ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

That’s what EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan found when she spent months researching the recent boom in smartwatches for kids, for a feature story that EdSurge co-published with WIRED magazine last week. The worst case scenario in the minds of the parents I talked to is just always looming,” she says.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations This video is from a series I taught for school districts. Structured Approach: Students present on three topics across grading periods, emphasizing quick research. summarized by NoteGPT This video is from a series I taught for school districts.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bells chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research.

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All About STEM

APRIL 16, 2025

Each summer, the Astrophysics Research Institute (home to The Schools’ Observatory) runs a work experience week. This year, the week begins on Monday, 7th July to Friday, 11th July 2025. “We welcome students from Year 12 (or equivalent) to this non-residential event.

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ED Surge

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. Marciano is a research associate at the Harvard T.H.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home countrys existence. Literacy Read Rosemary Wells acclaimed book, Emilys First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Writing a great research paper involves more than just retelling what you’ve read. The foundation of any good paper is solid research. At the center of any decent academic effort is a heaping pile of solid research. Solid research lays a great foundation for any piece of writing.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Frankenmuth School District has about 1,400 students, nearly 91 percent of whom are white. In contrast, to its west, Saginaw City School District is home to nearly 5,200 students, 81 percent of them students of color. That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America.

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ED Surge

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.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

46 lessons. 46 projects. 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.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Gamification of Education This video is from a series I taught for school districts. Research skills promote inquiry and curiosity in students. This video is from a series I taught for school districts. Highlights Gamification enhances learning by incorporating game elements into education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a primary focus in many school’s strategic plans. Fortunately, there is a long list of literature, articles and research that outline the importance of SEL and the positive impact that it can have on student development.

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ED Surge

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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AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? So why do students turn to it for news?

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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. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

An after school setting follows these basics, but adapted to a full-time exploration of the topic. Create a list of five research questions to guide inquiry including where to find the answers. Enjoy the research. When done, create a presentation that will share research and conclusions with classmates. Now go forth!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend.

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MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Many of us will have students transfer to our schools impacted by Hurricane Helene and the other many storms of this year. We learn from a research about advice on returning to school after a natural disaster and other advice from child psychologists.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its an approach some researchers think is too often missing from the classroom. Even among researchers, this can cause bulimic partisan commitments to one or the other, he adds.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2025

Career and Technical Education (CTE) has played a major role in preparing students for success beyond high school, whether that means higher education, industry certifications or entering the workforce directly. Middle school is a pivotal time when students begin forming their academic and career identities.

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MARCH 29, 2025

So I've run out of credits until April 2nd (I have pro version ($20/month) and my teachers don't – yet — that is a big price tag for the school to pay but we'll figure it out.) Human written, human researched and shared. Will this be a new school supply? So this is yet another example of content knowledge being king.

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JUNE 26, 2023

In this article, discover how high school education is shifting towards personalized learning. The Future of High School Education: Navigating the Shift to Personalized Learning High school – a time of excitement, curiosity, exploration and growth. Technology advances and education evolves at an unprecedented pace.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

In the hallways of schools across the nation, a quiet revolution is taking place. As students tap away on their devices and teachers explore new digital tools, artificial intelligence is silently reshaping how school districts operate.

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ED Surge

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. 11, she unearths troves of research and threads together narratives from around the globe to back up an idea that she has long known to be true in her own life.

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JULY 30, 2024

8 Crucial Steps for University Admission Success for High School Students Applying for university is a significant milestone for high school students. Here are eight crucial steps to help high school students navigate the university admission process effectively. GPA, check out colleges that accept a 3.5

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2024

That ultimately works against what researchers say is one of the most important pillars of a school’s success: the well-being of its teachers. Zooming in on only teachers, they had the highest rate of burnout among all school workers at 52 percent. How do we define it? What are the drivers or determinants of well-being?

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. She signed up. “Me Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. “But

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 21, 2025

Imagine sending your child to school only to find out their teacher has never been trained. In this episode, we dive into the alarming data behind uncertified teachers and why proper teacher training is key to student success and school culture. See the results theyve helped schools achieve at SolutionTree.com/10MinuteTeacher.

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All About STEM

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This Bronze CREST Award could encourage your learners to be waste-free in school! The idea of this project is to introduce a new school lunch programme. Students work through the CREST booklet completing tests and research to produce a leaflet and/or poster presentation.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. About 28 percent of high school girls reported that they avoid classes with low female enrollment.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. But, not at school). Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. Now, there is a vast landscape of resources available on the internet. But with wealth of options comes responsibility for their use. What did they learn?

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career Starting a career is an exhilarating journey, and in today’s tech-driven world, the technology you choose during your school years can be a foundational step toward your professional tech arsenal.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Research shows that approximately 1.27 million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. Research by my colleague Lorraine Griffith found that struggling readers in her class made nearly two years progress in reading in just one year using these methods.

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