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.
Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2025
When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview. As for Hatch Valley High School, Goins reports, students there saw improvement in test scores.
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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. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me. I knew I could no longer beg to do what I knew was right. Where learning is personalized.
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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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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back
Edsurge
JULY 16, 2025
When I reviewed the data, I noticed a glaring pattern: The best-rated schools in Brooklyn with strong state test scores, robust programming and rave parent reviews were clustered in neighborhoods with high property values, PTAs that fundraise like Fortune 500s, lush parks and Trader Joe’s within walking distance.
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. Were thinking about careers, academics and that boils down to making sure all of our students are well-rounded when they leave us, she said.
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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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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.
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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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.” It really showed me the benefit of technology. That kind of turned the knob in my head to make me see the possibilities of education technology.
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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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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.
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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.
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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
Diagnostic assessments, as opposed to summative assessments, measure students’ current knowledge and skills, helping educators identify gaps and areas for growth, and guide teachers and school leaders toward where students might need additional instruction, resources or support to meet learning outcomes. How would it be delivered?
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Remote Learning Strategies: Beyond the Pandemic
eSchool News
MAY 14, 2025
I uploaded we did a a recent Delac report on remote testing, so it’s just the idea that online students, students and online schools have to test in a face to face environment. Are you familiar with the podcasting, quote, UN quote, podcasting capability of the Google product notebook LM? Let me give you an example.
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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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Learnings From the Front Lines on Redefining Leadership for the Age of AI
Edsurge
JUNE 2, 2025
We pressure-tested curriculum components and designed an accelerated offering to learn and adjust. By partnering across organizations, we demonstrated that collaboration, particularly among values-aligned leaders, can spark innovation and serendipitous partnerships. Take action to learn. Low-risk experimentation was key.
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One District’s Approach to Successful AI Integration
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2025
Additionally, our Technology Department collaborates with the Curriculum and Assessment team to analyze data from AI tools used in our classrooms, ensuring they are not reinforcing biases or widening educational gaps. We began with a pilot program to test AI tools in targeted areas before expanding to broader use. Start small.
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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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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
Otus team members coordinate the boards activities, bringing expertise in education technology, product development, and classroom instruction to facilitate meaningful discussions and actionable outcomes.
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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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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
Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.
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How learning science informs edtech product development
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.
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Oregon Public School Breaks State Assessment Score Record with Carnegie Learning
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
And we did not teach to the test. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” The students who exceeded on the state test were from diverse backgrounds. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.”
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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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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
Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Better reading test scores. In fact, a comparison of NWEA reading test results from SY 2019-20 to SY 2022-23 showed K-5 students went from 37 percent at or above norms of growth rate to 93 percent. This was a big shift for us because we now have access to an ongoing collection of data points quickly to better support students.
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.
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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Spaced repetition is the secret to overcoming learning loss
eSchool News
OCTOBER 28, 2022
This allowed me to repeatedly test myself on the words and phrases I struggled with (rated 1’s and 2’s), while only occasionally reviewing those I felt comfortable with (4’s and 5’s). Within weeks of practicing my Spanish this way, I felt an order of magnitude more conversant. Flattening the “Forgetting Curve”.
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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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How COVID brought this district closer together–even when everyone was apart
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 8, 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.
How a major MD district boosted middle math achievement
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
In addition, multilingual learners experienced a 17-point (five percent) higher mean score on the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs test, in addition to a higher math score. confidence level for both Math and English language proficiency scores, as measured by third-party assessments, caused by a single education technology program.
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Merge Releases Hand-Held Digital Teaching Aids
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
We just completed a study that compared the test scores of radiology students that used real human cadavers to study, and another group who used AR objects on the Merge Cube to study, and there was no statistically significant difference in test scores between the groups. Jesse Courtier, Co-founder of startup Sira Medical. “We
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Buchanan County Schools See 380% Improvement in Reading with Carnegie Learning
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Our third graders take state standardized tests, and our scores used to be pretty good,” explained Connie Hibbitts, Instructional Coach for all four elementary-middle schools in the county and an educator with 34 years of experience. After just a few months in, students’ hard work started paying off. And this program was it.”
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FETC 2024: Could Esports Reverse the Trend of K–12 Boys Falling Behind?
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 26, 2024
Additionally, their test scores are lower, and they are less likely to graduate from high school. These devastating numbers are a cause for action, said Kristy Custer, president of educational innovation for High School Esports League.
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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
This is the latest product from NetSupport, which has been supporting teachers with award-winning instructional and educational technology for over 30 years. classroom.cloud, like all NetSupport solutions, is heavily piloted and tested in real classrooms. and Canada. NetSupport, based in the U.K.
Explore Interactive Announces Partnership with Award-Winning Curriculum Developer, EiE
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
EiE currently develops research-based, classroom-tested programs that empower children to become lifelong STEM learners. In 2020, Forbes named MindLabs the STEM product with the best hands-on and AR integration, and in January 2023, FETC awarded MindLabs first place at Pitchfest in the Immersive Technology category.
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