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MARCH 17, 2025

Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. When buildings sit vacant, they can become unsafe spaces, and we didnt want that to happen, says Stephanie Hinton, executive director of early childhood at Oklahoma City Public Schools. Photo courtesy of Oklahoma City Public Schools.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Teachers lack the structure and career development of other industry and professional jobs and this is important because it is one major factor in creating a broken public education system. Public school teachers are often limited geographically by pensions, so moving across state lines means forfeiting your hard-earned retirement benefits.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. million students in public K-12 schools in the United States who qualified for special education services.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Department of Education about 2,370 kindergarten teachers from both public and private schools around the country, the study found that when a higher percentage of students are absent from the classroom, teacher job satisfaction trends downward. For public sector education jobs, the recovery in employment from the COVID-19 crisis was slow.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These students have grown up with plenty of messages telling them to go to college, and this public high school is proud of its track record of helping people get into higher education if that’s what they want to do. “If that’s going to happen anyway, I don’t want to waste four years of time and effort just for that to happen.”

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nearly 1,400 public K-12 schools from across the country responded to the survey. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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MARCH 31, 2025

In January, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a nonprofit advocacy group that works to promote high-quality early learning, surveyed early childhood educators across all states and settings, including center-based, home-based, Head Start and public preschool programs.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. The largest enrollment growth since the start of the pandemic came from Idea Public Schools, a charter district in Texas, that reports an eye-popping 55 percent increase since 2019-20.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Funding : Funding models for virtual schools vary, with some being public, charter, or privately funded. Policy and Regulation Accreditation : Ensuring virtual high schools meet accreditation standards is crucial for maintaining educational quality.

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. Adam Swinyard, the superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, acknowledges that there are trade-offs to the new ban when it comes to the use of tech in instruction. “We

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Established by presidential proclamation more than 25 years ago, this annual public awareness program encourages citizens young and old to think and learn about the significance of place and how we affect and are affected by it. Each year more than 100,000 Americans actively participate in Geography Awareness Week.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It It could really accelerate the pace of research,” says Xavier Jaravel, one of the professors leading the experiment.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Stone, manager of district health at Jefferson County Public Schools, a large district in Louisville, Kentucky, with about 100,000 students, has served as a school nurse for more than two decades, after working in a hospital setting and in public health. That's what led me to public health. It was communicable disease.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Before and After Perezs students come from all walks of life and schools, whether public, private, charter or homeschool. Perez, known as Ms.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Im honored to contribute to The Future of Education Technology for K-12 , a new publication exploring how AI, digital citizenship, career exploration, cybersecurity, and classroom technology are shaping the future of education where I share my thoughts alongside other thought (..)

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

ChromeSpeak Free apps/extensions At the time of this publication, Chrome offered twelve apps and extensions for reading-challenged users. To see if the site you’re interested in offers it, check for the BrowsAloud logo in the corner. You’ll see it on this page in the lower right.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. Over the years, she says, public awareness of her role has improved. The goals are also unique in the public school system. She calls her job soul-filling, and she has anecdotes to back it up.

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MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. My school, the International Academy of Columbus, is one of 46 public charter schools within the Columbus City school district.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It was the state’s solution to integrating public and private systems and getting them to share information with one another, but without placing an additional burden on providers. Benefits of Better Data The public-facing side of these efforts is all about creating a smoother experience for families seeking out child care.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Recommended Resources: What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Traci Griffith, executive director of the Eliot K-8 Innovation School, part of Boston Public Schools, has found the cross-school collaboration invigorating. The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Senate as well as other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided––all without editing, commentary, talking heads, ads, or analysis, and with a balanced presentation of viewpoints. C-Span website, radio app, podcast C-Span provides Americans with access to live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens of the AI Learning Framework. To be prepared for the college and career opportunities of today and the future, students must learn to be AI Ready.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Fernandas life reminded me that purpose doesnt have to be public to be significant; sometimes, its in the small, everyday decisions to show up for your family, your community, and yourself that real impact is made. Grace, on the other hand, defied societal expectations by pursuing her career while raising four children in the 1960s.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a public high school teacher in a state and district with a teachers union, my contract entitles me to a duty-free lunch. A little over a decade ago, during my first weeks attending public high school as a student, I experienced all of these scenarios with excruciatingly memorable detail.

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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. But religious ethics are not enough to create a public school system. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bezos Academy preschools of which there are now 25, with another 11 slated to open by the end of 2025 operate in a variety of settings, including public schools and public housing.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Whats remarkable about these innovations is that most of their creators arent old enough to get their drivers licences yet.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Unsurprisingly, this exerts different pressures on teachers than public schools. Fisher admits that this makes it difficult to compare the long-term effects of this approach to alternatives such as regional public schools. Seeking Patterns Back in Maine, Fisher argues that his approach is impactful.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Stephanie Dorsey, June 26, 2022, Episode 786, “ 6 Sustainable Self-Care Tips for Teachers ” Lana Penley, October 1, 2024, Episode 865, “ How to Help Students and Schools Through Traumatic Times ” Sarah Parker Wolf, May 17, 2021, Episode 741, “ How Teachers Can Be Intentional About Self Care ” Where to Watch this Show Cool Cat Teacher Podcast will launch (..)

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MARCH 28, 2025

How I used AI to edit the show and create graphics So, as part of AI Literacy Day, I'm going to share all of the ways I used AI in the development, production, and publication of this podcast episode. Thanks for speaking out! Graphic: ChatGPT 4.5 As a note, I developed the Podcast graphic with the new ChatGPT 4.5

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JANUARY 7, 2025

How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a Public Policy Catastrophe By Emily Tate Sullivan A public policy catastrophe thats how author Dan Wuori describes the U.S. We look at how these models work and talk to child care providers who have benefited from them.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

Some states and urban districts showed signs of recovery as well, such as the District of Columbia Public Schools which exhibited a bounce in fourth grade math performance. However, the average math score was still below prepandemic levels. As he analyzes the data, he is paying particular attention to widening gaps.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Those critical of San Franciscos detracking attempt argue that the district put too much emphasis on public relations to the point that it misrepresented the research. For some, the brawl pushed the work out of the public spotlight. The district also should have devoted more resources for teacher support, such as coaching, he adds.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians. So yeah, so those are some of the things that I teach: information literacy, research skills, technology, how to use the public library, ASL, cursive, the Dewey Decimal System.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

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