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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

ED Surge

And the early childhood educators who remain in the field have done so despite low wages, rising inflation and high-stress working conditions. It felt like the right time for the federal government to have an explicit focus on this — and one that is cross cutting,” Hamm tells EdSurge. They go hand in hand,” says Montoya. “In

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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

education system, a big one, AWOL since the 1980s. Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls.

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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

ED Surge

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. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. “One

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R.

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The Education Department Outlines What It Wants From AI

ED Surge

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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Formation in Education Involves an Education of the Heart - Part 2

Pedagogy and Formation

I address this critical topic more fully in Chapter 6 of “Pedagogy and Education for Life”, where I zoom in on the life of our classrooms and the wider school. For, “Education is the whole of life as a community and the experience of its members learning to live this life from a specific standpoint or end goal.” (“Hear my Son”, Daniel J.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4

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