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MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers. She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. 20 years ago as a student.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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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. One thing we’ve all learned during the pandemic is that learning has proven to be a profoundly human interaction of give and take between student and teacher and among peers.

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

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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. According to the U.S.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. After all, Albert Einstein also had speech delays and received specialized (private) education to get ready for primary school. Hammering on a shaky foundation does not help.

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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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JUNE 25, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “So In 2022, only about 270,000 families (about 1.6 Before Congress reauthorized MIECHV in 2022 , the program was funded at $400 million annually. So it is helpful to be able to get resources and get assistance when you need help. Home visiting can help fill in those gaps.”

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JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

Play is a natural human behavior. As my peers quietly compared updates on the chain of events happening in the adult world, the most experienced educator in the room, who the children called “Ms. Fortunately, play is a natural human behavior. It doesn’t have to be taught, we just need to foster it.” It’s the world around them.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. Codifying self-love and identifying ways to capture growth is key for student progress.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. Photo courtesy of Deb Perelman I imagine people receiving and giving appreciate the humanity of it. Each summer, she creates a post on her Instagram account (1.8

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ED Surge

APRIL 30, 2024

To draw early educators back into classrooms , legislators in the Bluegrass State made a change in fall 2022 that expanded the eligibility requirements of Kentucky’s child care subsidy program to include all staff who work at least 20 hours per week in a licensed early care and education program.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. With all new technology comes a great deal of trepidation that our previous ways of knowing are being lost. era: hand-written scrolls.

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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. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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MARCH 7, 2023

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. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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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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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

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a memo released in mid-June to school district superintendents, Vermont Agencies of Education and Human Services indicate that local departments of education can waive the insurance requirement for home-based pre-K programs that are unable or cannot afford to secure the policy recommended by VSBIT.

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JULY 11, 2022

Deep in the heart of New Orleans, a hotbed of American culture and history, scholars Cornel West and Robert George—or as they call each other, Brother West and Brother Robbie—came together during the ISTE 2022 conference to discuss exactly that. (I 1: Genuine dialogue must be rooted in respect and awareness of human fallibility.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Editor’s note: In an excerpt from her upcoming book, professor and inventor Marina Umaschi Bers shows how coding can help students learn human virtues. Excerpt adapted from “ Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Programming ” by Marina Umaschi Bers, published by the MIT Press, © 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services launched a revamped National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which shifted from a 10-digit number to the three-digit 988 (though the original phone number is still in service). Last summer, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“[The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022. That’s similar to something she noticed in other students who took the course. But people are messy.

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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.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Julio Vazquez, director of instruction and human resources at North Salem, emphasizes the importance of this effort: “We are working to build our capacity in teaching CT to fully integrate computing in all grade levels and across multiple subject areas. Join us for a webinar on November 10, 2022 to learn more.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

The 400 children who received the short-burst tutoring in kindergarten in this study are continuing to receive tutoring in first grade during the current 2022-23 academic 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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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. But human nature is to do the opposite and Google before trying.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

We are in a transformational moment in higher education. Business as usual wasn’t working well for a lot of faculty and staff in 2012, and it’s less likely to work in 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.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It's May 24, 2022. Many of these communities continued, even after in-person schooling resumed because they allowed for a more humanizing learning experience. The baby, wrapped tight in a classic teal and pink striped hospital swaddle, is sleeping in my arms, her eyelids fluttering rapidly and her mouth forming accidental smiles.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some public flagships are paying attention to the transfer pipeline’s potential for educating people of varied backgrounds. “It Ryan told The Washington Post in 2022, “which is to be a place of opportunity, a place of social mobility.” The Human Element University outreach made the difference for Del Real Viramontes.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

If you missed any of these or want to follow us into 2022, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. To fit all the billions of neurons in the human brain into our heads, they're organized so that brain regions are carefully mapped to things like vision and hearing.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As world leaders return home from the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP27 ), an annual international climate meeting that was held in Egypt this year, they have many action items to attend to. are in some ways the most vulnerable and the most disenfranchised group or population of any humans.” Young children.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

Like educators and students across the U.S., folks here at EdSurge are enjoying a holiday (and publishing) break during the last week of 2022. Outside of education, I’ve been enjoying the work of Liana Finck , a cartoonist and illustrator who regularly contributes to The New Yorker.

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