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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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Research shows lower test scores for fourth graders who use tablets in schools

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. Choose as many as you like.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Incentives for quality improvements A partnership between Alabamas Department of Human Services and Department of Early Childhood Education has produced meaningful child care quality improvements over the last three years. Now there are 85 more than a quarter of all ratings participants.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

That may be because, for all the focus on professional preparation, the schools are also giving students the academic education to equip them for college — not just the workforce, say CAST leaders. The CAST schools underscore the fundraising success of Martinez, who was hired three years ago from the Nevada Department of Education.

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A Viral Video Showed a School Officer Body-Slamming a Student. Years Later, Signs of Change.

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. It has me constantly reminding myself to work with human beings, not human behavior.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. Higher Education. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In a 2015 interview with the New York Times, when asked about the name “Generation Alpha,” McCrindle said “It didn’t make sense to go back to A,” noting that it’s the first generation to be fully born in the 21st century. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.” But we can’t yet see what the new forms will be.”

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Educators Don’t Need To Cope. They Need To Resist.

ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

In August of 2015, I was 37½ weeks pregnant with my first child. I began to see everyone I interacted with as a human being with history, knowledge and expertise I had never noticed before. I looked at the teachers I worked with as humans first—not just as practitioners I needed to equip with specific tools.

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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2015-16, community colleges enrolled more than a third of dependent undergraduate students whose families earned less than $20,000 a year. Some public flagships are paying attention to the transfer pipeline’s potential for educating people of varied backgrounds.

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State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Even proponents of educational technology admit that a lot of software sold to schools isn’t very good. Most of the universities combined the software with human instruction, but a few courses were delivered entirely online. It’s probably the largest and most rigorous study of adaptive learning to date.

Education

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. When Wheatley High received a seventh “F” rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2019, it triggered the state takeover of the district. I was so stressed, and my stomach was always a knot.

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

So a 2018 report from the USA Center for Educational Statistics found that computing graduates had some of the highest median earnings at $70,000 a year and rising over the past 10 years. And that’s worse than the humanities, English and finance degrees in the U.K. A report in 2015 found that level four apprenticeship.

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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. It is a deeply human process that AI is hopelessly incapable of meeting in a meaningful way. It is a deeply human process that AI is hopelessly incapable of meeting in a meaningful way. They’re strange tools.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. Thats down from a fourth grade high of 223 in 2015 and an eighth grade high of 268 in 2013. Its just what happened during the early days of the pandemic, when kids were stuck at home and beaming into school through a computer.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

They were taking on thousands of dollars in student loans to pay for their college educations, but they were far less likely to get a degree than their wealthier peers. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element.

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A new challenge for colleges: opioid-addicted students

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

New Jersey’s legislature passed a law in 2015 requiring most public colleges to have recovery housing. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. In the past year, some 35,000 students have taken a new online course on prescription drug safety created by the educational-technology company EverFi.

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Do These Disappearing, 100-Year-Old Schools Hold a Vital Lesson for American Education?

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

And so I had done my first photography book , which came out in 2015 — just a portrait of an abandoned college campus.

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Civics Education American History History

Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. Does this mean that Florida is safe for Asian folks but not for Black and queer folks?

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. Stories that inspire Sign up to receive Hechinger’s deeply reported education coverage in your inbox, every Tuesday.

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A Viral Video Showed a School Officer Body-Slamming a Student. Years Later, Signs of Change.

The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

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State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

A new challenge for colleges: opioid-addicted students

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