Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. Now that this program is coming to an end, educators wonder what the future will look like without this funding.

K-12 52

K-12 Charter School Social Studies Government 52

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.

EdTech 94

EdTech Tutoring Classroom Management Government 94

ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

“Educated, experienced, passionate teachers aren't able to stay in this field because they literally can't afford to,” wrote a center-based teacher in Wyoming. I've got parents dropping out because they can't pay tuition, and neither can the parents that are also teachers here.”

Economics 109

Economics Government Education Educational Technology 109

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. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Research 145

Research Economics High School Government 145

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A recent analysis of federal government data by Jeff Seaman of Bayview Analytics shows that enrollment in on-campus courses fell nearly 11 percent in the past decade and almost 30 percent from 2020 to 2021.

Digital Resources 133

Digital Resources Government Teaching Education 133

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Researchers painstakingly pieced together data from a swath of government sources and news reports, cataloging more recent data from the 2021-22 school year for some states but having to reach as far back as 2014-15 for others. For 13 states, their search yielded no data about teacher vacancies.

Government 105

Government Research Teaching Education 105

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A Pew Research Center poll from 2021 found that adults in Generation Z were more likely than Americans belonging to older generations to have donated money, contacted an elected official, volunteered or attended a rally to try to help address climate change in the prior year. That can come in many forms.

Government 116

Government Advocacy Elementary School Research 116

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

Psychology 87

Psychology Government Education Policy Teaching 87

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The group was formed with the money made when Harvard University and MIT sold their edX online platform to for-profit company 2U in 2021 for about $800 million. The platform is used by thousands of colleges and organizations around the world, including a growing number of governments, who use it to offer online courses.

EdTech 79

EdTech Government Education Research 79

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To understand implementation challenges, Project Unicorn —a coalition of 18 organizations collaborating to support and promote the use of data interoperability in education—launched the annual School System Data Survey (SSDS) in the spring of 2021.

K-12 106

K-12 EdTech Leadership Government 106

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

They’re selling to the government, to the administration, to the district,” he points out. 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. McNabb, who earned a Ph.D.

EdTech 117

EdTech Teaching Government Research 117

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

Market uncertainty during the early days of the pandemic had temporarily halted growth in the early childhood education sector, which had been expanding steadily in the previous decade. But 2021 saw a big increase in spending, estimated at more than half a billion dollars by last August (and closer to $1 billion dollars now).

Education 106

Education Government Educational Technology 106

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.

K-12 114

K-12 High School Public School Library 114

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

Public School 105

Public School Civics K-12 Private School 105

ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. According to federal research , of the 20 occupations with the highest weekly earnings in 2021, nine of them employ fewer than 25 percent women.

Government 88

Government Cultures Tradition Humanities 88

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When the Center for Community College Student Engagement surveyed more than 80,000 students at community colleges in 2021, it found that 44 percent of students who needed help getting food and 21 percent who needed help finding affordable shelter said that their colleges provided them with that kind of assistance.

Advocacy 113

Advocacy Economics Government Leadership 113

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5 With art supplies and worksheets strewn about, and her headphones off most of the time because she found them “tight,” we thought nothing of it — this was remote learning as we knew it.

Public School 130

Public School K-12 Elementary School Government 130

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council of Graduate Schools and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center have documented significant growth for graduate enrollment— up 5 percent between 2019 and 2021 , compared to a 5 percent decline in undergraduate enrollment. And, the salary premium for advanced degrees remains high, meaning the degrees typically pay off.

Tradition 132

Tradition EdTech Research Education Policy 132

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The health crisis exacerbated the high rate of turnover that already plagued the early childhood education industry. It also led to decreased higher ed enrollments, which means fewer students are studying in some college schools and departments of education.

Education 101

Education Economics Government Tradition 101

ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Education and government leaders are talking about mental health and well-being more directly. In 2021, U.S. Fortunately, over the past two years, there have been more efforts to build awareness of the youth mental health crisis.

Middle School 108

Middle School Government Teaching High School 108

ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

The cost-sharing model, in which the state government, the employer and the employee each pay for one-third of the cost of child care, first launched in 2021 in Michigan , where it is furthest along. When people think of employer engagement, most policymakers say, ‘Oh, let’s make a tax credit,’” Aull says.

Government 91

Government Research Educational Technology Education 91

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

According to a 2021 research study by Dove, 53 percent of Black mothers revealed that their daughters experienced racial discrimination because of their hair — some as young as five years old. From the time I was a child, social norms governed my hair. The issue is not Black hair. The issue is how the system regulates Black hair.

K-12 83

K-12 Cultures Government Tradition 83

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. That taxes society, literally.

Humanities 101

Humanities Teaching Economics Government 101

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Districts went into the 2021-2022 school year with plans to help students catch up in the subjects where they had lost ground during the pandemic. But problems stalled those efforts at virtually every step, according to a new report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

Tutoring 75

Tutoring EdTech Government Research 75

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair. Well over 90 percent of surveyed students reported that they had access to a school-issued device in the fall of 2021.

Professional Development 79

Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 79

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

students (48 percent) were absent for 10 percent or more of the 2021-2022 school year, according to a report from the D.C. questions about how much flexibility educators and students really have to redesign their schools come up regularly, according to Hoffman, the district leader. For example, nearly half of D.C.

High School 109

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 109

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

The Engage Every Student Initiative is a national campaign, started in 2022, that calls for communities to provide high-quality, out-of-school-time learning opportunities for all interested students by using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. We don't have enough places for our youth to go.”

Tutoring 104

Tutoring K-12 Charter School Leadership 104

ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes.

Tradition 106

Tradition Humanities Leadership Government 106

ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The new data reflects the 2021-2022 school year and reveals that, nationwide, there was an average of 408 students for every one school counselor. We're making progress, and we're fortunate that states and the federal government have provided funding to ensure these professionals can be in schools. So I will give it a solid C+ or B-.

K-12 105

K-12 Middle School Government Research 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. A government-funded foundation in the United Kingdom is trying a new approach, something it calls “ ed tech testbeds.” Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

Government 43

Government Educational Technology Research Tradition 43

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

A Time of Transition And then in spring 2021, NAEYC’s CEO of nearly a decade announced she would be stepping down in the coming year. The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. “We’re just doing it differently.”

K-12 101

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

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. The child care sector was already fragile when the pandemic struck, causing immense damage.

Economics 98

Economics History Cultures Public School 98

ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

“We're closer to a reset in education than ever before. We've already been disrupted,” said Cardona, who worked as an educator and administrator in Connecticut before becoming Secretary in early 2021. “So So why are we building it back the way it was when it didn't work for everybody?”

Education 108

Education Critical Thinking High School Teaching 108

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States.

Inclusive Curriculum 101

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 101

ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

Apartment and condo buildings, as well as many townhouses and duplexes, are not eligible because of rules governing outdoor play space and fencing. Single-family homes are generally more expensive to rent, and a lot of people who work in — or want to work in — the early care and education sector are low-income, Johnson explains.

Economics 78

Economics Professional Development Government Education 78

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Many of those parents had government assistance for school tuition, but half the time, Farias couldn’t count on them to make their co-payments. State legislatures can choose to add funding beyond what the federal government has allocated, as states like New Mexico have done. They were still too high.

Advocacy 68

Advocacy Government Humanities Research 68

ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The federal government has also gotten involved, putting up about $16 billion toward the cause of connecting those across the U.S. 31, 2021, and of those who have, over 90 percent of them already had internet. “It We need state and local governments to step up, and state and local governments are stepping up.

Government 113

Government Library Education Educational Technology 113