ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2022

It’s the latest sign that Big Tech sees education as a key piece of the rush to build a metaverse, the immersive Internet of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality that so far is a disconnected mix of clunky tech gear and beta software platforms inspired by science fiction.

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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 16, 2024

Remember all the hype around the metaverse in education? So what happened to the early education experiments in the metaverse, and what do those watching the space think is next? And for education, we need more. EdSurge receives philanthropic support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is co-owned by the CEO of Meta.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning. Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every year ACX, as the blog is often called, hosts a book review contest, and the latest winner summarizes Egan’s 1997 book, “ The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding.” And that appealed to Brandon Hendrickson, who stumbled across Egan’s work while doing a master’s program in education at the University of Washington.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Part of why this model would be so powerful is how it would increase the scale at which education research is done, Baraniuk says.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. It can be traced back to an ingrained fear of the unknown , a protective psychological response that’s hard-wired into our brains to shield us from potential threats.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

At least 75 percent of public school parents, teachers, and the American public believe most students are capable of reaching high levels of educational achievement, according to a survey conducted by Langer Research Associates of New York for Digital Promise Global’s Learner Variability Project.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Growing numbers of students need special education services. The number of students deemed to need special education services increased by nearly a million students over the last decade, and it now makes up 15 percent of all public school enrollments. A significant number of U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Even so, some educators are trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in the metaverse. This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” So you do see potential in this technology for educators?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. What’s an example?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But educators may not have the capacity to address their students’ many needs, especially in high schools where teachers spend less time with more students, and where adolescents may be less receptive to adult guidance. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. Pekel says he feels like he’s living through a second big paradigm shift in education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As schools return to in-person learning, educators face the challenge of addressing the diverse emotional needs of students who have experienced unprecedented disruptions. A study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that post-COVID mental-health-related incidents in children and adolescents were on the rise.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. In higher education, are you aware of some promising ideas, we'll call them, when it comes to trying to rebuild after you have a situation where you've got employees who are burned out or have withdrawn?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A study published in the journal AERA Open found that students earn better marks in college STEM courses when those classrooms have higher percentages of students who are underrepresented racial minorities or the first in their families to participate in higher education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

I spoke to Aylynn as part of a visit to Pendergast with my colleagues from Imagine Learning to hear about educators’ and students’ experiences using the Imagine Learning EL (English Learner) Education curriculum. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs).

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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

She was interested in college, but worried that the cost could keep her from pursuing higher education. Her plan after graduation is to apply to the University of Minnesota’s main campus to major in psychology, entering halfway to her bachelor’s degree and thereby cutting out two years of paying for college. How is the program going?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

The fear or nervousness that occurs when performing or learning math is, by some accounts, the most common form of education-related anxiety. Under Pressure There are a number of theories about how math anxiety relates to performance, according to Colleen Ganley, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Florida State University.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma. And this isn’t a new conversation.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. It’s time we acknowledge that our education systems are directly contributing to the youth mental health crisis. They can stop teaching to the test and educate parents on why they are doing so.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Just one day would be enough to show the folks in Congress how difficult and important the work is, says Hirsch-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “I While the process is stalled nationally, schools are taking action for early childhood education on their own.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The platform doesn’t make ratings or recommendations, but it does aim to provide enough information so that higher ed educators can select products for use in courses. Each review also notes the starting price per student per semester; some are free or cost as little as $1 per student, while others cost between $60 and $100. history surveys.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Desperate Measures Many parents have never heard of school avoidance, and educators aren’t comprehensively trained on it, according to activists and health care professionals. For beleaguered educators, it’s yet another hat they’re being asked to wear. Those reasons tend to be highly specific to the individual students, she specifies.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development. You decided you wanted to go to the university and become educated. But I do feel like there are so many people, they don't come for an education. And that makes me sad because getting a degree is supposed to be all about becoming educated.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

After I graduated, fueled by my personal experience as a student, I decided to pursue a career in education. Today, I’m a doctoral candidate in the education leadership program at Rowan University, with a focus on students with disabilities. So, why aren’t these students seeking the accommodations that they need?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. The trend is catching on with policymakers and educators as they look for ways to spur college-going while also ameliorating high tuition prices.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

And plenty of schools and colleges are wondering: Will this new realm work for education? Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This hidden education crisis is even more widespread for families living with incomes below the federal poverty line, with the percentage of students missing a month or more of school nearly doubling to one in every three. Home internet is also connected to improved student knowledge of information and communication technologies.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Recent data out of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University demonstrates that simply offering more instruction for students is insufficient, in part because it fails to account for each student’s pace of learning. Any program that is in service to students must respond to their ongoing and changing needs.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

In our Future Teachers series , we ask these questions to aspiring educators on the cusp of entering the classroom. I worked in an elementary school as part of my education minor at the University of California, Berkeley, during my junior year, and I think that had a great impact on me. In this installment, we’re featuring Martinez.

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