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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. McGrath: One common approach from higher education institutions is tuition discounting.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. The mission is still the same: to educate each person to meet human physical and mental needs, including the social skills for keeping families and communities intact. It builds national human capital.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Part of the difficulty comes from trying to define what exactly counts as “quality,” says Stephanie Riegg Cellini, a professor of public policy and economics at George Washington University who studies for-profit higher education. Measuring Quality It’s tricky to assess how worthwhile a job-training program is.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

We do this through free workshops, diversity scholarships, and partnerships with local government and workforce development agencies to offer funding for low-income workers and unemployed residents. What do you find exciting about working at the intersection of adult learning and education technology (e.g., Anyone can do it!

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Department of Education funding to $88.3 But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers. Community colleges are best positioned to meet the needs of the American workforce—but intervention at historic levels is necessary.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?” Thinking Strategically About Early Ed How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Only technology – and its promise of affecting our individual behavior through behaviorally informed communication – can provide that on a large scale. Preschools should now prioritize this kind of education technology in government-mandated family engagement programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For example, more than a third of Black students enrolled at community colleges experience poverty, as do 28 percent of Latino students and 18 percent of white students, according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. In January, the government made 14 awards totalling more than $13 million.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Community colleges in particular have a difficult dual mission to train students for work and additional education. They’ve resorted to offering substandard higher education, which marginalizes minorities and does not offer the educational opportunities the public has relied on for advancement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” The American Council on Education has agreed to be the kind of neutral referee host of it. AI hallucinations aside, we're losing that race pretty quickly. What kind of output do you think you'll have?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely. With no experience teaching online, neither is the faculty ready.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In a society that is rooted in instant gratification and where competition is consistently encouraged politically, economically and socially, the consequences of competition between young people feels inevitable. Even without the pomp and circumstance, competition remains and students must manage feelings of shame and judgment.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

And with universities and schools being given extra funds by the federal government, they'll likely invest in more edtech resources, he says. 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. Just in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce By Emily Tate Sullivan Challenges facing the early care and education workforce have reached crisis levels since the pandemic began, and the federal government has taken notice. We take a close look at how it works and how it’s going.

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

The initiative hinges on the idea that guaranteed income will improve caregivers’ economic stability and, in turn, allow them and the families they serve to thrive. Even the federal government has endorsed the approach. We take a close look at how it works and how it’s going so far.

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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).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In West Virginia, community colleges have hired Temporary Assistance for Needy Families coordinators whose job it is to help students who are single women raising children learn how to navigate government resources and balance all their responsibilities with their studies. We need to tell the success stories of these institutions.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

States and districts should publish student outcomes and opportunities for learning disaggregated by gender, race and economic status to foster open and honest dialogue (i.e., To be clear, the federal government can’t solve all of the country’s education challenges, and we shouldn’t try.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2023

The pandemic and its many aftershocks — including a hit to labor force participation among women and a severe early childhood staffing shortage — helped many Americans unacquainted with these issues begin to understand the integral role that early care and education play in economic and social stability.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That level of overwhelm may sound familiar to educators at school districts nationwide who work in school buildings that are “in dire need of renovation,” as described in a recent brief from the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

During the pandemic the public teaching workforce appears to have shrunk by nearly 7 percent, according to federal jobs data crunched by the Economic Policy Institute. Unfortunately, neither the federal government nor states reliably keep records on teacher turnover, making that figure hard to confirm. Others want a fresh start.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. In the state of California, where the women I interviewed live, an estimated quarter of parents with children under 3 years old rely on FFNs for child care.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Failure to do so would have dire consequences, causing widespread economic impact and exacerbating the existing strain on the child care system. With the expiration date of these grants approaching this fall, there is an urgent need for Congress to take action and reauthorize them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

They’re also aimed at improving the economic stability of providers like Hodges — who is eager to move into the home that will shelter both her family and her new business. “If Apartment and condo buildings, as well as many townhouses and duplexes, are not eligible because of rules governing outdoor play space and fencing.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2023

The program is underway in Colorado and is in development in a number of large cities and states throughout the U.S.

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