Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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Education Essay Culture Math 118

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). For millennials, about 11 percent of people ages 16 to 19 left school without a degree.

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Education Culture Math Achievement 155

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 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

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

The GovSpend database of government-purchasing records shows a nationwide spike in Turnitin contracts during the 2020-21 school year. As a writing instructor, he takes issue with schools unquestioningly handing over original student work to a for-profit company. The Center for Democracy & Technology, a D.C.-based

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

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 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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development. Additionally, remote education can lead to distractions in a home environment.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Guest speaker John Watson is the founder of DLAC (formerly Evergreen Education Group), which has been a leading consulting and advisory firm serving school districts, state agencies, foundations, and companies in the K-12 digital learning field for more than 20 years. Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Innovations in Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

On a Wednesday afternoon, a school district director emailed to say she might be late to the first community of practice session. Her story isnt unique; its emblematic of the complexity educational leaders face as they navigate responsibilities, unforeseen demands and the need for human connection. Recognize oppression.

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Learning Participation Feedback Curriculum Design 108

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

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

Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

For students juggling school, work and family responsibilities, that ease can seem like a lifesaver. Instead of asking a professor for help on a paper topic, students can go to a chatbot. Instead of forming a study group, students can ask AI for help. These chatbots give them quick responses, on their own timeline.

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Students Study Academic Integrity Questions 63

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. She worried about how she would fit in with American culture, whether she would be effective in her new job, and even how well she would connect with her students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

The Trump administration took aim at another keystone in public education, this time looking to shake up how schools handle discipline. Rather, its the years-long attempts to make school discipline more fair that earned ire.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

History in Secondary Schools, 16 percent of teachers said they received frequent or several criticisms from parents or others over the way they teach history. One of Trumps first executive orders claimed schools use radical indoctrination to imprint anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on children.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 179

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Since One Stone is so different from the typical high school experience, our culture is a crucial part of how we define ourselves. That’s where the culture club’s focus on vulnerability comes into play.

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Failure Feedback Culture Students 295

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Take the South Fayette School District for example. Montour School District and Carnegie Mellon created research consortium with three other area districts called the LearnLab. Montour School District and Carnegie Mellon created research consortium with three other area districts called the LearnLab.

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Learning STEM Motivation Culture 324

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Speights has compiled samples from 400 children so far, ranging across geographic location, cultural background and socioeconomic status. The project is currently collecting and validating data, with the ultimate goal to create universal screening tools for teachers to use in schools.

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Languages Language Intelligence Testing 139

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

For most schools, shifting from traditional teaching models to truly personalized learning means reimagining classroom roles, embracing new instructional strategies, and supporting teachers and students through an ongoing process of innovation. Sean Ryan President of McGraw Hill School What did you observe when visiting Eastern York?

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Young adults are finding it harder to borrow books reflective of their lived experiences in their schools and public libraries. This website equipped adults with the quotes they needed to challenge books on school library shelves, leading to record bans nearly every year since 2021.

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 212

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 billion in funding and are shaping the way education is evolving for students from grade school to higher ed. The past 10 years have seen an explosion in the number of companies that serve schools. Only eight are women. Women made up.

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Culture Textbooks Achievement Study 250

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

Rather than focus on raising my students’ awareness of the dangers of living in an online world, I try to change the negative culture which has come along with the anonymity provided by the Internet (I’m looking at you, Youtube comment sections). The internet is full of terrible people, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.

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Internet Students Curriculum Feedback 200

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today announced the appointment of Hope Needham as Chief People & Culture Officer.

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Culture Coaching Education Special Education 251

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.” When we got into the classroom, the students were shy.

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Culture Counselling Schools Students 211

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In a world where digital natives are now sending their own children to school, technology in the classroom should no longer be optional. I’ve spent the past few years as an instructional coach showing teachers how to integrate technology into the curriculum.

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Culture Coaching Education Students 217

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 194

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. Futernick shares these recorded discussions on his podcast, “ Courageous Conversations About Our Schools. ”

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Culture Elementary School Elementary School Schools 197

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2025

The CoSN TLE Seal is a national distinction awarded to school districts implementing rigorous privacy policies and practices to help protect student information. Delaware Area Career Center is the sixth school district in Ohio to earn a TLE Seal or TLE Mini Seal. million students. million students.

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Learning Students Feedback High School 260

eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Part of digital equity in schools is access to high-speed internet and reliable technology devices, but another component includes giving all students the opportunity to use those devices and that access to build digital literacy. What is an example of digital equity in schools? What is an example of equity?

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Schools Internet Accessibility Study 282

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

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Culture Math Science Beliefs 206

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education. As the U.S.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 357

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and conform while growing up in white schools. There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture.

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Culture Students Fairness Questions 209

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. In this book, she speaks of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address presented aloud to school children. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? It seems, too, that more and more schools plant gardens.

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Culture Teaching History Social Studies 208

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

AI technology can bridge this gap. Moreover, an increasing number of cloud-based AI solutions offer scalable and cost-effective ways to bring advanced educational tools to schools everywhere, gradually leveling the playing field. No one thinks AI should replace the essential human elements of teaching.

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Ethics Gamification Schools Discussions 333

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TutorMe , the online tutoring solution of the future, and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) today announced an agreement to provide more than 35,000 K-12 students with free access to TutorMe’s online 24/7 tutoring service for the 2021-2022 school year. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. About TutorMe.

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Schools Learning Styles Elementary School Elementary School 276