ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

But theres also a strong emphasis on what we call human-only skills ethics, creative problem-solving, design thinking and user experience. The conversations in kindergarten look different from those in high school. In-house collaboration is also vital, whether cross-divisional or from school to district.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Southern has been a celebrity ever since she was back in high school: She was a contestant on American Idol when she was 17, in that popular reality show’s third season. These days she’s a digital strategist looking at how things like the blockchain, the metaverse and AI might change human expression.

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ED Surge

APRIL 30, 2025

Alena Zachery-Ross Superintendent, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Michigan EdSurge: Can you share your schools new designation and how it will have an impact on students and educators? This continuous learning model is key to helping educators effectively integrate AI into their teaching. Prioritize ethics and equity.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

Holding several new books, I was transported back to my high school years, a time before smartphones and social media, when I would cautiously approach the gay and lesbian section of my local bookstore. Recently, I found myself in Barnes and Noble, captivated by a "Read with Pride" display in the Young Adult section.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. Parent concerns.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

But kids are tired of learning over screens and the kids who are the most behind at school are the least likely to have the motivation to learn independently this way. What if you were to marry humans with technology? Students who fail it are five times more likely to drop out of high school , according to one estimate.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen. Experts say much of what we see marketed as the metaverse from education technology companies isn’t actually the metaverse. That may be because there’s no clear consensus on what the term means.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

The majority of educational technology is designed for student use. And it’s almost always designed by adults, few of whom consult with kids before they start mass-producing their products and selling them to schools. Brandon, now 20, dropped out of his high-performing New Jersey high school as a junior.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But several speakers at the LearnLaunch Across Boundaries conference on education technology and innovation, held last week in Boston, argued that these reforms are not simply trends that will come and go, but the evolution of an education system that, in the scope of human history, is still quite young. Higher Education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. After all, Albert Einstein also had speech delays and received specialized (private) education to get ready for primary school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

In many cases, she said, “they’re getting an education that’s largely created by a whole other entity that may or may not have good outcomes.”. Educational technology: $16 billion. They spend $16 billion annually on educational technology , projected to rise to $20 billion by 2024, BMO Capital Markets estimates.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. "The Completing homework and meeting deadlines are important life skills that should be fostered at school,” he said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. This claim is supported by exciting work that points towards a specific region of the human brain dedicated to numerical processing.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2022

These techniques include human outreach, like employing teams of mentors and advisers who proactively check in on students, as well as automated tools that help keep learners on track. These interventions are informed by more than just human compassion. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For example, in middle school, students might do a role-playing game for the semester while studying molecules and the human body. The teacher sets up a fun fictional narrative where there's a shrunken scientist trapped inside a human body, and the students need to help rescue him.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Are they turning to TikTok for school research papers, for instance? The educators we asked responded with a resounding—nope. Emily Wilt, a high school library media specialist in Indiana who runs her library’s TikTok account , meets with upperclassmen at the start of each school year to talk about research best practices.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm a human being. Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. “So I'm a human being that sometimes needs to eat food and go to the bathroom when I want to,” she says.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

The panelists were: Aisha Douglas, an academic dean at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, where she focuses on teacher development and curriculum adaptation in the humanities. The discussion took place during a panel at the ISTE Live conference in New Orleans last month. So that was crazy to me.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Gil , late professor of social policy at the Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University, argued that individuals can only reach their full potential when human needs such as psychological safety are met. Support can’t stop after graduation.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is a real scenario we encountered during a focus group last school year with a group of high school students in Florida who were asked to provide feedback on their teachers. Even the simple practice of building in a welcome or opening activity in a meeting could go a long way.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

What her findings mean for educators, she argues, is that lessons for adolescents should be designed to lean into this period of human development. EdSurge: What's happening in the brain in this phase of human development? In middle school, everyone's pressuring you to be ready for high school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

They include activities based on students’ grade level–third grade up to high school seniors—that explore topics like health equity, food insecurity and national parks. It’s not like we’re born as human beings knowing how to read a bar chart,” Schwabish says. It’s not in our DNA; we have to learn it.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The rigor of her high school classes dropped off significantly when her school switched to remote learning in the spring, she said, and coursework now takes longer than it would “if my brain had been active.”. Related: As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. The school, located in the heart of San Antonio’s slowly revitalizing downtown, is just a stone’s throw from some of the city’s big employers. Related: Nearly 750 charters are whiter than the nearby school districts.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

It comes from people like Lyndsay Stueve, who works as a full-time global vendor operations expert while raising four kids who are in middle and high school. When it comes to personalization, CoRise is experimenting with both human intervention and AI bots. With a human being, I can just screenshot my question,” he says.

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