The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. When Jacob, a 10th grader with vision impairment, signed up for an AP class, it made him feel like a castaway.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The IT staff at Nome Public Schools would have strongly discouraged this kind of lesson just two years ago, lest it strain the bandwidth shared by the district’s 720 students and 100 staff members. But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Frederica Wilson, a former teacher, would establish a minimum salary of $60,000 for every public school teacher in the country. Plans for the career ladder outline four levels of leadership, including teacher leadership, which will have three pathways: “lead teacher, “distinguished teacher” and “professor distinguished teacher.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 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. Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? New technology could push these questions further by offering people more alternatives to institutions of all kinds. That’s definitely a barrier.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. She’s taught fifth grade for 25 years in the Aurora Public School system in Colorado.

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

Once she was settled into her new position as a grants coordinator, she saw how similar grant proposals and project plans are to writing and evaluating a lesson plan for a class. He writes blogs and makes videos to educate clients about property values, interest rates and loans, he says. “I

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools. Privilege, opportunity and happenstance led to my first encounter with TFA at a career fair during my junior year of college, where I was eventually recruited.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

It’s not just a question of exposure to advertising and commercial branding, but of the ethics of public education in an increasingly digital world. Related: Students’ worry: education technology might predict failure before they have a chance to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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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. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. Lizzie Choi, chief program officer, Summit 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. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program.

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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

MARCH 1, 2022

Now politicians are trying to censor, monitor, and report teachers —filing bills and executive orders that require microphones and cameras in classrooms, and lesson plans available for public review and approval. Educators are a workforce operating in a toxic work environment.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

A space where teachers can share their methods and experiences drastically boosts educational outcomes,” says Anuradha Handa, principal of GD Goenka Public School, a private high school in Delhi. First, improve teacher’s resource-sharing opportunities. “A hours to 10 minutes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2025

On my first day as an Arabic teacher, my school mentor sternly advised me, "Avoid the three taboos: sex, politics, and religion. When I started teaching Arabic in a public school, I inherited the curriculum and materials from the previous teacher. Use culturally relevant materials to make lessons more engaging and meaningful.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The idea of being bad at math or not a math person is deeply entrenched in American education for students and teachers alike. But it doesnt have to be, says Phonisha Hawkins, director of instructional excellence for secondary math at KIPP Texas Public Schools, a branch of the national KIPP charter network.

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