ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A better understanding of the long arc of technology history might just help us make a course correction, he argues. Smith lays out his views in a new book, “ The Internet is Not What You Think It is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.” We connected with Smith for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. Origins of Higher Education in America From the establishment of Harvard University, America’s first university, in 1636, higher education in America was designed with an original purpose that differs greatly from the realities of today.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. The Almost-Librarian On the first floor of the Clemons Library at the University of Virginia, there are stacks of bookshelves that expand and contract.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

This technology can also help educators support families, Kang added, by scanning publicly available community resources and identifying relevant library events, food banks, free clinics and the like.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts. History to Spanish immersion, more students means more funding. But in rural DuBois County, Indiana, administrators are prioritizing English-learner education. From Advanced Placement U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

history has been apprehended. Pick a template Users can browse Genially’s ever-growing library, which includes free gamification templates , to find what best fits the content and story. The investigators: a group of students at Independence High School in Frisco, Texas. Students on a stakeout in the 1930s?

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

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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. Explaining why requires some history. Photo: Andrew Franco. It just wouldn’t be fair.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. This all fueled the impression that it was a political, rather than an educational, decision. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As an educator, I present Black literature to readers as a tool for their own liberation. Would I have to “learn my place” and take the Logan family off the shelf of our classroom library? Had white fragility reared its head again?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That money came through a federal program that pumped $24 billion in grants to child care centers across the country to keep them running during the pandemic — part of the single largest investment in child care in American history. Giggles & Wiggles hasn’t just been a job for Denman and Holman-Steffels. It’s been a community.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. He passed out copies of the image to each member of the class. No internet.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

With fewer and fewer undergraduates studying English, history and philosophy in college, the site for such conversations may be shifting away from campus. These three virtual seminar programs draw from different libraries. “People like to read, they want to talk about books, and they want meaningful relationships with other people.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

Peter Baldwin, a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls it a “grotesque disparity,” one that many professors don’t even realize. Baldwin’s latest book, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All,” looks at the history and future of the open access movement.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

While the additional funding and positive changes have not solved the myriad challenges in the sector — costs are still too high for families, and wages are still too low for educators, she notes — it has allowed providers to move from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance, O’Leary explains. I feel hopeful.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Perez says her third and fourth grade students catch up quickly with individual support, where shes able to tailor each lesson to their personal interests depending on whether students are history buffs or go crazy for dinosaurs.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

It also says that Riedlinger at one point instructed administrators to stop speaking with the Anti-Defamation League; told Corbett to cancel a staff book club meeting to discuss White Fragility, about white people’s discomfort discussing race; and expressed concern that Lusher had provided teachers with a resource library of antiracist materials.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

I picked what I could afford from a fluorescently lit food court, ate alone between classes and trips to the library, and gave nutrition little thought. This model of taking what I could get became how I fed myself throughout college. When I became a teacher, my eating habits got even worse.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Not to just sit in the library and do a long problem; it wasn’t about that for me. You give some examples from history about the significance that historically Black colleges and universities and women’s colleges have played in supporting Black girls and women in math. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

To mark Banned Books Week, the American Library Association (ALA) has also released preliminary data related to censorship, focusing on book bans in public, school and academic libraries between January 1 and August 31. The Tennessee law requires schools to remove books with gratuitous violence or sexual content. Can you imagine?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Students are more “socially reluctant” since the pandemic, especially in working to build relationships with professors, says Cate Denial, a history professor at Knox College. Norell, for instance, will sometimes tell her students that she’s at the campus Starbucks or in the library working and to come find her there with questions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

I’ve been able to teach history, but I don’t know if that’s necessarily a sign of success in these times,” she said. Before the pandemic, she’d met friends at the library or Geno’s Steaks or for soccer in the park. In many classes, barely a third of kids have their cameras on. Credit: Laura Schad. Jackie’s friendships grew distant too.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In fact, educators say theyve been subjected to censorship for years. Among them is Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who has spoken out about the books, particularly by Black and queer authors, purged from the shelves of the library she oversees at Chapin High School in Chapin, South Carolina.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. Walz signed an executive order in 2023 protecting gender-affirming health care.

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