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 111

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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 126

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. Choose as many as you like.

Research 112

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s like a conceited human who will present a detailed lie with a straight face, and so it’s hard to detect. It’s like a conceited human who will present a detailed lie with a straight face, and so it’s hard to detect." I call it a brat that’s not afraid to lie to impress the parents. So Ashok K.

Teaching 117

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. Luis Gallardo, student, University of California, Berkeley.

Political Science 145

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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.

Economics 108

Economics High School Humanities Educational Technology 108

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

EdSurge: How do higher education institutions balance the need for tuition increases with the imperative to remain accessible to students from diverse economic backgrounds? McGrath: One common approach from higher education institutions is tuition discounting. Stakeholders question, “What’s in it for me?”

Government 130

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns.

Social Science 113

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The grant will help Lumen bring together the company’s three separate platforms for humanities, professional development and online homework management, executives from the company say. Officials plan to make an OER Statistics 101 course available by 2023.

Professional Development 123

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development.

Economics 127

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

How might anyone justify the point of view that having stronger and better human relationships, where community members of all races and backgrounds can participate and thrive, is counterproductive? Now more than ever, schools must embrace the human-centric opportunities of SEL and reject false and frenzied challenges.

Humanities 136

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

And now we have more humane guidelines around that. 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? I mean, I think they're very aware of the economic reality. You've signed up to go to college. You've paid money to be there.

Economics 131

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And what we're really working on is what would a human-centered, a relationally centered version of education look like if it could be empowered by and supported by AI? We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.”

EdTech 123

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The equity gap is pernicious and growing,” says Stephen Burke, dean of Arts and Humanities for the college, which serves about 6,800 students and is located about 30 miles north of New York City. “In Stephen Burke (left), dean of Arts and Humanities at Rockland Community College.

Humanities 104

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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2022

This year, 57 such experts identified social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends influencing the higher ed sector. An economic trend that the research identifies as significant is the growth of the digital economy.

Economics 98

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

Education 128

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

This went for Kris too, and the 30 or so kids assigned to my teaching team who were facing similar issues with things we would consider basic human needs and privileges. These are students who get a school meal for less than the normal price due to their families’ low socio-economic status.

Library 140

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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.

EdTech 90

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

I recognized that nobody had trained me on how to provide therapeutic or even just human care in a crisis,” she says, noting that such care is essential before effective learning can happen.

Economics 125

Economics History Humanities Cultures 125

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“[The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022. But people are messy. “My

Tradition 130

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

As I read dystopian fiction in the wake of the pandemic, which has brought suffering, death and economic hardship, I began to wonder what happens to readers when what was once a purely fictional event grounded in cataclysmic events seems to edge much closer to reality? So they're safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth.

Library 22

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

By intentionally nurturing and scaffolding creativity and creative problem-solving throughout the curricula, educators can empower students with the critical skills they need to confidently navigate their lives and effectively apply them to emerging technologies, like AI.

K-12 135

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This includes professional learning , in-person and virtual events , and Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) community groups all focused on collectively exploring the innovative realm of creative generative AI within the classroom. After all, together is better.

K-12 119

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. The Human Element University outreach made the difference for Del Real Viramontes.

Cultures 136

Cultures Economics Research Humanities 136

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.

Education 113

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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. The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

Charter School 104

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Some argue that competitiveness is a trait, while others believe it’s a mix of genetic and environmental factors.

Middle School 114

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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. I was like, ‘This is horrible.

Library 145

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

The post-Civil War era then ushered in the advent of “Black codes,” described as laws that “criminalized every form of African American freedom and mobility, political power, [and] economic power.”

History 101

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

This way of thinking has been dubbed “toxic gratitude” or self-gaslighting, and the pressure immigrant children feel to help improve their family’s economic circumstances has been called “toxic stress.” Bartleby is a human man and clerk hired by the story’s narrator, a lawyer. It would be worse to make waves and risk getting fired.

EdTech 98

EdTech Education Cultures Economics 98

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

The pandemic illuminated and exacerbated many of the social, racial and economic inequities that have led to the educational disparities in public school classrooms. To create the conditions for joy, we had to be extremely empathetic and sensitive to the human experience — and that started with the staff. And in a sense, I did.

Leadership 98

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

The job fairs are already at capacity — the company has an attractive offer of benefits, a 401(k), and paid time off — and expects more than 750 new jobs to come to the area , including in manufacturing, operations, human resources and administrative roles. But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

K-12 129

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. 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. And we’re not just one homogenized, stereotypical group.

Education 114

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

So a 2018 report from the USA Center for Educational Statistics found that computing graduates had some of the highest median earnings at $70,000 a year and rising over the past 10 years. And that’s worse than the humanities, English and finance degrees in the U.K. percent, and has been totally stagnant over that past decade.

Cultures 98

Cultures EdTech Economics Critical Thinking 98

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The funds are allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services to be disbursed through the local Smart Start partnerships for affected child care centers and family child care homes. These $25,000 grants are being awarded on a rolling basis and should be for “frontline human service needs,” according to the CFWNC website.

K-12 118

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Instead, in April, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced it would extend the enrollment-based subsidy reimbursements through August of 2024. “If It’s an economic imperative. If that had happened all at once,” Colagrosso says, “we would’ve fallen off the cliff and closed the doors.”

Economics 139

Economics Humanities Education Government 139

ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated. But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place.

EdTech 136

EdTech K-12 Elementary School Economics 136