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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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

ED Surge

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. The 2024 results of the nations report card, released last week by the National Center for Education Statistics, show that for the third time in a row fourth and eighth grade reading scores have dropped on the biannual assessment.

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As Apprenticeships Expand in Early Childhood, These States Are Training the Field’s Future Leaders

ED Surge

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. They are looking at whether and how to incorporate those topics into the apprenticeship experience.

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Is It Fair and Accurate for AI to Grade Standardized Tests?

ED Surge

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

ED Surge

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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More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: How can tutors reach more kids? Researchers look to ed tech

The Hechinger Report

What if you were to marry humans with technology? This blend of tutors and technology yielded results in ninth grade algebra equivalent to daily human tutoring alone at a much lower cost: $2,000 per student versus $3,000. This is just one study with only a year or so of evidence.

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