Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We talk a lot about student engagement in education. Most educators got into this profession for the students, and, as a result, we want their experience to be as engaging and positive as possible. Given the myriad challenges of the last two years, everyone in education should be concerned about teacher engagement.

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MARCH 12, 2025

The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is investigating the unintended consequences of AI-powered surveillance at schools. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. After hearing about these experiences, the Durham Board of Education voted to stop using Gaggle in 2023.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

However, if humans learn by participating in their lives then how can online learning be effective? There are already educational institutions using virtual reality to place learners in a real-life scenario to apply their knowledge and skills. When people tackle everyday challenges, they learn. Participation. References. Elliman, J.,

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

Still, there’s a tendency for people to remove some of the nuance when talking about the uptick in homeschooling and microschools, Angela Watson, an assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, told EdSurge in May. They had identified education as the beginning of a chain of events that fed into poor life outcomes.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. A two-tier educational system tracked predominantly low-income students and students of color into career and technical classes, then known as vocational education. Perkins Act.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Kirk: And that situation has been getting worse, Jon.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. In 2016 it was 79 percent.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that’s supposed to be of the highest quality. Higher Education. Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy.

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MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. One of those is Maryland.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

21, 2016, to protest police violence against Standing Rock Water Protectors. Ultimately, the film is hopeful, as it focuses on how the victims of Columbus and those who came after have themselves targeted “Columbus in America” to assert their humanity, their history, and their rights. The film is free online.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Incorporating active learning into your educational repertoire. Fedeli, & L.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Now Neal is starting over, with support from The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based education nonprofit.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 22, 2020

Though Adam & Jamie stopped hosting in 2016, the reruns and spin-offs continue. Because rumors, myths, and curiosity are a part of what it means to be human. Since 2003, Discovery’s show Mythbusters has been a smash hit. Finding answers to questions we’ve wondered about helps us process and move on with new knowledge.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Balloon archways surrounded the stage as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Alberto Carvalho, last month announced what he hailed as a pioneering use of artificial intelligence in education. So we get a human being involved to make that determination” if an interaction is in doubt. Customer Service?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

This story about the foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards. But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students. The National Center for Education Statistics plans to update this transcript study in 2024.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Monday with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. A partial explanation: The 2016 report didn’t include districts classified by the U.S. “If

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 6, 2018

Last night I watched an episode of Black Mirror , which Netflix describes as “ sci-fi anthology series explores a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.” Netflix (2016).”Nosedive” ”Nosedive” Black Mirror.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. Subscribe today! Mississippi has long struggled to improve reading scores. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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JULY 5, 2021

The increase in umpire errors buttresses the idea that humans have only so much attention span that can be depleted after a period of intense effort or concentration. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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JULY 2, 2021

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Wisconsin Scholars Grant recipients were 42 percent more likely to declare a STEM major than their peers, the study found. Humanities graduates averaged $48,733. For many, college isn’t just about getting an education.

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MAY 12, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Late last month, Alabama Gov. The governor told reporters that educators instead need to stick to the “basics of education.” Researchers say they need to.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ebony McGee, a Vanderbilt University associate professor who studies diversity in education, in her office at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. where he’s now an associate professor of education and on a faculty that is 58 percent black. percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, while 2.7 At Brigham Young University?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Buckley’s opinion carries special weight because he helped lead the 2016 redesign of the SAT. He was also the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Department of Education for three years during the Obama Administration. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

We haven’t really known who are the kids at risk for being frequent users of these technologies as they grow up,” said lead researcher Paul Morgan, a professor of education at Penn State. Department of Education database that tracks a large group of students who started kindergarten in 2010. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Education in prison can be key to reducing recidivism. By running the LDO, my colleagues and I have found a sense of purpose, humanity and true rehabilitation. Related: OPINION — The devastating consequences of leaving higher education out of prison reform. Credit: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Play is a natural human behavior. As my peers quietly compared updates on the chain of events happening in the adult world, the most experienced educator in the room, who the children called “Ms. Photo credit: Monica French, 2016) At the height of quarantine, I found myself flashing back to Ms. It’s the world around them.”

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are tremendous opportunities,” Isaacs said. “It Nearly 60 percent of teachers reported using games in their classrooms in 2016, according to Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up survey, up from 23 percent in 2010. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Longtime educator Hymethia W. Thompson was happily retired after 46 years as an educator when she saw a television news conference last summer that changed her life. “I The problem is so significant, educators said, that many of Jackson’s schools depend on long-term uncertified substitutes to augment the teacher rolls.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

This contributes to falling enrollment in states already struggling with some of the nation’s lowest percentages of residents with college educations. It’s “a vicious circle,” said Dave Spence, president of the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Education Board, or SREB. Dave Spence, president, Southern Regional Education Board.

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