ED Surge
JANUARY 8, 2024
A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 8, 2024
Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation ends the shortest tenure in the university’s history — six months. It’s not a coincidence that the record is set by the school’s first Black woman president. We were headed for this moment since she started in July. Some pundits are blaming antisemitism and plagiarism, ignoring the white supremacist politics at the center of her ouster: the same politics shaping higher education at schools like Harvard since the creation of higher education
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Studies Weekly
JANUARY 8, 2024
How to Teach Children Goal Setting Jan. 8, 2023 • by Debbie Bagley Goal setting is an important skill that can help children gain confidence, perseverance, and a growth mindset. As teachers, we can help our students learn how to set goals in a fun and interactive way. When we help them set learning intentions that align to their own unique abilities, it empowers them to take ownership of their learning and celebrate their successes.
Transcending Pedagogy
JANUARY 8, 2024
When I started my teaching career, I was focused on embodying expertise and operating from a position of authority in my classes and lesson designs. No more. Many days – like today – my students become teachers themselves. In this case, there’s a clear rationale for it, but I incorporate this strategy in all my classes, albeit modified as my other courses are not directly focused on generating excitement for a career in education.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 8, 2024
Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. There have been a hundred randomized control trials, but one of the most cited is of a tutoring program in Chicago high schools, where ninth and 10th graders learned an extra year or two of math from a daily dose of tutoring.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. history. Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.
ED Surge
JANUARY 8, 2024
Managing student data is a major challenge for districts across the nation. Educational institutions grapple with an overload of edtech products, creating a disjointed landscape where these tools fail to communicate effectively. This not only hampers coordination but also jeopardizes the data privacy of both staff and students. The Ed-Fi standard is a solution to help organize a universe of messy data through interoperability, providing benefits that range from state reporting to preventing over
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 8, 2024
Education and education access are directly connected to economic growth. Despite the dysfunction in Congress, especially over border issues and foreign aid, there are key education bills that can provide not only solutions for the issues they address but also models for getting things done across a range of other issues. Two pieces of legislation that could improve our economic future by advancing education and workforce development passed the Committee on Education and the Workforce a few week
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