ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its an approach some researchers think is too often missing from the classroom. Even among researchers, this can cause bulimic partisan commitments to one or the other, he adds. Its unfortunate, because research has shown that they are deeply connected, Clements says. But whats meant by play? I mean, its fun!

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“With our approach to classical education,” the school’s website says, “students learn about historical events, characters, stories, fables, myths, scientific facts, and mathematical proofs in the locations where these educational advances were made.” He's done some research on VR and education as well.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. Research shows that approximately 1.27 million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. students are not reading at proficient levels.

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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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MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In theory, educational software could be a cheaper alternative. What if you were to marry humans with technology?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year. It makes a big difference in the day,” adds Eckert of Pequea Valley School District. “If

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education.

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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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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Research shows that intergenerational facilities such as Fairview Manor can lead to physical and cognitive health benefits for both children and seniors. 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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MAY 2, 2023

At a time when more than 11,000 edtech tools are on the market and schools are embracing learning technology like never before , there is a stunning lack of research and evidence to support the efficacy of those products. The natural starting point for edtech providers, instead, is pursuing ESSA Level IV certification.

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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

APRIL 30, 2025

Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps? Research shows that well-resourced schools often gain the most from new technology, leaving others at risk of falling further behind. So, how can educators ensure that AI is a force for progress rather than one that deepens divides?

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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. Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools. My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for school employees (Part 2).

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MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. Could schools insist that tutoring companies make part of their payment contingent upon whether student achievement increased?

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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. Still, Kurz and researchers like him hope to find lessons about the causes of the disparities in coming weeks.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. We asked Robert Spierenburg, the chief executive officer at All Things Media , to help explain how AR and VR differ and what that means for the classroom.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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JUNE 7, 2016

The report , from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that used this math program, made by DreamBox Learning. and 3 percentile points better on standardized assessments.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Since its inception, Digital Promise has been researching and designing approaches, in partnership with school districts across the country, to enable schools and teachers to create and implement strategies to support learner variability , an initiative currently led by our Chief Learning Officer, Vic Vuchic. Chris Rush, Sr.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Inclusive STEM programs widen job opportunities for the growing technology sector, support students in building digital literacy skills and empower young people to become creators — not just consumers — of technology. Research is foundational to sustaining and expanding access to all students.

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JUNE 24, 2022

For example: $25 million of Chicago Public Schools’ $525 million Moving Forward Together investment is slated to hire 850 tutors in the fiscal year 2022 who will focus on literacy in kindergarten through fifth grade and math in grades six through 12.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is a whole new way of experiencing math instruction,” Ganguly, a former math and physics teacher, told me, pointing to promising early studies from the non-partisan research group WestEd, along with feedback from teachers and students on Prisms, which is hosted on the Meta Quest platform.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

About 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. The lack of oversight for these alternatives means that curricula and rigor vary widely, and that students don’t experience some of the protections of public school.

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University. Nearly all of the top sites linked to by schools “extensively” used tracking software, according to the report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

The move was partly based on San Francisco public schools, which had delayed algebra until high school for all students in a high-profile experiment. For some researchers, California misstepped. And at least one researcher hopes that a shift toward a “more nuanced” model built on proven student aptitude will win out.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. It can look a little different in every school, in every classroom and for each student.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. Its no easy task, but she lays out several strategies educators can use to ensure the concepts stick. School administrator Sarah Wright shares her thoughts on a trauma-informed approach to leadership.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

And the growth is steep — up 10 percent compared to last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Among people who started ninth grade in 2009, about a third took some type of dual enrollment course, Fink says, adding, “That’s a big penetration into the high school market.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum. Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And the U.S.

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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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