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JULY 14, 2025

When a high school student uses AI to design a community mural or a college freshman collaborates with peers across continents on a digital storytelling project, it’s clear the boundaries of learning are shifting. What challenges do schools face in assessing creativity and durable skills, and how are some trying to change that?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

This data has broadened education researchers understanding of dual enrollment programs, including how access varies from state to state and which subjects are the most crucial for dual enrollment. Educational leaders may not reach out to underserved schools or underrepresented communities, so students dont know about them.

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JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Johnson is one of several Utah educators discovering that computer science isn’t just about coding — it’s about helping students think critically, solve problems and make sense of the world around them. At the heart of the plan was a bold goal: provide every student with access to computer science education. For lining up for class?”

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

As a former CTE educator and now working on CTE at Pearson , Ive watched this evolution up close. Schools are no longer relying on a single source. Locally, school districts are getting creative. CTE Is Now the Norm, Not the Niche CTE has firmly moved into the mainstream of high school education.

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JUNE 18, 2025

“Back in school, you ever get busted for trying to walk and have some administrator tell you, ‘Son, you can shirk your obligations and try to be different from your peers, but the responsibility of your future is gonna find you!’" In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. history in an urban St. I’m the fun teacher!

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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.

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JULY 8, 2025

While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new report shows the biggest concern for kids is balancing it all. In many cases, school officials hadn't known those students were suffering.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

When Molly Lane was a school social worker, walking down the hall with colleagues sometimes turned into impromptu therapy sessions. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. It became clear, she says, that the school system wasnt doing enough to support teachers mental health.

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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

MAY 13, 2025

When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the districts original decision to use most of its federal Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) money to pay for existing fourth- and fifth-grade teacher positions was short-sighted.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Are our schools preparing them for this new reality? At Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), educators are determined to make sure both answers are “yes.” While the AI readiness framework covers preK-12, the team began by designing a diagnostic for high school students in grades 9-12. How would it be delivered?

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

Since generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene a few years ago, schools and educators have grappled with how to approach the powerful-but-experimental technology. On April 23, President Donald Trump signed Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth. Embrace it? Holcomb-McCoy asks.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Heres what we believe meaningful computer science education should do to foster a generation of technologically literate learners: 1. Computer science should begin early and continue throughout elementary, middle and high school. Computer science curricula should be turnkey, ready for any educator to pick up and teach.

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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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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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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2025

Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are evolving, becoming more deeply integrated into mainstream high school curricula. In this first episode of a new series, The Idea Spark podcast, host Carl Hooker speaks with Elyse Monahan, a former CTE educator and current National Product Sales Specialist at Pearson.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

And by the looks on the faces of many of the 475 school kids who showed up to try out the games and learn about what it takes to make them, the free show was a hit. Building objects with Fab@School Maker Studio Source: Laurie Sullivan This year, 55 of the 120 games demonstrated received support from the Department of Education’s SBIR program.

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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. Instead, we have a single open space, coaches and portfolios.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

K-12 education over the past 17 years. In his keynote address at the Council of the Great City Schools conference in Cleveland this week, the Microsoft co-founder reflected on some lessons learned about education reform, along with plans to “invest close to $1.7 public education over the next five years.” So what’s $1.7

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For instance, I took a class called “Higher Education Administration” where I was blown away to learn about many inefficiencies in the education system. Among the challenges that this class exposed me to, one that stood out was how many high school students lack access to important resources before they apply for or enter college.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Coding and computer science have yet to make their way into every school curriculum in the U.S. Garcia teaches an intro to coding course at UC Berkeley called “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” and offers a version of the curriculum for high school teachers preparing students for the AP CS Principles exam.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. Throughout Head Starts history, administrations interpreted school readiness differently across party lines.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Chronic absence, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school or about 18 school days in a year, is a national crisis. million kids were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education. It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

Career and Technical Education (CTE) has played a major role in preparing students for success beyond high school, whether that means higher education, industry certifications or entering the workforce directly. Middle school is a pivotal time when students begin forming their academic and career identities.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

Some schools laughed her out of the room, telling her that other families applied as soon as they became pregnant. Transitional kindergarten, a public early education program for 4-year-olds in California that provides a structured bridge between preschool and kindergarten , had been cut from her region for the 2025-2026 school year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Moderated by Gabe Soumakian, the former superintendent of Oxnard Union High School District in California, the panelists spoke at length about their challenges, solutions, and the spirit of collaboration. My personal opinion, I think of open education resources as being free like a puppy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2024

Last year, when Jayla Arensberg was a sophomore at Burnsville High School near St. Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I She was interested in college, but worried that the cost could keep her from pursuing higher education. I like that.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The company has launched Gale In Context: Literature, a new resource for literature instruction and learning that helps high schoolers engage and thrive in English language arts (ELA). Literature instruction in school has grown far broader than grammar, vocabulary and reading traditional texts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. I took my first CS course in grad school, and before that I totally thought I was not a CS person,” he says. And he knows that feeling firsthand. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

With time-saving technology strategies, school librarians can find ways to connect with their school’s teachers and students on a deeper level, forming relationships and helping with research and skill development. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. How : Google Slides, PPT, Buncee , Thinglink , Genially , Canva.

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