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MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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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. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year. It had about 76,800 students at the end of 2023-24.

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MAY 20, 2024

When Mysa School started about eight years ago, the microschool movement was new. A school with about 40 students in Washington, D.C., The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her. Its a treat.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. Just six states have guidelines for how to teach media literacy, and only three make it a requirement in public schools. How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction?

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AUGUST 17, 2021

He has some interesting reflections on technology’s place in education: Remember the days of Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe’s or students drawing pictures with Kid Pix. Much has changed since technology has made inroads into education, and much has not. So how do we know if the technology used in the classroom works? .

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. 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.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This approach goes beyond simply teaching students how to use AI tools; it aims to develop a comprehensive set of skills that will enable students to understand, critically evaluate and ethically engage with AI technologies. We knew we would be opening a new school due to population growth. Our classes still use the same standards.

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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. Fast forward to this school year. I find comfort in metaphors. Our daughter was one of 3.7

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

The study , which looked at a rich set of high school and college data in Texas, found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. For one, he doesnt want to be like the kids at school who do like brain rot. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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JUNE 9, 2022

With the growing interest in tech comes a call for summer school programs that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. public speaking. In this class, take students through the six steps required to move from dream to publication: brainstorm. analytical thinking. citizenship/ethics/etiquette. critical thinking.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

With stories on themes such as climate change education, social-emotional skills and kindergarten readiness, we underscored the continuity that exists from the early years into grade school. Tannenbaum shares what shes learned about supporting early childhood educators in using technology with young learners.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI readiness ensures that students can thrive in the future as informed users and developers of emerging technologies, including AI. 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.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. 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.

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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. The third factor is technology. In France, where I was born, we have access to amazing, high-quality systems starting very early on.

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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. Its not their fault, she says, or their parents or even the schools fault. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Perez, known as Ms.

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JUNE 4, 2024

June 4th-6th: Buy any K-8 School License get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased (Please note: new orders only; domestic or freight-forwarders only) Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants.

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APRIL 8, 2024

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Yet, the one-size-fits-all model persists in many high schools. Could we expand high school options to guarantee every student’s success?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Instead, many schools either give students too little math instruction or too little play. Fishers school, Breakwater, is small, with about 180 students and class sizes of around 15 students.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At an information session about applying to college held at Central High School at the start of this school year, students listened as Tory Park, a career and college readiness coordinator, gave advice on how to narrow down a list of where to apply. PAUL, Minn. — I’ll probably just do it for my parents’ sake.”

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JUNE 2, 2022

June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License. provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school.

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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. The Kids Were Not Alright My first year teaching was the first full school year post-COVID. When I reminisce on high school, it is these interactions and moments that stand out in my memory.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

After all, one of the hottest topics in edtech these days is the growing practice of banning smartphones in schools, after teachers have reported that the devices distract students from classroom activities and socializing in person with others. “This is the physical world with holograms overlaid on it.” Cheating Glasses?

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AUGUST 19, 2024

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

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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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JANUARY 17, 2025

The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was the topic of several of our most popular episodes of the EdSurge Podcast over the past year. Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education.

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JULY 23, 2024

Career Guidance in Cypriot Schools: How Students are Prepared for a Successful Future School education in Cyprus is recognized by the world community of educators as the most progressive and fundamental. What are the benefits of career guidance for Cypriot school students?

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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. But she struggled with geometry.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Last year, when Jayla Arensberg was a sophomore at Burnsville High School near St. Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I It’s a stark example of how the line between high school and college is blurring for more students.

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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. 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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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With a new school year now in full swing, educators are in a bind. To explore this further, EdSurge spoke with Shannie Yeoh , Senior Manager, EdTech Partnerships, Worldwide Public Sector, at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I’m also excited about the continued advancement of immersive technologies like augmented and virtual realities.

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MARCH 12, 2025

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with another leader who was listening to some of my frustrations about how the school year was going. Amid consolidation and changes to our school structure, we experienced multiple staff leaving. I grew up in a failing public school district. Its hard to find good people.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. But it’s not that schools are constantly being burned by the latest craze. It was announced by sweeping statements. The lesson?

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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. At the beginning of each school year, families sign off on field trips the children will take to visit the seniors.

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