ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Before these tools, as anyone who attended school before the age of the Internet would gladly attest, finding specific information took far more time and effort and typically involved a trip to the library. With the omnipresence of Google, all our questions about the world became answerable in minutes.

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MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. Ecosystem Evolution We need to build an ecosystem that works best for all educators and supports learners. The growing reliance on data and analytics to help build that ecosystem.

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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. Colors used are bold enough to be seen on the screen.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. schools and districts to find out how often they contained personally identifying information (PII) from students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the past 20 years, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has been committed to its mission of fostering collaboration and information sharing across 16,000 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. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even the AI tools that are trained using the same information could still give unique results! Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom. In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Department of Education. Successful networks also include robust participation from state and local government and a range of community groups. As the EdCluster leaders discuss in the video below, it really does take a village to spur education innovation.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Think of interoperability as the plumbing and access to information and ease of use as the hot shower that we can enjoy by simply turning on the tap. Schools are awash in valuable data about students, creating the potential for educators to access a profile of the “whole child.”

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AUGUST 9, 2016

With more and more educational technology tools on the market, schools and universities , the government , and parents all want to know, Which products are effective for which teachers and students? The three categories are: Learning Sciences : How developers use scientific research on how people learn to inform product design.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Researchers sent texts about how to fill out financial aid forms, how to collect the required information and deadlines. (1/2) 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2024

She clicked submit thinking it would take her to the next section where she could enter her parents’ financial information. The application skipped some information about income, and she wouldn’t get aid unless she could make an edit, she says. But she’s glad the government is trying to improve the process, she notes.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about $38 per course, according to an annual student spending survey from the National Association of College Stores , a foundation that collects information about retail in higher ed. and one institution in Canada. Its conclusion?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

How has this partnership with other Michigan-based organizations developed over time and informed Grand Circus’ work? We do this through free workshops, diversity scholarships, and partnerships with local government and workforce development agencies to offer funding for low-income workers and unemployed residents.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. and “How do I find the contact information of those in positions of power?” Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. In Detroit, Shoniqua Kemp, a low-income single parent, has struggled to stay informed about her children’s education.

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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. Additionally, I’ve analyzed personnel data from the Florida Department of Education, and reviewed qualification and eligibility requirements for administrative job vacancies. Fortunately, I did.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Blair Levin, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro , formerly of the Federal Communications Commission, says that the government has effectively connected schools to what they need for internet access, leaving homes the next frontier of the digital divide in education.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office. Government Accountability Office found that, for example, teachers found some success mitigating learning declines among English language learners using one-on-one check-ins with students and assigning small-group work in person. And research from the U.S.

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JUNE 2, 2023

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. But what does AI mean for education broadly? That thorny question is still being negotiated.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More than two dozen states now partner with Credential Engine, using the Credential Transparency Description Language it developed to assemble, sort through and better understand their education and workforce data. And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. When combined with state-of-the-art cloud technology, it is also a secure, effective way to share customized digital content with students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

A survey of college students last month by Top Hat, a higher education technology company based in Toronto, found that 85 percent said they missed face-to-face interactions with faculty, and 86 percent missed socializing with other students. But residential colleges also bring together a crucial community of peers and invested adults.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

Now all of a sudden, without asking teachers to give up their weekends to grade,” he says, “we can give all that information to the student and teacher within seconds.” But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

It also means addressing the crisis in school building infrastructure by designing learning spaces informed by an understanding of technology, not designing dumb rooms and filling them with smart devices. Instead, city and school governments should work together and leverage funding to foster greater school and community improvement.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

The chatbot can also help students and parents who don’t speak English as their first language by translating information it displays into about 100 different languages, says Smith-Griffin. People don’t want something with a personality,” he added, “they just want the information.” “My Nelson told EdSurge in an interview. “It

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. We implement a forecasting and reporting tool that aggregates data to inform solutions,” says McGrath.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Foundation's approach is guided by 12 pedagogical principles , informed by research, to enhance effective and inclusive computer science education globally. If you can persuade a government or an education system to put computer science in the curriculum, that's great. That's the easier step.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. And how does that inform your decision to teach? history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Instead, we created a framework that outlines these dimensions and indicators that states could use to inform their social studies standards. Dimension Four is important because it pushes students to express their conclusions and take informed action. The C3 Framework was released in 2013. This can be another tricky space for teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Why it matters: The federal government spent almost $2 billion on tutoring over the course of 2020 and 2021, and venture capitalists followed suit in 2022, investing more than $300 million in tutoring companies. In 2022, organizations started choosing where they would continue to spend their technology resources.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And more to the point, it would replicate a mistake whose consequences are still leaving scars across the landscape of higher education. It’s not just bad business for higher ed, but it also runs counter to colleges’ commitment to free and open discourse. What might an “open metaverse” (sometimes referred to as Web3 ) be like?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A problem that became apparent early on was that there simply was no central source for the information they were seeking — even at the state level. That’s what researchers at Kansas State University set out to quantify when they began crunching the numbers on teacher vacancies for all 50 states.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Yet researchers and nonprofit and government leaders are calling on colleges to think bigger, beyond their own students, to consider how they can lend their expertise and resources to make a difference off campus, too. Department of Commerce. So colleges and universities, I think, can really play a role in helping those communities.”.

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