Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

Each new school offered a different name, a different ZIP code and a different student handbook, but the same painful story of Black children being overlooked, mislabeled, forgotten and left behind played out again and again: Black children left behind. Don’t just build a school. Because that’s what this is. A deeply personal calling?

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

In this exclusive interview with eSchool, Richard reveals significant changes coming to the conference that signal a major shift in how educational technology events operate, as well as the multitude of other intangibles at play in the world of edtech.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

Goyette’s arrival is noted for marking the beginning of a new era, bringing innovation, uniformity, and central control to the district’s technology infrastructure. His team aimed to ensure that every school was using the same systems and processes, thereby advancing the students’ access to technology.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Achievement Curriculum 162

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Carl Morris, Co-Founder of educave, draws on extensive insights gained while building and scaling other EdTech and Education businesses, such as The Online School, EDAI, and Carfax Education. This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning.

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Education Learning Knowledge Feedback 150

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2025

Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. For charter school advocates, the decision was a relief and a close call. The court heard oral arguments for St.

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Schools Assignments Questions Testing 76

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

During the pandemic, school districts amassed an enormous amount of digital tools sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of urgency. But with pandemic relief funding winding down and pressure mounting to demonstrate educational impact, many districts are now facing a new challenge: cleaning house. According to LearnPlatform , U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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Students Failure Disabilities Game-Based Learning 106

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

When a high school student uses AI to design a community mural or a college freshman collaborates with peers across continents on a digital storytelling project, it’s clear the boundaries of learning are shifting. How is AI shifting the role of the educator in today’s classrooms? It has disrupted the value of certain skills.

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Skills Teaching Critical Thinking English 143

Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) has just released updated guidance for AI , opening the door for schools to embrace artificial intelligence in ways that they feel could transform the educational landscape. So, what does this mean for your school? Planning school trips. Creating policy documents.

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Quizzes Schools Disabilities Exams 59

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. Local property taxes remain the primary driver of school funding in many states.

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Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 114

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Johnson is one of several Utah educators discovering that computer science isn’t just about coding — it’s about helping students think critically, solve problems and make sense of the world around them. Nationwide, high-quality CS education programs and equitable access lag behind demand. For lining up for class?”

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Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 141

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

River Valley School District inPennsylvaniahas been selected as the first partner to bring this vision to life. Over the next three years, the initiative will provide equitable access to state-of-the-art AI tools and comprehensive professional development for K-12 districts nationwide. .”

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Coaching Learning Schools Art 190

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. This was the South Florida Showdown , the first Minecraft Education tri-district esports challenge of its kind.

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STEM Disabilities Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking 139

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Research shows that it can also be difficult to access these courses, though, especially for students of color and those from lower income areas. This data has broadened education researchers understanding of dual enrollment programs, including how access varies from state to state and which subjects are the most crucial for dual enrollment.

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Instructors Math Study High School 131

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

But over the last five years — and in the last year particularly — the education landscape has changed dramatically. With a dipping economy, a fight about school voucher options and confusion about what the “Montessori” term even means, is Montessori still the “it” trend in the preschool world?

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Education Schools Study Teaching Methods 140

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new report shows the biggest concern for kids is balancing it all. In many cases, school officials hadn't known those students were suffering.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. Research shows that over 80% of students believe technology enhances their educational experience.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. They recognized that AI was a technology they’d likely need throughout their lives, but also that using it irresponsibly could hinder their education and careers, she says. And they themselves also recognize this.”

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2025

When schools choose a partner to help educate their students, they aren’t just choosing a vendor. For the school districts we work alongside, this milestone offers added peace of mind: Elevate’s systems are built to keep data safe, available, and confidential, just as your IT, legal, and data privacy teams expect.

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Confidentiality Participation Achievement Accessibility 90

Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Don’t forget, teachers and schools can get access to canva for free with their education licence. How to Record a Video in Canva The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology, AI and Science CPD and Support

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

Schools increasingly find themselves on the front lines of managing the ripple effects of students’ online lives — from digital distractions that interfere with learning to online bullying and harmful content — leaving educators to address these challenges without the tools or authority to intervene effectively.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. That distinction resonates with students and school leaders seeking future-ready skills.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 152

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. public school students more than 5.3 percent of U.S. million nationwide up from 9.4 an EB student.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Gary argues that educators should view AI as simply another useful technology rather than something to either fear or blindly embrace. Educators should approach AI pragmatically – it’s “just software” that will gradually make everything better, not something to catastrophize or glorify.

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Education English Assignments Writing 278

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps?

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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 99

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. A lot of those who would be coming into our school, they couldn’t afford preschool anyway.

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 111

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2025

California started with a phased approach in the 2021-2022 school year, shooting for this current school year for all 4-year-olds to have access to the state's free transitional kindergarten program. Colorado rolled out its free, universal pre-K program in the fall of 2023.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2025

There arent as many librarians in schools as there used to be. During the transition to digital learning, school librarians struggled to articulate why their roles were still essential to schools, which left them easy targets when districts faced funding shortfalls, particularly after the 2008 recession.

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Schools Plagiarism Accessibility Reading 170

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

Since generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene a few years ago, schools and educators have grappled with how to approach the powerful-but-experimental technology. On April 23, President Donald Trump signed Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth. Embrace it?

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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

How can we ensure that all students develop the computing skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven workforce? Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy. Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy. Computer science is essential, not optional.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Parents of students in a Maryland school district brought the lawsuit forward after the district restricted them from pulling their kids out of class when the lesson included storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters. And experts say it’s part of a broader effort to undermine public education.

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Schools Writing Beliefs Accessibility 143

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agencys decision to pull books that may not align with President Donald Trumps executive orders on race and gender. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled. Health courses were canceled.

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Schools History Students Culture 118

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2025

At Microsoft, she leads partnerships with premier higher education institutions across New England, helping them accelerate AI innovation, modernize infrastructure, transform data strategies, and strengthen cybersecurity postures—all in service of their ultimate stakeholders: the students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS. We hear on social media almost daily about something like that,” Pai says.

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Fairness Study Laboratory Evaluation 184

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2025

Several years after the release of ChatGPT, which raised ethical concerns for education, schools are still wrestling with how to adopt artificial intelligence. So are states stepping up for schools? It also ended the Office of Educational Technology, a key federal source of guidance for schools.

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Disabilities Ethics Intelligence Schools 152

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

The most extreme example of this variation came in records showing how much campuses paid during the 2021-22 school year. And now 16 more campuses have access to the AI detector at a discounted price of $3.12 “They don’t have much money, they don’t have [many] students, and they’re paying the most,” he said.

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