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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

This free, web-based guide is designed to meet technology decision-makers where they are and provide detailed recommendations, resources, and examples that they can incorporate into their own context.

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Three Questions to Center Equity in Your Edtech Procurement

Digital Promise

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation.

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How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching

Edsurge

Examples of survey items used by students to evaluate teachers via the Network for Educator Effectiveness. Researchers believe it may be in part due to their age and development, and partly because secondary school teachers are content specialists who can dive more deeply into their subjects.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

Edsurge

They administered surveys to teachers and students and developed assessments that were given when the program started and after it ended. Some additional examples of potential, relevant learning experiences could include units on how Wi-Fi transmits information using electromagnetic waves and how energy efficiency affects homes.

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PROOF POINTS: The best way to teach might depend on the subject

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, the way that the 250 secondary school teachers in this study taught didn’t differ that much between math and English. For example, math teachers were almost as likely to devote most or all of the hour of class time to group discussions as English teachers were: 35 percent compared to 41 percent.

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College Students Are Spending Less On Course Materials—And More On Tech

Edsurge

The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about $38 per course, according to an annual student spending survey from the National Association of College Stores , a foundation that collects information about retail in higher ed. and one institution in Canada.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

Edsurge

Campus alumni surveys gathered a sample of employment outcomes rather than all graduates’ outcomes. Survey responses were also self-reported, which introduces potential data biases. Census Bureau’s new Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) initiative.

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