ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

As many as 37 percent of homeless students are chronically absent, according to a report from the National Center for Homeless Education. But that figure can be higher, such as in Los Angeles Unified School District, where 70 percent of homeless students were chronically absent in 2021-2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Brown found herself sharing advice with so many educators looking to emulate her path that in 2021, she published a book on the subject. She has since been promoted to client success manager. “It

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5 In 2021-22, 6.5 We are always constantly trying to build a stronger school culture," she said. "In

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a 2021 survey from the College Innovation Network, 20 percent of students at four-year colleges said they struggled learning new edtech tools. Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. In many ways it was. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. In 2021, while teaching sixth grade humanities, I united my love of writing and teaching and penned a memoir about my experiences teaching. I wanted to grow.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021. We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. Source: American Community Survey.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Spanish is by far the most common home language among English learners, accounting for roughly 75 percent of them, according to the National Center for Education Statistics’ most recent numbers from fall 2021. Arabic, the second-most common home language, comes in with a mere 2.5 percent share of English learners nationwide.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

In Ohio, for example, state lawmakers passed anti-hazing legislation in 2021 that requires colleges to create an educational program on hazing that students can complete during orientation. Before the pandemic, that information was all squeezed into just four days of training.

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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. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative. A lot of her work is, and this is the latest demonstration of her contributions to education. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr., and LaGarrett J. King, Ph.D.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. Department of Labor in 2021 to designate education as an eligible sector.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

in rhetoric and composition from Virginia Tech, co-authored a paper in 2021 calling on educators to do more to incorporate user testing when designing learning materials. But he says that doing so will mean a change in the culture of many companies. “In McNabb, who earned a Ph.D.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A poll of 27 teachers at a keynote event in 2021; courtesy of Stephanie Malia Krauss.A If schools do not get the time and resources needed to recover, they may be unable to endure the next viral variant, culture war or economic disaster. The school has a culture of inclusiveness and belonging. This summer, responses shifted.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

To start to shift those figures, the department makes Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations grants to organizations like Moore Community House (which received $750,000 from the government in 2021). These jobs include information security analyst and engineering roles of all types.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to a recent report from the National Rural Education Association, 80,000 more English-learner and multilingual students were enrolled in rural districts in the 2021 school year than in 2013. Historically, rural school districts have struggled to provide high-quality education to non-native English speakers.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2024

The CDC released the results of its biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey earlier this month, highlighting changes in students’ responses from 2021 compared to 2023. New federal data on youth mental health offers a few silver linings, but experts caution these signs of progress don’t mean U.S. students are out of the storm.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

6, 2021, chief among them. During that time, the News Literacy Project has gone from a niche nonprofit to a leader in a national effort to create a more discerning public, starting with its young people and educators. “Our We want to change the culture, the way we’ve seen with smoking and drunk driving and littering.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

One important step is to acknowledge how the pedagogy of STEM education is grounded in a masculine culture that young girls of color will never fit into — one where white men hold privilege. Young girls need culturally-relevant curricula and programs in their schools and communities that are accessible and affordable.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For schools and districts, high turnover is not only problematic for school culture, it is also a significant drain on time, resources and money. She decided in December 2021 that this would be her last year teaching. According to the 2021 State of the U.S. Bowyer isn’t alone in feeling stressed and overwhelmed.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. Let’s evolve how we educate in the service of who we educate, so all trees in every schoolyard may be evergreen. Teachers and school leaders must start recognizing variability in development as the norm.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Institutions positioned for success in the next decade will seize this opportunity by prioritizing new approaches to working conditions and building better workplace cultures. We pivoted in March 2020, then again in fall 2020, then again in fall 2021. Intermittent flexibility” isn’t going to cut it.

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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

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. However, a majority also told us that students were confused about how to respond to the feedback.

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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

One reason for the recent Great Resignation, as more than 47 million people voluntarily quit jobs in 2021 , is that people innately know that their life needs come first, not the employers’ needs, and they are taking action as they face shortened futures from viruses and climate change. It builds national human capital.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Some colleagues announced that they did not intend on returning to the 2021-22 school year. Our world seems so siloed from other professional settings, with specific language, practices and culture. Like many teachers, I felt exhausted and pushed past my limit trying to hold together under-resourced schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Price Middle School (LJPMS) families after the city of Atlanta condemned property in the Forest Cove neighborhood in 2021. Teachers began building lessons centered on identity formation, and soon after, students began to embrace their identity and individuality which transformed our classroom and community culture.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

This vast workforce that supports working families is largely unseen in public policy; our systems undervalue—or even ignore—the critical role that FFN caregivers serve in supporting families who work nontraditional hours , live in rural communities and for those who prioritize a known, trusted, culturally congruent caregiver.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

In 2021, recognizing the urgency of the situation, Congress stepped in and issued $52 billion in grants , primarily through the American Rescue Plan, to stabilize the industry. Additionally, 40 percent of child care providers are people of color, bringing invaluable perspectives and cultural understanding to their work.

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