The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura.

Economics 115

Economics Tutoring Educational Technology Tradition 115

Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2024

Digital Promise leaders reflect on top insights and learnings around education technology from the ISTELive 2024 conference.

EdTech 153

EdTech Educational Technology Education 153

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

In addition to being informed by a broad body of research and driven by evidence, the IPA process is also aligned with the following: Future Ready Schools (Click HERE to view a detailed alignment document) National Education Technology Plan ( NETP ) Books that showcase evidence and changes to practice aligned with research Disruptive Thinking in Our (..)

Artifacts 266

Artifacts Leadership Digital Resources Lesson Plan 266

ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

EdTech 113

EdTech Educational Technology Library K-12 113

Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I also field a lot of questions from elementary teachers who are curious about how they can integrate technology into their lessons in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way. What are EduProtocols? Eduprotocols are instructional strategies initially developed by Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern.

Educational Technology 152

Educational Technology Teaching Education 152

ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. The report outlined recommendations for guidelines and guardrails for the responsible use of AI in educational technology. . — Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

Education 143

Education EdTech K-12 Humanities 143

ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, “educational policy and decision-makers at the local, state, and federal level should use their power to align priorities, educational strategies, and technology adoption decisions to place the academic needs of students ahead of the excitement about emerging AI capabilities.”

Educational Technology 135

Educational Technology Education Policy Humanities Teaching 135

ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leading By Example For Alana Winnick, educational technology director at Pocantico Hills Central School District in Sleepy Hollow, New York, it’s important to make it clear to colleagues when she uses generative AI in a way that is new — and which people may not even realize is possible.

Teaching 145

Teaching Education K-12 Lesson Plan 145

ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

A statement issued by the school district said “several educational technology companies are interested in acquiring” AllHere to continue its work, though nothing concrete has been announced.

EdTech 136

EdTech Education Educational Technology Humanities 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

The foundation is also seeking to expand the use of outcomes-based contracts beyond tutoring to education technology and software. Walker says that the rate cards and recordkeeping are improving from the first pilot round, which took place during the stress and chaos of the pandemic.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Leadership Educational Technology Education Policy 141

ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Inclusive Design Inclusive design in educational technology is crucial to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, have equal access to learning opportunities. Choose tools that offer customizable settings, allowing teachers to adjust the difficulty level and content to meet the needs of their students.

EdTech 125

EdTech Professional Development Educational Technology Tradition 125

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While the emergency switch to remote instruction caused students to fall behind in learning — with regular assessments showing declining test scores, especially in math — it also significantly sped up the adoption of digital devices and impressed upon districts the importance of technology, according to advocates.

EdTech 135

EdTech Library Professional Development Educational Technology 135

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

EdTech 121

EdTech Elementary School K-12 Leadership 121

ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. Rocio Raña is the CEO and co-founder of LangInnov, a company that uses automated scoring for its language and literacy assessments for bilingual students and is working on another one for writing.

K-12 127

K-12 Humanities Educational Technology Economics 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. The stakes are much higher for these students, and digital media often underserves them.

Tradition 141

Tradition Educational Technology Education Teaching 141

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In other efforts, students often didn’t want to use earlier versions of education technology and computerized tutors. Kestin hopes his AI tutor will allow him to spend less time on vocabulary and basics and devote more time to creative activities and advanced problems during class.

Tutoring 136

Tutoring Humanities Tradition Critical Thinking 136

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction?

Civics 145

Civics Psychology Critical Thinking Teaching 145

ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city.

K-12 117

K-12 Elementary School Public School Private School 117

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Online has become more the norm,” said Phil Hill, a consultant and market analyst of education technology in higher education, whose newsletter alerted me to the new milestone. “It’s Compared to before the pandemic, an additional 1.5 million students were taking all of their courses online and 1.35

Research 144

Research Educational Technology Tradition Teaching 144

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. Reading fluency the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. students are not reading at proficient levels.

Teaching 140

Teaching Public School Research Education 140

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.

Geography 138

Geography Economics Education Policy Government 138

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2025

The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention nonprofit for LGBTQ+ youth, released a new report that gives a state-by-state look at the mental health of their target demographic. The data is based on a 2024 survey of more than 28,500 LGBTQ+ youth ages 13 to 24.

Research 124

Research Educational Technology Education 124

ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza.

High School 136

High School Leadership Tradition Research 136

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. So as she saw the rise of AI tools, she was quick to try them.

American History 140

American History History High School Teaching 140

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

I wasn’t an overly confident student when it came to engaging in open conversations during class. If one of my teachers posed a question, I only raised my hand if I was 99.9% sure that I knew the correct answer.

Pedagogy 411

Pedagogy Tradition Research Humanities 411

ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Education in the 21st century is obsessed with assessing children, attempting to measure every aspect of their intelligence, learning and growth. Yet we are not, according to Isabelle Hau, measuring what matters: relationships.

Psychology 141

Psychology Humanities Research Education 141

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

Social Science 127

Social Science Research Economics Humanities 127

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main headline: Students Are Doing Worse Than Before the Pandemic Started.

K-12 127

K-12 Economics Middle School High School 127

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint.

Sociology 143

Sociology Teaching Education Educational Technology 143

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In 2024, if you want to make a dinner reservation, you’re very likely to open an app on your phone, input a few details and then filter your results to see which restaurants have availability for your party size, date and time. If you want to find child care, on the other hand, good luck.

Government 123

Government Humanities Education Educational Technology 123

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What does Blackness mean to you? My Black is colorful, quick-witted, dynamic, innovative and brilliant. My Blackness meant I grew up getting my hair straightened with a hot comb that would burn the tops of my ears if I didn't quickly and effectively hold my ears down.

Pedagogy 102

Pedagogy High School Cultures History 102

ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Near the beginning of every semester, Sarah Z. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first.

Tutoring 113

Tutoring High School Middle School Teaching 113

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. She asked, “But what about your career?” as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching.

Leadership 134

Leadership Social Justice Teaching Tradition 134

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. At least, he wants them to feel that way occasionally and temporarily. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

K-12 122

K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 122

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. I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida.

Classroom Management 136

Classroom Management Social Justice Lesson Plan Cultures 136

ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

Middle School 133

Middle School Public School Social Studies High School 133

ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What difference did $190 billion make for student success coming out of the COVID-19 health crisis? Not as much as you might think. An ESSER spending analysis by Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University found some puzzling instances where funneling more money into a pandemic-worsened problem didn’t help schools recover.

Government 122

Government Leadership Educational Technology Education 122