ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War on the Union-occupied Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. There, thousands of Black children began going to schools built expressly for them, where they learned to read and write after decades of being denied the right of literacy.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. But there’s a push to change that. In April, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

Even while schools are stuck dealing with deep challenges, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding is running its course. For some teachers and school leaders, it can feel like an onslaught. For the past couple of years, unrelenting change has come fast. Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream.

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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. They are stay-at-home moms whose kids are in school.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

million English learners in public schools, you’d know the opening line explains that recent data has something interesting to reveal about the U.S.’s While not all emergent bilinguals — as they’re also called — are immigrants, some districts may offer programs or schools for students who are new to the country.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Certainly in our school systems, she adds, were paying attention to a lot of testing and cognitive measures, but nobody really knows where our kids are with regard to relationships. In France, where I was born, we have access to amazing, high-quality systems starting very early on. Maybe this is an exceptional data point.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

. — On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. When I first came to this school, I felt as if student voices didn’t matter. Although the verb keeps changing, D.C.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of inclusive education is to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or abilities, has an equal opportunity to learn and succeed. Chris Bugaj , an assistive technology specialist for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, is quick to advise teachers new to UDL to provide options to their students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

White was compiling a list of every public school district superintendent in the country, she began to notice something peculiar. White , an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, recently published data for the current school year on gender gaps in the American superintendency. to White’s knowledge.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The steepest declines are at public two-year and four-year institutions, the more-affordable options that serve larger percentages of poor, working-class and minority students. In those years, the public supported higher ed equally for both its private and public benefits—on the whole, we were a nation that honored higher education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

For instance, individuals seeking their elementary certification were more likely to enjoy working with children, whereas middle and high school preservice teachers were interested in teaching a particular content area. Third, school districts could consider teacher motivations as part of their hiring process.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

A typical situation is that you are speaking the Spanish language at home, and then English in the school setting, and that's something that sometimes is seen as the de facto,” Gauna says. In Texas , where roughly 40 percent of residents are Hispanic, nearly 1 million students in public schools are English learners who speak Spanish at home.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. What may surprise you, however, is the average K12 school district uses a whopping 1,447 edtech products per month.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article focuses on one of those organizations, Learning Equality. Lauren Lichtman Head of Strategy & Partnerships Learning Equality Learning Equality offers educational opportunities for the 2.6 Closing global education gaps How is Learning Equality addressing the challenge of the digital divide and the 2.6

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Culatta aptly observes that while most discussions primarily focus on the first facet, there is a concerning lack of attention given to the equally vital second dimension. For school districts seeking quick solutions, Culatta emphasizes the futility of blocking AI, as it is swiftly becoming a ubiquitous presence.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At the time, I had just finished my Teach For America commitment at my placement school, Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where I had the benefit of working in a historically Black community at a public high school with a majority Black staff and leadership team with members who looked like me. I was wrong.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That’s one of the key questions raised by the book “ Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.” As “Broke” explores, state dollars for public universities have been shrinking just as more and more students who want a college degree are less and less able to pay high tuition bills.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. That's why I'm also their cheerleader.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

(and around the world) stopped showing up to school. Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. Hypothesis 2: Tech-Infused Schools Every classroom and workplace now has reliable access to the internet.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2021

However, over the past few months, kids have largely been cooped up at home due to the impact of COVID-19; the lack of access to a tried-and-true schooling process and resources will result in young children missing out on foundational concepts in literature, math and science that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thankfully, school systems have made meaningful headway in the past decade by integrating new media literacy and digital citizenship skills into the curricula, such that responsible AI can be a new addition to existing modules. Navigate the ethics of generative AI in education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

In turn, this analysis helps educators make informed choices that directly affect student learning and school effectiveness. School leaders and teachers may need more time, tools, expertise and professional development to collect, analyze and interpret data effectively. Qualitative data remains equally impactful in this regard.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cathy Davidson: So let me first back up just a little bit and tell your listeners about a wonderful study that Scott Freeman conducted for the Publications of the National Academy of Science in 2014, which is a meta study of 225 separate studies of learning. But] it regulates or equalizes who's speaking in a classroom. So it's fun.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And I will tell you, I'm going to go ahead and plug it now because if I was still in the classroom, I would be equally as excited about this. It is public. You never have to make it public. It just works really well to showcase those items, and the parents are equally blown away by their students where it happened every year.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

Not every student has an equal opportunity to learn modern, basic technology that is essential to lucrative careers, such as in STEM fields. Successful professional development creates a sustainable teaching capacity inside the school system. Global Benchmarking of Computational Thinking Education in Primary Schools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

It's almost equally … about helping our families find the proper resources to improve their lives and improve maternal mental health,” notes Pedlar, the home visitor in San Antonio. In such cases, research has shown that home visits can give children a solid foundation from which to build as they begin school.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. The school put on a festival to fundraise for medical bills resulting from his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored.

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MARCH 10, 2013

This puts the number of homeschoolers in the nation about equal to those attending charter schools. He shares that the number of families that homeschool today for religious purposes is on the decline as the choice today is more likely to be the result of dissatisfaction with the government schooling system.

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Wauwatosa School Districts Science Department has undergone a significant transformation, which began in the Fall of 2022. The Wauwatosa School District has prioritized improvements to address the issue of tracking students into leveled courses, a concern recognized by District leadership and emphasized in the external audit.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, schools are recognizing the importance of equipping every student with a personal device to facilitate digital learning. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School? We announced, “iPads are coming! Devices are coming!”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

As juniors and seniors return to high school this fall, part of their school day likely will include thinking about which colleges and universities they’ll apply to. And while higher education generally leads to higher-paying jobs for graduates, research shows it doesn’t equally impact first-generation or low-income college students.

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Futurum

JULY 7, 2022

Does the way we fund scientific research benefit everyone equally? PUBLIC POLICY – an approach, including rules, principles and plans, formally adopted by a government or another institution to tackle a certain issue (such as healthcare). For example, if a physicist visits a school to give a talk about careers in science.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

My friends and I spent our high school days on AsianAvenue.com , an affinity website for Asian Americans, to build community, yet we were perpetually exposed to the hypersexualization of Asian American women. This year, I spent most of my time in a public-facing role representing Hawai?i i in the last two years.

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