k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

As we witness the rapid evolution of educational technology, the convergence of bite-sized learning modules with intelligent virtual tutors is creating unprecedented opportunities for personalised education. Todays educational chatbots analyse learning patterns, identify knowledge gaps, and adjust difficulty levels in real time.

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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. 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

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 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. For the students, it was more than a game.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years. Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes.

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Instructors Math Study High School 131

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

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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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

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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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

This pattern is deeply problematic because it reinforces systemic inequities that disadvantage Black, Latinx and low-income students. A 2019 study by the Library Research Service found that predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more annually than predominantly nonwhite districts, despite serving the same number of students.

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Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 114

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Students light up when they create something meaningful, and every educator has seen that spark. As AI rapidly reshapes software development, computer science (CS) education must move beyond syntax drills and algorithmic repetition. Research increasingly shows that creativity fuels deeper learning, especially in STEM education.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 152

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.

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Students Study Academic Integrity Questions 66

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2025

The study surveyed nearly 1,400 teen-parent pairs during the fall of 2024. Some educators would likely respond to those numbers with a resounding, Sure, Jan, given the rise in phone and smartwatch bans that school districts hope will help students focus on their classwork by eliminating the siren song of their social media notifications.

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Study Grades Technology Education 171

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 Lillard, who studied play and cognition during her Ph.D.

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Education Schools Study Teaching Methods 140

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

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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Study Questions Accessibility Teachers 117

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.

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 111

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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Fairness Study Laboratory Evaluation 184

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Walking students through the unsettling complexities of the past has never been an easy job. Some teachers objected to those numbers, saying they minimize the political stresses many of them are actually experiencing, says Brendan Gillis, the associations director of teaching and learning, who oversaw the study.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 179

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

I’ve developed somewhat of a complex in the last year being a college student with an interest 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

JANUARY 17, 2018

billion on education software each year, according to estimates from the Software and Information Industry Association. Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. It could be books read, quizzes finished, activities completed.)

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Students Quizzes Study Activities 297

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. A core skill that Murphy wants to help students build is argumentation, and the company’s approach to teaching this is built into its name—Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterargument, Audience (CERCA).

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Textbooks Essay English Writing 268

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The LearnLab brings together K-12 classroom teachers and university researchers for research collaborations, introducing evidence-based education technologies into the classroom. This two-year researcher-practitioner partnership aims to increase participation of underrepresented minority students in postsecondary STEM programs.

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Learning STEM Motivation Culture 324

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Improving Student Outcomes When it comes to the speech language pathology world, Speights says the pre-K level is largely overlooked in comparison to older children or adults. Researchers also hope to help with intervention, focusing on personalized attention for each student.

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Languages Language Intelligence Testing 139

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

It peaked in the pandemic, when about 31 percent of students nationwide 14.7 Department of Education. A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too.

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Failure Grades Achievement Writing 154

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. It can actually impact student achievement.”. Collectively, 116 directors serve on the boards of these privately-held companies.

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Culture Textbooks Achievement Study 250

eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many educators turn to online and blended learning solutions to offer alternative solutions for at-risk students. 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.

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Blended Learning Learning Instructors Online Learning 227

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year has seen ample debate about the value and fairness of colleges prioritizing diversity among the students they serve. New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. The study was conducted using administrative data from 20 colleges.

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Study Grades STEM Fairness 213

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. My students are all using it in different ways.” Today, that sure seems quaint.

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Study Lecturing Instructors Students 213

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring can change students’ learning experiences by providing access to an environment designed according to their learning styles and paces. The power of personalized learning AI can transform various aspects of society, such as medicine, transportation, and education.

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Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 299

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Anaheim, California – To better engage their K-12 students, the Compton Unified School District (CUSD) in Southern California offers an esports program. It was conceived to enable growth of a student’s social and emotional well-being and open avenues for their future.

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Students Coaching Middle School Middle School 262

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. By using HQIMs, educators can enhance the quality of instruction , support differentiated learning and improve overall learning outcomes. We are just having an old conversation with new tricks.

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Social Studies Study Learning Laboratory 178

eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2022

That’s why at Cambridge School, we focus on helping students with learning differences learn how to read. But if you walk into a Cambridge School classroom during one of our reading sessions, you will see engaged students reading both silently and aloud, using devices and books. How do we accomplish this?

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Learning Styles Students Reading Motivation 253

eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

For centuries, education has been confined to the walls of schools, colleges, and institutions. Enter the education technology (edtech) boom since 2020 and the very ideology around teaching and learning has been revolutionized. Edtech has completely redefined how knowledge is imparted and how skills are acquired.

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Education Intelligence Skills Knowledge 360

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others. In other words, for low-income and underrepresented minority groups, living near a community college can be a crucial way to gain access to any higher education.

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Students Study Attention Accessibility 207

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

Designed with high school students in mind, Gale In Context: Literature provides learners with the context they need to engage and form personal connections with a wide variety of literature from traditional texts to diverse new voices. Gale In Context: Literature helps broaden and deepen students’ knowledge and understanding of the material.”

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Critical Thinking Learning Outcomes High School High School 246