ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

As an art educator, I am not alone in seeing this phenomenon, other art teachers across the USA know how the arts can give multilingual learners (MLs) opportunities to succeed in school even if they are struggling in other classrooms. In Long Beach, I attended a school with a large population of multilingual learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

As educators, we feel differently. What we mean is that the success of novel instruction hinges not just on the quality of the books we teach but on the intellectual culture we surround them with. If novels are to survive, it will be because schools believe in their power and put in the work to keep them fresh.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Social distancing has quickly become the thing to do and will soon be the cultural norm. In Mount Olive, school officials were initially doubtful the district could support virtual learning. When the dust settles, and after reflection, educators will have a much better idea of what worked and what didn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Additionally, my views on education regarding teaching, learning, and leadership were beginning to evolve in ways that would eventually help my school experience innovative success while also pushing my professional practice into a whole new dimension. When it comes to education, I now view it through two distinct lenses.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

BUGS, one of hundreds of “themed” middle schools spread across New York City and the nation, fully embodies the “Green” school concept. Sometimes there will be a name on a school that has nothing to do with what’s happening in the building. It’s more like branding.” BUGS CEO Susan Tenner stands in the hydroponic garden.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Before I became its leader, my school was one of the only middle schools to make the state’s persistently dangerous list, which meant that in the previous year it had at least 20 reported physical assault offensives, along with incidents of weapons and drugs. Later, I’d teach others to implement these practices.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results. But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.” Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. “[Now] some of them have blossomed, some of them have overcome that. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

National pride in America is at a record low, coinciding with desperately low scores on the nations civics report card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Strengthening civic education nationally requires ongoing work, state-by-state. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Seeking to increase educational equity and powerful use of technology through digital learning coaching, Digital Promise launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) in 2017, with generous support from Google. Principals report that the DLP pushed them to model risk-taking, experimentation, and continuous learning within their schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. So it makes sense that some teachers who answered the survey want to know how high-performing countries are teaching math, along with what cultural barriers might be in the way. “Are

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Given the deliberate vagueness of the instruction, Southern school authorities delayed compliance. But two years after the decision, more than 350 school districts in nine of the 17 states had desegregated their public schools.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

In education we work so hard to teach our students important life lessons that focus on the respect and caring for others. Based on the summary below it looks like our commitment to creating and supporting such a culture is paying off. I hope you all enjoy this guest post by Doreen as much as I did.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. In 1998, critical research that examined data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed teaching methods varied significantly across cultures , resulting in a “ teaching gap.”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Kettle Moraine School District (KMSD), a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , is a suburban district in Wisconsin leading some of the most advanced competency-based education (CBE) efforts in the country.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Department of Education and celebrated at a gala in their honor. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. gathered on the National Mall at the end of April.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote. It connects to long-standing inequalities in the education system: Anytime theres an increase in learning diversity, our system segregates, he says.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

The following post was written by Bill Brennan and originally appeared on Peter DeWitt''s Finding Common Ground blog found at Education Week. Speaking of journeys, today I traveled to New Jersey with my middle school principal, Luis Pena (@principalpena) and high school principal, Glen Zakian.

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Digital Promise

MAY 24, 2016

Undertaking this transformation is a challenge, and requires buy-in and commitment from district leadership, school administrators, and teachers in order to be successful. Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed how building a strong school community and culture of support is critical to success.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana.

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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. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. How much longer will the status quo suffice?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Fewer Black and Brown communities are able to access services for students with disabilities and high-quality instruction for their children in public schools. Black and Brown students with disabilities are among the most marginalized groups in schools. school districts. Moore Jr.,

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from? This is still a prevalent theme for Black womxn in education. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. What might be possible if we did this for our educators?

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

For superintendents in the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , this is an opportunity to examine and reimagine their education systems under new constraints. The Equity Gap and Digital Divide Creates a Disconnect for School Districts. We’re good at this kind of stuff in education,” he said. “I’ve

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is investigating the unintended consequences of AI-powered surveillance at schools. RIGBY, Idaho Four years ago, a sixth grader in Rigby, Idaho, shot and injured two peers and a custodian at a middle school. When you say, Why did you do that?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2018 , the Southern Poverty Law Center conducted research on more than 800 hate and bias incidents and reported that “two-thirds of educators had witnessed a hate or bias incident in school and two-thirds of the incidents were racially motivated.” In our current culture, silence is compliance, so it is essential that we speak up.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

When suddenly propelled into distance learning last spring, educators rose to the challenge to meet the needs of students and families. In fact, the coach at Andover Middle School in Miami, Florida, created a flexible schedule to allow teachers to book learning consultations, classroom visits, and one-on-one instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

This week marks National Arts in Education Week , a time for us to highlight the transformative power of the arts in education. Arts education for all students is fundamental to a well-rounded education. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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