eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

Goyette’s arrival is noted for marking the beginning of a new era, bringing innovation, uniformity, and central control to the district’s technology infrastructure. His team aimed to ensure that every school was using the same systems and processes, thereby advancing the students’ access to technology.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Achievement Curriculum 162

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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Students Failure Disabilities Game-Based Learning 106

Edsurge

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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Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) has just released updated guidance for AI , opening the door for schools to embrace artificial intelligence in ways that they feel could transform the educational landscape. So, what does this mean for your school? Generate exam-style questions and quizzes. Planning school trips.

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Quizzes Schools Disabilities Exams 59

Edsurge

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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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 113

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. They recognized that AI was a technology they’d likely need throughout their lives, but also that using it irresponsibly could hinder their education and careers, she says. And they themselves also recognize this.”

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 167

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. We learned so much.

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Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 141

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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Education Essay Culture Math 118

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

But over the last five years — and in the last year particularly — the education landscape has changed dramatically. With a dipping economy, a fight about school voucher options and confusion about what the “Montessori” term even means, is Montessori still the “it” trend in the preschool world?

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Edsurge

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

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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Education Culture Math Achievement 155

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. Often, this means finding a central theme, problem, or question that ties everything together. Her research focuses on educational technology, leadership development, and teaching innovation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

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. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 128

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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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

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

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. public school students more than 5.3 percent of U.S. million nationwide up from 9.4 percent a decade ago.

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English Languages Language Assignments 131

Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2025

When schools choose a partner to help educate their students, they aren’t just choosing a vendor. For the school districts we work alongside, this milestone offers added peace of mind: Elevate’s systems are built to keep data safe, available, and confidential, just as your IT, legal, and data privacy teams expect.

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Confidentiality Participation Achievement Accessibility 90

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

On a Wednesday afternoon, a school district director emailed to say she might be late to the first community of practice session. Her story isnt unique; its emblematic of the complexity educational leaders face as they navigate responsibilities, unforeseen demands and the need for human connection. Recognize oppression.

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Learning Participation Feedback Curriculum Design 108

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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Teachers Intelligence Motivation Writing 133

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2025

California started with a phased approach in the 2021-2022 school year, shooting for this current school year for all 4-year-olds to have access to the state's free transitional kindergarten program. While cuts to Head Start specifically appear to be on the back burner , questions remain on the fate of other child care program funding.

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Study Questions Accessibility Teachers 117

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. A lot of those who would be coming into our school, they couldn’t afford preschool anyway.

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 111

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. Join the GenerationAI movement.

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Ethics Evaluation Testing Science 112

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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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

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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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 99

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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Science Education Ethics Students 109

Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

In summary Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success. For students juggling school, work and family responsibilities, that ease can seem like a lifesaver. These chatbots give them quick responses, on their own timeline.

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Students Study Academic Integrity Questions 63

Edsurge

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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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 179

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To achieve scale, forward-thinking platform companies likely will need to partner with colleges, universities and K12 schools to embed the acquisition of platform-centric skills within traditional programs and degrees. For this reason, the most forward-thinking platforms are providing their education offerings for free.

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Skills Course Design Instructors Achievement 293

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

higher education students. As a longtime official in online-education programs, the puzzling question to me is why, after more than two decades, does online represent merely a third of college enrollment? One reason is that digital education at U.S. Today, online students represent 31.6 percent of all U.S.

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Achievement Instructors Online Learning History 293

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

I had this question of when you utilize these measures in groups with different characteristics. She eventually took that question to Northwestern University, where she is now building out her own artificial intelligence technology system that could potentially quell the issue.

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Languages Language Intelligence Testing 139

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Dr. Joe Mancuso and Sean Ryan about how schools can move toward personalized learning with the help of technology. This led to our Portrait of a Graduate and a focus on modern classrooms.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

You could buy a 50-pack at Price Club, or for a mere 50¢, hit up the school librarian for one. We know we still have Google and everything, but posing direct questions to you just made so much more sense. Would it be Magic School Bus? An essential part of the school day? 2017 Equivalent: Google Drive. USB Flash Drive.

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Teachers Gamification Internet Math 289

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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Failure Grades Achievement Writing 154

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Young adults are finding it harder to borrow books reflective of their lived experiences in their schools and public libraries. This website equipped adults with the quotes they needed to challenge books on school library shelves, leading to record bans nearly every year since 2021.

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 212

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

When the Eaton and Palisades fires raged through Los Angeles, home of the second-largest school district in the country, they took lives and turned thousands of homes to ash, causing billions of dollars in damage. The fires further frustrated student learning when schools are still struggling to recover from the pandemic.

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Schools Special Education English Achievement 159

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

Its a big question one that many students struggle to answer. 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.

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High School High School Gamification Middle School 142

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. Murray : I work with the Office of Education Technology and the Department of Education and they’ve pushed the # GoOpen movement.

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