Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

The rise of Turnitin In 2004 Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, a photography professor at College of the Canyons, chaired her campus’s technology committee. She became one of the first Turnitin users at the large community college north of Los Angeles, testing out the software before campuswide adoption.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

I uploaded we did a a recent Delac report on remote testing, so it’s just the idea that online students, students and online schools have to test in a face to face environment. Are you familiar with the podcasting, quote, UN quote, podcasting capability of the Google product notebook LM? Let me give you an example.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Diagnostic assessments, as opposed to summative assessments, measure students’ current knowledge and skills, helping educators identify gaps and areas for growth, and guide teachers and school leaders toward where students might need additional instruction, resources or support to meet learning outcomes. 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?

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

But when she was placed in Jackson, Mississippi, at preschools that served poorer families, she found the tests were no longer working. It was, I dont think this child has a speech or language issue, but the test says theyre at risk. And also the other way, of it not identifying children I thought were at risk, Speights says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Need for AI Literacy in Education The rapidly evolving space of artificial intelligence (AI) requires school and district leaders to make sense of how emerging technology applications, including those that use generative AI (Gen AI), are being integrated into schools and districts across the United States. Read The U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In this day and age, almost every aspect of our lives is influenced in some way by artificial intelligence. In education, this increase in capacity is already showing up in numerous forms. At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2024

The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. 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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence. It’s Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

From among hundreds of nominations, the award team gave the Learning Science Research prize to Arthur Graesser , Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. 2018 McGraw Prize in Education winner Arthur Graesser. What drove you to develop these systems?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

Artificial intelligence is changing things—or, the people who are building the algorithms and technologies behind artificial intelligence are. Posner: Artificial intelligence is one of the most critical technologies of our time. And we see that people are using the technology every day.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The integration of digital tools such as interactive software, cloud-based platforms, and adaptive learning systems has shifted traditional educational models towards more personalized, flexible, and engaging learning experiences. One of the primary benefits of education technology in K-12 is its ability to cater to diverse learning styles.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This five step to-do list can help educators engage in artificial intelligence and begin using it to positively impact both teaching and learning. Begin by gaining a basic understanding of artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is impacting the workforce skills our students will need. Learn about AI.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

That’s especially true in education technology, where last year EdSurge revealed that Asia-based financiers are increasingly investing in U.S. Think the Japanese equivalent of the Education Testing Services in the U.S.) based education technology venture funds: LearnLaunch, Fresco Capital and GSV Acceleration.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

“Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival. That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For dyslexic students, the traditional educational system–often reliant on heavy reading loads and conventional assessments–can be particularly overwhelming. For years, many schools have attempted to accommodate dyslexic learners with supplemental reading aids or by providing extra time on tests.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students that have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the year receive poor scores. I wondered how the test would affect him after it was over.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Searching for educational technology (edtech) can be overwhelming. The number of products available is daunting: for example, Apple’s App Store contains more than 80,000 educational apps. And for educators, the decision has high-stakes implications for budgets and student learning. Can AI do the job? Does it fall short?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Next year, I also expect further irrational exuberance about the benefits of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation in education. Artificial intelligence is not going to be education’s “silver bullet” any more than radio, TV, the internet or the iPad have been.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. The country isn’t lacking for education startups. Launched this March, the Boston-based firm traces its roots to a Japanese educational research and assessment company, JIEM.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Estonia and Finland, whose education systems are often held in high esteem, also placed high. The latest PISA scores are out.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Eight education startups are among them, and all but one are focused on helping learners develop chops in programming and artificial intelligence technology. Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. It can facilitate collaboration among students in different locations through intelligent matchmaking based on skills and interests. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity. First, outside-in.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As educators introduce new technologies in their classrooms, successful adoption and improvements to student outcomes will hinge on thoughtful strategies and intent to embrace change. Advancements in education technology History has taught us that innovation is inevitable.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And we did not teach to the test. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” The students who exceeded on the state test were from diverse backgrounds. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Market intelligence firm HolonIQ expects global edtech spend to reach $300 billion in 2022 and up to $404 billion in 2025. But is all that money well spent on learning products with proven efficacy in the classroom, or are those billions going toward technology for technology’s sake?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. And this program was it.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Other outlets have shared worries from students and privacy advocates over how much information these tools are collecting, through features like eye-tracking technology and requirements that students show their entire room and provide personal information during sessions which are often recorded. More than 60,000 U.S. More than 60,000 U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2024

I believe that placing people, not technology, at the center of these decisions is how educators should embrace AI, discover new ways of incorporating its capabilities, and use its power to promote equitable student success. AI is now reshaping how students learn, and its widespread use has created some complexities in education.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Chalkbeat funder.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

and LEHI, Utah — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people worldwide, announced it has acquired Emmersion , the Utah-based leader in certifying language ability through artificial intelligence. IXL Learning has revolutionized educational technology since its founding in 1998.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

That level of personalized learning is just one vision of researchers who are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve education. They’re getting a boost through 11 grants of $20 million each that the National Science Foundation has awarded to establish new AI research programs for education and other fields.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Artificially intelligent tools tutoring humans works pretty well, too—but building those digital systems takes time and expertise. So researchers hoping to engineer better teaching and learning systems are working to unlock a new level of education efficiency by creating AI tools that make it easier for almost anyone to build an AI tutor.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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