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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

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As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen firsthand the anxiety that students experience when it comes to writing their college essays.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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Before we usher in the 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows, we want to reflect on the important themes our recent cohort of fellows wrote about in their personal essays. This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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So you think you understand UDL?

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When I was young, we were tracked, starting in first grade, into “high” or “low” reading groups, gifted, etc. As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work. To do this, we have to change the way we “do” school.

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Crunch the Numbers: Real-Time EdTech Data You Can Use for December 2023

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Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay. One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all.

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What it Takes to Lead a School Where Students Love Themselves and Succeed Academically

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Student success is more often defined by whether a learner demonstrates achievement on what my grandmother called the “3 R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” — the core academic skills needed to illustrate mastery on standardized assessments. This is a dilemma. That’s likely because self-love is difficult to assess and measure.

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Everyone Has Invisible Bias. This Lesson Shows Students How to Recognize It.

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Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

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To Address Climate Anxiety, Consider How Students Get Their News on the Issue

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This research was part of a yearlong study we led, examining how our sharply divergent attitudes and beliefs about climate change are shaped by news and information we encounter, curate, engage with and share. Our survey delved into why some students are distrustful or ambivalent while others still have hope in the midst of gloom.

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