ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. Thousands of students complained about their resulting scores, and some governments launched formal investigations.

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JUNE 25, 2024

government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Then, in 2010, the federal government invested in home visiting programs for the first time with the creation of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting ( MIECHV ) program. “It Many home visiting programs have been around for decades.

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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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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Empower Communities: An assessment and accountability system that is inclusive of youth voices helps ensure that communities that are minoritized by the education system have the chance to challenge false narratives and assumptions.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. This calls into question the value alternative credentials have for job seekers.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But taking money from Meta to build campus-specific metaverses is just the latest in higher education’s grand tradition of letting others profit off its inventions. The furthest along internationally is likely the Open Metaverse Project from the University of Nicosia in Cyprus.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Department of Education funding to $88.3 But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers. Community colleges are best positioned to meet the needs of the American workforce—but intervention at historic levels is necessary.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Related: Will education unite or divide us? While universities still struggle – much as traditional companies struggle – to remake their programs to take best advantage of technology, there are a growing number of ways to do so without taking out a payday loan, and pay millions for some basic technology and marketing services.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Issuing a 30-year bond to finance a new school building makes sense, says Ross Rubenstein, a professor at Georgia State University who specializes in public finance and education policy. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. That’s what I think technology can do.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. Heejae Lim is the founder of TalkingPoints, a nonprofit, multilingual educational technology platform that helps teachers and families connect for student success.

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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. An educational institution's lifeblood is its faculty; getting their engagement early in the process is critical.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Six New Hampshire schools have no grade levels – a traditional hallmark of just about every school. “It’s It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education. Department of Education has the power to accept or reject state plans. Most are trying to figure it out.

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JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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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. Add in demographic changes, and it’s no surprise that demand is falling for the traditional college experience.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely. For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Related: National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation. Leslie Muldoon, executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, which jointly oversees the the test along with NCES, called the bleak score report “frustrating and difficult to understand” because of all the efforts to improve education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It was only in the ’70s that we started recruiting traditional-aged students onto a campus. It was changing our technology. We had to negotiate with our traditional faculty who really controlled what we could do and not do — to get a little bit of breathing space to do what we wanted to do. So it was always in our DNA.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education. But he wasn’t having much success using traditional streaming video. he wondered. How do you put somebody in that space?” I wanted it to be somebody else.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education? We are just having an old conversation with new tricks. Introducing Traverse, a digital-forward, inquiry-driven social studies curriculum for grades 6-12.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So we're in conversation also with companies like Tesla and others, to actually be providing certification programs and ways in which they can be participating in the actual education of the people they're looking for as well. Each of these five has traditionally been fairly slow-moving and largely government-regulated.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

School policies that racialize traditional Black hairstyles as unkempt and unprofessional have placed targets on Black students that not only impact their self-esteem but also their ability to engage with their academic studies. From the time I was a child, social norms governed my hair. The issue is not Black hair.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. The search committee included members of NAEYC state affiliates, public and private child care, Head Start, philanthropic communities and higher education faculty.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is playing out especially at community colleges, many of which traditionally offered entry-level certificates in early childhood education. So they argue that it’s not in the best interest of their students or their institutions to direct graduates to jobs in preschools and other early childhood programs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

What this means for education is that there are more dollars to fund education technology, such as computer-generated lessons tailored for each student, and online learning. For education companies, impact investing means reporting about different kinds of metrics. “We have technical expertise.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. A government-funded foundation in the United Kingdom is trying a new approach, something it calls “ ed tech testbeds.” Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Among the biggest barriers to making after-school programming more robust and widespread are insufficient government funding, staffing shortages, and in some areas, a lack of transportation. Today’s offerings are rife with game design, sound engineering, culinary classes, coding and more.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Yet there are other, more traditional ways that education and after-school programs can boost student well-being, too, including hosting social experiences for kids and staffing schools with more health professionals — two strategies that are sometimes strapped for adequate finances.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this interview with EdSurge, Black discusses Dangerous Learning, how challenges to traditional public school education enforce rather than dissolve political divisions, and the unexpected successes hidden in the sad history of anti-literacy. Government doesnt rely upon the good intentions of individuals.

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