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.

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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. The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. It includes $26.25

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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. Johnsrud: We have a lot of history of technology in the classroom that we can learn from.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. 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? If so, what’s driving the trend?

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

From that dividing line, the American Dream guarantees safety, education, economic stability and outright survival for many Mexican and Central American people. I teach Spanish through a lens of history and justice because, for our students, it’s mind-opening to study Latin America and gain an understanding of its people.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2023

Neem, associate professor of history at Western Washington University, in a critique of the model. “If These models are worth highlighting at a time when higher education is no longer just for the privileged, but is an essential part of the nation’s economic life.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

The need for such varied skills has only gotten more pronounced in recent years, she argues, in these times of “political division, racial violence, extreme rhetoric, intensifying storms, mass shootings, economic crises, global pandemics and more.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“This is an opportunity to show our appreciation for educators and make up for the years we’ve undervalued this incredibly essential career,” Wilson says, adding that teachers were among the “heroes” of the pandemic. Teachers in the U.S. earn, on average, about 77 cents on the dollar compared to their peers in similar professions.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Loss of Funding Persistently high turnover rates also come with a significant financial cost for school districts.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

And so that kind of strain and experience, unfortunately, continues today, which undermines any attempts [to educate those students]. Like when we have states that say they're trying to recruit diverse educators, but [are] also telling them, “Erase yourself and your history as you're filling out that application.” And it's not.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

As part of the cohort, fellows will explore issues related to the following questions: How have the pandemic, economic hardship and racial unrest exacerbated inequities in education, and how are educators and school communities addressing them?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. This all fueled the impression that it was a political, rather than an educational, decision. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. And at one point the Chinese Ministry of Education approved 68 pilot online colleges, including several at elite institutions, such as Peking, Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiaotong and Fudan Universities.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. The two events prevented many children from accessing high-quality, in-person early care and education opportunities before kindergarten. Their households were filled with stress.

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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. They also represented the single largest infusion of federal funds to the child care sector in U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lozada, 21, now assists students preparing for college at her high school alma mater, the Facing History School several blocks away from John Jay. Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official.

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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. Explaining why requires some history. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. The idea now is that states will do what’s right if given more freedom, and I don’t think that’s what played out in the past,” said Chad Aldeman, a policy analyst with Bellwether Education Partners in Washington, D.C.

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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

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Today, most of those schools have dissolved into history, and only around 500 still exist, in varying states of upkeep. These gaps are often blamed on racial and economic segregation. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia, attends Hampton College and becomes an educator. The list of notable alumni includes longtime U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 25, 2022

And they’re still changing, after two years of a brutal pandemic, untold economic hardship, political polarization and social unrest. Elevating the diverse voices of educators—particularly the perspectives of those traditionally marginalized—is critical for making change. Schools have changed. Learning has changed.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

The work being done across the country to address educational disparities before and during the pandemic has been nothing short of inspiring. But this next chapter in our country’s education history must dwarf those efforts. I’ve said before, and I will continue saying—this is our opportunity for a reset.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

Matt Homrich-Knieling (he/him), youth organizer with MIStudentsDream, a Detroit-based coalition focused on immigration and education justice, and former middle school English language arts teacher. How are schools supporting students and educators in identity exploration and development and/or relationship-building?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In our virtual learning circles, structured small group discussions where educators could connect, share resources and learn from each other, we discussed a range of issues weighing heavily on the minds of many U.S. Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But the same cannot be said of the American child care industry, where both longstanding and real-time economic forces continue to conspire against providers and families, depressing enrollment and staffing well below pre-pandemic levels. There is every reason to believe America’s child care crisis will get worse before it gets better.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. Today, Joseph is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University and the director of the Joseph Mathematics Education Research Lab. What’s important about those institutions?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in March of this year, EdSurge published my article outlining the nearly 400-year history of higher education in America, how that past shapes the way the country views colleges today, and why microcredentials , while critical to the future of the U.S. For one, agreement around the purpose of higher education is fragmented.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2022

history and culture is founded on discrimination against women. This is a reality too few young women grasp, and it’s essential for them to understand as they make decisions about education and the rest of their lives. You can apply that reality to finance, economics, law, philosophy and more. Gutting Roe v. Root rot—U.S.

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