ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out. It is a scramble, he says, and its a painful one.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Meanwhile, at least five of its neighboring school districts have more students enrolled compared to five years ago, with increases up to nearly 14 percent. The largest enrollment growth since the start of the pandemic came from Idea Public Schools, a charter district in Texas, that reports an eye-popping 55 percent increase since 2019-20.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit. Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

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ED Surge

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. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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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. Jefferson County Public Schools evaluation. But they are all misleading. There’s more evidence of what doesn’t work.”

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

The program didn’t want to spend to bring fiber along the same path to tribal schools and libraries and the local school district, says John Chadwick, the digital equity coordinator for the New Mexico Department of Education. Without it, students can struggle to turn in or even access school assignments. No internet.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

public schools? Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on the cyber security problem in schools. Many of the largest student data breaches have occurred not inside schools but inside the computer systems of private companies that sell to schools. How vulnerable is student data at U.S.

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MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: ‘We are going to have to be a little more nimble: how school districts are responding to AI For her part, Ganguly is quick to note that Prisms is not an ed tech program, nor designed for remote learning: Once the VR headsets come off, teachers take over and guide students through the lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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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

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. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist. For example: Baltimore County Public Schools created the position of director of innovation and digital safety, its closest equivalent, around 2016. But most didn’t have the resources or will to create the role.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

About 20 percent of Texas public school students are English learners, according to federal data, although not all of them are yet old enough to sit for the standardized test. She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children.

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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. I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Nevertheless, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) State of Preschool 2023 Yearbook , in 2022-2023, more than 60 percent of pre-K children served were in public school settings, not private programs or home-based child care options.

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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. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1% of public school educators are of Asian descent. I sheepishly expressed gratitude while struggling with such praise.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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APRIL 11, 2020

could offer a preview of the ongoing questions that will consume the nation’s public schools for months, if not longer, as the temporary closures appear likely to last through the rest of this academic year and potentially into the next. Tammy Campbell, superintendent of Federal Way Public Schools. “If Reykdal agreed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. Will things be different now in a health crisis that is longer, and the technology of the internet and iPads and smartphones are more robust? Schooling is intricate, and very complex. Back in 1937, when a polio outbreak plagued the U.S.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. Victoria was in my U.S.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That means help “making sure that we're looking at how we're bringing AI into the classrooms, making sure that we're adequately funding our public schools to not only have the software and the hardware, but the training that is needed by educators.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Twenty-seven large school districts, representing roughly 50 percent of the nation’s urban students, volunteer for extra testing so that they can have NAEP scores for their cities in addition to their states. Related: National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Resnick and Duffy had spent countless hours shepherding this school through the political thickets that all new public schools face. Tonight, the school committee would cast its votes. Tonight, the school committee would cast its votes. Their school day would last from 10 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education. These days Royal is an associate professor of urban education at Loyola University Maryland.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

They have essentially a different body clock that is governing when they want to fall asleep and when they want to wake up in the morning. It is just amazing to see because of the number of kids that that's gonna affect in California, where public school enrollment for middle and high schools is over 3.3 million.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Unlike public schools funded through broad-based taxes, child care programs rely heavily on fees from parents, making it prohibitively expensive for many families and leaving child care workers poorly paid. Source: Impact of Stabilization Grants on Family Child Care , 2022.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Reopening in School Buildings Hurricane Helene destroyed Burke County’s two largest child care centers, displacing about 250 children from their learning environments and impeding parents from working.

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