ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

But there are still companies and investors who succeeded in 2022. Key happenings in 2022: Two edtech companies, Akili and Floreo , had millions of R&D dollars in efficacy pay off when their products gained clinical validation this year. Not financially—edtech funding is down from 2021 to 2022 —but geographically.

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MARCH 27, 2024

State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) government entities, with K-12 organizations representing the largest and fastest-growing segment. Over the past 20 years, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has been committed to its mission of fostering collaboration and information sharing across 16,000 U.S.

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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. Beginning this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount.

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JUNE 25, 2024

In 2022, only about 270,000 families (about 1.6 government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Then, in 2010, the federal government invested in home visiting programs for the first time with the creation of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting ( MIECHV ) program. “It

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office. 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. And research from the U.S.

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MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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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. Governance was identified as the domain with the most significant challenges, followed by implementation fidelity and technology and infrastructure.

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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. In part, students are using more free content.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. New York in 2022 passed the Green CHIPS Act, which provides tax incentives for companies to expand semiconductor manufacturing there.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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MAY 1, 2024

But tribal leaders are sometimes wary of doing that: “Making sure there's the true intent of helping build our infrastructure” matters, Mills says, “just because of the historical trauma and federal government and those kinds of things that have happened to our people.” Recently, there has been federal investment. No internet.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. The rise in mental health needs among students following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the U.S.

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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. Noble County, Indiana Jenna Anderson first heard about Tri-Share in the summer of 2022. By comparison, Michigan’s pilot received $1.1

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Department of Education funding to $88.3 But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Naval architecture first caught our attention in 2022, when it appeared in an EdSurge analysis of federal data about high-earning college majors. It stuck out among a slew of programs in the technology and medical fields. Then naval architecture topped our list of majors that yield high starting salaries for low-income students.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Come Down The pandemic’s forced switch to remote instruction unlocked federal funding for K-12 schools, as the government made a temporary $190 billion jab available in the hopes that it would inoculate against the effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning. But how that’s impacting these districts seems to vary.

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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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Vermont, like many states , is committed to a mixed-delivery model for pre-K education , allowing the state’s pre-K tuition subsidy to be applied for programs in a variety of existing settings, including those based in homes. Together, all of those programs served just 44 percent of eligible 4-year-olds and 17 percent of 3-year-olds.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

In late 2022, the White House released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” hoping that it would strengthen privacy rights. AI has fed hopes of reaching more equality thanks to its promise to increase personalized learning and to boost efficiency and sustainability for an overworked teaching force. And last year, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

Attend student government meetings. Only about a third of the state’s high school class of 2022 were enrolled in postsecondary education within a year following graduation, according to the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education. Nunn to emphasize manual labor and student self-governance as well as academics.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. After being thrown into the public arena, my image, my story and my classroom were displayed and open for critique.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The pandemic also increased the adoption of online courses from corporations and governments around the world. In 2022, we can expect the top MOOC providers to further expand their catalog through non-university partners, as well as further expanding their businesses into the lucrative enterprise segment.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. More than 2.5 million kids in the U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need. In January, the government made 14 awards totalling more than $13 million. It was honestly pretty awesome.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Data from Fiedler shows a steady incline in graduation rates for the district between 2017 and 2022. The “mill levy” override — that would provide additional money to boost teacher salaries — finally passed for 27J Schools in 2022. Plus, Fiedler adds, the graduation rates have lifted, including for disadvantaged students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The first two high schools to win the DC + XQ competition, in 2022, had embraced the themes of Afrofuturism and entrepreneurship. In February 2022, XQ Institute and D.C. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. spent about $2 billion in local taxpayer dollars on public education.) In these conversations, D.C.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

the 2022 teacher of the year in Kentucky who is gay and who quit the profession out of fear amid growing hostility toward LGBTQ educators and students at his school. One guest was Willie Carver Jr.,

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S. after COVID-19.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

In November 2022, she enrolled in a 12-week training course through Wonderschool, a child care marketplace, to learn the basics of licensing, health and safety regulations, and running her own child care business. But in spring 2022, as providers in Nevada began to participate in the 12-week Wonderschool Academy, a theme emerged.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

In 2022, NAFCC partnered with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to survey nearly 13,000 FCC providers about whether and how they used the child care stabilization grants — and to better understand what might happen if the funding is not renewed.

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