ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. So it's not replacing what you see. How does augmented reality engage all students?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It was an extreme example of the political strain public school teachers are under from parents and activists. But the real trouble for schools may come when those teachers decide to leave. A former history teacher from Florida, Long left the classroom in 2019. It can be fierce.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1% of public school educators are of Asian descent. I sheepishly expressed gratitude while struggling with such praise.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Mike Baur, program manager for data-driven education at the Dell Foundation, says when it works it should be totally invisible.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Now, eight years later, I am the principal of that same school and I’m proud to say that every student has multiple Black teachers each year, an anomaly given that in the United States, only 7 percent of public school teachers identify as Black according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Lander teaches history and civics at this large public school in Massachusetts, and she says one of the most important strategies is to find ways to bring out her students’ stories in the classroom. They come from about 30 different countries, including the Republic of Congo and Cambodia.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day. How Did We Get Here?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there. It includes $26.25

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. Will things be different now in a health crisis that is longer, and the technology of the internet and iPads and smartphones are more robust? He looks back over nearly a century of change in his new book, “Confessions of a School Reformer.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

While California and Texas have the most English learners in public schools — perhaps unsurprising given their proximity to Mexico — the states experiencing the most growth among school-age English learners are mainly outside the Southwest. Where Is Growth Happening?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This winter, our after-school coding club and bi-weekly technology classes will allow students to continue learning about coding. Parents and guardians will receive information explaining the history of Code.org’s Hour of Code and how students may continue coding at home through free resources. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gerstein teaches gifted education at a Title 1 school within Santa Fe Public Schools and graduate-level online courses for Walden and Antioch Universities. One day, at the harvest festival, an eighth-grade history teacher questioned the student about some historical facts, and he answered them correctly.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But Wilson, a Democrat from Florida, hopes to turn that around—starting today—with the introduction of the American Teacher Act, a bill that would establish a federal minimum salary of $60,000 for all public school teachers. Teachers in the U.S. Even he recently updated his resume, the first time in 10 years.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

Part two will discuss how edtech vendors can return the favor to develop great working relationships with educators. Whether you’re an educator or product developer, one of the key components to the educational technology (edtech) selection and purchase process is creating a mutually beneficial partnership.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. While 77% of public schools have some type of cellphone regulation during classroom time, our high school does not.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Providing our children, especially our most marginalized, with a strong math education can be empowering, and I’ve made it my mission to change students' mindsets from a deficit to an asset that can change their future. Although there is progress, it still has not made good on its promise when it comes to student learning.

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2023

It explores why nearly 1 in 5 American public school teachers have to work a second job outside of the classroom to make ends meet. And middle school band teacher Swati Linder, who also sells real estate in South Carolina (she has since left teaching altogether). Marisa Busch served as the editor for these articles.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. I still don’t know if anybody’s really figured it out,” said Hilah Barbot, the KIPP technology director. You can only ask the teacher because the teacher actually has a heart.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. Yet when it comes to education, a preponderance of tutoring tools that “sound female” would reflect the reality that three-quarters of public school teachers in the U.S. One possible solution?

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

Both are emeritus scholars from selective institutions: Steven Volk, an emeritus history professor at Oberlin College, and Beth Benedix, an professor emeritus of world literature, religious studies and community engagement at DePauw University who is also founder and director of The Castle, a nonprofit organization that partners with public schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2023

I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. Students in Denver Public Schools know this, as they attribute easing their climate anxieties to organizing with other students who are passionate about their cause. But current events continued to weigh on me. D killin’ the vibe again.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. I’ve come to realize there is an unspoken pride in our family that is rooted in the Latine experience of the American Dream.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

history, districts hoped that tutoring would help claw back some of the learning kids may have lost. Under the American Rescue Plan, $122 billion flowed to K-12 school districts. And there was particular concern over students losing skills in those areas during the pandemic, especially in K-12. Big Money It’s a lot of money.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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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. Photo: Lorenzo Dickerson, Albemarle County Public Schools. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. As the COVID pandemic raged, leaving children out of schools and away from regular routines and social interactions, the fire only magnified the disruption.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Unlike public schools funded through broad-based taxes, child care programs rely heavily on fees from parents, making it prohibitively expensive for many families and leaving child care workers poorly paid. They also represented the single largest infusion of federal funds to the child care sector in U.S.

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