Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

Over the last two years, I’ve witnessed the rise in students’ use of generative AI as whole. Not surprisingly, more students are using generative AI to assist them in writing. A students’ ability to communicate in writing and speaking must now be complemented with a proficiency in visual language.

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Writing Students Communication Lecturing 92

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 147

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. EdSurge: What skills matter most for students’ futures, and how are institutions responding? Our faculty have been amazing.

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Skills Teaching Critical Thinking English 143

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. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6

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English Languages Language Assignments 131

eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

When Isaac Goyette joined MCSD approximately seven years ago, he saw an opportunity to use his role as Coordinator of Information Technology to make a positive impact on the most important mission of any district: student learning. This transformation has had a positive impact on student learning and engagement.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Achievement Curriculum 162

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

The researchers partnered with foundry10, an education research organization, to survey 1,510 adolescents between 9 and 17 as well as 2,826 parents of K-12 students in the United States. Afterward, the participant’s mom, who helped them publish the book, discussed the use of AI with the student.

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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. Educators recognize the need to cultivate these skills. Where does it occur? Why does it matter?

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Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 141

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2025

Isidore argued struck down states attempts to exclude religious schools, parents and students from publicly available benefits based solely on religion, Koski told EdSurge. Classifying charter schools as private would have opened questions about whether that could continue across the states, he said.

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Schools Assignments Questions Testing 76

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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Education Essay Culture Math 118

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Each student receives a fictional budget and must bid on leadership traits they value most. What has changed is the way students talk about those traits. In the earlier years, students would bid quickly, justify their picks in straightforward terms, and move on. “I Students linger over the choices. Communication is key.”

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Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 143

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 155

Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Providing personalised feedback and revision materials for students. A Cautious Approach to Student Use While the guidance doesn’t prohibit students from using AI, it urges “great care.” ” Schools are reminded of their legal responsibilities to ensure student safety.

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Quizzes Schools Disabilities Exams 59

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.” In 2012, she moved to Coursera, then an experimental startup struggling to bring Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to students around the world.

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History Intelligence Writing Knowledge 113

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Students today are shaping identities that will guide them through careers spanning the decades ahead. As educators and industry leaders, we must ask: What do students and their teachers need to prepare for a future that is still unfolding? Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy.

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Science Ethics Education Students 109

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. They need tools from many fields to tackle these issues. Yang et al.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 53

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. A study from the U.S.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

In summary Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them?

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

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. Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors — or even their classmates — anymore. And that’s a problem.

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Students Study Academic Integrity Questions 66

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

We defined digital learning as all these instances where students are learning outside of the time and place constraints that you see in a traditional school in a traditional. What we’re seeing much more commonly is students who are mixing on site and online learning. In their schedule. You’re with and.

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Learning Discussions Gamification Technology 130

Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2025

When schools choose a partner to help educate their students, they aren’t just choosing a vendor. They’re choosing someone to share responsibility for instruction, for student success, and for keeping sensitive student data secure. uphold the highest standards of data privacy. And now, we’ve taken it one step further.

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Confidentiality Participation Achievement Accessibility 90

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

The AI in Education Leadership Catalyst community of practice was intentionally designed to foster the strategic leadership and collaborative networks necessary to navigate the complex implications of generative AI. Essential questions guided our initial ideation process: Whats our vision? Take action to learn. Sign up here.

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Learning Participation Feedback Curriculum Design 108

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Teachers are working many more hours outside of their contracted work hours or doing extra things to make sure that the students are engaged and are really feeling supported. But she says the energy put into buoying student mental health isnt extended to teachers. That definitely, I think, weighs on teachers' minds a lot.

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Teachers Intelligence Motivation Writing 133

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

I work at a Title 1 school; a lot of our students didn’t have the opportunity to attend a preschool program,” says Lundeen, who also serves as a board member for the California Kindergarten Association. “A The uptake of students was a bit slower, but this coming fall it will be all implemented. If You Build It, Will They Come?

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 111

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2025

Something is going wrong and there is a concern that its a cousin of the attendance problem that has kept students out of K-12 classrooms. There is concern in the report and from the researchers on the proposed, potential cuts to the Head Start program, which serves more than half a million students.

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Study Questions Accessibility Teachers 117

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The order promotes appropriate integration of AI into education to ensure the United States remains a global leader in this technological revolution. The directives primary aims are teaching students and training teachers to use AI in order to improve education outcomes.

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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

At Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), educators are determined to make sure both answers are “yes.” Their mission is to ensure every student is “ AI ready ” — prepared to use emerging technologies, like generative AI, in an ethical and responsible manner in school, life and future work, regardless of where those careers take them.

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Ethics Evaluation Testing Science 112

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? Many students and families were initially afraid of AI.

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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 99

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

The questions arise as one prominent chain of Montessori-inspired schools shrinks rapidly. But those that provide elementary or middle school education do vie for students against public K-12 schools. Montessori schools that offer only preschool are not necessarily competing with many public institutions.

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Education Schools Study Teaching Methods 140

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Walking students through the unsettling complexities of the past has never been an easy job. Painting approaches to history in stark black and white can shut down debate and keep social studies teachers from achieving what 94 percent of them report is the most important part of their job: preparing students for meaningful civic engagement.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 179

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But there is a disconnect between the skills that students are being taught and those that employers require, and we face the stark prospect that one-third of jobs in 2020 will require skills that aren’t common today. Salesforce recently unveiled Trailhead for Students , a free digital learning platform and community.

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Skills Course Design Instructors Achievement 293

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

The latest data on the nation’s college and university enrollment shows that online is steadily climbing its way up to more than a third of the student population—as face-to-face continues to plummet. Today, online students represent 31.6 higher education students. They rose 5.6 percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4

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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

If youve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know learning is personal. Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Air Force intelligence officer, offering a broad perspective on the future of learning.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Students were like moths to a flame. We know we still have Google and everything, but posing direct questions to you just made so much more sense. But at thousands of bucks a pop, they’d better come with some adorable stylized puppies surrounded by rainbows or we’re not investing a penny. The bulbous form. The semi-translucent casing.

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Teachers Gamification Internet Math 289

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Most librarians work really hard to give their students what they need, but there are certainly a group of librarians who just aren’t comfortable with these trends of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC literature,” said Tasslyn Magnussun, an independent consultant for PEN America and other groups tracking the rise of book censorship.

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 212

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

It peaked in the pandemic, when about 31 percent of students nationwide 14.7 Department of Education. Today, 40 percent of Detroits students attend the Detroit Public Schools Community District, about 25 percent are spread out among some 80 charter schools, and another 25 percent go to schools outside the city.

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Failure Grades Achievement Writing 154

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

The fires further frustrated student learning when schools are still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Students in LA were forced back to online learning. Its added to the list of challenges many students have to overcome. And over time, this threatens to exaggerate inequalities in learning for those students.

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Schools Special Education English Achievement 159