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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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

could do with the emerging technology. could do with the emerging technology. Since their kickoff event last fall, participants have met virtually to discuss the projects theyre working on, the lessons theyre learning and whats exciting them and their students about the technology.

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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 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 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. Why is it important for students to be AI ready? We knew we would be opening a new school due to population growth.

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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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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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. House of Representatives and the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Technology should make this easier. — Technology should make this easier.” Iowa’s new system is a recent and sophisticated example of what modern technology can do to improve families’ experience of finding child care. It shouldn’t be that hard. Amy Smigielski “Why is it a fist fight to find child care?” The facility is great.”

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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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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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JANUARY 27, 2025

So I went to this beautiful child care facility that I believe really transformed my trajectory, and then shortly after, I was enrolled in a public preschool where, similarly and I so vividly remember some experiences there I strongly believe it changed my life. The third factor is technology. At a high level, technology is a tool.

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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 5, 2025

While these strategies may help them complete a particular assignment, in this context, they use technology as a surrogate for their learning instead of a conduit. Bridging the current gap in technology and digital literacy among wealthy and educated families and those of the families my students come from is essential.

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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 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. Tannenbaum shares what shes learned about supporting early childhood educators in using technology with young learners. Now Others Are Replicating It.

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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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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 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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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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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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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some edtech experts see upsides, though, when the technology is ready to be used for educational activities. The Orion glasses that Zuckerberg previewed last week are not ready for prime time — in fact the Meta CEO said they won’t be released to the general public until 2027. Cheating Glasses?

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

These advantages have been denied to many historically disadvantaged students, which is why its unfair to use tests or grades to decide who gets access to higher math courses and the science, technology, engineering and math careers those courses can unlock, he adds. For some, the brawl pushed the work out of the public spotlight.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To explore this further, EdSurge spoke with Shannie Yeoh , Senior Manager, EdTech Partnerships, Worldwide Public Sector, at Amazon Web Services (AWS). What emerging technologies or trends do you see as having the greatest potential to transform edtech in the next five years? I think that’s where all the true impact lies.

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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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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 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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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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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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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Fair use/Public domain. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Digital rights and responsibilities. Digital Passport. Fact Checking.

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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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MAY 20, 2022

This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Open Library is a curated list of over 20 million books (and growing) that are available worldwide to all age groups whether from the public domain or under copyright protections. Gutenberg Project. Open Library.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

2) For part two of our podcast series Doubting College , which explores the growing skepticism of higher ed, we talked to students and counselors at a public high school about how students are thinking through their choices after graduation. How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. students are not reading at proficient levels. By fourth grade, students transition from learning to read to reading to learn.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Signups for the annual Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention US Nationals start March 29, 2024 (that’s today–publication day for this article). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. RTX Invention Convention U.S.

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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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