ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Essays are a common assessment tool in schools and universities, and mastering this skill can significantly impact your grades. It presents your main argument and sets the direction for your paper. Each section should flow logically from one to the next, ensuring that your argument builds progressively.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. This way of thinking about technology has been core to many pitches made by edtech providers to schools and, I’d argue, it has outsized influence on how most of us think about edtech.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

What researchers found, and have continued to study in the years since, is that teens have different, and greater, needs when it comes to sleep than people of other ages. But it turns out that plenty of schools make it hard for teens to get the amount of sleep that doctors recommend. The lead researcher was] Mary Carskadon.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A school district in Brighton, in the Denver metro area of Colorado, was having a hard time keeping teachers. The salaries in the district, 27J Schools, were low for the region. So, strapped for cash, the district decided to switch to a four-day school week. The need was becoming dire.

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APRIL 13, 2015

It’s the end of school. Students will be buzzing with all the new material and eager to use it for summer school or the next year. Give students a couple of class periods–one to research bridges (using their internet search and research skills) and a few to build the virtual bridge. Designed for grades 3-12.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. This is a dilemma.

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JUNE 7, 2017

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes. What does it look like to teach SEL in school?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways. In essence, teachers sought a logical flow in the way students organized their arguments. Is the evidence reliable? Is it relevant? If yes, [students] also have to explain it.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Thanks to easy access to internet resources and a serious lack of understanding on the part of many students about what online resources can legally be used, plagiarism has become a huge problem in schools. Students have to follow the method prescribed by the school or University. Elaborate reading of reference books is a good idea.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality. In response, more than half of all U.S.

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JUNE 6, 2019

They feel no guilt, don’t understand the legal risk they face, and think the argument that “everyone does it” makes it OK. I was excited when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Milyn Anne, offered this article explaining the why behind plagiarizing: What Factors Influence Your Tendency to Plagiarize in School?

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

At the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) , one of the largest and most diverse school districts in the United States, we constantly plan new educational programs, prioritizing equitable access and ensuring students graduate prepared for success in college, career and life. Read the other articles here and here.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

Kaufer adds that novice writers often shift too early in the writing process into making fragments of ideas they put down into carefully crafted sentences, when they might just end up later deleting those sentences because the ideas may not fit into their final argument or essay. Kaufer is sympathetic to that argument.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

At a time when students, families, schools and districts are still grappling with the trauma of the last two years, including a mental health crisis among youth, we can ill-afford a frenzied battle based in grievance and fear-mongering, ignoring the advances made in our understanding of how young people learn and develop.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

That’s the question posed by science journalist Annie Murphy Paul, who points to research emphasizing the many ways that thinking is influenced not just by what’s inside our skull, but by cues from our body movements, by our surroundings, and by other people we’re interacting with. I’ll take one from each area of research.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. Thursday just after lunch, Neil Brown and I are presenting our paper, Confidence vs Insight: Big and Rich Data in Computing Education Research 13:45 – 14:10 at Meeting Room D135. What was their school like?) There are also costumes.)

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. And the work has led her to strong views on the question of whether or not to ban smartphones in schools. These are the most neurocognitive skills we have.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Or in K-12 settings, where the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum used by many high schools has an oral component. They’re exhausting,” says Beth Carlson, an English teacher at Kennebunk High School, in Maine, who says she occasionally does 15-minute-each oral assessments for students in the school’s IB program.

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JUNE 2, 2023

It represents one part of a greater attempt to encourage “responsible” use of this technology by the federal government , including a $140 million investment to create national academies that will focus on AI research, which is inching the country closer to a regulatory framework for AI. At the moment, more research is needed.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Honestly, I missed people and a lot of people I know in CS Education and CS Ed research are here. She started publishing and researching what became object oriented programming while I was in the early stages of my career. The argument for Python is multiple. I am finding the arguments for Python more convincing than I expected.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

Memories of that moment eventually led her to go back to school for social work, and later to go work on national efforts to help students prepare for the workforce. So not only are they learning and getting through content, but mental health challenges are going to show up while they're in school and during a school year or a semester.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2024

That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech has shaped social relationships. Her argument is that our internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others, even when devices are temporarily removed. What do you mean by that? You come to college.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

This is especially important with multi-player games like Minecraft (you will close the system at school, but that may not be the case in the student’s home). Describe research you did to make your Minecraft world more realistic and workable. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. It’s new.

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MAY 9, 2018

It’s the end of school. Students will be buzzing with all the new material and eager to use it for summer school or the next year. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue and then debate it in front of the class. Designed for middle and high school, but adaptable to other grades.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. is supported by research.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

When he was working on his book on the topic more than a decade ago, he says he reached out to civil rights groups hoping they’d be interested in using his research to launch campaigns against legacy programs, but had few takers. But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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APRIL 7, 2016

It’s the end of school. Students will be buzzing with all the new material and eager to use it for summer school or the next year. Give students a couple of class periods–one to research bridges (using their internet search and research skills) and a few to build the virtual bridge. Designed for grades 3-12.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

Which schools deserve to top lists of the best colleges in the U.S.? That’s the argument made by researchers at the think tank Third Way, who developed a new way to rank the nation’s colleges. Meanwhile, she adds, the top 10 schools based on the economic mobility index enroll nearly 100,000 Pell recipients.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Each team builds a case to address the particular environmental concern they consider to be the most critical by researching, building a convincing argument, and then presenting it to their audience. More on ecology: Why Earth Day May be the Most Important Event at School. It’s Time to Make Your Classroom Paper-free.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talked with Khan to hear more about his vision of AI tutors and the arguments from his recent book. You note in your book that back when you were an undergraduate at MIT, you originally wanted to be an AI researcher. What would you say to that argument? Why were you drawn to that area?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. It’s a cause that Thiel has long championed, and a friend there tipped Gibson off that the libertarian billionaire was looking for a researcher at his fund. in it at Oxford University.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. I’ve taught high school English for years. Then, talk of the events of the Parkland shooting turned to the problems revealed by mass shootings in schools. Both failed to pass their respective state legislatures.

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