Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I have been worried about public education for a long time. Public schools cannot rely on martyrdom and self-sacrifice to keep staff and students. For a fleeting moment in March, I had hoped that all of these disproportionate responsibilities on educators would be laid bare and people might actually care.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s really about perspective,” said Eric Patnoudes, the director of strategic initiatives at Otus and a featured speaker at the 2019 Illinois Computing Educators conference. Since 2009, 127 out of 150 of Kurzweil’s predictions have turned out to be true. . ICE 2019: Will K–12 Students Be Ready for the Technology of the Future?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A tried-and-true bootstrap story, though it has by no means come easily. Like many first-generation low-income students (FGLI) , I began my education at my local community college, Indian River State College in Florida. I was homeless for six years and now attend Yale as a fully funded graduate student.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In the third blog in our series on higher education challenges (rising costs, declining completion rates), exploring how innovative colleges and universities are addressing them, we’ll look at funding. This situation is naturally a function of increasingly high tuition input costs, as well as the ballooning student admissions demand.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

While that might be true, the first teachers probably also did some research of their own. They developed theories about the best ways to hunt, stay warm and stay away from predators at all costs. They developed theories about the best ways to hunt, stay warm and stay away from predators at all costs.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. . Community Schools. However, many schools are not properly assessing technology programs, Baule told attendees. 4 Key Evaluation Questions for K–12 Schools.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 22, 2024

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

School districts will also need to ensure their schools have adequate coverage for FirstNet public safety broadband, which uses the reserved Band 14 communications channel. Many school leaders will therefore be shocked to learn that 52 percent of U.S. Many school leaders will therefore be shocked to learn that 52 percent of U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I have several articles coming up next week that discuss that issue (links won’t work until publication date): What is ‘Technical Math’ –December 10, 2021 (this article). These are supposed to be the jobs you don’t need extensive education for, right? Math Scores Drop Again –December 17, 2021.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Higher education is no exception. The policies and practices that have governed higher education for decades no longer reflect the needs of the majority of students , nor the realities of combining work and caregiving responsibilities with college attendance. But the lessons to be learned here are not new or unique to the pandemic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Non-submitters” were more likely than students who submitted applications to have lower educational-occupational aspirations, be racial minorities, have parents who completed lower levels of education and live in communities with lower socioeconomic status — but they were not less academically qualified. “Non-submitters”

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 9, 2020

This week on the blog I’m serializing a talk I gave for CSU Channel Islands last week as part of their Open Education Week festivities. For a license to be “open,” it must grant the following permissions: “no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation, and redistribution by others.”

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 19, 2022

The cloud has been a game-changer for enterprises, offering them increased agility, scalability, and cost savings. DevOps engineers need to focus on solutions that provide portability and facilitate the movement of workloads across multiple domains both public and private. But achieving true redundancy can be difficult and expensive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. It’s quite the shock to go and find out your textbook costs are $800 the first week of school.” Some students hear “free” and take it literally.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Persistence of the Digital Divide The pandemic exacerbated inequities in access and opportunity across the country, but this is particularly true of rural areas in the south. When this school year began, parents, teachers and students rejoiced over the long-awaited return to in-person instruction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

This is especially true as more schools take advantage of WAN, or wide-area network, tools to support the expanding nature of classroom (or outside of the classroom) instruction. Also, even if students are accessing the internet at school, one wrong move could endanger sensitive information and cost the district a lot of money.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I believe that the low supply of STEM professionals can be attributed to significant barriers to entry originating in educational settings–this is to no fault of teachers and administrators, but how the educational system is structured. The number of U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Four-and-a-half years after Amazon first released Alexa, its voice-activated virtual assistant, the technology is finding its footing in education. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. True or false.”

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

This is especially true for K-12 and higher education as schools, colleges, and universities have been forced to close in order to slow the spread of the virus and find alternative, but technologically accessible, ways to reach students–literally. All this costs money.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

But in this twisted time, young children starting public pre-K at the age of 4 are expected to learn through “rigorous instruction.”. Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. Clarke Fowler found that . Clarke Fowler found that . Of course the benefits of active learning are apparent beyond the kindergarten sector.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At a time when higher education is in constant flux – some of it is online, some of it is in person with students at a social distance, some of it is in hybrid form – at least one part remains constant: It’s expensive. For an in-state student at a public institution, it was $10,400. The campus of the University of Washington, Bothell.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results from last year returned historically big declines in scores for fourth and eighth graders in math, leading to fears that catching students up would prove difficult. It’s a notch for Saga Education, a nonprofit that specializes in high-impact tutoring.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district. Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

It removes barriers to learning materials, supports students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and gives educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating. Students and educators have more tools to create a learning environment that fosters personalized learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

So the other day I tweeted out this comment, “I am amazed each day to see so much educational progress in my Twitter feed. Many people in education talk a great game when it comes to the effective use of technology, but the results (lack there of) speak for themselves. This should be the norm, not the exception.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Add to that the costs of designing and implementing new remote learning programs, on top of childcare, transportation, and everything else that will inevitably increase the cost of doing business. The superintendents association (AASA) estimates the new health and safety expenses alone could cost each district an extra $1.7

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

The great state of Michigan tops the list of states where teachers can enjoy the highest average salary—adjusted for cost of living. National Center for Education Statistics. This data estimates the average salary of public school educators in all 50 states. And stay far, far away from Hawaii. See full size image.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet. But it’s not just Maria who is falling behind due to her lack of access to educational technology and resources. Jennifer is in sixth grade. Maria is also in the sixth grade. I think we all know the answer. times the rate of Black and Latinx students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Nearly every list of major IT or educational technology issues for 2023 includes the need to further harden educational systems and infrastructure. The FCC is currently soliciting public input on the potential change here until February 13, 2023. Cybercrime cost more than $6.9 billion in 2021.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 7, 2019

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of glimpses into the possible future of education. In education like everywhere else, the way that products are delivered (in this case, learning) is undergoing a seismic shift. By Leilani Cauthen. Everything changes. And Technology changes everything.

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Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

I revisited the central prediction of the first edition of Disrupting Class (2008), which was that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet. 3) of Education Next included an article “ How Do We Transform Our Schools?

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2023

Those who were enrolled in — or considering enrolling in — American University’s School of Education said they wanted more classroom experience, more opportunities to practice their craft before being released to do it alone every day to a room full of kids. The request came from the students. Wish granted.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Weston, who teaches at a public middle school, says she was even beginning to think about growing the business, launching affiliated child care centers throughout southwest Georgia. Before the pandemic, Tracy Weston’s child care center was booming. Things were really rolling,” she says of her program prior to March.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Survey data reveals that staff shortages during the pandemic have caused such emotional distress that one in five early educators is considering leaving the child care field entirely. Early educators have among the lowest compensation of any category of workers. In January, the U.S. Disruption for children is even worse.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. . — Jaeci Hall completed her dissertation in tears. But Hall is not part of the federally recognized tribe of the Coquille.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 28, 2017

Like other educational leadership programs across the country, my program is supposed to prepare teachers and administrators to take on new leadership roles. One of the biggest complaints about many educational leadership courses and programs is that they’re too theoretical and not practical enough. This is true.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

million teachers retiring at a 20 percent rate holds true, in 5 years we are looking at a 1.5 To put that another way, that means in every private, public and charter school building there will be 13 teacher vacancies. First, it’s not just math, science and special education where there is a shortage. Renee Gordon.

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