Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

In partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), we hosted a roundtable with district and organizational leaders to understand how students with learning differences were supported during remote learning necessitated by the pandemic, and to imagine the future.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Under SB 1159 , schools can recruit people without college degrees to their “school-based preparation programs” so long as candidates are enrolled in bachelor’s programs. Under existing law, Arizona districts and charter schools can create their own teacher-prep programs, with approval from the state board of education.)

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Shapiro: Years ago, while working in a charter school in New York City focused on using technology in the classroom, I met Katie Salen Tekinba?. She was opening a public school in the city, modeled on game-based learning. So, I joined her team.

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Edthena

JANUARY 11, 2024

The world of education technology is expansive. AI-Powered Coaching In a session at the National Charter School Conference , presenter Donna McDaniel explored how AI Coach by Edthena , played a critical role in helping Donna (a ninth-grade science teacher with 30 years of experience) evolve her teaching practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. After going through the fellowship, he moved his eldest son, a 10th-grader, to a higher-performing charter school.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, teachers at independent schools are twice as likely to leave the profession than public school teachers. I know the gravity of what it means to leave all too well.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

birth and immigration rates have been falling since before the COVID-19 outbreak, decreasing the number of school-aged children,” according to an analysis by the firm. The pandemic accelerated these trends and sparked a shift in enrollment from traditional public schools to charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Youth organizers in MIStudentsDream were encouraged by this policy, but they immediately had one major concern: What about charter schools? In Detroit, almost half of the student population attends a charter school. Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of a sanctuary school, much less a whole district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. These teachers might be on the right track, but they’re hampered if there isn’t a trailblazing school nearby that they can visit. The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Unfortunately, I haven’t seen nearly as much investment or innovation on behalf of our educators. I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. A year ago, I came across an opportunity to change that.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Collins concedes that the program will only work for a subset of students, but she hopes to one day make the institute's offerings an option in the public school system, perhaps as a form of charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The report , from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that used this math program, made by DreamBox Learning. and 3 percentile points better on standardized assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Those include holding schools and teachers accountable for student performance, the introduction of more rigorous Common Core standards, the increased use of education technology and the expansion of charter schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our participants are educators all over the United States, with tenures ranging from three years to over 30 years in the classroom and leading schools. Most teach in public schools, but several find teaching homes in charter schools, freedom schools and independent schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Best Practices Sometimes, best practices are seen as the golden standard—that thing that will “save” the urban school from low performance, perpetuating the notion that best can only look and sound one way.we In urban charter schools, SLANT has been used to manage behaviors.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Like most educators, I believe that teachers and schools should be held accountable for how well they prepare their students, but just as I give students time to grow and develop, new charter schools like ours deserve the same time and support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Expect changes at this year’s ASU+GSV Summit , an annual education technology gathering with a reputation as a bustling conference for high-rolling financiers and hoodie-wearing start-up founders. An influx of public school educators at this year’s conference could help change the tone. Digital Promise, a Washington, D.C.-based

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Those exchanges, plus “field trips” to a local charter school and an independent school housed on Pitt’s campus, left students with a greater understanding of the challenges of a teaching career, but also with a taste of how rewarding it can be, Kinloch adds.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

An investigation by Chalkbeat Colorado found that the reasons for enrollment declines varied by district and were caused by a combination of issues: high housing costs pushing families farther from the metro area, charter school competition and simply fewer children being born. Source: American Community Survey.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

And forget a long-distance video call, one of the few ways kids in this remote district not far from the Arctic Circle can interact with students outside their own school building. But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My time as the director of family engagement at a charter school in Cincinnati gave me insight into what it takes to cultivate this space, and I knew I would need a team of dedicated individuals to help me achieve this goal and execute our DEIB strategic plan.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

Maria Montero Assistant Principal Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School, South Florida Recently, EdSurge spoke to Maria Montero , the assistant principal at Mater Academy Charter School , a Verizon Innovative Learning School in South Florida.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We supplemented the Learning Salons with a broader opportunity designed to engage leaders and decision makers from states’ district and charter school teams, practitioners, researchers and funders in a showcase of BIPOC-created solutions where they learned about undiscovered teaching and learning solutions and tools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the past, she explains, in order to get a Harvard education, “I had to go through Harvard; I couldn’t just go straight to a professor.” Universities are curators of content,” Saraf says.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

One of the places that I first encountered where I was like, ‘Oh, there's some kind of interesting teaching and learning here,’ was a charter school that I visited in Southern California, and they had adopted Google Docs relatively early and were making really great use of it.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Many of our students, who are predominantly Black and Latino, found that these posts resonated and decided to participate in the movement by publishing blog posts about surviving charter school, exposing some of the harmful racist, classist and ableist practices they experienced in school.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We In those early days soon after Thiel announced the fellowship, organizers weren’t getting that many takers for their idea. “We

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

Black America, Black Literature and Black Liberation Once I completed my two-year commitment with Teach for America, I returned home to Dayton, Ohio where I taught downtown at a charter school. My love for Black literature had not waned, and my passion for creating a liberatory experience for my students had not diminished.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide. These funds could be used flexibly to support student learning negatively impacted by the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut down, its 83 district-run schools and 33 charter schools served more than 49,000 students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

McMahons effort comes as school vouchers and education savings accounts are making gains in states across the country. Researchers and advocates draw a connection to charter schools, emphasizing that charters offer an example of how choice options might shape up. Isidore charter school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S. could do with the emerging technology.

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