ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model. Here are a few.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. Liu sees that as evidence that increasing CS offerings in high school is helping to address well-known disparities in the tech world. “We Next Steps An estimated 57 percent of U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2022

million high school students take college courses each year. It’s an opportunity that offers lots of proven benefits, like enabling more people to graduate from college , saving families money on higher education and helping community colleges attract more students during an era of falling enrollments.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. Evans says these students’ eyes light up when they talk about the self-directed learning they’re doing.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Schools with English-learning students are tasked not just with ensuring that these children acquire the language but also, as with all other students, succeed academically and eventually graduate from high school. The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. Data from the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

For thousands of high school students who are graduating, this time of year is all about looking to the future — namely, preparing for college in the fall. but face barriers to employment and higher education due to their legal status. States with 1,000 or more undocumented high school graduates are shown.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The initiative, called Genius, Joy and Love: A Focus on Black Students, is the brainchild of Valerie Kinloch, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. And its inaugural cohort wrapped up earlier this summer, on Aug. Baldwin, 18, spent some of her last weeks before college attending the student summer academy.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

That is one of the questions and challenges at the center of a recently released report based on the Girls’ Index, a survey of 17,500 girls in fifth through 12th grades that includes questions about their goals for the future and perception of science, technology, engineering and mathematics as potential careers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Online higher education is projected to pass an impressive if little-noticed milestone this year: For the first time, more American college students will be learning entirely online than will be learning 100 percent in person. After all, technology has reduced prices in many other industries. Online was going to be disruptive.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. And at least four states — Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida — have enacted statewide bans limiting school smartphone access.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As a result, there’s a significant gap between students’ soft skill attainment as they leave high school and what’s needed to be successful in the workforce and as happy contributors to society. Why is Career and Technical Education particularly well-suited for developing soft skills?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I don't want to see it going through a filter,” says Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan and a member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. “If

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Even today, many businesses expect students coming out of high school to have the skill to be able to use these tools in the workplace.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

In recent years, Johnson, along with many other professors, has noticed that students struggle more than ever with the jump from high school to college. Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a public high school teacher in a state and district with a teachers union, my contract entitles me to a duty-free lunch. Many teachers dont necessarily see their students outside the confines of their class often, but high school is about way more than class time.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Black Students Association is composed of Black high school students at Labs High School. In partnership with their advisors, I had some of these Black high school students visit my first-graders. They introduced themselves, played games, colored and connected over hairstyles.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Cost and ease of access will only lead to more schools and districts going down this path. The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. Overhaul old typing rooms and computer labs.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While Barnetts solution focuses on fundamentals, Bryson says she and her organization's partners are looking at how artificial intelligence could play a role in personalizing learning to help middle and high school students catch up.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I taught him Arabic in high school, and he had since been admitted to medical school after graduating college. Beyond their future careers after high school, I want my students to experience the educational benefits of learning a new language.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the first times I felt like I was in community was in my high school jazz band as a teenager. I auditioned to be a part of the Ravinia Scholars , joining a group of teenage musicians from high schools all over Chicago. Our worldviews collide, and we are no longer alone; we are in a community.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Linking this information to learner attributes helped us support students from different high schools or colleges who needed additional help before the exam. Scaling Solutions: Models like LDRA must be extended beyond pilot programs into full-scale implementations across diverse educational contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

On a Wednesday morning this December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School is anything but quiet. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day. OXNARD, Calif. —

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. Throughout my educational journey, I couldn't help but notice the lack of diversity in GATE programs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

If I'm reading a story to them, I also teach about parts of a book by way of creating citations, because when they go to high school and college, they're going to have to create a research paper that requires citations. What do you wish you could change about your school or the education system today? We do a read-aloud.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The conversations in kindergarten look different from those in high school. They were key in getting this off the ground, especially when we created a three-course career pathway for high school students, which got pretty technical. We have a K-12 continuum that breaks down what this looks like at each grade band.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As a high school teacher, this is especially important as many of my students are nearing adulthood. Cultivating Trust in Service of Learning Unstructured time and playfulness create a sense of trust and freedom between the student and the teacher in a classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Baldwin school district is also teaching students not to take everything they see on social media at face value. Media literacy classes begin at sixth grade and continue through high school. That includes what Camhi calls academic wellness, support for students who have been avoiding attending school.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking. Dr. Evans highlighted a high school student from one of the studys focus groups who took his request one step further when he asked, Why arent all our textbooks in large print?

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Digital Promise

JULY 23, 2020

We know technology can be a transformational tool for improving student achievement and engagement, and for driving school innovation. In this way, said another DLP teacher, the process of collaborating with a coach “really removes a lot of the anxiety around using technology.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Defying Gravity in Practice To defy gravity in education means rejecting the limits imposed by fear and systemic constraints. In a teacher preparation CTE pathway course I taught to high school juniors and seniors, we grappled with these ideas together.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

And two episodes of our narrative series about the growing skepticism of college made the cut, both of which focused on how students are changing how they think about what to do after high school. A key theme in most of these is how educators are struggling to make students feel connected to the material in todays classrooms.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

High school teacher, Tennessee. As students and teachers return to school, many are focused on rebuilding the relationships that 84 percent of teachers felt suffered during the pandemic. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

Since Zoomers began to reach age 16 in 2013, the rate of students who drop out of high school has fallen to its lowest level and remained steady at 4 percent. For millennials, about 11 percent of people ages 16 to 19 left school without a degree.

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