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MARCH 22, 2017

As Director of Growth at Zaya, Parida is learning how developing edtech for low-income India slums is quite different than working with American schools. Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win. Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Fix the Public First ” by David J.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Or one of its biggest, underreported failures? Is Amazon a sleeping giant of edtech? But now I can definitively answer yes.

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JUNE 2, 2019

The point of a design school is not to produce great design artifacts. And even if they did, the economic logistics of running a school means that a one-year program simply has to cost more—a lot more—than a 10-week program. So, there’s the crux of the problem I see with the landscape of non-traditional design education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I do not believe we get to extraordinary excellence or equality through edtech,” says Moskowitz, who spoke alongside school leaders from BASIS Charter Schools and East High EPO. One thing many of the innovators in the room seemed to agree on was that educators needed freedom to take more risks, make mistakes and sometimes even fail.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. Not yet convinced? 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. And it matched up pretty well for how we worked then,” said Stacey Childress, CEO of New Schools Venture Fund, in the summit’s opening remarks. We think it’s time to update our schools.” But that is a tricky task. “We

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with another leader who was listening to some of my frustrations about how the school year was going. Amid consolidation and changes to our school structure, we experienced multiple staff leaving. I grew up in a failing public school district. As school leaders, we go through this.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. Verizon has committed over $3 billion to help schools pay for technology, hoping “to leave no student behind.” Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, gave $10 million to a single school district in California, aimed at closing digital disparities.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

K–12 schools depend on a functioning and performing IT infrastructure. In addition to the classic uses of IT, other areas of educational technology are becoming increasingly important at a rapid pace. When IT is that critical to the educational mission, network failures or outages can have serious consequences.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. At the time, I was pregnant with my first child and my husband was in law school. Eating balanced meals at work felt impossible.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many classrooms are existing in a concurrent model, where students who are home are watching a live stream of the classroom activities happening in school. And it’s certainly not because we think education can’t get better than it is right now. It’s especially scary when we consider that our failures can equate to student failures.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

Leadership has always been a bit messy, especially in schools, where leaders have always had to navigate ambiguity and complexity. There was an expectation of professionalism, and in some extreme cases, leaders were viewed as superheroes whose schools and organizations depended on them for survival.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For educators, this makes for a daunting test. When families are dealing with not having basic necessities, school just isn’t a priority,” says Susanne Terry, coordinator for homeless education services in the San Diego County Office of Education. It’s worse for students who move around a lot, she says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. But for all the conversations in the news and on social media, one place we’re not seeing it as much is in schools themselves.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Meanwhile, some schools have successfully made the switch, such as Santa Fe Public Schools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Key points: It’s key to remember that AI isn’t foolproof—it can make mistakes Equity, transparency, and effectiveness should be goals when using AI in education See related article: More students are seeking an AI-powered school year The November 2022 release of ChatGTP by OpenAI was an inflection point for AI technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

As many of us know, modern public schools have roots in the Industrial Age; they were designed to prepare students for the 19th century workforce. This dichotomy has created an impasse; the structure of public schools is at odds with needs of modern work. So how to span the gap? What’s the first lesson?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. We have all experienced the same phenomena of being dehumanized in our work as educators. Another teacher, Maria, confessed she was angry and bitter by the end of last school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Getting into algebra early is thought to improve college attractiveness, and the course is often a high school graduation requirement.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. That has consequences.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The bulk of the business comes from the United States and currently, students in one in every three schools in the country use SplashLearn. Thus reducing their fear of failure, and creating what we like to call fearless learners” said Arpit Jain, CEO and co-founder, SplashLearn. SplashLearn was incorporated in 2010.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

By we , my principal meant the Department of Education, and by need , he was referring to the recent exodus of school administrators in the state of Hawai’i. My state is not only suffering from a teacher shortage , but a mass departure of administrators has also caused a dearth of qualified leadership in our schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. In “ Why For-Profit’s Fail in Education ,” which is just out, Jonathan A. Knee recounts the tales of several doomed education ventures, including those emerging from Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe. We reflect on these failures.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Unlike some education trends, it didn’t catch on overnight. During the first fifteen years or so, implementation of design thinking in K-12 schools was a slow, steady progression. People think there is a hard, fast rule to the process,” says Jennifer DeBenedetti, a fifth grade teacher at the Gregory School in Tucson, Ariz.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. And no one ever said starting high school was easy. How do you mean?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

Across the country, schools are trickling out for a well-deserved summer break, and for some, the start of summer school. But despite the economic reopening plans many states are rolling out, many schools aren’t offering summer programs at all. I think that speaks to the uncertainty even in the states that are reopening.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The venue for the first conference is Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. Stevens, an associate professor there, said he will be a participant as part of his project at Stanford on Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education. Feldstein said that he understood the challenges of such conversations. Mitchell L.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

School teams exploring the lobby of the Meow Wolf Fabrication Space with artist Olivia Brown. This work is being supported by Excellent Schools New Mexico , a local nonprofit committed to improving the quality of educational experiences for traditionally overlooked students. Why must we reimagine school?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

public schools and learning what it means to be a student. Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market sometime in the 2030s. Testing new models: Develop and test new school models.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Two years ago, my oldest son graduated from high school. I thought he was well-prepared for the transition to life after high school, but soon realized I was wrong. I thought he was well-prepared for the transition to life after high school, but soon realized I was wrong. I stood back and watched. as he failed miserably.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In the months since launching our school and district pilot program , the Kiddom team has collectively spent thousands of hours meeting with administrators to better understand their workflows, facilitate contextualized staff workshops, and support ongoing partnerships. Kiddom’s Pilot Program for Schools and Districts.

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