ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders. While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

In April 2019, we began our journey to personalize learning. We examined Battelle for Kids and the Portrait of a Graduate , among other experiences. Next, we collaborated with a thought partner on a framework around modern learning that embedded the Portrait of a Graduate model.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

During a call, Carr noted that these declines continue trends that predate the pandemic, going back to 2019. Meanwhile, an eighth grader scoring at the basic level can figure out the main idea from informational text: about a third of eighth graders fell below that standard, the most in the assessments history.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Business Side of Early Education Kentucky was the first state to launch a director-level apprenticeship program, back in spring 2022. Today it is one of four apprenticeship tiers available to early childhood educators there.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

But there are far more students regularly logging into their computers for their classes now than in 2019, according to the latest federal data. million more students were taking at least one course online — even as the total number of college students fell by more than a million between 2019 and 2022.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

This is up from an average of 703 edtech tools during the 2018-2019 school year, representing a more than 200% increase in just three years. While there are still many challenges that remain, schools have an opportunity now to review their processes in order to make them more equitable.

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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. million in 2019 to 18.6 million in 2019 to 18.6 million students in 2021, a 5.1

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

In many cases, she said, “they’re getting an education that’s largely created by a whole other entity that may or may not have good outcomes.”. Educational technology: $16 billion. They spend $16 billion annually on educational technology , projected to rise to $20 billion by 2024, BMO Capital Markets estimates.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

According to Common Sense, between 2015 and 2019, screen use among teenagers (ages 13 to 18) increased by 11 percent. Between 2019 and late 2021, screen use among both teens and tweens grew an additional 17 percent. TikTok wasn’t as big a platform in 2019, and it wasn’t even a thing in 2015.” TiKTok is a big force,” he says.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It has partners in a dozen countries, including Boston-based LearnLaunch, the Center for Educational Technology, Digital Promise, and Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterey. Skillist advances to the global final competition in London on January 22, 2019. GESA is the largest edtech startup competition in the world.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, a major breach at educational testing company Pearson during the 2019-20 school year affected an unknown number of student records in thousands of schools. Levin counted each district’s data breach separately, even if they were all hit by the same cyber attack. The GAO counted that as one incident.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

Stanford professor emeritus and former public district superintendent Larry Cuban described in a 2019 blog the stark reality that AltSchool was “ spending $40 million a year and taking in $7 million in revenue … a recipe for financial disaster.” Yet, fast forward to 2022, and AltSchool no longer exists.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Department of Education shows that students who are English learners — sometimes called emergent bilinguals — generally lag behind their peers when it comes to high school graduation rates. The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. Texas and Illinois did not provide information that year.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Visitors can expect to see innovative technology use with HP and Microsoft tools. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. 22 as the 2019 HP Spotlight School.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. In 2019, 31 percent were considered below basic level. That’s up from the 2019 results, which showed 34 percent below basic.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Using technology to score essays is nothing new. A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Altogether, nearly 150 teachers — out of 5,000 who were using the free homework site — created more than 40,000 hints for more than 25,000 problems during the three years of this experiment, from 2017 to 2019.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Just 62 percent of parents attended parent-teacher conferences in 2019, down from 77 percent in 2017. Despite being a former teacher and a current education-technology executive, I have struggled these past few weeks. According to research by Learning Heroes , U.S. Related: How does South Korea outpace the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. Tools powered by artificial intelligence will also help.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. National Education Association. US Department of Education. Retrieved on September 25, 2019 from: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The 2019 program in Virginia “placed graduate students in school district positions and provided 200 trainees with financial incentives to work in schools,” according to her report, and Ohio has a similar, decades-old program for school psychologist interns.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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ED Surge

MAY 25, 2023

Evans started the mindfulness program in 2019 at the elementary school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. “I really got to know Ms. Evans when I was in first grade and got in a lot of trouble,” Mason says. But now, she’s my best friend.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2020

The screener, which was selected as one of eight winners by the 2019 MIT Solve program for early childhood programs, has been tested by about 800 kindergarteners or entering kindergarteners in 42 schools in nine states with an anticipated release date of this fall. States currently use a range of methods to screen students.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

A 2019 report from the Century Foundation, called “ Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses, ” urged institutions to turn away from outsourced programs. OPMs have come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly for tuition-sharing contracts that critics say encourage predatory marketing practices and swell student loan debt.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Recently released tax records show that in 2019, Koch’s campaign totaled more than $112 million , far outspending its common annual stake a decade ago of about $10 million. By 2019, a bachelor’s degree generated 77 percent more in a worker’s paycheck than a high school diploma.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2019, Cheryl Gonzales returned to St. That’s because students aren’t data points—they’re individuals—and their lives are more winding and complex than anything that can fit neatly into a spreadsheet. But a college can work to clear some of the barriers in students’ paths. Photos by Ed Ornelas for EdSurge.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

To understand the stakes of the image, it’s worth looking to a new Harvard University research report that begins: “Although children have largely been spared the direct health consequences of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there is increasing concern about the pandemic’s influence on other aspects of child health and development.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Last year’s stress led to record levels of teacher burnout and mental health challenges for students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

These descriptions of education technology research may comfort educators and parents looking for ways to mitigate the devastating effects of lost learning time because of the coronavirus. Districts spent more than $ 12 billion on ed tech in 2019. But they are all misleading. There’s more evidence of what doesn’t work.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

This experiment started in the 2018-2019 school year and at the end of the year, the students who had this extra math block learned more than twice the amount of math than lottery losers who didn’t have this tutoring-and-ed-tech experience. “A The tutor sat with all four students together, monitoring that the ALEKS kids were on task.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It comes from a wide range of education technology products, assessments and other sources — there’s data from reading programs, math programs, state tests, daily quizzes, student history and more, each one a single puzzle piece that could be linked to other pieces to create a unified picture, but that, more often than not, stands alone.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

It simply accelerated a problem for higher education that already existed. From 2010 to 2019, college enrollment nationwide fell about 11 percent , according to analysis from NPR, due to changes in the labor market that incentivized working over studying; lower birth rates several decades ago; and increased tuition costs.

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