Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al., Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while many of the studies showed gains for learners in some cases, the researchers concluded that flipped learning isn’t living up to its promise. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully. The hype is convincing — it’s seductive — but the implementation of the hype is not,” he said. “It

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border. Researchers point out that the inequities they uncover in the report are not unavoidable. It’s time to draw the line.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. “But

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Step 3 : The data and evidence are tightly aligned to ICLE’s research-based rubrics to provide a detailed view of where a district or school is with their digital transformation.The data and artifacts are analyzed, leading to a summary report that details the current state of practice at each school or in the district.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

As I was researching for some solid pedagogical links, I came across this wonderful article that Todd Finley wrote for Edutopia titled Rethinking Whole Class Discussion. For even more research-based ideas click HERE. Research supports the importance of discussion when backed by the purposeful use of technology.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect.

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ED Surge

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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. This got me thinking about what might be missing to ensure efficacy.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. How did that go? Teachers hated it.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It seems that every day I’m introduced to a new tech tool that promises to change education. While the premise of many possesses potential, the challenge is to determine which tools are or will have a real impact on education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

In her first book, Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education , which comes out on Feb. 11, she unearths troves of research and threads together narratives from around the globe to back up an idea that she has long known to be true in her own life. The second factor is play.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. Research shows that approximately 1.27 Understanding and addressing fluency has become increasingly urgent for educators, administrators and parents alike. students are not reading at proficient levels.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. Instead, families tend to rely on recommendations from friends and neighbors, researchers say. Some are skeptical of past research on the politically charged topic of voucher programs.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

And she would often designate a student as a researcher during lessons who could look up related material online and share with the group. A new survey by the Pew Research Center found that about 7 in 10 Americans support cellphone bans during class, while only about a third favor an all-day ban.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

It has developed dozens of programs that have placed the organization at the cutting edge of research, practice, and technology innovation. Following its 10-year anniversary in fall 2021, Digital Promise unveiled a new strategic framework and North Star goals to guide its work in the next decade and beyond.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. Here, let me take you there.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2025

Ronita Nath, vice president of research at The Trevor Project, says the organization created its state-level analysis to help people make decisions about mental health support that are better tailored to their communities. Among survey participants who said they wanted mental health care, half were unable to get it.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. So, it makes sense that teachers are frustrated when they feel like students are not engaging. for a unit or text. for a unit or text.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Their researchers found that while girls who say they’re interested in STEM grew by 10 percentage points to 55 percent, compared to survey results five years prior, the number of girls who describe themselves as confident or smart enough to earn their dream job has plummeted. “We

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

SkillRise , an ISTE initiative, examined job seekers’ perceptions of digital skills and skills-based technologies, focusing on their potential career impacts, from initial hiring to advancement. SkillRise , an ISTE initiative, enhances adult learning with educational technology. Are You Looking for a Digital Skills Program?

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ED Surge

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. You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And a growing body of research, popularized by the Jonathan Haidt book “The Anxious Generation,” argues that smartphone and social media use harms the mental health of teenagers. When it’s proving hard enough to regulate the appropriate use of smartphones, what will it be like to manage a rush of kids wearing computers on their faces?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hardwired to Like Likes One of the reasons young people have a tough time unplugging from social media is that their brains are driven by dopamine, says researcher Laura Marciano. Marciano is a research associate at the Harvard T.H.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Research indicates that using media, beyond text comments, positively impacts the students’ perception of the quality of feedback. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology , 31(1). Bioscience Education , 22 (1), 16-30. Henderson, M., & Phillips, M. Voelkel, S., & Mello, L.

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The Hechinger Report

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. The researchers and districts shared ideas on how to set performance targets.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. So research skills, those foundational skills, are a part of it, and that involves parts of a book.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

Research shows students are more engaged when they connect the learning to their strengths, abilities, preferences and interests. Research suggests that student outcomes can improve when direct instruction is combined with opportunities for practice paired with timely feedback.

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