Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Medina studies the brain for a living, exploring a range of topics including how the human brain evolved and the microscopic happenings in our heads. Medina: Well, the brain rules start out with a fair amount of skepticism. Is it fair to say your solution to challenges in the American education system is more P.E.?

Science 167

Science Teachers Fairness Study 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Teachers want fair funding for all schools. It’s time to return the education field to the educators.

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Teachers Schools Disabilities Fairness 215

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

College career fairs look like an awkward high school dance: Students circle around company booths, unsure whether to stop and drop off a resume. One company is making a business out of helping student associations and companies connect beyond the walls of tri-folds and stacks of resumes at career fairs.

Fairness 155

Fairness Science Study Motivation 155

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

The goal wasn’t to count the number of 3D printers or robotics clubs, but rather to take a more “ethnographic” view of the phenomena, says Youngmoo Kim, the director of Drexel’s ExCITe Center and an author of the study. And it didn’t stop there—gender bias was even more pronounced, which the report called “deeply unsettling.”

Culture 166

Culture Instructors Fairness Critical Thinking 166

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

After the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police a year ago, momentum grew to try to reform the admissions process at the school to try to make the process more fair, and the student body more diverse. It is the second in our series of episodes called Bootstraps: Merit, Myths and Education.

High School 174

High School High School Fairness Education 174

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But are those who study at all-online programs making the same connections—or are they finding other ways to connect to the job market after earning their diploma? On campus, there are the well-known tales of students forging friendships with roommates or classmates that turn out to be connections to big jobs.

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Study Participation Fairness Communication 200

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Education is no exception. Our recent AI in Higher Ed: Hype, Harm of Help study revealed that more than half of students in the US expect that their use of generative tools will increase in the next six months and at least 38 percent report that they are already using these tools during their studies every month.

Education 154

Education Ethics Knowledge Fairness 154

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Alongside colleagues from universities across the country, our team systematically analyzed over 400 studies from the last 13 years, representing the experiences of over half a million K-12 students from more than 50 countries. Among more than 400 studies, none reported data on student sexual orientation.

Disabilities 218

Disabilities Schools Study Ethics 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts.

History 198

History Education Social Studies Essay 198

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Every new school year I think about Esther’s words as I strive to create an environment for my students that supports language acquisition and learning through social studies content. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching. But there are also other steps I’ve taken to change my practice.

English 201

English Language Languages Teachers 201

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2024

These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. When I think about my own journey,” Williams said, “I have an undergraduate degree in Spanish and Portuguese, so it was a really cool thing to study. Some of the jobs represented require college degrees.

High School 189

High School High School Beliefs Fairness 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? Should they disclose that to students?

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

We didn't know we’d be forced to go on strike, but we had to get a fair contract.” Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Adjuncts won a 40 percent pay hike, as well as binding arbitration and other advances.

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Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 206

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

There was John Dewey’s book “ Democracy and Education ” from 1916. Laurent Dubois, who directs democracy programs at the University of Virginia, takes it back further, to the period he studies, the Age of Enlightenment. The very process of studying “can really embody some democratic ideals,” Dubois adds. Charles H. Charles H.

Fairness 178

Fairness Participation Study Activities 178

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. You and your educators deserve more systemic and strategic supports and investment than this. ? Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

Technology 141

Technology Coaching Peer Review Failure 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If you were taking astrophysics, you could study in the multiverse,” said the narrator of this part of the video, Marne Levine, Meta’s chief business officer. But high-end VR headsets also seem part of the Meta metaverse vision for education as well.

Internet 215

Internet Education Fairness Science 215

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Or if success looks like a student likely to graduate in four years, high school grades may matter more, says Bob Schaeffer, interim executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, an organization that advocates against reliance on standardized tests. “We Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

Fairness 217

Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

This year, a seventh grade English class designed games to highlight the theme in “The Giver” and a second grade class built gingerbread models of Chicago landmarks for an interdisciplinary math and social studies unit. All of these events took place, and were planned and prepared for, by students outside of the regular classroom hours.

Fairness 163

Fairness Confidentiality Students Interdisciplinary 163

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Indeed, interdisciplinary training exposes students to many diverse perspectives, which previous studies suggest may lead to more innovative solutions and more powerful cognitive development.

Interdisciplinary 186

Interdisciplinary Laboratory Cognitive Development Students 186

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

The study results point to one more way that the past year has exposed the divide between the technology-haves and have-nots, according to D. Almost three-quarters of students in the EDUCAUSE study said they try to resolve their technology issues themselves. Christopher Brooks, director of research for EDUCAUSE. ‘I

Students 201

Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 201

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. What’s an example?

History 212

History Culture Science Fairness 212

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

She describes a time at a previous school she worked at when students and teachers collaborated on a project and how that inspired her and other educators to feel re-energized around what they teach. This particular year they were teaching the World's Fair, and I worked with the students to create websites.

Teaching 165

Teaching Learning Fairness Middle School 165

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Early studies, such as ones from international researcher Richard Van Hooijdonk , show that virtual and augmented reality tools can increase student engagement and motivation while increasing knowledge construction. I hope that it’s used to provide greater access to high quality educational content and tools.

Textbooks 217

Textbooks History Fairness Study 217

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Considering what the 24-year-old shares in the video about her experience as a climate activist and former environmental studies student in college, the need for a heads-up becomes apparent. “As And ironically my therapist said, ‘I get a lot of you environmental studies majors in here,’ and she was very happy that I came to see her.”

Students 196

Students Failure Fairness Study 196

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Not only was I unprepared for the levels of math and study skills required, but as a bleeding-heart, 17-year-old, I wanted to do something to help my community. Soon after, I fell in love with education by volunteering to teach English as a Second Language outside my classes. Specifically, I asked, “Can cell phones cause cancer?”

Science 171

Science Math Students English 171

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. These include Problem Roulette , which offers users random-within-a-topic study problems pulled from old exams, and GradeCraft , a learning management system that helps instructors build game elements into their courses.

Exams 157

Exams Fairness Instructors Evaluation 157

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I attended a small job fair recently for mid-career professionals studying at a top Bay Area graduate school. I was impressed by the résumés — an array of engineering and design experiences at brand-name technology firms. Take, for example, an assistant director of educational technology, whose résumé I recently reviewed.

Fairness 107

Fairness Coaching Discussions Art 107

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2021

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we spoke with Jordan Starck, a doctoral student at Princeton University who studies race, diversity and education. When they set goals and make claims about recruiting diverse groups of students, what exactly are they after, and who really benefits? Nicole Shelton.

Fairness 128

Fairness Students Language Languages 128

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. It’s especially fruitful to establish a university-wide online committee with senior faculty as members, tasked with studying the potential impact of digital education on the institution.

Lecturing 207

Lecturing eLearning Instructors Course Evaluations 207

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

A number of years ago, in an attempt to update the credit-hour to align with modern practice, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching—the same institution that first introduced the credit-hour—spent two years studying an overhaul in response to wide criticism of its value in contemporary teaching and learning.

Online Learning 201

Online Learning Teaching Lecturing Instructors 201

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The survey, distributed to AASA’s 13,000 members for the sixth year in a row, presents a picture of the gender makeup, racial and ethnic diversity and salary breakdown of education leaders in the U.S. This year’s study analyzes more than 1,400 responses. In the 2017-2018 study, 93.3 superintendents, the AASA survey found.

Schools 146

Schools Fairness Study Education 146

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Learn more about Marlboro Township's impressive results and download a case study. The same study looked at students who were not struggling—reading on grade level in grade three. And the study showed that those students actually regressed. This philosophy does not provide equity and fairness. Study Island.

English 161

English Reading Grades Achievement 161

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Are their employers allowing them to study during paid work time? It’s true they stopped making headlines a while ago, but they have hardly abated. For example: Who is paying for the courses?

Participation 144

Participation Exams Fairness Study 144

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Researchers say it is too early to draw conclusions about whether ISAs have delivered on their promise in higher education: offering an affordable financing alternative that aligns the interests of schools and students around making sure they graduate and get good jobs. He is of no relation to Terri Taylor.)

Students 218

Students Study Language Languages 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Since those early days, two million Canadian students avoided COVID-19 danger, continuing their studies remotely during the pandemic at Canada’s fully online colleges—including Athabasca University in Alberta and at highly ranked colleges like McGill University in Montreal. Another 26,000 study at a lower-cost affiliate, Tech Millennium.

Online Learning 165

Online Learning Internet Learning Distance Learning 165

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

To be fair, I think the LinkedIn official meant to say people will change jobs 15 times, so some of those switches would be along the same career path. The best data the Bureau of Labor Statistics has on how many jobs people hold in a lifetime is a longterm study that has followed baby boomers through most of their careers up until now.

Fairness 149

Fairness Study Questions Skills 149

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In January 2022, a review of 17 research studies showed that young kids can learn from “guided play” as well as if they were being directly instructed by an adult or a teacher. More play in the classroom also addresses issues currently burning precarious holes in the education system. This revived interest is also backed by research.

Teachers 215

Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215