The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

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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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

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. Higher Education. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By 2019, the state allocated its first dollars into the fund, and began matching local funds dollar for dollar. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. Thankfully, my experiences across various educational institutions have influenced my development but have not changed my core identity, aspirations or the person I strive to present to my students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. So what is happening here?

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Silicon Valley likes to build things that will “scale” but education relies not upon clicks but upon student motivation.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2021

That is, until the 2018-2019 school year, when several staff members fell ill. My new normal is rooted in the reality that I am human and that if my cistern is broken or empty, there is a constant leak, and I can never be full enough to pour into others. My colleagues were good people, and we worked well together.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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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. This is her third year in the profession.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. Secret Service in 2019. An example of the benefits is the case of Think Equal , a global education initiative endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights Office, teaching social emotional learning to 3-5 year olds.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. When it comes to personalization, CoRise is experimenting with both human intervention and AI bots. For Garg, the Stanford student, a human helper doesn’t always seem necessary.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“[The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022. That’s similar to something she noticed in other students who took the course. But people are messy.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

So in the fall of 2019 and the winter of 2020, I worked with a talented team of videographers and producers to fan out to schools across the country—in Indiana, California, Florida and Massachusetts—to capture short documentary videos of classroom teachers. But too often, we simply avoid discussing topics related to identity.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

In summer 2020, EdSurge profiled nine first-year teachers to understand what it was like for them to launch their careers during the pandemic year (2019-20). Now, all of them are (or would be) in their fifth year in the classroom — a year by which about 44 percent of educators have left the profession.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

After a two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, suicide rates among American youth increased in 2021, according to a recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges. A study released by the U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession. While tools can’t necessarily replace human coaches or in-depth professional development that districts conduct, they can help teachers take stock, and correct course. This feature wasn’t possible to add six months ago.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. But even if funding was based on population, there isn’t an accurate count of Native children.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

By hearing educators’ stories, Kang says, she will be in a better position to share them and promote greater awareness and understanding. Even then, she recalls being moved by the stories of educators in the field and wanting to find ways to support and uplift its diverse workforce.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

The challenge with screening for dyslexia is that if you’re only dependent on a human, you’re limited in terms of the resource,” says Martyn Farrows, CEO of SoapBox Labs, a voice tech company. Diagnosing dyslexia early, for instance. What voice tech allows you to do, at scale, is to make an earlier diagnosis.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2023

There are three points of contact where data could potentially be accessed and leaked: administrators, teachers, and parents, according to Jim Siegl, senior technologist for youth and education privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, a nonprofit organization focused on data privacy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In September 2019, a young Canadian ed tech company called Classcraft announced that it had raised $7.5 Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Classcraft is an example of impact investing, investments that seek social or environmental benefits along with financial returns. million from investors. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

CAST Med, scheduled to open in the San Antonio Independent School District in the fall 2019, will prepare kids for midlevel careers in the booming healthcare field, such as nursing, anesthesiology, and phlebotomy. Mohammed Choudhury, chief innovation officer for the San Antonio Independent School District. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Georgia State’s student newspaper, The Signal, devoted a special April 2019 issue to how administrators were monitoring student data. January 16, 2019. A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element. Photo: Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. Renick is referring to 800 “marker courses.”

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

During the 2019-20 school year, in response to racial unrest and protests around the United States, Black students and alumni across the country shared about their negative experiences in majority-white elite institutions on “Black at” Instagram pages. Over time, we used these takeaways to craft more inclusive school policies.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. So much emotional energy is expended attempting to reconcile the disempowering moment in order to reclaim our humanity. I’ll sometimes smile, look them in the eyes and respond sweetly, “Human. And we’re not just one homogenized, stereotypical group. What are you?”

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

You’re also part of this big thing, this human endeavor—that’s kind of cool.” In January 2019, he spent two weeks studying abroad in Paris with UVa’s adult learner program, touring Victor Hugo’s home and examining the author’s handwritten notes for “Les Miserables.” He doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree in anything—yet. “So

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services, reveals the extent of the loss. By 2019, the number of licensed programs had further declined, with only about 91,000 remaining open across the United States, according to the National Survey of Early Care and Education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Gale (no relation to the author) has known she wanted to work with young kids ever since she can remember. “I But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Policy Center report found that the on-time high school graduation rate in the city has been been rising —from 68 percent in the 2018-2019 school year to 75 percent in the 2021-2022 school year — ostensibly a positive development. Students will have more opportunities to travel internationally.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. Higher Education. 21, 2019 during the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) held in Doha, Qatar. . 21, 2019 during the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) held in Doha, Qatar. (I Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The technology, while intended to prevent school shootings or alert authorities to self-harm risks, can harm vulnerable students, like LGBTQ+ students, the most, the study noted. The blueprint signals to schools—and edtech developers—that humans should be reviewing the decisions made by AI tools, Kelley said.

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