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

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. Our principal recruits and advertises open teaching positions only to receive zero applications most of the time.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

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

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. Several months after her injury, in August 2022, she started a new job as a grants coordinator for a community mental health agency in Northern Michigan, where she lives. “I For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching.

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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. Department of Education has halted investigations into whether book bans around the country violate civil rights.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google. As a physics teacher, I am supposed to teach Newtons Laws of motion and how electricity works. The correct answer was two, and we reviewed this topic the day and weeks before.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. And the University of Arizona, Tucson, another public school, now teaches a version of LS 30.

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. The way you modeled how to avoid binary thinking has stayed with me into my adult years, and I have done my best to incorporate this discipline into my teaching. All they need to do is ask.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

There’s a growing market for the convenience, accurate feedback and interaction that voice-based AI reading tools provide, due to the unprecedented fall in NAEP reading scores across the country coupled with mounting concerns about modern strategies for teaching literacy.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. While progress has been made in building open architectures and pipelines like LDRA, theres still much work ahead: Fostering Trust: Faculty need assurance that analytics are meant to support not judge their teaching practices.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Those programs primarily cater to individuals who lack expertise and experience in working with young children and want to upskill quickly, qualifying them for more senior and better-paying classroom teaching roles. Today it is one of four apprenticeship tiers available to early childhood educators there.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. I was always completing tasks for other people.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And he hasn’t had to abandon teaching. I just get to do the fun part now: teach,” he shares. “I With my minor being computer science, I focused a lot on how to use technology in the classroom, how to do things that we would not be able to do otherwise. I provide teachers with training on how to use that technology.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2022

When it comes to teaching students to code, and the skills and ideas they will learn, it can help to think of a painter’s palette. Shah’s kindergarten class, which is using a robotics kit to teach coding (and some virtues along the way.) How does it work? I’ll show you, using the virtue of patience as an example. Here we enter Ms.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. Our work is more than just the hours spent with young people in the classroom.

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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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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

JUNE 25, 2024

But some longtime teachers say that while such moves are a step in the right direction, educators need to take a more-active role in countering some negative effects of excessive social media use by students. He’s been teaching since 2006, so he remembers a time before the invention of the iPhone, Instagram or TikTok.

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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. Now, that’s more on my plate, instead of just teaching,” she says.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We how much stronger they are and how much more prepared they are.

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ED Surge

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.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Fellows will become part of a community of educator fellows and have their voices amplified to drive important conversations about teaching and learning. How are schools supporting students and educators in identity exploration and development and/or relationship-building? The application deadline is Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. And we hadn't even begun focusing on teaching and learning, it was just repairing relationships.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

Her family had been glad each time she’d had a non-teaching role throughout her career, but this time her husband was excited at the prospect of finally taking a vacation outside the summer months. Teacher quitting was at a 10-year high in 2021, consulting firm McKinsey & Company reports , and increased again in 2022.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s important for faculty to be prepared to teach online,” Garcia told EdSurge. Though many professors improved their online teaching during the pandemic, Garcia said it can be challenging to get in the habit of using features like breakout rooms in Zoom to get students talking to each other.

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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. The Bandana Project started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alyssa Parks.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

“It actually was a tangible piece of evidence to see what we were talking about when we say there is a lack of respect for educators — when you don’t even want to have them on a committee to talk about what would keep them in a classroom.” At school you teach and support students. At school you teach and support students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. To advance the teaching and learning experience.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With all new technology comes a great deal of trepidation that our previous ways of knowing are being lost. We had been here before in the ’90s when we were all but certain that internet search engines had entirely ruined higher education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. They choose to be part of an intentional community that values the arts.

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