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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Jhone Ebert, Nevada’s state superintendent of public instruction, says computer science is about more than coding. Sometimes people think about computer science just as technology, and there’s something magical behind a curtain,” Ebert says. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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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. Black goes on to show that through the stuttering advance toward equality in the South over the next two centuries through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Brown v.

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APRIL 8, 2024

They provide a choice for parents and students dissatisfied with their assigned public schools. The Role of Technology in Personalized Learning Building on the trend of diverse educational approaches, we must also consider the significant impact that technology has on personalized learning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out. Its that time of year when seemingly everyone has the sniffles, and many people are laid up with a cold, the flu or some other unsavory affliction. Still, some efforts are underway.

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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

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 It focuses on delivering quality teaching and learning through technology without the internet.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a world where technology is evolving at an unprecedented pace, education stands on the cusp of transformation. Imagine classrooms where teachers are empowered by cutting-edge technology and where students don't just learn from textbooks but co-create their educational journey. But are teachers provided the support to do so?

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JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. Non-text content should have an equivalent text alternative.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. However, we have noticed that public market conditions have changed dramatically in the past six months.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream. Some educators connect AI to broader changes that they perceive have been harmful to students, says Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education. For the past couple of years, unrelenting change has come fast. And last year, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Dyslexia is a condition that affects people of all ages, male and female equally, and causes them to mix up letters and words they read making what for most is a joy-filled act challenging and frustrating. provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). What is Dyslexia?

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Dyslexia is a condition that affects people of all ages, male and female equally, and causes them to mix up letters and words they read making what for most is a joy-filled act challenging and frustrating. provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). What is Dyslexia?

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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. In fact, there isn’t even an official count of the number of public school superintendents, according to AASA, the School Superintendents Association. Several years ago, when Rachel S. to White’s knowledge.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

According to the Center for Reinventing Public Education, more than half of districts plan to use federal recovery dollars to support summer programming. As Tulsa Public Schools’ Director of Expanded Learning, Jessica Goodman, told me, “Ready, Set, Summer” gives students plenty of ways to learn in fun and innovative ways.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. The typical open access model makes scholarly articles free to the public by charging authors a processing fee to have their work published in the journal. Now it's life of the author plus 70 years.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first two principles focused on how to ensure that the AI tool not only fits with existing technology and workflows but equips students for their futures. This article is the second of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Virtual schooling is clearly not an effective solution, according to a study done by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), which looked at schools specifically designed to teach coursework online with significant budgets invested in research and planning. “If Well, don’t let that deter you. This “flow” is called osmosis.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Individuals who had these two motivating factors had a significant and positive correlation with their clinical teaching observation scores, and were less likely to leave the K-12 public school system within their first several years of entry. Third, school districts could consider teacher motivations as part of their hiring process.

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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In fact, there is a number of other equally interesting and even more powerful academic search engines that you can use to search for academic and scholarly literature including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, scientific periodicals, reports, and many more. However, Google Scholar is not the be-all and end-all of academic search.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. While both Esmeralda and Oscar eventually went on to master English and Spanish, their experiences give examples of how both languages are not equally valued in schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2022

Although some experts originally thought the pandemic would be the great equalizer in health care delivery and outcomes, it quickly became clear that the crisis exacerbated glaring disparities. Working in health care on a college campus in a political climate that did not always embrace public health guidance made our jobs more challenging.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

Funded by the Trust, in partnership with the Education University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and City University of Hong Kong, CoolThink@JC was created as a free, basic education for all students, designed to be implemented in mainstream curricular and formal computing lessons. We want to close the wealth gap.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

Dyslexia is a condition that affects people of all ages, male and female equally, and causes them to mix up letters and words they read making what for most is a joy-filled act challenging and frustrating. provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). What is Dyslexia?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Students should be equal participants in their learning,” says Phipps. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession. All teachers should have equal access to tools that can improve their teaching. Evolving AI technology has made this feedback sharper.

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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.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dyslexia is a condition that affects people of all ages, male and female equally, and causes them to mix up letters and words they read making what for most is a joy-filled act challenging and frustrating. provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). What is Dyslexia?

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. 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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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 Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. s bilingual students.

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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. We scouted kids who we knew represented our school population and who had room to grow in technology skills.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. The California Institute of Technology topped the list with median earnings of about $167,000 for low-income students six years after their initial enrollment.

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