ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In 2016, I moved to the U.S., hoping to one day become an educator. A special education teacher complimented my teaching, saying I explained lessons well and followed lesson plans effectively. I signed up for the same school multiple times and loved the environment.

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Education Professional Development Charter School Lesson Plan 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Educators have a lot of work ahead of them.

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Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools.

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K-12 Professional Development Lesson Plan Elementary School 76

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Maryland Maps a Way Forward Some years back, before the start of the pandemic, Maryland state legislators were thinking about how to improve their education system, hoping to transform it into one of the best in the world.

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Leadership Teaching Lesson Plan Public School 133

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Debilitating slowdowns and districtwide outages in past years have been so common that some Nome teachers even now prepare two lesson plans per class—one to use if the internet cooperates and one that requires only textbooks.

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Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 133

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. In 2020, only 10 percent of Kenyan teachers were using the more than one million laptops distributed through a Digital Literacy Program between 2016 and 2018.

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EdTech Tutoring Lesson Plan Professional Development 121