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.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

To help us dig into these questions, we invited three experts with rich perspectives for this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast: Shalin Jyotishi, a senior advisor of education, labor, and the future of work at New America. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2023

Instruction at WGU discards key elements found in traditional colleges, with no physical classrooms and no fixed course schedule. Some traditional professors have opposed the model as too great a departure from the classic liberal arts college. WGU offers us a vision of the university without intellectuals,” wrote Johann N.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

Adjunct demands were not often treated with the same urgency by traditional academic organizations, such as the American Association of University Professors, National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, who mostly represented tenured and tenure-track faculty. Why are so many adjuncts mobilizing now?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

Failure to solve the problem would be a significant loss in economic opportunity for the country, she says. As the number of traditional college-aged students has fallen into decline, some schools have even begun to wonder whether they can keep the doors open.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Gutted and retrofitted to look like traditional preschool classrooms, these mobile spaces host 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in the valley who, otherwise, likely wouldn’t see a formal learning environment until kindergarten, by which time many of their peers are already steps ahead. But inside, day after day, small wonders are unfolding.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

Limited access to support: In our research and work with providers , we understand that home-based providers struggle to gain access to loans, relief grants and material support necessary to survive the pandemic and build economic stability. Here are some ideas to get started: Families. Celebrate and thank your provider.

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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.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is playing out especially at community colleges, many of which traditionally offered entry-level certificates in early childhood education. You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?”

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

He calls today’s high school and college students and other members of Gen Z the “solidarity generation,” because of their skills in organizing on social media and interest in working across traditional partisan divides on issues like gun control, environmental protection and racial justice. They've thought through them.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It was only in the ’70s that we started recruiting traditional-aged students onto a campus. It was changing our technology. We had to negotiate with our traditional faculty who really controlled what we could do and not do — to get a little bit of breathing space to do what we wanted to do. So it was always in our DNA.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

As a Black woman who started my career working closely with engineers and then moved on to lead diversity and inclusion efforts at a major telecommunications corporation, I’ve personally experienced feeling out of place because my background differed from that of my colleagues and didn’t fit into a traditional box.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Intended to train displaced workers, non-traditional adult students, and first-time college students, these efforts seek to upskill or reskill people and help them to obtain industry-recognized credentials that align with in-demand, high-wage occupations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To expand the nation’s technical talent pool, Chinese universities are upgrading their capacity to offer more up-to-date science and technology courses, with universities just beginning to introduce degrees in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering and other advanced specialties.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. But what has this wave of online bargains meant for perceptions of higher education? A decade ago, it would have been hard to imagine a college handing out coupons or running limited-time offers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

I think one challenge for the teaching profession is that with traditional salary schedules, no matter how great of a teacher you are, compared to the teacher in the next classroom over, you’ll earn the same base amount,” Holston says. “Or, When most people think of measuring teacher quality, they likely think of test scores.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

We're about 60 percent economically disadvantaged here in the district. You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program. So, we do try to look at equity. Certainly, we want to make sure that we're not advantaging one population or one area above another.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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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. So, what can be done?

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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. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. I was raised above all else to not only revere education, but to literally show respect to educators and elders by being a dutiful, quiet, listening and obedient learner.

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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). Many EdClusters shared pain points but also creative approaches to sustaining their work.

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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.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That idea of building a new university had fizzled, though, after Thiel concluded that colleges were too regulated to make the kind of changes he wanted within the traditional systems. And studies show that the majority of the students who graduate from college end up economically much better off than those who don’t go to college.

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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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That experience indicates why leaders of education technology companies and investment firms are starting to see opportunity in expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life. Edtech Is ‘Oddly’ Nearsighted Traditionally, the education system has considered these issues separately.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But taking money from Meta to build campus-specific metaverses is just the latest in higher education’s grand tradition of letting others profit off its inventions. And more to the point, it would replicate a mistake whose consequences are still leaving scars across the landscape of higher education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

We dig into these issues on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where we hear from two experts working to expand educational efforts around AI, to make sure those efforts reach traditionally underserved communities, and to work to expand engagement with ethical issues of the technology.

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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.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2022

Unfortunately, discrimination is not just public, it’s also private and personal in relationships where assuming traditional roles, often benefitting men, avoids difficult negotiations. The mindsets, educational content and administration of the traditional system still prevail in many colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. That’s substantially less than overseas undergraduates pay to attend the London School of Economics in person.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These gaps are often blamed on racial and economic segregation. Perhaps that’s why some observers have connected Feiler’s exhibition about the past to the racial-educational gap of today , particularly noting the contemporary lack of adequate resources for public schools and the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

When it’s off the ground, how will it feel different to a student that is on the campus and taking classes compared to a traditional campus? You mentioned there won’t be traditional academic departments. So we're not planning on having traditional academic departments. You’re looking for land to build a physical campus.

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