k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Carl Morris, Co-Founder of educave, draws on extensive insights gained while building and scaling other EdTech and Education businesses, such as The Online School, EDAI, and Carfax Education. This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

They found that many of the teens in the study were aware of the concerns and dangers surrounding AI, yet didn’t have guidelines to use it appropriately. Without this guidance, AI can be confusing and complex, the researchers say, and can prevent both adolescents and adults from using the technology ethically and productively.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. points higher than their peers at the non-Core5 schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

“I think Montessori has been around for a very long time, and there have been all kinds of waxes and wanes, with generations discovering Montessori again and again for very different ideas,” Mira Debs, director of education studies at Yale University, says. “As Every school dips when the economy isn’t doing well,” she says.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. This was the South Florida Showdown , the first Minecraft Education tri-district esports challenge of its kind.

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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.” For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. Local property taxes remain the primary driver of school funding in many states.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Understanding these dynamics could reshape your perspective on what effective education looks like today. The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S.

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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. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

The Creativity Challenge in Computer Science Education Creativity often declines as students progress through school. A 2021 OECD study found that 15-year-olds consistently show lower levels of creativity and curiosity than 10-year-olds globally. It’s about being active and engaged. It’s not consuming, it’s creating.”

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2025

The study surveyed nearly 1,400 teen-parent pairs during the fall of 2024. But only about one-fifth of young respondents said it hurts their grades, and another half of teens said social media has no effect on their performance in schools. They asked their parents, too.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2025

The National Institute for Early Education Research, also known as NIEER, released its annual State of Preschool Yearbook report that details enrollment and spending in state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. The study surveyed preschool administrators across 50 states and the District of Columbia, along with U.S.

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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

Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

Instead of forming a study group, students can ask AI for help. For students juggling school, work and family responsibilities, that ease can seem like a lifesaver. Julia Freeland-Fisher studies how technology can help or hinder student success at the Clayton Christensen Institute. And that’s a problem.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS. The studies showcasing the positive effects of PBS on children’s learning seem endless.

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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. Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S. We feel so polarized right now.

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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 10, 2017

What’s the difference between selling an education product to California versus Indiana—or any other state, for that matter? A new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) aims to clear up the murky waters surrounding the adoption of digital learning materials, a process that varies wildly between states.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

That especially holds true for K-12 school officials who altogether spend more than $8.3 billion on education software each year, according to estimates from the Software and Information Industry Association. K-12 schools, giving the company a strong pulse on what software teachers and students are using.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Textbooks Essay English Writing 268

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Take the South Fayette School District for example. Montour School District and Carnegie Mellon created research consortium with three other area districts called the LearnLab. Vincent College's Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media to study interactions between teachers and students through the use of technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2025

Four in 10 families are experiencing material hardship , according to the study, and over a third of kids aged 0 to 5 show frequently fussy or defiant behavior. This is not a research study that happened three years ago where conditions were different. Just under a quarter show anxious or fearful behavior. It’s real-time data.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

In the fall of 2022, the university, as part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, received a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of the technology on diagnosing and treating speech problems in children.

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Languages Language Intelligence Testing 139

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

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 billion in funding and are shaping the way education is evolving for students from grade school to higher ed. The past 10 years have seen an explosion in the number of companies that serve schools. Only eight are women. Women made up.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2016

The most important attribute of a successful online or blended learning program is a “rigorous and engaging curriculum,” according to participants in a recent study. According to statistics from the study, blended learning appears to be nearly twice as popular as fully online learning models.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Part of digital equity in schools is access to high-speed internet and reliable technology devices, but another component includes giving all students the opportunity to use those devices and that access to build digital literacy. What is an example of digital equity in schools? What is an example of equity?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TutorMe , the online tutoring solution of the future, and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) today announced an agreement to provide more than 35,000 K-12 students with free access to TutorMe’s online 24/7 tutoring service for the 2021-2022 school year. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. About TutorMe.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It A paper on their study points out, however, that “the AI-led interviews never match the best human experts.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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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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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 strategy here is not to do it in any one school only,” León added.

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