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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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. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed. To be clear, Oli is a robot.

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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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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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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. Silicon Valley likes to build things that will “scale” but education relies not upon clicks but upon student motivation. Educators in this country could learn from that lesson.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. Parent concerns.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Those little things added up, making the writing seem like it didn’t come from a human. But Alex’s story shows that a little human input can correct such issues, which raises the question many professors are wondering: Can plagiarism-detection tools catch these AI creations? It just lacks that human touch. What’s causing that?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Department of Education wanted to learn more about the latest advances in robo-grading, it decided to hold a competition. In the fall of 2021, 23 teams, many of them PhD computer scientists from universities and corporate research laboratories, competed to see who could build the best automatic scoring model. percent of the time.

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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

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. King, Ph.D.,

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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. Developing the human capacity to manage and interpret data is a significant need.

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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. Despite the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2023

A collaboration between professors Deborah Duenyas and Roseanne Perkins explores how makerspaces can be used by educators and counselors (in their own lanes) to help students deal with emotional distress. They published a research paper on the use of “makerspace therapy” by graduate counseling students in 2021.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

One of the great debates in education spans more than two millennia. Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. McCrea also highlighted another 2021 paper, which suggests better ways to use Google.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As lead researcher at Breakthrough Collaborative , a national nonprofit building supportive out-of-school-time learning communities to improve educational equity, I recently had the opportunity to closely study an after-school math tutoring program our organization piloted during the 2021-22 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

At Harvard, more than 20 percent of the incoming class opted to defer admission until fall 2021. She knows she most likely won’t see the campus in person until the fall of 2021, since Harvard is giving priority in the spring to seniors returning for their final semester. Right now I wouldn’t say I belong at Harvard,” Chen said.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Teaching is 100 percent a people profession, and it has been a joy to interact daily with so many wonderful humans, to see each individual grow and change and go through different life stages — good and bad. Wong Baesa is resigning at the end of the school year to pursue a career outside of K-12 education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2022

These techniques include human outreach, like employing teams of mentors and advisers who proactively check in on students, as well as automated tools that help keep learners on track. These interventions are informed by more than just human compassion. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this.

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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

JUNE 22, 2022

With annual expenditures of more than $750 billion , American public schools have complicated operations—from financial workflow to human resources to business analytics, and too many rely on analog processes in a digital world. The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) was approved in three packages in 2020 and 2021.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

After getting a “taste” of such reform, he said, “many thought it made sense to do it on a more permanent basis.” It’s teaching to the test — the assessment is all that matters,” Whitehouse said. Students will find that, and they’ll game the system. Many students want to do as little as humanly possible. They want to skate by.”

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. From self-checkout at the grocery store to the ability of AI to detect serious diseases on medical scans, workers in all areas find themselves working alongside tools that can do parts of their jobs.

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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

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. We’re still providing and still lifting up high-quality early education,” she explains. What came through in interviews was her human-centered approach. We’re just doing it differently.”

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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

When schools reopened in 2021, Burkiett and her team decided to roll out the program across the district for students in kindergarten to third grade. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

Half the children in 49 kindergarten classrooms were randomly selected to receive Chapter One’s tutoring program during the 2021-22 school year. You really need some combination of computer-assisted instruction and actual real live humans in order to make it work for the kids.”

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

In an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Iowa’s chief human resource officer, Cheryl Reardon, explained, “That’s just who we are as an institution.” We pivoted in March 2020, then again in fall 2020, then again in fall 2021. And that’s where hope and opportunity live.”

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. I would say you always need human eyes on whatever the output from whatever generative AI you're using. Do not use those, please.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. I have read and loved them all.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2023

One quarter of child care providers surveyed between March 2021 and December 2022 reported difficulty affording housing expenses , regardless of whether they rent or own, according to RAPID, a project based out of Stanford University that gathers information about young children and their caregivers. Gisela Sance and her son.

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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. Yet the college enrollment rate within six months of graduation has been falling — from 56 percent for the class of 2019 to 51 percent for the class of 2021. For example, nearly half of D.C.

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2022

In fall 2021, I took my first steps into the world of ungrading. This is a common outcome when using humane approaches that focus on feedback and don’t penalize the time it takes to revise and grow. The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. Inspired by Susan D.

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