Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Alcantar was in seventh grade when schools shut down, and when he returned to in-person instruction as a high school freshman, he said he found it difficult for him to initiate conversations with people around him.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college major.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

The implementation of an enterprise-grade managed WAN solution has further transformed the educational experience for MCSD’s students and educators, serving as the backbone for all other technologies. Goyette’s innovative leadership extends to his strategies for integrating technology in the district.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Leigh Arnold, an educational technology specialist from the School District of Palm Beach County, noted that “students enjoyed the opportunity to participate in something they love, while educators were thrilled to see them demonstrate their knowledge through creative builds and presentations.” What stood out most?

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. points and 3.04 For more information, visit lexialearning.com.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. Its a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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STEM Math Education Peer Review 164

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. Each new school offered a different name, a different ZIP code and a different student handbook, but the same painful story of Black children being overlooked, mislabeled, forgotten and left behind played out again and again: Black children left behind.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

And as faculty members grapple with what this means for grading, tech companies have proved yet again that there’s money to be made from panic. He appealed to the university administration, ultimately winning the right to have his papers graded without the technology. The Center for Democracy & Technology, a D.C.-based

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states. Alongside recently published a report revealing what worries today’s kids are willing to share with artificial intelligence systems.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The Moment I Came Around As I reflected on the level of choice I give to students, and the degree of authority I have over them, I recalled my own schooling during fifth grade in Ms. When this happens, it's also important to remember the moments when you didn't have control to gain a deeper understanding of your why. Martin’s class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential services like libraries and ongoing challenges to helping students get on grade level. residents.

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Education Culture Math Achievement 157

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2025

But only about one-fifth of young respondents said it hurts their grades, and another half of teens said social media has no effect on their performance in schools. A plurality of Gen Z teens agreed that their social media usage keeps them from getting enough sleep (45 percent) and that it tanks their productivity (40 percent).

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Study Grades Technology Education 173

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Developed by Urban Arts in collaboration with Minecraft Education , the program offers middle school teachers professional development, ongoing coaching and a 72-session curriculum built around game-based instruction. It blends storytelling, collaborative design and foundational programming skills with a focus on creativity and equity.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 153

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

But bucking this trend, Alabama saw fourth grade math scores increase. In fourth grade math, the state moved from 52nd in 2019, scoring at the very bottom of states, to 32nd in 2024. While overall math performance has improved in the last couple of years around the country, it still remains muted.

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Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 129

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

Fast forward 13 years, and she is one of a growing number of teachers who have been tasked with expanding what is now essentially seen as an important additional early grade level across the entire California school system. “I These potential advantages leave observers optimistic about California’s ambitious effort.

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 111

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

To learn more, EdSurge spoke with three members of Olney Independent School District (OISD) in Texas: Alyssa Betts , district emergent bilingual coordinator; Veronica Fobbs , seventh grade science teacher; and Elianis T., an EB student.

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English Languages Language Assignments 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Something broke in American education these past years. Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

While the AI readiness framework covers preK-12, the team began by designing a diagnostic for high school students in grades 9-12. They are now exploring ways to adapt the tool for other grade levels and to incorporate more complex items, such as performance-based tasks that allow students to demonstrate their skills in real-world contexts.

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Ethics Evaluation Testing Science 114

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

At McGraw Hill, we are launching new computer science programs with internationally leading computing educators, Binary Logic. The courses support computing from basic skills to advanced theory, serving grades K-12.

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Science Education Ethics Students 107

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2025

Books on the latest trends in educational technology, pedagogical strategies for integrating technology into the classroom, or biographies of tech pioneers. That I’ll save for a different article. Instead, I’ll focus on tech teachers–what I do.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2025

Hupert added that similar to audiobooks, podcasts can serve as a supplement for children who may not be reading at their own grade level by introducing new vocabulary and concepts.

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Study Questions Science Grades 122

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Mancuso, superintendent of Eastern York School District , leads a community of 2,300 students across five schools and brings 36 years of public education experience. Ryan, president of McGraw Hill School Group , has spent two decades in education technology and previously worked in education policy and as a U.S.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 107

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Research shows that children who are chronically absent from preschool through second grade are more likely to be reading below grade level by third grade. It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too. The effect of missing that much school is severe, especially for the youngest learners.

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Failure Grades Achievement Writing 155

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

The Case for Starting Career Exploration in Middle School Many states are now mandating career exploration as early as eighth grade, for good reason. Recent research revealed that two-thirds of students report they started thinking about their careers before 11th grade.

High School 144

High School High School Gamification Middle School 144

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The platform’s curriculum for grades PK-2 is designed according to research-based best practices for effective early literacy instruction and focuses on systematic, structured phonemic awareness and phonics instruction.

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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. Because what I have noticed is that most of this conversation happens in distinct corners,” he says. “And

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Grades Failure Motivation Science 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. Researchers were able to look through grades for every course taken by students of different personal backgrounds. So why did diversity affect student grades?

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Study Grades STEM Fairness 212

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. The Texas Education Agency did not respond to EdSurge’s request for comment.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. This school system is hardly alone in drawing controversy over changes to grading systems.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Director of Educational Technology Matthew Ketchum saw an opportunity and wondered if the students at the California district, located about 90 miles east of San Francisco, would want to expand their club into an official esports program.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

KinderLab Robotics, creator of the award-winning KIBO robot , is expanding its curriculum offerings to serve students in grades 35 with Exploring with KIBO. The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities specifically designed for upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level.

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Grades Curriculum Social Studies Science 130

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now, one Maryland school district is seeing substantial improvements in grades 6-8 math scores. A new impact study at Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) found that students in grades 6 to 8 who used Speak Agent Math+Language outperformed their peers who did not use the program.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

He was awarded Teacher of the Year, Computer Using Educators (CUE) Blended and Online Educator of the Year, CUE’s Gold Disk Award, and KSBW’s Crystal Apple Award. Jenn is a first-grade teacher at Desert Sands Unified School District. in Early Childhood Education and an M.S. in Instructional Technology.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

But as educators know well, access to technology alone doesn’t create educational equity –a theory proven by recent testing data: Across the country, nearly one-third of students returned to school in the fall below grade level in reading and math despite the widespread use of education technology by districts in the spring.

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Math Testing Grades Accessibility 341

eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 16, 2022) – The Discovery Education K-12 learning platform won the Best Education Platform award for PK-20 and the Mystery Science service earned the Best Science Instructional Solution award for Grades PK – 8 as part of the recent 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards.

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Education Peer Review Science Art 284

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2020

High impact learning losses are predicted for foundational skills in math and reading as early as third grade, placing future success in STEM areas on shaky ground. As educators and leaders in education technology, it is our responsibility to work on building hybrid solutions to bridge the gaps students are facing.

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