ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Hillman says that he began looking at geography out of frustration with an emphasis during the Obama administration on providing consumer information about higher education as a solution to college access. For people he knew there, information about college was not what was keeping them from enrolling. “If

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

These descriptions of education technology research may comfort educators and parents looking for ways to mitigate the devastating effects of lost learning time because of the coronavirus. But they are all misleading. Related: Impact funds pour money into ed tech businesses. There’s more evidence of what doesn’t work.”

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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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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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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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ED Surge

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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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

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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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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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

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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Digital Promise

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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Feed it a typical job description or help-wanted ad—that is to say, one that’s likely either vague or full of jargon—and its artificial intelligence-informed system spits out a new version of that text translated into the language of skills. We want to build this thing that you’d be crazy not to use,” Bettersworth says. That’s the bull’s-eye.”

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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

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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Digital Promise

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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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

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

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

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

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

and one that “established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.” The climate anxiety international survey found that “a perceived failure by governments to respond to the climate crisis is associated with increased distress” among youth. NPR called it “a first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S.”

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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

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

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

APRIL 3, 2024

To counter this, teachers emphasize the inverted pyramid style, which prioritizes placing the most crucial information at the beginning of the article, or even in the headline. government. Allow Students to be the Investigators After I start with the lead, I like to spend time allowing my students to become the investigators.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating. The technology, which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command.

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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

JUNE 26, 2024

A study by the Naval Postgraduate School showed that despite the fact that military families have government insurance that covers mental health treatment, up to 35 percent lacked adequate access to psychiatric care.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. Vince Scheivert, chief information officer for Albermarle County Schools, gives computer advice to Cassidy Watkins (left) and Madeline Rice, both Burley Middle School students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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