Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

It has developed dozens of programs that have placed the organization at the cutting edge of research, practice, and technology innovation. Following its 10-year anniversary in fall 2021, Digital Promise unveiled a new strategic framework and North Star goals to guide its work in the next decade and beyond.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Research shows that intergenerational facilities such as Fairview Manor can lead to physical and cognitive health benefits for both children and seniors. You can have a person who might be having a bad day, says Tami Scheil, administrator of Fairview Manor, and then you see a whole cart of little children coming down the hallway.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, studies confirmed what many educators already knew: Students have suffered substantial academic setbacks resulting from the pandemic. Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic challenges schools around the world to keep students engaged in remote learning and to use technology in new ways, many have turned to instructional technology coaches (also referred to as edtech coaches) for support. COVID-19 has forced a lot of changes in our formal education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 11, 2022

That’s what New York University researcher Richard Welsh tried to glean by looking back at how discipline practices have evolved throughout the pandemic. Re-Learning How to ‘Do School’ The 2021-22 school year brought its own challenges as the district in Welsh’s research—and others around the country—returned to in-person instruction.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Research has found that a focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom helps promote these relationships, and builds well-being and academic success. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged. Digital Promise. Digital Promise: Washington, D.C.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

When I began my classroom career in 2021, I expected my school would embody the same tech-forward identity I observed at the district level. During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. The researchers and districts shared ideas on how to set performance targets.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program promised to recruit the best teachers in the world to provide engaging lessons to students and the school felt technology could do it better. Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021.

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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

MARCH 24, 2022

That development is perhaps not surprising given the fact that many school and social activities migrated online during the past two years, says Mike Robb, senior director of research at the nonprofit Common Sense Media, which recently released a research report detailing the findings. For tweens, it’s about five-and-a-half hours. “It

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, teachers serving schools with high levels of student poverty were far more likely to report that their students lacked appropriate remote-learning workspaces free of distractions during the pandemic, according to research from the U.S. The nonprofit aims to promote equity in education. “I Government Accountability Office.

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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. Some sort of bond—real?

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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

We need to look at this like any other utility,” said Christopher Rush, the director of educational technology for the U.S. Department of Education, during the forum. The authors also found that between 2015 and 2021, the proportion of lower-income families who are under-connected has hardly changed.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What’s more, our research revealed a clearer sense of employers’ motivations: they want better hiring results, to create new pathways for greater workforce diversity, and they’re pinched for talent. And an even larger percentage of HR professionals are exploring or considering this approach.

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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. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about $38 per course, according to an annual student spending survey from the National Association of College Stores , a foundation that collects information about retail in higher ed.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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Edthena

JUNE 24, 2021

Educators are known for their hard work and relentless spirit. Read what brings you joy instead of educational research books: If you typically take home PD books to prepare for the next school year, swap these out for books you’ve always wanted to read. But summer can be an important time to lay low and recharge.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Source: American Community Survey.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“I worked as an administrator for 10 years, so I think about edtech from both sides — both how an administrator makes decisions about edtech tools, but also how we can support our teachers,” Ballard shared in a focus group that was part of a larger project designed to better understand the gap between teaching practices and technology use.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

As he visited school computer labs for one research project, he says, “I found that a lot of the kids, they alt-tab off the education program and start watching YouTube for an hour.” That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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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

These six books, with varying perspectives, retell significant well-researched stories about eras of Black history — clearing up some myths, providing context, and offering resources for teaching, learning and understanding the wholeness of Black history. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

The researchers didn’t actually study how people use Google or any internet search engine. Other researchers couldn’t replicate the Google effect when they repeated similar memory experiments. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These efforts can be important and life-changing , yet research finds that increased learning time alone will not be enough to recover from the pandemic’s devastating effects on learning. Nevertheless, the research shows educators and parents should continue to advocate for SEL, and disregard the political noise that accompanies it.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2021 and 2022, she was Marshall’s student body president, and she also served as the chair of West Virginia’s student advisory council. Students Fill the Gap Research shows that rates of depression and anxiety reported among young people have soared, leaving colleges struggling to figure out how to respond. Alyssa Parks.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or what we like to call, Mind, Brain and Education (MBE).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For educators like Aion and Bowyer, the expectation that public education would “return to normal” is one of the factors that pushed them out of the profession. And research has shown that when teachers leave, many schools have a difficult time attracting new ones, and instead hire less experienced or less prepared teachers.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Fewer words have been spent on defining what, precisely, is meant when people say the education system is facing a drought of teachers from coast to coast. That’s what researchers at Kansas State University set out to quantify when they began crunching the numbers on teacher vacancies for all 50 states. Source: Kansas State University.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U. Khurana argues that the strategy is to make connections between existing players and colleges, and to bring in the expertise and research experience of professors at MIT and Harvard.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2022

In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 The report examined data from more than 4 million high school students from 2010 to 2021 who took the ACT. Sanchez, an ACT researcher who co-authored the report. grade points, from 3.17

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