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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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2025
Its allowed schools to open up competing career pathways in the back end of high school, whether students pursue calculus for science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers or instead learn data analytics or quantitative reasoning. As for Hatch Valley High School, Goins reports, students there saw improvement in test scores.
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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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School Counselors Worry About Students’ Misguided Use of Social Media
Edsurge
JUNE 3, 2025
Technology may pose solutions, too: some counselors say they are changing how they connect with students and are testing out artificial intelligence platforms. In response to the unregulated field of technology, Congress has considered legislation, including the Kids Off Social Media Act and Youth Mental Health Research Act.
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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve
Edsurge
JUNE 25, 2025
A space where test scores didn’t define worth. It’s a buzzword I hear often these days on social media, especially in teacher groups where educators are reimagining their futures. Something shifted, not just in education, but in me. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me. Where learning is personalized.
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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back
Edsurge
JULY 16, 2025
This inequitable distribution affects access to AP courses, certified teachers, updated facilities, technology and extracurricular programming — all of which directly influence student achievement and opportunity. I spent nights in front of my laptop, cross-referencing school ratings and pouring over New York City Public Schools data.
Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2025
In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. One time, I planned a novel study around a book my students selected, but I was forced by an administrator to trade it in for standardized test prep. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.
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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.” Suppes and Papert had opposing views of how the computer and technology should function in education. It really showed me the benefit of technology.
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Students’ AI Chats Reveal Their Largest Stressors
Edsurge
JULY 8, 2025
The remaining hot topics were interpersonal conflict; lack of motivation; test anxiety; focus and procrastination; how to reach out for support; having a bad day and poor grades. For many children, communicating via technology is more natural than face-to-face conversations, especially about sensitive topics,” he says.
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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2025
Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test. By giving my students choices on how to show this understanding, I am allowing them to have some control over their learning and autonomy. For this example, some students drew political cartoons showing their understanding of the differing sides of the conflict.
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.
California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
But the technology offers only a shadow of accurate detection: It highlights any matching text, whether properly cited or not; it flags everything that mirrors AI’s writing style, whether a student used AI inappropriately or not. He said $15 million is a lot of money to spend on a tool with such limited value.
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Has the Supreme Court Resolved the Charter School Identity Crisis?
Edsurge
MAY 29, 2025
Drummond at the end of April, less than a month before issuing its decision.
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Remote Learning Strategies: Beyond the Pandemic
eSchool News
MAY 14, 2025
He emphasizes that effective digital programs are driven by specific educational needswhether supporting CTE (Career and Technical Education), dropout recovery, or creating early college opportunitiesrather than by technology itself. I mean, it’s program first technology, second right? I mean it’s. And I were.
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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.
Edsurge
MAY 9, 2025
Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. Educational leaders may not reach out to underserved schools or underrepresented communities, so students dont know about them. Barriers to access vary from state to state, Fink says. Mindset and messaging can also limit access, Fink says.
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Offline Coding Cards for Scratch and Scratch Jnr
Whiteboard Blog
JUNE 27, 2025
With over 30 different colorful Scratch blocks from categories like Motion, Looks, Sound, Events, Control, and Sensing, students can piece together scripts, test outcomes with sprites and backdrop cards, and discover how coding works. Students will plan and build their own code sequences using the dry-erase coding blocks.
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A District, a Diagnostic and a Drive for AI Readiness
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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Learnings From the Front Lines on Redefining Leadership for the Age of AI
Edsurge
JUNE 2, 2025
Building relational trust is paramount for leading communities through technological shifts. We pressure-tested curriculum components and designed an accelerated offering to learn and adjust. In what ways am I demonstrating a responsible approach to technology? Progress, not perfection, was our mantra. Take action to learn.
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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? Prioritize ethics and equity.
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Three Districts Took the Long View With Federal Relief Funds. Their Bets Are Paying Off.
Edsurge
MAY 13, 2025
That decision paid off: In two years, from 2021 to 2023, tests showed third graders reading at grade level jumped from 9 percent to 31 percent, and those achieving math proficiency went from just 5 percent to 27 percent. Dominguez called the results remarkable.
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Students Are Struggling With Math. What Are States Doing Wrong?
Edsurge
JULY 14, 2025
The state has impeccable licensure tests, professional learning and coaching for teachers and teacher preparation standards, the report says. (In In licensure, in particular, the report found that very few states require teachers to pass a strong test, which surprised some observers.) But all that’s not a silver bullet.
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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?
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Students at U.S. Government Schools Fight Book Bans
Edsurge
APRIL 22, 2025
But we argue, in a situation like this, the government fails even that deferential test because the removals that are happening are not for any legitimate pedagogical concern. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled. Specific chapters were pulled from curricula, specific modules were withdrawn.
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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2025
Dave Peth, the creator and executive producer of PBS show “Lyla in the Loop,” has worked on other educational media in his 20-plus years in the industry, and he says “no one” deploys the level of rigorous research and testing used in PBS programming.
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Teachers From Mexico Give English Learners a Boost in Small Texas School District
Edsurge
MAY 30, 2025
Teachers are interested in working in a different educational landscape that emphasizes more technology, teamwork and a focus on student results. At Crain she works with about 22 students, and she frequently monitors their work through assignments and tests to keep a lot more track of students growth, she added.
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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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What Every City Can Learn From Pittsburgh’s Pioneering K-12-Research Partnerships
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
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. 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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Otus Launches AI Advisory Board to Bring Voices of K-12 Leaders to the Forefront of Innovation
eSchool News
MAY 14, 2025
CHICAGO, IL (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Otus , the leading K-12 assessment, data, and insights solution, today announced the formation of the Otus AI Advisory Board, a dynamic group of education leaders dedicated to guiding the future of AI within Otus and across the K-12 education sector.
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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.
Edsurge
APRIL 21, 2025
Children enrolled in Head Start receive more access to comprehensive care, including annual physicals, trips to the dentist, disability testing and an overall focus on nutritional services. Access to pediatric care can also be limited for families lin rural areas.
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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.
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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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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How to ensure your edtech tools support equity goals
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
But as educators know well, access to technology alone doesn’t create educational equity –a theory proven by recent testing data: Across the country, nearly one-third of students returned to school in the fall below grade level in reading and math despite the widespread use of education technology by districts in the spring.
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Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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. What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom?
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How Music Technology Helped My Students Tap Into Their Creativity
Edsurge
APRIL 14, 2023
Music Technology to the Rescue Before most people compose music, they must master writing and reading music. Fortunately, I discovered Hyperscore , a software program created by a nonprofit organization called New Harmony Line and started by Tod Machover, a musician and music and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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How AI is transforming learning for dyslexic students
eSchool News
DECEMBER 4, 2024
For dyslexic students, the traditional educational system–often reliant on heavy reading loads and conventional assessments–can be particularly overwhelming. For years, many schools have attempted to accommodate dyslexic learners with supplemental reading aids or by providing extra time on tests.
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Why Neuroscience and Technology Are Key to Helping Us Rethink How Students Learn
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
However, recent studies in neuroscience, along with the advent of digital instruction, have provided a unique environment to test various hypotheses related to metacognition — and the results are shedding new light on the efficacy of various teaching practices and how those practices help students learn and retain more in the classroom.
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In cybersecurity, balancing vigilance with access
eSchool News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Nearly every list of major IT or educational technology issues for 2023 includes the need to further harden educational systems and infrastructure. Testing needs to occur with outside systems and partner organizations. Cybersecurity is at the forefront of IT issues to be addressed over the next year.
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How learning science informs edtech product development
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
But is all that money well spent on learning products with proven efficacy in the classroom, or are those billions going toward technology for technology’s sake? The efficacy of educational technology plays a critical role in the current challenge teachers face in helping students recover lost learning at the hands of the pandemic.
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5 FETC 2024 sessions that grabbed our attention
eSchool News
JANUARY 10, 2024
Sessions, keynotes, discussions, and the expo hall will connect attendees with need-to-know details on the latest edtech innovations shaping the education landscape. Plus, they’ll learn best practices and current trends to best leverage educational technology resources. 23, 2024 in Orlando.
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Here’s why cyber security experts are concerned about remote learning
eSchool News
JULY 16, 2020
Levin, a former director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association who now heads the consulting firm EdTech Strategies , is more concerned about what happens when millions of devices that have been removed from the protection of school district firewalls for five months are reconnected to district networks in August. “In
Schools Are Using Voice Technology to Teach Reading. Is It Helping?
Edsurge
MARCH 7, 2023
Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. The appeal of voice technology as a screening tool, a method for playful reading practice and a strategy for offering feedback is clear.
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Merge Releases Hand-Held Digital Teaching Aids
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
“As a Microsoft Education Partner, Merge is focused on providing educators our new hands-on digital teaching aids, which are one of the most significant technological advancements in education since computers were first brought into the classroom over three decades ago,” said Franklin Lyons, Founder and CEO of Merge. “We
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