What Students From Rural Communities Think College Leaders Should Know
During her first semester at Southern Methodist University, Savannah Hunsucker went on a retreat with the other students enrolled in her leadership scholars program. The event took them away from the Dallas campus and into the Texas countryside.
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What I Need From My White Peers to Thrive as a Teacher of Color
During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode as I tried to figure out how to create a graphic organizer for my students’ first essay. When an idea finally crossed my mind, and as I was about to write down my thoughts, a student stormed in and refused to leave. The more I told them they had to leave and head back to their class, the more their voice rose as they declared they, “hate their teacher.”
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Are We There Yet? Skills-Based Technologies, Hiring and Advancement
SkillRise, an ISTE initiative, examined job seekers’ perceptions of digital skills and skills-based technologies, focusing on their potential career impacts, from initial hiring to advancement. The findings from this 2024 research confirmed job seekers’ need for digital skills training and increased awareness about how skills-based tools can be used to thrive in school and at work.
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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?
When Jacob, a 10th grader with vision impairment, signed up for an AP class, it made him feel like a castaway.
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Orientation Is the First Step to Finding Belonging in College. It Is Changing Post-Pandemic.
Colleges are adjusting to a lingering impact of COVID-19 shutdowns that kept kids out of physical schools at key points in their social development: It’s harder than it used to be to teach students to adjust to college life when so many are coming to campuses nervous about making social connections.
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Principals Aren’t Encouraged to Be Vulnerable. That Needs to Change.
“Are you a boy or a girl?” the 5-year-old asked, staring at me as she waited for my response. I froze. Having worked primarily with middle and high schoolers, I wasn’t yet used to the blunt inquisitiveness of our younger students. I was caught off guard.
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Do Shocking College Tuition Prices Reflect What Students Actually Pay?
It’s no secret that high school students are looking at the prospect of college more skeptically, and a large part of their hesitation comes from worry about taking on thousands of dollars in student loans.
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An Education Chatbot Company Collapsed. Where Did the Student Data Go?
When Los Angeles Unified School District launched a districtwide AI chatbot nicknamed “Ed” in March, officials boasted that it represented a revolutionary new tool that was only possible thanks to generative AI — a personal assistant that could point each student to tailored resources and assignments and playfully nudge and encourage them to keep going.
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Federal Rule Change May Undermine ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Models
There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks, one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates.
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Why Do High-Quality Instructional Materials Matter?
In U.S. schools, teachers bear a significant responsibility for shaping what and how students learn. Often, they invest significant effort in researching and developing their own instructional materials. Additionally, many teachers supplement district-mandated materials with internet-sourced content. Both of these inevitably lead to a variability in educational quality and consistency. This approach also requires considerable time, with teachers spending an average of seven hours weekly searching for and five hours creating materials.
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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs
My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Education and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school.
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What Future Teachers Can Tell Us About Why People Enter the Profession Today
For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why.
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When Students Are Absent, Do Their Relationships With Teachers Suffer?
Students are missing a lot of classes.
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As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced
When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect.
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Black Families Turn to Microschools and Homeschool for ‘Safety’ in Education
When Sheresa Boone Blanchard, a mother of three in North Carolina, started homeschooling her son during the pandemic, it might actually have saved her time.
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Evidence Shows That Home Visits Support Children and Families. Here’s What to Know.
While her daughter naps, Bridget Collins spends an hour reviewing and role-playing activities with her home visitor, Amanda Pedlar, in the front room of her house in San Antonio, Texas.
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How District Leaders Make Edtech Purchasing Decisions
Imagine being a district leader tasked with selecting the ideal educational technology tools from a sea of thousands of options. The stakes are high: The right choice can transform classrooms, while the wrong one can waste precious resources. How do you decide?
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How a Lack of Child Care Affects Small Businesses
This story was originally published by The 19th.
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What 40 Million Messages Tell Us About Parent-Teacher Communication
Something crucial was missing from classrooms over the past school year: millions of students who were part of the chronic absenteeism crisis that plagued districts large and small.
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Finding the Right Technology for Early Elementary Classrooms
I can still vividly recall the chaotic scene of introducing iPads into Kindergarten classrooms. Picture it: a room bustling with eager five-year-olds unaccustomed to center procedures and five iPads as the hottest commodity amidst blocks, dolls and traditional learning stations. What’s the Kindergarten version of the Hunger Games? Imagine that.
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What Parents and Child Care Providers Want Their Elected Leaders to Know
Child care concerns have reached a boiling point for parents and providers, and it’s become increasingly difficult for families to afford essentials like health care and housing.
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Home Visiting Programs Aren’t Just for Families. They Can Support Child Care Providers Too.
Soon after Miriam Bravo began watching her 2-year-old grandson full-time, she realized that many years had passed since she was last responsible for a young child. Feeling a bit rusty, she turned to the internet to seek out activities suitable for little Tadeo and advice for how best to support him.
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