Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. Across the region, schools have moved classrooms to the cloud in what’s become a massive experiment in distance learning, impacting local and international schools alike. Here in the U.S. Well, sort of.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Alma Heights Christian Academy opened in 1955 in a scenic valley in Pacifica, California, just south of San Francisco. Myia Sims, Prestonwood Christian Academy alumna. Separate campuses for an upper and lower school are nestled along the San Pedro Creek, along with a small farm populated by rabbits, chickens and goats. Gross agreed.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 22, 2018

However, one of the most prominent concerns and discussions across school districts is the need for more innovation, creativity, personalized learning, as well as the freedom to prepare our youth for the 21st-century. Chinese teachers are responsible for larger student bodies in their classrooms than are American teachers. Classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

What are you doing wrong that those students can’t learn the material you’re here to teach?’ As high school seniors preoccupy themselves with college decisions, graduation parties and summer jobs, some may be grappling with a nagging thought in the back of their minds: Am I smart enough to succeed at the University of X?

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2017

How can we train people to look at something—their own lives, their children’s education, their medicine—and understand the way in which connectivity impacts it? That’s the question raised with us by Joshua Cooper Ramo, co-chief executive of Kissinger Associates, the advisory firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger. Ramo: The U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. She also noted the growth of markets in China and in India. How accurate is her data? (I’d

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Brainscape

MAY 5, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about Chinese. And with China’s skyrocketing economic prowess, it’s little wonder that so many people are taking an interest in learning Mandarin in particular, being spoken by about 70% of the population in China. Read: Mandarin vs. Cantonese: Which Chinese language should I learn? ]

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EdNews Daily

JULY 25, 2017

I also specialized in project-based learning and technology in the classroom. My training in project-based learning is with leading American educators like Ron Clark and Geoffrey Canada. My training in project-based learning is with leading American educators like Ron Clark and Geoffrey Canada. Click to tweet.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

But that technology won’t be entirely homegrown: Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms, are increasingly playing a role in the tools that we call “AI.” Artificial intelligence promises to have a dramatic—and yes, disruptive—effect on U.S. In the past 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The open question is whether there are things those cities can learn from New York or if the city’s success is mostly the result of its improving economy. Photo: Emmanuel Felton. SYRACUSE, N.Y. There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. This year, there’s even more to crow about. of city kids.

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Brainscape

MAY 13, 2022

If I had a dollar for every time I made “Learn French” a New Year’s resolution, I’d have about $12 … Okay, that might not sound like a lot of money, particularly in this economy, but 12 years is a long time to keep fumbling for a goal. Kids have it easy while older people struggle to learn languages?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — It was two days before the start of the school year, and Lauren Koehler shrugged off her backpack and slid out of a maroon hoodie as she approached the blocky, concrete building that houses the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Enrollment Center. How can I help you?” Public school enrollment there fell by 7.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Emily, who loves math and wants to be a pharmacist, said that she’s nervous about how hard the classes may be but that she’s eager for a “better education.” Meifeng Jiang with her daughter, 12-year-old Emily Chan, who is one of about 3,000 students vying for seats in Boston’s exam schools this year.

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken). As I sat down to prepare this talk, I had to go back into my email archives to see what exactly I'd said I'd say. I don't know. " What do we now imagine for the future? But I won't lie.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. Department of Education Awards $300,000 to Wounded Knee District School on Pine Ridge Reservation Following Multiple Student Suicides.” ” Presidential Campaign Politics. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via Forbes : “The Startup President: How France ’s Macron Nearly Built An EdTech Company.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos ’ “learning curve where higher ed is concerned is quite vertical,” quips UC president Janet Napolitano. “There’s a new call for Americans to embrace Chinese-style education. More on the decision in The New York Times. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The Indiana Gazette : “Parents and other school district residents reminded the Indiana Area school board on Monday that their dissent of the Summit Learning program hasn’t waned, even though the administration scaled back the program and put it on ‘opt-in’ status for the 2018–19 school year.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via The Conversation : “What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as ‘shining example’ ” The school in question: the Excel Academy Public Charter School in DC which was closed for poor performance. National) Education Politics. The US government shut down. Then it re-opened.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Resources are scarce; qualified teachers are hard to recruit and retain. The town, it turns out, was Greenville, an unusually diverse community of blacks, whites, Chinese, Creoles, Jews, as well as immigrants from Lebanon and Syria. Photo: Jacob Carroll. This story is the first in an ongoing series about the last days of desegregation.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. Apologies that this week this article is a day late. National) Education Politics. ” Immigration and Education. More on the s**t-poster via Wired.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. Thin beams of blue light shoot from thirty-six of the same kind of infrared motion cameras used to create lifelike characters for films like Avatar.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

This includes Bridge International academies , which the country has said cannot operate in the country. Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Predictions that were consistently wrong.)

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Education Politics. Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” “ What does Trump’s executive order on education do? Not much,” says The LA Times’ Joy Resmovits. ” Via The Hill : “21 state AGs denounce DeVos for ending student loan reform.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As UVa ’s Leaders Equivocate, Professors Shine an Ethical Light.” ” UVA’s Siva Vaidhyanathan in The New York Times : “Why the Nazis Came to Charlottesville.” ” Via The LA Times : “Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville ? .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu.) This is part four of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Or, with its penchant for amnesia , has education technology already forgotten? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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