Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. More broadly, it is an era of surging demand for online postsecondary learning.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Kids have a hard time understanding there is someone on the other end of a computer,” says Laurie Salvail, a curriculum development specialist with the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC), a division of the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana. K–12 Schools Use Video to Teach Digital Citizenship. by Erin Cunningham.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Thus, there is a homework gap—the problem created when students who use digital learning in class can’t get online at home to finish up their schoolwork. Schools, nonprofits and local governments could then provide students with the maps showing where they can find free internet in their area.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I just really enjoyed learning about why people believe different things around the world and how that informs their actions everyday,” she said. But instead of a classroom, Wolochow now works on the Silicon Valley campus of a company that’s using technology to make learning more accessible to people throughout the world.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. Parents also learn how to use that data to advocate for change at school board meetings and with high-power community officials. “I

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

They were willing to show me, and I was willing to learn. Head Start emphasized local control from the beginning, with community organizations running Head Start facilities and parents and community members represented on local governing boards. Fredrick was drawn to the work and deeply enjoyed interacting with children.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

They work with schools, local governments, and other youth development programs to offer a series of five week-long educational workshops. Students learn how to develop an effective introduction, communication skills, how to share their stories, effective follow-up methods, and how to use professional tools to build their brand.

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Local Government STEM Feedback Participation 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Some states and local governments have issued rules that schools can reopen only if infection rates in the community are below a certain threshold. Local infection rates may differ significantly within states, but this approach provides a glimpse of general trends. A scatterplot representation of our data collected on Sep.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Bolstered by his trademark energy and enthusiasm, along with educator resources from Statistics in Schools (SIS), he's motivating students to learn about statistical literacy, data analytics, interpreting maps and the overall significance of the census. But as the 2020 census approaches, he's digging a little deeper.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

School opening is a time of great leverage if you’re trying to extort money because they really can’t afford to be offline when people are trying to get oriented to remote learning.” Are you seeing any changes in the severity or frequency of these attacks? Have you seen districts make meaningful strides in beefing up cybersecurity practices?

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

Wonderschool CEO Chris Bennett, along with leaders of similar companies, say one major change has been communications to providers to keep them aware of new federal, state and local guidelines related to COVID-19. Other early learning software startups have reported growth despite the COVID-19 closures.

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Local Government Attention Art Communication 120

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

They have been working with local governments and tech companies to design solutions to problems such as homelessness, water conservation and clean energy. Of the $500 million awarded across the state, the regions where Lee worked—primarily in the Alameda County Office of Education—received about $45 million, by his estimate.

Local Government 142

Local Government High School High School Feedback 142

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Such awareness has also inspired a surge in federal, state and local governments discussing solutions and infrastructure upgrades. Educators and college leaders should build on these efforts by considering the following: Create an institution-wide taskforce for identifying short- and long-term community solutions.

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Local Government Internet Education Failure 212

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Schools are reopened, and students have resumed in-person learning. But some relics of the pandemic are still holding strong, including dependency on digital technology to aid learning. We need state and local governments to step up, and state and local governments are stepping up.

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Local Government Internet Attention Assignments 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Several things, actually, according to a new evidence-based research brief focused on improving teacher wellbeing put out by EdResearch for Recovery, a project from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and Results for America, a nonprofit that connects policymakers and local governments with research-backed strategies.

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Teachers Local Government Ethics Fairness 209

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Some critics of the idea have noted that a student’s writing should change as they learn, and therefore the fingerprint based on an earlier writing sample might no longer be accurate. I think the Department of Education or local governments need to establish AI literacy as a core competency in schools.

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Essay Local Government Writing Plagiarism 203

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For example, for teenagers like Maria, being able to complete homework at home would require two things: access to a device at home and access to a device that contains all the learning resources and apps they would need to do the activity without the need for consistent and reliable internet connectivity.

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Essay Local Government Internet Accessibility 186

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

The county has poured resources into making sure everyone in the community set in the Tennessee foothills has enough technology to get online. Siefer’s nonprofit lists Chattanooga as a “ trailblazer ,” one of the cities where the local government dedicates staff and money to advancing — and collects data about — digital equity.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Read our in-depth story about Michigan’s Tri-Share program and the families it’s supporting “We’re trying to learn from each other and also inspire back,” says Safiyah Jackson, chief strategy officer for the North Carolina Partnership for Children, which is helping to design a Tri-Share pilot. It’s just too restrictive,” she says. As of Jan.

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Local Government Participation Discussions Evaluation 190

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But while there’s broad agreement that education should be the main way young people learn to become good citizens, it’s often forgotten about because schools don’t seem to be doing a good job and the United States seems worse at this than other democracies, she says. Most of his education came through AP courses, Jefferson says.

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Education Students Testing Participation 190

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

It was experiential learning. It became clear to me that those in public sector, in state and local government, in higher ed, and in K-12 had potentially a very different role. Why entrepreneurship? I wanted a liberal arts degree that other people would think is a business degree. There was no such thing as qualified people.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

That I’ve covered over the years, specifically from the Office of Education Technology, when you look at things like advancements in the past 10 years, when it comes to digital equity, which was certainly one in terms of trying to ensure access to the Internet, to all students, especially from underserved communities or underserved.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

“At the level of symbolically saying, ‘we should have a labor market which looks at skills first,’ I think it’s an important statement of principle,” says Chauncy Lennon, vice president for the future of learning and work at the Lumina Foundation. What is the practical implication, it is less clear.”

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