ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that the market for computer science occupations will grow 13 percent between 2020 and 2030. This includes how Amazon employees and technology work together to support customer fulfillment through the pick, pack and ship processes.

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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). Each time, we’re left wondering if there’s anything else we could have done to prevent another tragedy. A study released by the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2024

Sixty-four percent of public schools have a threat assessment team, according to an Institute of Education Sciences report using data from the 2019-2020 school year. In a culture of fear and anxiety about school violence, schools can overreact, one researcher argues, mislabeling bad discipline practices.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The company is among OER providers that argue that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable, by making sure that economically disadvantaged students have the materials to succeed in courses like statistics that serve as gateways to lucrative professions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They include narratives such as the Earth being flat, the 2020 election being rigged or stolen, and COVID-19 vaccines being dangerous,” the News Literacy Project’s report found. While teens don’t believe every conspiracy theory they see, 81 percent who see such content online said they believe one or more.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Every content experience is embedded in a cultural or community framework.” Before 2020, Outschool classes taken by children ages 3 to 8 accounted for 20 percent of the company’s overall business. When the pandemic began, that soared to 1.5 million and has held steady since. Now, they account for 40 percent.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

in 2020—the most in 12 years, according to the FBI. But as I’ve learned in my experience as an African-American school counselor, if we instead build and foster cross-cultural connections with students, they can learn, grow and develop a deeper understanding of themselves and each other.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

Awareness of this issue was amplified when the 2020 Military Family Lifestyle Survey reported that 51 percent of active-duty family respondents with children felt as though they were able to access high-quality mental health care for their children.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2022

During the frantic weeks when my school, a community college outside of Chicago, switched to across-the-board remote learning in March 2020, many professors and staff recognized that we needed to immediately gather information. Creating a Culture of Inquiry It’s important to qualify these claims about student input.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers’ perspectives on the rubric underscore the questions we must continue to ask as edtech products embed and evolve logics that reduce—rather than increase—transparency in how the technology facilitates student learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. And for good reason.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

By the end of the 2020-2021 school year we resumed in-person learning with full days. The dean of culture started hosting after-work gatherings at local eateries to bring staff together to unwind and connect outside of work, but most of us didn’t show up. After so much transition and uncertainty, we were exhausted and overwhelmed.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

million children who entered kindergarten in the fall of 2020, and as a result of the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, started her public school career remotely. Let’s evolve how we educate in the service of who we educate, so all trees in every schoolyard may be evergreen. Our daughter was one of 3.7

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

The idea came to Asemota, who is in her final semester as a biomolecular science major with a computer science minor, during the doldrums of pandemic lockdown isolation in 2020. Then in March 2020, the pandemic hit. Did those cultures influence your plans for your education? You don't hear about them.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. He credits that experience with giving him the academic confidence he needed to transfer to a university.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Take the actual dollar amounts received by tribes in 2020. Linda Smith, director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Early Childhood Initiative Baesler explains that culturally relevant curriculum at the early childhood level makes a difference in the later success of Native students. million in mandatory funding.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, in 2020, Bettina Love published a framework and guiding questions for creating classrooms that affirm Black, Latino and Indigenous children, which I’ve used to broaden my own understanding of how to create the conditions where love and acceptance flourish within our school’s culture.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care by Sean Slade “We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools,” writes school leadership expert Sean Slade. That means calls for teachers to practice self-care are not enough.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

Widespread faculty opposition to digital education over the years did not keep remote instruction from taking hold. As the digital revolution elbowed its way into the nation’s cultural and commercial spheres, virtual versions split off from earlier industrial-era products, often overturning them. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

Isaiah, her middle child, had finished fifth grade in June 2020. More established ones are overseen by one adult, often a former teacher or a parent with an advanced degree related to education, and students and parents play an active role in setting school culture, according to Wood.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Parachuting In, Unprepared for Duty During the first quarter of the 2020-2021 academic year, I needed to make my first-ever parent call. This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach?

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The murder of George Floyd in 2020 changed American culture, in part by invigorating interest in diversity, equity and inclusion. For some schools, this meant making a commitment to diversity in their mission statements, as well as creating plans intended to increase equity.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

One moment would be 2020, at the start of COVID. I know for my classroom, I want to have books available by authors of all different races, with characters that look like my students, not just one color or culture. I want my students to know and understand other cultures, so they can have a better mindset moving forward in life.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

As part of a nationwide push to elevate the value of work skills rather than credentials , policymakers, employers and educators have been encouraging students and job seekers to consider pursuing skilled trades like construction that don’t require bachelor’s degrees. Or it can be overt physical and emotional abuse.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

With the escalation of online teaching and learning in 2020, Duolingo leadership noticed that product usage was steadily increasing despite the shakiness of the platform. Having built a culture of collaboration, we’re now able to head into this challenge with confidence.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

The region overall is still trying to recover from enrollment drops that started in the fall of 2020, the first full school year following the COVID-19 pandemic’s start. Denver Public Schools, however, also lost some of its share of Hispanic residents, while most other districts made gains in that demographic.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. The chapters in this anthology illustrate the magic of educators co-creating with students and sharing power to uplift students’ voices.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And he won the world’s top teaching award in 2020, the $4 million Yidan Prize. But at the same time, I have to admit that you're dealing with something that's very entrenched culturally and historically, and that's just hard to make big changes in things like that. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

The hope that the pandemic would force leaders to reevaluate their priorities concerning education seemed to dwindle by the day. Every moment I inched closer towards the third school year following 2020, it felt as if I had to do something different. It often feels as if we have a skill set so unique it is not transferable.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

We published that one in November 2020. And having diverse perspectives in as many spaces as possible is important to fostering a culturally responsive education and a strong classroom community. Riley Campbell, center left, during the writing process of “Man Up!”

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

In 2020, by one federal estimate, 18 percent of people living on tribal lands were unable to access broadband (outside of tribal areas, that number was closer to 4 percent). That’s especially a problem on tribal lands. In rural tribal areas, about 30 percent of people were unable to access broadband.

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