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. These programs exist in many districts across the country, some as standalone schools and others as programs embedded in the district. Here are a few.

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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

JULY 19, 2023

Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The next week off will enable us to recharge our batteries and continue our efforts to make New Milford High School a model for innovation and student-centered learning. Embracing the role of technology in education and successfully integrating it into daily instruction.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Recently my school was recognized as the “ School of theMonth ” for November/December by eSchool News. The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. Currently we now have twenty.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

percent for high school graduates with no college. And enrollments at fully online colleges, like Western Governors and Southern New Hampshire, are surging. The good news for college grads today is that the unemployment rate is at an historically low 2.5 percent, compared with 5.8

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2016

The headline at eSchool News reads ‘ This online high school could change education ’ (a slight modification of the original headline at the Santa Cruz Sentinel ). I read the claims that Silicon Valley High School will provide a ‘five star education.’ Education in a digital world [VIDEO].

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This perception undermines my efforts and sends a troubling message to my students—that learning Arabic, or any subject outside traditional school disciplines, is less meaningful to their learning experience. This also reflects a broader issue that sends a damaging message to students about what’s truly important in their education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her defiance was bold and vulnerable, a refusal to let fear or tradition dictate her path. Defying Gravity in Practice To defy gravity in education means rejecting the limits imposed by fear and systemic constraints. Sitting in that theater, I felt something spark within me. I wondered if I had that kind of courage.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

High school leaders can make these available to students to take on their own time in addition to the courses they take at their home schools. Students apply themselves to these activities over the course of a high school marking period.

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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

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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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

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. There’s much more of a tradition of being on your own in your class with your door closed.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Schools are creating community partnerships, encouraging students to do professional internships and creating ways for classes to go beyond traditional lectures. For instance, a local high school recently used Fullertons gallery space for a choir performance. The acoustics in there are pretty insane, she adds.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

But the real power of her work, she says, goes well beyond the traditional responsibilities associated with the role. Muoz is laser-focused on reducing the schools chronic absenteeism rate a challenge that many schools nationwide are grappling with in the wake of the pandemic. What is it that I can help you with?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. It was meant to allow the educators to see these new methods in action, and to try them out personally. What’s your morning process?”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

students, particularly those who already find that traditional schooling doesn’t meet their needs very well. How many times were you bored in high school? Three competing visions of educational technology. Education in a digital world [VIDEO]. They just have different opportunities and resources.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But UCLA professors felt that the traditional math curriculum was uninspiring to students and that the classes offered few useful examples from actual biology, according to a presentation prepared by members of the university that EdSurge reviewed. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

This story about school debt is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. In a combined biology/literature class, students at James Lick High School complete assignments using school-supplied Chromebooks. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. But doing so can be especially challenging for students with special needs working with traditional digital interfaces.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The concept caught my attention during a demonstration at HolonIQ’s ‘Back to School ’ summit in New York City earlier this month. The lesson seemed a lot more relevant than copying a row of equations from a chalkboard, which I remember from my own more traditional (and boring) math education so many years ago.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

Supervisors and HR professionals were also more muted in their appreciation of alternative credentials compared to traditional college degrees: Among executives, 61 percent said they place high value on traditional degrees, compared to 50 percent saying the same for alternative credentials.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. The first words out of my principal’s mouth were, “we may have to close the school down for a few days.” AVIHS follows an independent study model of schooling.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Morita, you were wrong. Students are the problem.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching. schools spend more than $10 billion a year on educational technology. Mineola High School principal Whittney Smith.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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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. Maybe they want to do something a little more advanced, or maybe they just want to get their kids’ toes wet into data and start with something a little more basic.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. But educators disagree about how they should respond. Over 40 percent of students report that they’re sleeping less, and close to 3 in 5 students say they’re more stressed about school than they were before.

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