ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. When buildings sit vacant, they can become unsafe spaces, and we didnt want that to happen, says Stephanie Hinton, executive director of early childhood at Oklahoma City Public Schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools. And public support for school choice rests above satisfaction with the states public school system in some polling data.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

School leaders and teachers struggle to find the right education technology to suit their needs. Education technology makers can’t figure out exactly what schools need – or if their products can work as intended. Schools say what they need and then get to test-drive programs for free.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2012

I was recently introduced to an education reform model called TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement that is making really great use of the tablet and mobile platforms to provide teachers with better access to teacher resources with an iPhone or iPad app. If you use any apps like this in your school, I''d love to hear about it.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Yet, those public schools still have been unable to meet the demand for teachers, with teaching jobs in high-poverty public schools having proven particularly hard to fill, according to the institute. Plus, with the added complexities of the classroom post-pandemic, the amount of stress teachers felt has also surged.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. Adam Swinyard, the superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, acknowledges that there are trade-offs to the new ban when it comes to the use of tech in instruction. “We

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

While taking the time to set up our SMART Board and applicable technology, we were greeted by Jon Bernstein, the director of the event, in addition to a variety of people representing SMART Technology, Common Sense Media- Digital Passport, Pearson Education, and the Director of Hybrid Learning for Washington DC Public Schools, John Rice.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. About 20 percent of those positions remained unfilled when the school year started.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Fishers school, Breakwater, is small, with about 180 students and class sizes of around 15 students. Unsurprisingly, this exerts different pressures on teachers than public schools. Fisher admits that this makes it difficult to compare the long-term effects of this approach to alternatives such as regional public schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

We really believe that that is something that starts in the classroom, so we want to make sure we're doing our part to ensure students have the skills to understand, use, and create with this emerging technology. At the classroom level, teachers are on the same page.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. Understanding and addressing fluency has become increasingly urgent for educators, administrators and parents alike.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Recommended Resources: What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. Over the years, she says, public awareness of her role has improved. The goals are also unique in the public school system. What does a hard day look like in your role?

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

At least 75 percent of public school parents, teachers, and the American public believe most students are capable of reaching high levels of educational achievement, according to a survey conducted by Langer Research Associates of New York for Digital Promise Global’s Learner Variability Project.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Meanwhile, at least five of its neighboring school districts have more students enrolled compared to five years ago, with increases up to nearly 14 percent. The largest enrollment growth since the start of the pandemic came from Idea Public Schools, a charter district in Texas, that reports an eye-popping 55 percent increase since 2019-20.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? For Highline schools — based on input from parents, data from local agencies, state guidance and the needs of the most vulnerable students in our district — we’ll be starting with all students in fully remote distance-learning. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2023

You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving. You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving.” Everybody should have a Level IV,” Gunderia said plainly. But these are still early days.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bezos Academy preschools of which there are now 25, with another 11 slated to open by the end of 2025 operate in a variety of settings, including public schools and public housing.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. The report outlined recommendations for guidelines and guardrails for the responsible use of AI in educational technology. . — Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI readiness ensures that students can thrive in the future as informed users and developers of emerging technologies, including AI. Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens of the AI Learning Framework.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. These wasted opportunities in schools just make me sad… Your thoughts? Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Active Encouragement: Some schools encourage teachers to use AI tools in their classrooms. Michigan’s Hemlock Public School District provides its teachers with a list of AI tools and suggests that teachers explore which tools work best with their existing curriculum and lessons.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

In each school, I found it interesting that we seem to always be able to identify giftedness in our white students because there is always at least one on an ALP.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Fernandas life reminded me that purpose doesnt have to be public to be significant; sometimes, its in the small, everyday decisions to show up for your family, your community, and yourself that real impact is made. Grace, on the other hand, defied societal expectations by pursuing her career while raising four children in the 1960s.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The unique and pressing needs of the ongoing global pandemic accelerated the adoption of education technology and innovations that could support urgent and evolving needs and provide on-demand and flexible learning. Since then, micro-credential interest, earning, and pathways have only increased.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The people designing educational technologies are far removed from the students who end up using them. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. Over five weeks this spring, about 300 people – teachers, school and district leaders, higher ed faculty, education consultants and AI researchers – came together to learn how to use AI and develop their own basic AI tools and resources.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

In partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), we hosted a roundtable with district and organizational leaders to understand how students with learning differences were supported during remote learning necessitated by the pandemic, and to imagine the future.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Since 2015, CS4All has worked diligently to ensure that all public school students in New York City learn computer science, emphasizing students who identify as girls, Black and LatinX.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Some states and urban districts showed signs of recovery as well, such as the District of Columbia Public Schools which exhibited a bounce in fourth grade math performance. However, the average math score was still below prepandemic levels.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

public schools? Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on the cyber security problem in schools. Many of the largest student data breaches have occurred not inside schools but inside the computer systems of private companies that sell to schools. How vulnerable is student data at U.S.

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