The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Both the federal Department of Education and ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) also offer information about quality resources on their respective websites. Technology is an accelerator,” said Richard Culatta, a former federal education technology official who now heads ISTE. “If

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

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. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. It was a huge celebration for all of us.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Fath found this when she designed a board game called Outbreak for middle schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat. If you magnify that to 10,000 students in a district, you can imagine how many end user agreements you’d have to read.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. It all comes down to how schools introduce and make room for Summit in their classrooms.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The nonprofits both of which are more focused on advancing instruction than on indiscriminately promoting AI, notes Jin-Soo Huh, a partner at The Learning Accelerator conceived of the idea after seeing that generative AI was making ripples in education from its very earliest days.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Along the way, have we veered off course from the primary goals of education? Getting back to the heart of education Technology enables us to go back to our roots by alleviating teachers of mundane, time-consuming tasks, emphasizing individual student focus and delivering tailored practice.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

This double-dosing strategy has spread rapidly at community colleges but hasn’t been studied as much in elementary, middle or high schools. One evaluation of double-dosing in algebra found that it worked in Chicago high schools but not in middle school math in Miami. Educators have a lot of work ahead of them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

That means that students have tutoring sessions at least three times a week, working one-to-one with tutors or in very small groups with tutors using clear lesson plans, not just helping with homework. Many schools embraced this sort of frequent tutoring. He is also a former executive at tutor.com, a tutoring company. “No

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

I have been a reader of dystopian fiction for years, primarily due to my role as librarian to upper elementary and middle school students. All of a sudden, what was once a fictional depiction of a family doing whatever it took to survive a global catastrophe, now seemed much too close to reality.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction. “We

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

So then I became an instructional coach for a middle school, for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. I was basically the face of middle school math. After I did that, I decided that I wanted to work more with teachers and do more coaching. That led me into my role as the district math specialist in my previous district.

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