From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy
eSchool News
JUNE 11, 2025
For my district, that enduring solution has been World Book.
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Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making
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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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve
Edsurge
JUNE 25, 2025
Each new school offered a different name, a different ZIP code and a different student handbook, but the same painful story of Black children being overlooked, mislabeled, forgotten and left behind played out again and again: Black children left behind. A space where test scores didn’t define worth. Where learning is personalized.
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School Counselors Worry About Students’ Misguided Use of Social Media
Edsurge
JUNE 3, 2025
And they will say, No, Ive just been watching a lot of TikTok videos and I think that I have anxiety, said Hanna Kemble, an elementary school counselor and a counselor leader coordinator for the state of Kansas. School counselors across the country describe similar experiences to Kembles. We say, Okay, it looks like youre upset.
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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2025
Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd.
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Has the Supreme Court Resolved the Charter School Identity Crisis?
Edsurge
MAY 29, 2025
Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. For charter school advocates, the decision was a relief and a close call. The court heard oral arguments for St.
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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back
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.
Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out
Edsurge
MAY 5, 2025
Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.
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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do
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!
An Edtech Pioneer Considers the Mixed Record of Her Field
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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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University
Faculty Focus
JULY 17, 2025
Checking How Well Students Blend Ideas Checking student learning in an interdisciplinary course brings special challenges, as the goal is to test knowledge of single subjects and the ability to blend and use information from many fields. In our college, old testing methods, like exams on facts from one field, do not work well.
Students’ AI Chats Reveal Their Largest Stressors
Edsurge
JULY 8, 2025
While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new report shows the biggest concern for kids is balancing it all. In many cases, school officials hadn't known those students were suffering.
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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.
Edsurge
MAY 9, 2025
When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education. Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. In some areas, the courses arent prioritized.
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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?
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. To be falsely accused felt devastating.”
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Remote Learning Strategies: Beyond the Pandemic
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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A District, a Diagnostic and a Drive for AI Readiness
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. How would it be delivered?
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Three Districts Took the Long View With Federal Relief Funds. Their Bets Are Paying Off.
Edsurge
MAY 13, 2025
When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the districts original decision to use most of its federal Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) money to pay for existing fourth- and fifth-grade teacher positions was short-sighted. Dominguez called the results remarkable.
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Learnings From the Front Lines on Redefining Leadership for the Age of AI
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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Students Are Struggling With Math. What Are States Doing Wrong?
Edsurge
JULY 14, 2025
And 28 elementary schools in the state did not have a single proficient student. Plus, previous reports have also argued that elementary school teachers are not being adequately prepared for math instruction by teacher preparation programs. But a half-decade is a long time. But all that’s not a silver bullet.
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One District’s Approach to Successful AI Integration
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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Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools
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? Holcomb-McCoy asks.
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Students at U.S. Government Schools Fight Book Bans
Edsurge
APRIL 22, 2025
Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agencys decision to pull books that may not align with President Donald Trumps executive orders on race and gender. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled. Health courses were canceled.
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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?
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. We hear on social media almost daily about something like that,” Pai says.
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Teachers From Mexico Give English Learners a Boost in Small Texas School District
Edsurge
MAY 30, 2025
Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. While more than 300 school districts in the state report a paucity of bilingual teachers, the situation in Victoria is even more acute.
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What Every City Can Learn From Pittsburgh’s Pioneering K-12-Research Partnerships
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Take the South Fayette School District for example. There, administrators recently partnered with Carnegie Mellon to pioneer the development and pilot testing of the nation’s first coherent K-12 curriculum on computational thinking. Montour’s first-grade teachers are also working with a team of researchers from St.
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Researchers Turn to AI to Help Diagnose Children’s Speech Disorders
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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Otus Launches AI Advisory Board to Bring Voices of K-12 Leaders to the Forefront of Innovation
eSchool News
MAY 14, 2025
Since its inception in January 2025, the advisory board has grown to include district administrators, school principals, teachers, and instructional technology specialists, collectively representing more than 20 districts across 11 states. Educators should have a seat at the table when it comes to shaping how AI is used in schools.
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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.
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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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?
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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Is It Fair and Accurate for AI to Grade Standardized Tests?
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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Education Technology
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.
Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials
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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10 tips for using analytics and adaptive tech in schools
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
As we look at what the messaging should be, how can it be simplified for both school leaders and for teachers in understanding what it is? And then, what workload that we can eliminate from districts from an already full agenda, asked Andrew Fekete (Community Consolidated School District 93, Illinois).
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Oregon Public School Breaks State Assessment Score Record with Carnegie Learning
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. And we did not teach to the test.
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How Newport-Mesa Unified School District became closer by being apart
eSchool News
JUNE 9, 2020
Not even a global pandemic can dampen her enthusiasm when talking about her job as Director of Education Technology in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (CA), where she serves 22,500 students at twenty-two elementary schools, two intermediate schools, four high schools, one alternative education center, and one adult education center.
43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year
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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Newark Public Schools considers new AI tutor chatbot for districtwide use
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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Buchanan County Schools See 380% Improvement in Reading with Carnegie Learning
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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New NetSupport Classroom Management Platform: classroom.cloud Keeps Students on Task, Whether in School or Remote
eSchool News
MARCH 29, 2021
NetSupport today announced that its new solution for classroom management, classroom.cloud , is available to schools throughout the U.S. This is the latest product from NetSupport, which has been supporting teachers with award-winning instructional and educational technology for over 30 years. and Canada.
How to ensure your edtech tools support equity goals
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
As I meet with team leaders in my suburban Chicago school district, I ask: What is your department doing to create equitable and inclusive learning conditions for all of our students? That sad reality had school districts scrambling to provide devices and broadband access to students when the pandemic originally closed schools.
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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.
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Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom.
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How to find the right edtech tools for public schools
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Public schools must keep up with the modern times. Public schools must keep up with the modern times. The challenges of public school funding The COVID-19 pandemic brought a windfall of educational relief funds to public school systems across America. Which edtech tools should public schools prioritize?
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As Schools Move to Change How Kids Are Graded, Some Families Push Back
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.
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