Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

Through best practices, case studies, and expert insights, we outline a step-by-step guide for institutions to craft their AI policies. His work is grounded in a belief that great design and strategy should serve access, equity, and outcomes. in Political Science from the University of Texas at El Paso and an M.A.

Ethics

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

This initiative helps students strengthen their academic foundations, develop better study habits, and build resilience. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

Skills

Teachers Pay Teachers

AUGUST 1, 2025

How do your values and beliefs shape the way you connect with others at school? These questions cover a variety of topics, from science to celebrities, and are sure to spark some smiles and friendly competition. Pajama science class? These questions are perfect for brain breaks for high school or bell ringers. Why or why not?

High School

Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

The university will also require mandatory student training on antisemitism awareness and endow a chair of Jewish studies. Leora Feinsmith, a junior at Cal Poly studying public health, supports Armstrong’s efforts. Armstrong reported during the testimony that the number of Jewish students at the campus has doubled since 2011.

Questions

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Yet even broadened participation in college computer science courses may not shift the tech workforce and block bias from seeping into tech tools if students aren’t taught that diversity and ethics are essential to their field of study and future careers.

Science

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

million unfilled computer science jobs; this figure continues to rise. However, the education sector’s response is that currently less than half of high schools teach , and only 5 percent of students go on to further computer science study. It’s not just about educating our students to take a computer science career path.

Science

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning. This process is meant to leverage not only the brain science behind complex mathematical reasoning, but also students’ passion for making change in the world on their own terms.

Culture

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Unveiled at the STEM Innovation Forum, The Girls’ Index: Girls & STEM Impact Report , a groundbreaking study from Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX) involving 17,502 girls in grades 5-12 across the United States, sheds light on evolving perceptions, interests, and challenges girls face in pursuing STEM education and careers.

STEM

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.”

Math

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

I always knew her persevering belief in me made a difference in my life, but I never understood the science behind her impact until recently. Over the past two decades, numerous research studies have shown a direct link between ACEs and negative health outcomes as an adult. Reavis was more than just my 5 th -grade teacher.

Beliefs

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue. This helps students understand the impact of their learning better and how their ideas have developed over time. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

Ethics

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. It’ll become foundational technology because of its ability to link the classroom to other resources and capabilities—search, note taking, study guides, and a lot of big data. How are you measuring success?

Study

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

However, rather than convenience, we were looking for certification that aligned with our performance-based courses of study. In addition, the company takes the Engineering and Design class of science teacher Dr. Eric Wong on a tour of its assembly lines and hands-on activities in its training facility and metrology lab.

STEM

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

The two million new jobs will grow in specialized “job families,” including computer science, mathematics, engineering, and design. recipients in computer science fields, only four percent were African-American and five percent were Latino. Knowledge is the new currency, and it’s out of reach for many. In 2013, among B.A.

Science

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

She won the grant, which allowed the Dean Children’s Center to buy two KIBO kits and do an independent study project focused on implementing the hands-on, screen-free robot with four- and five-year-old children at Dean College’s Children’s Center.

Teaching

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the belief that STEM skills are best acquired starting at a young age, we start building foundational skills early in elementary school. For us, being located in Maryland has the benefit of being situated near so many local technology, IT, and science research companies. Infuse STEM into all subject areas.

STEM

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

As an edtech researcher and designer who has spent the last 15 years studying how technology can bridge the gap between learning and play, I’m struck by the ways in which generative AI can bring creativity and playfulness to the classroom–a notion that I know runs counter to some of the current critiques.

Teaching

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

This mindset and belief system could not be further from the truth. Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports. Excel in math and you can pursue a wealth of STEM and other rewarding careers. It’s two baskets for a four-point lead at halftime.

Language

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

A meta-analysis of studies, including data from 145,000 students in 33 nations, tell two notable truths: By age six, kids already see girls as worse than boys at computing and engineering Kids see girls as far superior in reading and writing by age eight, a belief that strengthens over time.

STEM

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

But Michael Miller, a UC Santa Barbara professor, began to study how the human brain retrieves memory and realized there was no single brain that looked like this mythical average. “We Our current industrial model is rooted on the belief that there is an average student,” Rose said. “In

Science

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. Black, Latinx, and women students are especially at risk.

STEM

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Wow, you guys are quick studies.” Over the past 15 years, the program has expanded its offerings to include classroom instruction on general computer science, digital technology, mixed media, robotics, esports, and web design. I won’t mind,” he said as he explained the first of several coding problems for the day. That is correct!” “Wow,

Skills

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

Beliefs

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The key is to move beyond inductive research that looks for on-average correlations among large N-sizes to deductive research in which we hunt for anomalies—specific circumstances where the outcome we see isn’t what the RCT or large dataset of correlations and studies would have predicted. And that is what leads to better understanding.

Study

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent.

Culture

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. No other subject comes close in terms of difficulty, with English ​​(16.8%), history (14.7%), science (12.3%) and world languages (11%) following way behind. Forty-five percent of these students spend more than two hours daily on homework.

Education

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? But those beliefs persist. A 2012 study surveyed teachers in the U.K. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”.

Learning Styles

eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

For instance, principles from science can be linked to literature they are studying in English class. Similarly, concepts from physics can be applied to understand advancements in medical studies. Teachers Beliefs and Practices in Technology-based Classrooms: A Developmental View. This intentionality is crucial.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

However, Fox noted the importance of having safe WiFi access, as many students can access WiFi in public places like fast food restaurants that do not provide the safest options for high school students to study at night. She holds firm to the belief that student access to technology is the great equalizer. She earned a B.S.

Internet

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Suguey was able to build her Alexa Skill through Hello World , a K-12 computer science program based in Austin and San Francisco, an organization I lead, that allows students to learn computer science skills that aren’t being taught in your average classroom. In 2013, among B.S. A portion of Suguey's Alexa skill coded in Python.

Beliefs

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. I could pour even more energy into helping kids learn how to build community if AI helped them build their academic skills.

Teaching

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pro-censorship groups do not represent the vast majority of parents or guardians in their beliefs about librarians, reading, education, and civil society.” It requires systematic, explicit instruction in the five core components of the science of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Essay

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. It’s a wildly popular concept that has led to prevailing beliefs that students perform better if we cater to their natural learning styles.

Technology

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One is the assumption that the pedagogy Harvard and other Ivies have always practiced—close-knit groups of students and faculty living and studying together immersively on campus—is the finest in post-secondary education , with no other approach coming close, especially not online.

Science

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

college-educated workforce today but hold only a quarter of the science and engineering jobs. In fact, a recent study found that investors may even prefer companies with more women in the workforce. Cultural norms and pervasive beliefs remain a hindrance to improving diversity in the STEM workforce.

STEM

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields.

Math

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. It’ll become foundational technology because of its ability to link the classroom to other resources and capabilities—search, note taking, study guides, and a lot of big data. How are you measuring success?

Study