ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we march forward into a new year, EdSurge is reflecting on the stories we shared and the biggest hits of 2022. What emerges from our list of most-read stories of 2022 is a clear theme: Teaching is in crisis.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Average reading scores of fourth and eighth graders scoring in the 90th percentile werent statistically different from 2022 to 2024, and scores among high flyers in both grades have held fairly steady over the past three decades. That would more than make up for the reading backslide NAEP recorded between 2022 and 2024, Barnett argues.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Our two most popular episodes of 2022 addressed just that subject, exploring fresh findings in learning science and how educators can apply them. Listeners to the EdSurge Podcast like to learn about brains—and what research shows can best reach and teach them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. That was a steep increase from the 15 percent of students missing that much class before the pandemic.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2022, when the first postpandemic results came back, the nations report card revealed historic declines in math performance, as well as declines in reading scores for fourth and eighth graders. This is a tough call that we have here as a nation to turn this back around, and it clearly is going to take time Carr said during a call Tuesday.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders. While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

In fact, there are so many more that online enrollment hit a new post-pandemic milestone in the fall of 2022 when a majority – 54 percent – of college students took one or more of their classes online, a nearly 50 percent increase from the fall of 2019 when 37 percent of college students took at least one online class. percent versus 1.1

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Yet some of those providers haven’t updated their openings since June 2023, or even August 2022. A quick search on Colorado’s state-run child care dashboard , for example, populates a number of quality-rated providers who accept infants within five miles of this author’s home address.

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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. billion as of Wednesday, March 30, 2022. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

When I gave one of my first assessments to a 10th grade physics class in 2022, one of the questions was a picture of a graph with a line that said, Find the slope of this line. With the omnipresence of Google, all our questions about the world became answerable in minutes.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Business Side of Early Education Kentucky was the first state to launch a director-level apprenticeship program, back in spring 2022. Today it is one of four apprenticeship tiers available to early childhood educators there.

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Edthena

JUNE 20, 2022

The AI Coach platform by Edthena was named the winner of the 2022 EdTech Breakthrough Awards in the Best Use of AI in Education category. The EdTech Breakthrough Awards program, which received more than 2,250 total submissions, recognizes the best companies and innovations in the field of educational technology.

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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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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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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2024

Researchers say that schools have a vested interest in improving teacher well-being, citing a 2022 Gallup poll that found 44 percent of K-12 workers in the United States “always” or “very often” feel burned out at work. It may already feel that way in some parts of the country where teacher turnover rates hit as high as 24 percent in 2022. “I

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2023

You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving. You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving.” Everybody should have a Level IV,” Gunderia said plainly.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

But there are still companies and investors who succeeded in 2022. Below are a few of the hypotheses I am watching in 2023: Hypothesis 1: Results Matter Education buyers—parents, schools, and talent development departments—will make more decisions based on efficacy and fewer based on relationships with vendors.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Since May 2020, he has led Marlin ISD, transforming it from what he calls the states best-kept secret to a shining example of educational excellence in Texas and beyond. Henson: Marlin ISD in 2022 had the highest academic growth in the entire state of Texas , a proud badge of honor for our community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Delays in settling contracts led to fewer tutored students Walker said two school districts weren’t able to start tutoring children until January 2023, instead of the fall of 2022 as originally planned, because it took so long to iron out contract details and obtain approvals inside the districts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Encircling the outline of those homes, the badge reads, “MAKE COLORADO AFFORDABLE 2022,” and below it, “IN GRATITUDE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.” Still, she reaches for the disc and sets it on the kitchen counter for a closer look. Two roofs and a pair of windows are etched into its center.

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ED Surge

MAY 29, 2024

It was during a trip to the grocery store in 2022 with her two young kids that somebody told Valencia about the home visiting program. Yet in 2022, only about 270,000 did. These programs, which are set to expand with new federal support, are proven to help prepare children for school but have reached relatively few families.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas found itself in need of a way to score exponentially more written responses on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, after a new law mandated that at least 25 percent of questions be open-ended — rather than multiple choice — starting in the 2022-23 school year. 20 years ago as a student.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In California alone, at least 46 school districts were pursuing workforce housing projects on 83 sites statewide as of March 2022, according to research from the Center for Cities + Schools at the University of California, Berkeley. Projects in North Carolina, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, Illinois and elsewhere are also underway.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

That fell by one point to 49 percent at the start of the 2022-23 school year, when nearly all schools brought students back on campus. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

The use of education technology continues to increase in classrooms across the country, presenting new opportunities to engage all learners. For EALA, this is a clear signal that we, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for the benefit of all learners. percent to 22.5

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

CIS) and MS-ISAC collected data for the 2022–2023 school year through the Nationwide Cybersecurity Review (NCSR) and other first-hand sources, presenting findings in the CIS MS-ISAC Cybersecurity Assessment. In pursuit of its mission, the Center for Internet Security, Inc. Click here to see the full infographic.

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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. These programs have the potential to help students with “subclinical issues,” says a report by the Mary Christie Institute published in 2022. Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. Computers, powered by algorithms and AI, could deliver custom-tailored lessons for each child.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2022

Students with Voters of Tomorrow distribute books at Jordan High School in Katy, Texas, in February 2022. Students with Voters of Tomorrow give a presentation on book censorship at Taylor High School in Katy, Texas, in February 2022.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

video-learning firm Brainpop for $875 million [link] via @WSJ — Paul Nary (@ProfPaulNary) October 11, 2022. I understand what they think they're trying to do here, but I can't quite see how this will work for them other than as an iffy investment. Lego owner Kirkbi is to acquire U.S.

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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 2022, I began traveling across the country, keynoting education conferences, inspiring teachers to see themselves as humans first. Societal woes seeping into our building.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In 2022, post-pandemic, that number has climbed to 38 percent. Thirty-seven percent of fourth graders were below the basic reading level in 2022, according to the results. Eighth graders fell eight points.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the wake of ongoing educational challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, educators, families and communities are asking for a more holistic approach to meeting student needs. Survey results are analyzed in the companion State of the Sector Report , released in the fall.

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