ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In fourth grade reading, for example, 47 percent of economically disadvantaged students met at least basic reading proficiency by NAEP standards, while that percentage was 74 percent for students who were not considered economically disadvantaged.

K-12 116

K-12 Economics Middle School High School 116

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Working with partners, they had to choose one painting from each category, study it by paying particular attention to the political, economic, religious, social, industrial, and/or artistic way in which it captures/criticizes some aspect(s) of the period 1500-1800, and record their impressions accordingly.

Library 272

Library History Cultures Educational Technology 272

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Try two weeks on a concept in mathematics, try this data set to cover the existing unit you already have on ecosystems in biology, teach the booms and busts of economics through data from the Federal Reserve. I think the way that the data science and data literacy movement in particular is approaching this is through bite-sized modules.

K-12 138

K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 138

ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

With the latter, preschool programs are vulnerable to changes in governance or an economic downturn. Universal pre-K programs tend to have more staying power when they are paid for by a guaranteed funding stream, such as a tax initiative, versus pulling from a city budget, Weisenfeld notes.

K-12 113

K-12 Government Economics Education 113

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

What do you find exciting about working at the intersection of adult learning and education technology (e.g., What I find most exciting about working in adult learning and education technology is that anyone can work in digital skills. any trends in the industry that excite you or your instructors to support learners)?

Economics 110

Economics Library Educational Technology Government 110

ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

To right the ship, families, schools and future employers must work together to prioritize a meaningful investment and evidence-based approach in developing a diverse and technically skilled workforce who can thrive in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

Library 87

Library High School Teaching Economics 87

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Earlier in the 2000s, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development described social capital as a space requiring further investigation to help students pursue higher education and careers. But education just isn’t there yet.

Sociology 142

Sociology Economics Research Cultures 142

ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Economic Instability Has Increased Many families report that it has become more difficult to meet their basic needs, particularly in the areas of health care and housing. Their responses can be distilled into a few ideas.

Economics 131

Economics Government Education Educational Technology 131

ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. More than half of students are Latino, according to state data , and 62 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. “As 20 years ago as a student.

K-12 127

K-12 Humanities Educational Technology Economics 127

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

Research 130

Research Economics Geography Government 130

Digital Promise

JULY 7, 2015

We represent districts of differing sizes, socio-economic backgrounds, and geography, but our individual paths all converge around one single purpose – accelerating innovation through technology for all students, everywhere. Deputy Chief, Educational Technology & Library Programs. David Rose. 46,415 students.

Geography 129

Geography Public School Economics Library 129

ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

There are two main reasons for optimism in the education technology sector specifically: the sustainability and evolution of business models and an abundance of talent. The pandemic forced a reckoning for governments all over the world, who have been underspending on education for decades.

EdTech 111

EdTech Government Educational Technology Tutoring 111

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And more to the point, it would replicate a mistake whose consequences are still leaving scars across the landscape of higher education. Over the past decade, online program managers like 2U and Wiley gained the vast majority of economic value created by online education (most, if not all, of which was originally developed by universities).

Economics 143

Economics Government Tradition History 143

ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. The country grew from having more than 500 institutions of higher education during the 1869-1870 school year to more than 3,000 by the end of the 1980s, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. According to historian Benjamin T.

Education 139

Education Sociology Economics Tradition 139

ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

The way we accommodate child care, and time for our loved ones, is both the greatest challenge and the greatest economic opportunity of our time,” Nooyi said, adding that it is a core challenge for employers. economic health and competitiveness, noted Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms in an interview.

Economics 132

Economics Advocacy Education EdTech 132

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students. Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students. economy.

K-12 143

K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Middle School 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Previous research has generally shown more promise for education technology in math than in reading. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. Math scores didn’t deteriorate as much as computer usage increased. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Research 112

Research Critical Thinking Educational Technology Economics 112

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible.

EdTech 101

EdTech Education Library Project-Based Learning 101

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country.

Economics 139

Economics Research Tradition Cultures 139

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Research 145

Research High School Economics Elementary School 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. She worries that excessive reliance on this technology could create an “underclass of students” who are given artificial stopgaps to big problems like school understaffing and underfunding. So how should educators approach AI?

Sociology 136

Sociology K-12 EdTech Economics 136

ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

But if the point of higher education is to buoy economic mobility, those lists that make headlines every year aren’t showing the whole picture. Meanwhile, she adds, the top 10 schools based on the economic mobility index enroll nearly 100,000 Pell recipients. It’s through this lens that things start to look different.

Economics 98

Economics Tradition Education Research 98

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

K-12 142

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 142

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. During this lesson, students identified a bridge as a barrier in Lawrence that restricted convenient access to healthy and affordable foods.

Cultures 134

Cultures Civic Engagement Civics Pedagogy 134

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

A recent White House proposal to merge the education and labor departments into a new Cabinet-level agency, the Department of Education and the Workforce, underscores the popularity of this view in Washington. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. Mississippi Learning.

Economics 109

Economics High School Humanities Educational Technology 109

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Stacie Johnson Leader of Professional Development at Khan Academy Johnsrud: The World Economic Forum this past year reported that creative thinking is the number-one skill needed across industries globally in the next five years. EdSurge: Some people feel that being creative means being artistic and, therefore, claim to be “not creative.”

Pedagogy 134

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus. If you need to focus on making sure you and your children have food, shelter — education comes after those things.”.

Political Science 145

Political Science Library Economics Educational Technology 145

ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

So adjunct and other faculty unions have ramped up demands for economic justice. These alarming economic facts for most in adjunct life are in addition to their day-to-day struggles. Why are so many adjuncts mobilizing now? Adjuncts’ already precarious situation has worsened in the wake of the pandemic and continuing inflation.

Social Justice 135

Social Justice Economics Professional Development Tradition 135

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Recently, I attended the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Portland, Oregon, hosted by NTEN , to catch up on the newest trends in educational technology (edtech) and learn about cutting-edge tools that may be integrated to boost adult learning and workforce development initiatives at Digital Promise.

Civic Engagement 114

Civic Engagement EdTech Civics Library 114

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

You think there might be an economic prompt, if nothing else, to maximize this experience, but it sounds like that's not the case for everybody? Certainly my background, where I came from, a lower-economic, rural farming community, I thought about the money that was invested and involved in the process of going to college.

Economics 131

Economics K-12 EdTech Classroom Management 131

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

K-12 124

K-12 Education Policy Leadership Economics 124

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

High School 143

High School Tradition Economics Teaching 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. Mike DeWine, thousands of new children and families have enrolled in licensed child care across the state.

K-12 60

K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 60

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. School leaders are increasingly turning to organizations like the World Economic Forum and analyzing data on the most in-demand skills for the next five years.

Advocacy 121

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 121

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The disparity is most pronounced among economically disadvantaged students, who make up 52 percent of high schoolers but only 36 of those enrolled in computer science classes. The report found that disparities in participation are the lowest in K-8 classes.

K-12 139

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 139

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In contrast, Coleman argued that social capital is a powerful force that activates class mobility, with students leaping over the economic divide, some waking up transformed by the American Dream after college. Will they be set free to overturn barriers imposed by their social and economic status?

Tradition 128

Tradition Economics Social Science High School 128

Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce. What did this year’s SXSWedu conference have to say about adult learning?

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K-12 Economics Educational Technology Education 85