ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S. could do with the emerging technology. could do with the emerging technology. It shows you the power of bringing educators together.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students. These tastes and smells are etched in my memory, a reminder of her dedication to keeping traditions alive and passing them down to the next generation.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

Personalization is the future of education because it recognizes that every student is unique, with distinct learning preferences, paces, and goals. This approach shifts away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model, allowing students to learn at their own rhythm and delve deeper into concepts that pique their interest.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. Equal Access Doesn’t Mean Equally Helpful Edward Gonzalez oversees open educational resources for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools in California.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

In my opinion that is the case in education. Educators and stakeholders alike have been brainwashed into thinking that a successful school or district is one who achieves through quantitative measures. Are we more concerned about learning or traditional grading practices? Does homework improve learner outcomes?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education. My mantra now is: I'm a successful educator and businesswoman. I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. I'm an educator. Its a treat.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al., Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. What did educators do before the current system? There's lots of discussion of equity and education these days. But he wasn’t quite sure what to replace them with.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

Education needs a revolution of ideas, pedagogy, and the very way in which we talk about teaching and learning. Teachers must reach out and engage parents and utilize them as key players in their child’s education. There are also inherent issues with education traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Among the surprising answers is that colleges and universities are charging more for online education to subsidize everything else they do, online managers say. Yet 83 percent of online programs in higher education cost students as much as or more than the in-person versions, an annual survey of campus chief online learning officers finds.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

With all the promise that educational technology holds, several pitfalls are always on the minds of educators. The top two issues that commonly come up in my talks with educators are the technology (Internet, hardware, devices, apps) not working or off-task behavior on the part of students.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In many cases, they’ve grown up with access to incredibly immersive technology practically since birth. As a result, it can be difficult at times to compete for attention using traditional teaching methods like whiteboards, worksheets, and extended direct instruction. To improve outcomes student agency has to be at the forefront.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War on the Union-occupied Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. The Sea Islands experiment, as it was known, marked a positive moment in the fraught history of Black education, notes education law expert Derek W.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

Traditional education models, which focus on knowledge retention alone, arent enough. Students need digital fluency and adaptability to succeed in an era of constant technological change. Yet some education systems continue to prioritize static knowledge instead of promoting adaptability and continuous learning.

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Professional Development Tradition Critical Thinking Education 102

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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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

As a supplement to traditional discussion strategies technology can serve as a catalyst to increase engagement by getting more learners actively involved during lessons. Our results indicate that peer discussion enhances understanding, even when none of the students in a discussion group originally knows the right answer.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Online education was viewed as a poor substitute for in-person study, and anyway, how could something free be financially sustainable? It has also come up with plenty of clever ways to keep costs low, such as relying on free or low-cost open educational resources rather than costly commercial textbooks. If so, will they?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. My undergraduate education, grounded in social justice and critical literacy, energized me to create equitable opportunities in my classroom.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” For those who plan on graduate school, their immediate future is pretty much set. But for most, what happens next is often in doubt.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We look for the traditional comforts that elicit memories of the past, and search for something new to add to our tables. The last decade has introduced more technology tools that can positively impact learning that I had over my entire career as an educator. We can’t just use the tools that we know and feel comfortable with.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. This gap may exist partly because of the stereotype that women are natural caregivers, steering girls towards traditional helping professions,” the report states. Less than half of girls responded that they wanted both a service career and a STEM career.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

And certainly there have been plenty of challenges for educators during this health crisis. There were many individuals and organizations who knew it was a once in a millennium moment to rethink what has been, to experiment with what could be, to create an upgraded education model and a better school experience. But they need to.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Change in higher education historically has been a dynamic process involving two sectors—one consisting of mainstream institutions and the other a grab bag of diverse, nontraditional organizations, service providers and emerging models. Yet as quality improves, more consumers abandon the traditional product in favor of the new.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from? This is still a prevalent theme for Black womxn in education. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. It has become an increasingly important component of effective math education, equipping students with the skills and understanding necessary for success in the 21st century.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her defiance was bold and vulnerable, a refusal to let fear or tradition dictate her path. As a white, queer educator in predominantly white school districts, stepping back from risks often felt like the easierand saferchoice. Education Then and Now When I secured my first full-time teaching position, I still had room to explore.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

For many Indigenous communities, the goal of education has always been to nurture the wellbeing of the whole child, including their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual development I recently reflected on this memory as I once again sat at that same wooden table. From a very young age, I recognized these differences.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. We don't often see that in higher education. For the full interview, listen here. That's an example.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. But even fans of administering oral exams admit a major drawback: They’re time-consuming, and take a lot out of educators. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

Its part of the administrations push to decentralize education, which comes along with a burst of energy for school choice options around the country. In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Salazar is part of a growing movement of educators rethinking homework in light of the pandemic. But educators disagree about how they should respond. It also gives parents a chance to be involved in their child’s education. But other educators have a different view. hours before the pandemic. We are where we are.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This perception undermines my efforts and sends a troubling message to my students—that learning Arabic, or any subject outside traditional school disciplines, is less meaningful to their learning experience. This also reflects a broader issue that sends a damaging message to students about what’s truly important in their education.

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