ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Just six states have guidelines for how to teach media literacy, and only three make it a requirement in public schools. Less than 40 percent of teens surveyed reported having any media literacy instruction during the 2023-24 school year, according to the analysis.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As a new college grad, I was lucky to work at a company that held an “up or out” culture and provided clear structures and routines for continuous professional feedback, networking and skill development. I learned about the massive scale of labor, human capital and strategic investment that go into making a successful organization.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch. I grew up in central Pennsylvania.

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Cultures Artifacts Charter School Library 92

ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage. Grace and Fernanda Fernanda, born on Faial, a small island in the Azores archipelago , emigrated to the United States in the 1970s with her family.

Education 120

Education Heritage Leadership Tradition 120

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this interview with EdSurge, Black discusses Dangerous Learning, how challenges to traditional public school education enforce rather than dissolve political divisions, and the unexpected successes hidden in the sad history of anti-literacy. But religious ethics are not enough to create a public school system.

Education 82

Education Government Public School History 82

ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

In each school, I found it interesting that we seem to always be able to identify giftedness in our white students because there is always at least one on an ALP. This positive ripple effect strengthens families and communities, fostering a culture of achievement and aspiration.

Education 54

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

This was also the year when schools became the centerpiece of America’s culture wars —with educators being regularly accused of and reported for teaching divisive topics , infringing on parental rights , and—in most recently—being labeled as “groomers” and accused of pedophilia.

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Museum Public School Cultures Teaching 141

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability.

Teaching 143

Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 143

ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2025

In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale. Amid consolidation and changes to our school structure, we experienced multiple staff leaving. We often discuss the negative impact of high teacher turnover on students, but when people leave a school community, everyone feels it.

Leadership 60

Leadership Public School Cultures Education 60

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

The lack of oversight for these alternatives means that curricula and rigor vary widely, and that students don’t experience some of the protections of public school. But in reality, there’s a sweep of reasons parents are attracted to these types of schools. Recently, the network expanded to include high school options.

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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. Kids feel a lot more ownership over the work.

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Charter School Educational Technology Critical Thinking Tradition 120

ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When Mayra Valtierrez talks about the students in New Mexico public schools who are learning English, one thing becomes clear: It’s an incredibly diverse population. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. We've been supporting some of our refugees from Afghanistan, for example, and from other places.

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High School Public School Cultures Education 129

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1% of public school educators are of Asian descent. I sheepishly expressed gratitude while struggling with such praise.

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Ancestry Heritage Cultures History 136

ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. And the understanding of the students of color and their experience in school, and whether or not that’s been an experience of belonging, of trust, of identity, where students can be their authentic self.

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Research Cultures Middle School High School 135

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Not only do teachers earn less than other professionals, but in most school districts their salary increases are not dependent on performance. Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade.

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Public School Cultures Teaching Economics 115

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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K-12 Education Heritage Middle School 115

ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Remnants of this practice slowly trickled into public schools as teachers switched school districts. Conversely, schools began to embrace the work of Dr. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners. In the book, she discusses the best way to teach Black children.

Pedagogy 122

Pedagogy Charter School Cultures Library 122

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Lander teaches history and civics at this large public school in Massachusetts, and she says one of the most important strategies is to find ways to bring out her students’ stories in the classroom. But these are strengths that the students themselves don’t always see as assets in our formal school system.

Teaching 122

Teaching Civics History Public School 122

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While 77% of public schools have some type of cellphone regulation during classroom time, our high school does not. This is an extremely controversial issue at my school site and in other schools across the country. The vast majority totaled over 40 hours — more than an entire workweek spent staring at a screen.

Teaching 129

Teaching Cultures High School History 129

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A “I was tired of sitting back so that white people could feel comfortable.”.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Now, we are pleased to present the first HP Spotlight School, William F. Halloran School No. 22 in Elizabeth Public Schools, New Jersey. HP Spotlight Schools Exemplify Powerful Learning. Visitors can expect to see innovative technology use with HP and Microsoft tools.

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K-12 Leadership Professional Development Public School 91

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Partially because this beautiful, imperfect school that helped raise them will no longer be a place they can return to. Last month, the superintendent of New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) and the Orleans Public School Board decided to close our school at the end of the academic year.

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Charter School Museum Public School Cultures 110

ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Read the first part here. And it's about accumulating materials.

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EdTech Education Cultures Public School 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, our country has strived to provide a national standard for the quality of education in public schools and multiple administrations have promoted federal initiatives and national goals to define academic outcomes for American students. This is a dilemma.

Leadership 133

Leadership Psychology Humanities Public School 133

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. Students want to be connected, cultured and aware of the realities beyond the classroom. border with Mexico.

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Heritage Humanities Economics Cultures 122

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture.

Education 114

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 114

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. million English learners in public schools, you’d know the opening line explains that recent data has something interesting to reveal about the U.S.’s Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. s bilingual students.

Teaching 145

Teaching Humanities Public School Cultures 145

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 Wish granted.

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2022

But some digital-privacy advocates worry that the trend may create data trails that could be used against underprivileged students and ultimately create oppressive school environments. The public school system in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, is among those that have adopted digital hall passes.

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Library Public School Cultures Educational Technology 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

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Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.”

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 136

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? New technology could push these questions further by offering people more alternatives to institutions of all kinds. And what are they learning about? That’s definitely a barrier.”

Education 127

Education EdTech Government Tradition 127

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Some school districts are quickly gaining Asian residents.

Professional Development 115

Professional Development Charter School Private School Public School 115

ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

That means that without knowing it, many underrepresented high school students may be further disadvantaged if they want to pursue a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) career. For example: Public schools are less likely to have college counselors. And the quality of the advice students get varies. “I

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K-12 High School Middle School Public School 126

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

The program didn’t want to spend to bring fiber along the same path to tribal schools and libraries and the local school district, says John Chadwick, the digital equity coordinator for the New Mexico Department of Education. Without it, students can struggle to turn in or even access school assignments.

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