ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2025

The state of early care and education today is, in a word, unsustainable. Thats what a recent survey of 10,000 early childhood educators found, and its what providers continue to share anecdotally. The local gas station, meanwhile, starts employees at $15.50 Hains, of NAEYC, confirmed that many providers feel this way.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In each of these situations—and many more—the federal government makes possible the collection, analysis and dissemination of information that would otherwise not flow. When the federal government does this, it acts not as a regulator or as a funder, but as an information aggregator and distributor. Right now, most of what the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. The best advice is to start with a solid use case.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders to support transformative teaching and learning in their region. Department of Education. Malliron Hodge, Community Manager for 4.0

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. We spoke with educators and families in West Virginia to understand what that historic funding enabled them to do — and the “impossible choices” they now face.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. EdSurge: What types of data do higher education institutions find most difficult to access, and why? The first issue is [the existence of] data silos.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

Since generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene a few years ago, schools and educators have grappled with how to approach the powerful-but-experimental technology. On April 23, President Donald Trump signed Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth. Embrace it?

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said as much during a briefing with reporters. ranked 28th out of 63 education systems, rubbing shoulders with Portugal and Cyprus. The results are in and theyre not great. In 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. EdSurge connected with Cote and Davison Humphries for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But while that may sound like typical Silicon Valley hype, the education system is taking it seriously. But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. Understanding the Prevalence of Trauma Among Black Women Educators When I look back over my journey as a Black educator, there were many unforgettable, challenging moments.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In early care and education, on the other hand, there is no such infrastructure. Not so in early care and education, notes Lauren Hogan, strategic adviser at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of early childhood teachers and staff.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2024

Department of Education would require OPMs to give up revenue-sharing and adopt the more conventional fee-for-service, subscription or other approaches instead. OPMs, I worried, would undermine academic integrity in digital education. But over the years, USC also gained the capacity to deliver high-quality online education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a classroom, eventually gain the experience to move up to lead teacher, and if youre ambitious and able, one day become the assistant director, director or even owner of a program. On paper, it seems reasonable.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2022

I excelled academically, graduating 12th in my class, and serving as the first Latina president for the Student Government Association. For this reason, I feel supporting this population is one of the most urgent priorities in education today.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Postsecondary institutions are charged with developing people's academic skills, technical skills and positioning them for jobs and additional education through high-quality degree programs. Community colleges in particular have a difficult dual mission to train students for work and additional education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge sought out bright spots emerging in the early care and education space. These stories offer analysis and insight as well as a glimpse into the experiences of real families and educators whose lives and livelihoods stand to suffer or benefit. Even the federal government has endorsed the approach.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

Attend student government meetings. At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. But Outer Coast need not be an outlier in higher education, believes its executive director, Bryden Sweeney-Taylor. Yet Sitka isn’t exactly a higher education desert.

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ED Surge

MAY 29, 2024

The model — and others like it — has provided a lifeline for families, especially those for whom access to quality early education is scarce or out of reach financially. Beginning this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

I wonder whether we teachers should invest time and effort into these at all, or if it would be better to skip ahead and try to keep pace with how wealthier schools begin to train students to be skilled users of emerging technologies.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A solid early education serves as a cornerstone for a child's future. However, many young children have limited access to high-quality educational opportunities because of socioeconomic factors and technological barriers. He aspired to make high-quality education financially viable and scalable for a broader system.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From the presidential campaigns to local races, Democrats and Republicans both acknowledged that our early care and learning systems are not functioning for families, educators or their communities. In 2023, 3,200 parents were employed in early care and education, and 5,600 children had benefited from the program, Day said.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. In my 20 years as an educator, I have seen firsthand how service-learning engages students as they become leaders in their communities.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. But in return for this freedom, states must come up with their own ways of ensuring that their schools give all students a high-quality, equitable education. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Special education, physical science and English as a second language were some of the most difficult areas to fill.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Polis, a Democrat who is in his second term as Colorado governor, replied: “We’re excited that Lillian will benefit from universal free preschool and save you some money and get her a very strong start for her education. EdSurge: You have made early childhood education a top priority for your administration. Congratulations.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Department of Education made its move to strengthen oversight of revenue-sharing agreements between colleges and companies that help operate online courses — in steps that could have a big impact in the edtech sector, as well as for the many students enrolled in online degree programs. And a report issued last year by the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

For early childhood education, coronavirus stepped on the gas pedal, accelerating trends that were already happening, in good and bad ways. Market uncertainty during the early days of the pandemic had temporarily halted growth in the early childhood education sector, which had been expanding steadily in the previous decade.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. On the Hook Accessibility has become a major focus area in education policy.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

There have been stunning valuation declines, with brand name failures like Robolex, once acclaimed as the “future of education”—seeing half its stock value vanish in the past year and with investors predicting more tough times ahead for the company’s shareholders. The news might lead you to think edtech’s future is marked by doom and gloom.

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