deaf Kids Code facilitated a project-based learning opportunity in a deaf program in Chicago Public schools hosted by Cook Biotech. We love these bright spots and can’t wait to see them take hold and flourish in schools, out-of-school programs, and homes. Many youth experience their Hour of Code at school.

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How to STEM

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s all about celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness against bias and taking action for equality. How to get involved… Find school resources on the International Women’s Day website Read books celebrating women in STEM. International Women’s Day (8th March).

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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. We should never talk about access to jobs as if we live in an equal world. But the hard truth is that they’re not valued equally. And this is indispensable for the poor.

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