ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways. That’s why one group of researchers asked what can be done to close the cognitive development distance that opens between children from high- and low-income families, which they argue is a watershed in equality of opportunity.

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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 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

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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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

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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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

JUNE 30, 2023

Whitney Aragaki “ How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools ” was the most meaningful story for me. Fortunately, I was able to share an experience that offered a lens into the ways we intentionally and unintentionally frame public education. Here’s what they had to say.

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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

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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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While there are no right or wrong languages to learn, languages are certainly not equal. According to Ethnologue (language reference publication) and Fact Book , the most spoken languages are: 1. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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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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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Size Equals Difficulty Myth Size doesn’t always matter. Q: How can I overcome the fear of public speaking in presentations? Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Q: What’s the secret to acing creative projects?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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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STEMe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

While understanding the technical aspects of the geographic tongue is important, it is equally crucial to consider the impact on those affected. People experiencing this condition can engage in everyday public life. Medical research and technological advances could potentially lead to effective treatments or even a cure in the future.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities.

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STEM Education Works

MARCH 21, 2024

KEY POINTS Use fun extracurricular STEM opportunities to engage and educate the public. One promising solution to this equity gap in STEM lies in public libraries and their interaction with the communities around them. Invest in free resources to expand access to the community.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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

APRIL 10, 2024

Qualitative data remains equally impactful in this regard. High-quality data management systems that automate the collection and analysis processes are key for institutions seeking to shift toward a data-driven model.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Career in STEM

MAY 12, 2022

A subsidiary of PBS, SciGirls offers resources for boys and especially girls in fields such as Engineering, Health and Technology. Techbridge Girls, like SciGirls, hopes to “provide training and resources for role models, teachers, families, school districts and partners to encourage and support girls in science, technology and engineering”.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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

AUGUST 24, 2023

The biggest concern discussed at the event was making sure students around the world have equal access to new AI tools — and that educators have access to training to use them effectively and ethically. Having access to these tools is going to be very essential.”

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

They don't need to sort of feel threatened if one of them, say, gets this great publication, because they both stand a chance of getting the tenured positions that they're after. And that's not just about whether we have an equal society or equal system. And they might both end up winning, then? They could both get tenure.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Nearly everyone in the country is feeling the effects of that one way or another, yet as with so many other challenges, the burden is not borne equally. She has begun offering a stipend to teachers who use public transportation to get to work and is considering creating one for drivers, to cover the cost of gas.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Understanding the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is not just about knowing statistics; it is about understanding what is causing the gender gap and finding ways to make successful changes for the future.

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Newton STEM

APRIL 23, 2023

MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) is seeking instructors and mentors for its free, transformative STEM programs for students in Grades 7-12 from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds. MITES Summer : Six-week, residential STEM program for rising high school seniors (formerly MITES).

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