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. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

Strategic Planning for Equity-Driven Edtech Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation A recent report from LearnPlatform showed that during the 2021-2022 school year, school districts accessed an average of 1,417 edtech tools each month.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

These include the League of Innovative Schools , Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , the Center for Inclusive Innovation , the Learner Variability Project , a robust ecosystem of micro-credentials and educational technology product certifications , and a team of the top learning sciences researchers in education.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These benefits are widely recognized by educators; Promethean’s 2021/22 State of Technology in Education report found that SEL is the top priority for schools across the country. Our report also found areas of opportunity in districts’ investments in education technology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2023

But what about the metaverse’s promise to revolutionize education ? Lifecycle of a Brand Meta — which changed its name from Facebook in late 2021 — still argues that it’s a big deal. Search results for “metaverse” spiked in late 2021, and have continued to decline ever since, according to Google Trends.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic’s forced experiment in emergency remote instruction prompted more colleges to seek support from outside companies like 2U to create more-permanent online learning options, argued Robert Ubell, vice dean emeritus of online learning at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, in 2021 in a column for EdSurge.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, Butterworth felt something of a call to service. By fall of 2021, Butterworth was hired as a general education paraeducator at Farmland Elementary in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools, a large district just outside of Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. One 2021 study found tutoring led to strong math gains for even high school students , enabling those who started two years behind grade level to catch up. Not all tutoring has been successful.

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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. billion in 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, educators have to decide – based on the research evidence for tutoring – how much they could reasonably hope student achievement to grow after 12 weeks or more. Incomplete data was a common problem The first school district in the pilot group launched its outcome-based contract in the fall of 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

That shot up to 50 percent at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when many districts were still giving remote instruction. That surged to a whopping 64 percent at the start of the 2021-22 school year, though it fell to 61 percent in fall 2022. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. What Does the Data Say?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. That’s according to the think tank Excelencia in Education, which focuses on research and policy on Latino achievement in higher education. Its analysis on the 2021 college graduation rates of Latinos highlights some dismal statistics.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019). To fortify educators' understanding of Minecraft, we introduced a virtual learning sequence starting with "Minecraft 101."

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021. Teachers Can Change the Way Technology Works for Our Students We have an unprecedented opportunity to flip the script on technology education.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2022

This vision is driving the newly-announced Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER) Initiative , led through a partnership between the Office of Educational Technology (OET) at the US Department of Education and Digital Promise. ” – Kristina Ishmael, Deputy Director, Office of Educational Technology.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But educators may not have the capacity to address their students’ many needs, especially in high schools where teachers spend less time with more students, and where adolescents may be less receptive to adult guidance. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The unique and pressing needs of the ongoing global pandemic accelerated the adoption of education technology and innovations that could support urgent and evolving needs and provide on-demand and flexible learning. Since then, micro-credential interest, earning, and pathways have only increased.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

Edtech coaches also supported families by assisting with the use of technology, providing information around appropriate home environments for learning, and serving as a liaison between families and the school/district. COVID-19 has forced a lot of changes in our formal education. Technology use is now widely considered indispensable.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. Not financially—edtech funding is down from 2021 to 2022 —but geographically.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2024

Many schools used ESSER funding for: New learning materials Educational technology Improved and repaired physical facilities Student mental health resources Expanded summer school and after-school programs Can I Still Use ESSER Funds? Department of Education. References U.S. District seeks input on how to spend Esser Funds.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The National Center for Education Statistics released its biennial Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion—known as Megan Pete at her HBCU alma mater Texas Southern University—fulfilled the promise she made in summer chart topper “Thot S**t”: that in “2021, finna graduate college.” 2021 finna graduate college ?? pic.twitter.com/3F7ShLOH3f — TINA SNOW (@theestallion) October 25, 2021.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

Perhaps unsurprisingly, health and wellness requests were up for both years of the pandemic, with 18,361 such requests from 2021-2022. During the second year of the pandemic, from 2021-2022, there were 19,027 requests in that category, a 52 percent increase.

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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

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 percent) during the 2018-19 school year to 846 out of 1,637 students (51.7

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

A year later, in the fall of 2021, online learning had fallen to 60 percent of college students, but many schools had not yet resumed normal operations. Online has become more the norm,” said Phil Hill, a consultant and market analyst of education technology in higher education, whose newsletter alerted me to the new milestone. “It’s

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. My best friend the common app bot that keeps me updated on college applications — huh (@GoatJuice1) March 11, 2021.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The education profession feels more female than ever. In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 That tracked with national figures, which showed that roughly 23 percent of teachers were male in the 2020 to 2021 school year.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. The texts and calls succeed in limiting children’s learning loss , according to a January 2021 study. Educators in this country could learn from that lesson.

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