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What warning signs indicate a scam using terms like WGU Class Taker?
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Under Siege: How Schools Are Fighting Back Against Rising Cyber Threats
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Head Start Funding Is on Track for Approval. It Still May Not Be Enough.
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Students With Disabilities Don’t Want Your Pity. They Want You to Take Them Seriously.
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Teachers Try to Take Time Back Using AI Tools
Heather Gauck has spent most of her three-decade teaching career sleep-deprived — turning in after midnight and waking up at
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More Schools Are Considering Education-Focused AI Tools. What’s the Best Way to Use Them?
Discussion about the use of AI in the classroom has become as commonplace as pencils or notebooks, but many have
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For Christianna Thomas, a senior at Heights High School in Texas, an artificial intelligence policy once stymied an attempt to
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What if Literacy Instruction Went Beyond Building Knowledge?
In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words,
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What Stanford Learned By Crowdsourcing AI Solutions for Students With Disabilities
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As Data Centers Expand, Should That Concern Schools?
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Virtual School Hit the Mainstream 5 Years Ago. How Popular Has It Gotten?
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What Will Medicaid Cuts Mean For School Health and Wellness Services?
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Rolling Back Education Access for Undocumented Students
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Are High School Counselors Encouraging AI for College Applications?
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Data Shows More Discipline, Less College Prep for Students With Disabilities
Roughly 1 out of every 7 children in public school has an identified disability, according to a recent analysis, but
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Study: Kids Suffer as Nearly Half of U.S. Families Struggle to Meet Basic Needs
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Students Are Struggling With Math. What Are States Doing Wrong?
Five years ago, Alabama’s math was literally the worst. On national assessments from 2019, the state was ranked last in
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Teaching Creativity and Durable Skills in an AI World
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‘School Choice’ Causes Confusion for Families. Can Edtech Companies Help?
Hayley Leibson, a mother from Mill Valley, a wealthy area just north of San Francisco, started hunting for a language-immersion
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant
As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school
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Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making
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Students’ AI Chats Reveal Their Largest Stressors
While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new
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Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books
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A Supreme Court ruling at the end of June handed a major victory to parents who want to opt their
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As technology reshapes the workforce, digital and AI literacies are becoming essential for every student. From early problem-solving to advanced
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Could Podcasts Fix Screen Time Woes for Children?
As Deborah Nichols traversed from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kansas, daily for her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kansas,
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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve
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Can the Most Populous State Pull Off Universal Pre-K?
When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to
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When generative AI entered classrooms, it promised a revolution. For many teachers, it delivered an avalanche of tools instead. While
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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do
“Back in school, you ever get busted for trying to walk and have some administrator tell you, ‘Son, you can
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Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners
The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their
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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?
Near a cardboard cutout of Daniel Tiger, a small stuffed version of Curious George and plenty of promotional posters in
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How Teachers Are Making Computer Science Click
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Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health
“If you were an object, what object would you be?” Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this
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AI Is Still an Unknown Country — and Teens Are Its Pioneers
When artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT were first introduced for public use in 2022, Gillian Hayes, vice provost for academic
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I’ve Taught Gen Z for Almost a Decade. I’m Split on the So-Called Gen Z ‘Split’
No generation is a monolith. That should go without saying. But over the past year, there’s been a growing narrative
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Schools Can’t Find Teachers. Do States Need More Credential Rules or Fewer?
For Aspire Public Schools in Los Angeles, the turnaround took a couple of years. Coming back from the pandemic, the
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With declining college enrollment, institutions are rethinking the traditional four-year model. Dual enrollment has emerged as a significant growth area,
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Students light up when they create something meaningful, and every educator has seen that spark. Self-expression fuels learning, and creativity
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From English to Automotive Class, Teachers Assign Projects to Combat AI Cheating
Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle
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A District, a Diagnostic and a Drive for AI Readiness
Picture this: Tomorrow’s graduates walk into workplaces where AI tools are as common as email — diagnosing patient symptoms, analyzing
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Montessori Schools Are Hot — Until They’re Not. What Does That Mean About Education?
There was a moment in the mid-2010s when Montessori was inescapable. The century-old education philosophy, which prioritizes independence from a
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Emergent Bilingual Students Find Their Voice With Real-Time Translation
As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of
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What Can We Do About Chronic Absenteeism? Ask Detroit.
Chronic absence, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school or about 18 school days in a year, is
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Report: For First Time in Years, Home-Based Child Care Programs Are on the Rise
The number of home-based child care programs is seeing a spike for the first time in five years — but
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School Counselors Worry About Students’ Misguided Use of Social Media
Social media platforms like Instagram, X and TikTok have become landscapes for learning and increasing awareness of topics like mental
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Learnings From the Front Lines on Redefining Leadership for the Age of AI
On a Wednesday afternoon, a school district director emailed to say she might be late to the first community of
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Why Are Teachers Burned Out but Still in Love With Their Jobs?
When Molly Lane was a school social worker, walking down the hall with colleagues sometimes turned into impromptu therapy sessions.
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Teachers From Mexico Give English Learners a Boost in Small Texas School District
Wendy Lopez Elizondo traveled more than 800 miles last year to face her biggest professional challenge — teaching in the
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Has the Supreme Court Resolved the Charter School Identity Crisis?
Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision
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How Bold Leadership Builds Personalized Pathways
If you’ve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know
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Researchers Turn to AI to Help Diagnose Children’s Speech Disorders
When Marisha Speights first started as a speech language pathologist in preschools serving affluent families in Nashville, Tennessee, she used
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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change
“True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard
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Career Education Is Having a Moment. Here’s How It’s Adapting for Future Jobs
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is at a turning point. What once lived on the margins of academic planning is
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Most Teachers Are Satisfied With Their Workplace, but They’re Still Burned Out
As the education world grapples with a post-pandemic academic recovery that has stalled in some regions, a new research paper
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Facing Cuts to Vital Online Resources, School Librarians Look to States for Help
There aren’t as many librarians in schools as there used to be. At first it wasn’t as noticeable, as the
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Trimming the Edtech Fat: How Districts Are Streamlining Their Digital Ecosystems
During the pandemic, school districts amassed an enormous amount of digital tools — sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of
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Parents and Teens Agree Social Media Can Be Harmful — But How Much?
Gen Z may be the first generation to have childhoods rife with screens and defined by having a second life
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Edtech’s ‘Privacy Pledge’ Is Going Away. That Doesn’t Mean Student Data Is Safe.
The Student Privacy Pledge — a voluntary promise to protect student data — ceased. The pledge was started to convince
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Three Districts Took the Long View With Federal Relief Funds. Their Bets Are Paying Off.
When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the district’s original
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“When would I ever use this?” It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many
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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.
Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level
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Pre-K Spending and Enrollment Reach All-Time High, But Quality Concerns Remain
While both enrollment and spending in early childhood education programs reached new levels in 2024, a few select states did
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Why Trump’s Cuts to Mental Health Programs Could Hit Rural Schools Harder
In Nebraska, it’s trauma-informed training to support Native American students. In Arizona, it’s an effort to expand existing school mental
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Politics, Pressure and Poor Sources: History Teachers Have It Tough These Days
With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history
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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out.
Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children
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Every Student Deserves High-Quality Computer Science Education
Imagine you’re a ninth grader navigating a world where generative AI, agentic AI and other emerging technologies dominate the headlines.
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Majority of Parents Rely on Friends and Family for Child Care, Report Finds
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Trump’s Executive Order on School Discipline Clashes With What Research Says Works
The Trump administration took aim at another keystone in public education, this time looking to shake up how schools handle
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One District’s Approach to Successful AI Integration
Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isn’t just adopting the
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States Agree About How Schools Should Use AI. Are They Also Ignoring Civil Rights?
Several years after the release of ChatGPT, which raised ethical concerns for education, schools are still wrestling with how to
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Ending USDA Programs for School Meals Will Impact Learning, Experts Warn
Health leaders, educators and farmers throughout the country are growing increasingly concerned about the impact to children’s nutrition after the
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Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools
Since generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene a few years ago, schools and educators have grappled with how to
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Gen Z Is Growing Up in Education Upheaval. How Are Teens Doing?
Gen Z is in an awkward phase. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort — born
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Why Career Exploration Shouldn’t Wait Until High School
From the time we’re kids, we’re asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a big
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In an Era of Natural Disasters, Can Schools Double Down On Trauma Training?
When the Eaton and Palisades fires raged through Los Angeles, home of the second-largest school district in the country, they
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Students at U.S. Government Schools Fight Book Bans
Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agency’s
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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.
Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles
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Demand Remains High, but Afterschool Programs Worry for Their Futures
For thousands of public school students, the ringing of the final bell doesn’t signal an end to their day. Parsing
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From customer service chatbots to personalized shopping recommendations, artificial intelligence has become integral to our daily lives. Mainstream generative AI
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Federal Cuts Threaten Student Data
“Hey, I’m a principal at a school, and I forgot my password,” the voice said. “Can you help me?” The
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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?
When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of
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Portland’s Universal Pre-K Proposal Was Hailed as a ‘National Model.’ How’s the Rollout Going?
It’s been a little over a year since Tram Gonzalez opened Color Wings Preschool in her home in Portland, Oregon.
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Tech Groups Have Long Encouraged Girls to Pursue STEM. Could the Anti-DEI Wave End That?
Growing up in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, Anushay Anjum loved school but was especially enamored with the sciences. Biology,
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Better Design Might Be the Next Frontier in Getting Students Back to Campus
As designers drew up plans to revitalize the visual arts complex at California State University, Fullerton, they hoped to create
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How Open Standards Are Breaking Down Data Barriers
Colleges and universities are at a crossroads when it comes to student data. They have more information at their fingertips
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Some Child Care Providers Lost All in the Eaton Fire. Why Can’t They Get Relief Money?
Do you remember the last time you were on endless hold with customer service? Or in line at the DMV
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Why the Dire State of the Early Learning Workforce Is ‘Alarming and Not Surprising’
The state of early care and education today is, in a word, unsustainable. That’s what a recent survey of 10,000
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One of the perks of Angie Adams’ job at Samsung is that every year, she gets to witness how some
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Linda McMahon Became Ed Secretary Without Discussing Schools’ Scariest Issue: Guns
For almost three hours last month, Linda McMahon sat through a confirmation hearing in which senators pressed her on everything
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Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer
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Giving Schools More Control over Social Media
As PTA president at my children’s school, I rely on social media to keep families informed about everything from sports
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A Supreme Court Case Could Change How We Think About and Pay For Religious Schools
Under the first couple of months of the new administration, education has come in for significant and contested revamping. The
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For Families, School Choice Doesn’t Mean Easy Decisions
In late January, the White House instructed the Department of Defense to craft a plan that would make funds available
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Technology in today’s classrooms is advancing rapidly, reshaping the way students learn and teachers teach, especially with advancements in AI.
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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer
In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching
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As Immigration Raids Stoke Anxiety, What Are the Implications for How Children Learn?
Panicked calls from parents. More empty desks in classrooms. Higher anxiety. Those are some of the effects school officials from
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The future isn’t just approaching — it’s moving fast. As industries evolve and workforce demands shift, schools and districts have
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What Will Districts Do With All Those Empty School Buildings? Some Look to Fill Them With Younger Kids
Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of
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A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with another leader who was listening to some of my frustrations
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Scaffolding in Tier 1 instruction helps all students access grade-level content by providing temporary support that is gradually removed as
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Students Are Unmotivated to Learn. Would Consulting Them For Curriculum Help?
Julius Cervantes, a first generation college graduate, didn’t appreciate school’s relevance for his life until senior year of high school.
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How Large Print Books Create a ‘Virtuous Cycle’ for All Readers
America’s schools are facing a crisis in reading achievement. The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that
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Nancy Muñoz is on her second act — this time, in a school — and she feels she’s finally where
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Acceptance is Key to Mental Health for LGBTQ+ Youth, Data Shows
The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention nonprofit for LGBTQ+ youth, released a new report that gives a state-by-state look
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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind
San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive
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Can Colleges Do More to Help Students Succeed?
Near the beginning of every semester, Sarah Z. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about
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Early Numeracy as a Cornerstone of Long-Term Academic Success
Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in today’s educational system. However, despite the emphasis on STEM in later
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Cultivating Joy Among the ‘Community of Learners’
Nita Creekmore is coauthor of Every Connection Matters: How to Build, Maintain, and Restore Relationships Inside the Classroom and Out.
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Idaho Moves to Deregulate Child Care in First-of-Its-Kind Legislation
Idaho is poised to become the first state in the country to eliminate state-mandated child-to-staff ratios for early care and
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As Some High Schoolers Fret Over College Costs, These Majors Earn Students $100K
As high school seniors ponder the route they want to take for college, a fresh cache of data sheds light
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Why Blackness Matters in Early Childhood Development
What does Blackness mean to you? My Black is colorful, quick-witted, dynamic, innovative and brilliant. My Blackness meant I grew
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Louisiana’s NAEP Score — A Victory for the Science of Reading?
When Louisiana made gains in reading proficiency in a recent Congressionally-mandated assessment, it stuck out. NAEP — known as the
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‘We’re Everywhere Now’: How a Speech Language Pathologist Has Seen Her Work Evolve
Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech
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How to Develop an Effective Framework for AI Readiness
How can we prepare students for a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence? If you are in the education field,
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I Once Made a Student Cry, and It Made Me a Better Teacher
Have you ever made a student cry? I have. Earlier this year, one of my fourth grade students kept disrupting
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Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says
The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on
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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?
When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. At least, he wants them to feel
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Reading fluency — the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression — remains a critical yet often overlooked
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Policymakers across the political spectrum ran for office on child care issues in 2024. From the presidential campaigns to local
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Teachers Say Parental Engagement Can Make or Break Efforts to Close Learning Gaps
The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main
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Students Are Not Well, and It’s Our Job to Save Them
During my eight-year teaching career in Colorado, I’ve heard many schools and districts claim they want to “develop the whole
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These Schools Are Banding Together to Make Better Use of AI in Education
DENVER — In Zach Kennelly’s senior civics class, students are building custom chatbots with artificial intelligence. One student is working
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School Districts Lost Federal Funds. Will Students Lose Digital Access?
The extra money that flowed from the federal government during the pandemic has left districts in New Mexico with a
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Using Technology to Build a Culture of Authentic Student Engagement
To support improved student outcomes, educators increasingly look to technology. But how do they fuel authentic engagement, using technology as
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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won’t be Easy.
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How Creative AI Is Reshaping Education [Infographic]
The Creativity with AI in Education 2025 Report, based on insights from over 2,800 educators across the United States and
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How I Navigate the Classroom as a Neurodivergent Teacher
I first realized I wanted to be a teacher around the same time I received my first mental health diagnosis.
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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?
It’s that time of year when seemingly everyone has the sniffles, and many people are laid up with a cold,
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New Education Department Officials Say Book Bans Are a ‘Hoax.’ Teachers Disagree.
“U.S. Department of Education ends Biden’s book ban hoax.” That headline from a recent press release by the federal agency
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When Early Learning Serves as a Catalyst for Change
Early learning is taking center stage in education, and for good reason. As schools across the country face resource constraints
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Nation’s Report Card Shows Students Struggle With Basic Reading Sills
The pandemic jostled students off course, disrupting learning around the country. Billions in federal relief dollars later and rigorous assessments
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Religion Is a Taboo Topic. I Discuss It in My Classroom Anyway.
On my first day as an Arabic teacher, my school mentor sternly advised me, “Avoid the three taboos: sex, politics,
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Smarter Schools: Artificial Intelligence Enters the District Office
In the hallways of schools across the nation, a quiet revolution is taking place. As students tap away on their
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Relationships Are Key to Kids’ Growth — And They’re in Crisis, Expert Says
Education in the 21st century is obsessed with assessing children, attempting to measure every aspect of their intelligence, learning and
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Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?
One of Kevin Gannon’s favorite class discussion activities doesn’t involve much talking. Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each
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How Enrollment in the 100 Largest School Districts Has Changed Since the Pandemic
Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in
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Can ‘Math Therapists’ Make a Dent In America’s Declining Math Performance?
Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but it’s a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers
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Art Saved My Life When I Was a Student. Now, It’s Helping My Multilingual Learners.
Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my
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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’
Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a
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Education
Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2024
Can I have your attention? The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was
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Education
Why ‘Brain Rot’ Can Hurt Learning — and How One District Is Kicking It Out of School
I was recently sitting with my friend’s 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV.
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Education
AI for Educators: Actions to Drive Student Growth [Infographic]
2025 marks an exciting journey into AI-powered learning! Use these AI tools and activities to deepen AI understanding, spark student
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How Wicked Taught Me to Defy Gravity — One Student at a Time
The lights dimmed, and the audience fell silent. It was a cold January afternoon in 2007, and I was sitting
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How a Vacant School Building Became a Symbol of Loss and a Source of Hope for a Small Town
Donora, Pennsylvania, once housed a thriving steel mill that stretched for about two miles, though that factory closed more than
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As Apprenticeships Expand in Early Childhood, These States Are Training the Field’s Future Leaders
A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a
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Supporting All Learners: Building an Inclusive Classroom With Universal Design for Learning
Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Students arrive in
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As the Administration Changes, Will Fear Keep Newcomer Students From Schools?
Lara Evangelista remembers a high school student calling her to say his parents were picked up by immigration officers while
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4 Benefits a Digital Credential Program Offers Right Now
Imagine a recent graduate armed with a degree but struggling to convey their specific skills to potential employers. Now picture
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These Higher Ed Stories Resonated Most in 2024
We’ve been crunching the numbers, and your votes are in. Here’s the countdown of the top EdSurge stories about the
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Here Are the 10 Stories K-12 Readers Couldn’t Put Down in 2024
As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly
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Education
At a Time When Students Feel Alone, Affinity Groups Connect Us All
In affinity, we find kinship. Our shared interests move us toward one another and give us opportunities for connection, deep
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AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent.
Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI.
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The Early Childhood Education Stories You Loved Most in 2024
In 2024, EdSurge published several dozen stories about early care and education, up from just a handful when we first
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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life
Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life it’s easy to overlook.
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Education
Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?
‘Show your work’ has taken on a new meaning — and importance — in the age of ChatGPT. As teachers
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How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995
The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and
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‘Remember Your Why’: How My Grandmothers Affirmed My Purpose as an Educator
One day, during a quiet afternoon in my classroom, a comment one of my colleagues said lingered in the air:
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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?
Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers
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Does School Choice Need a Lemon Law?
When she moved her daughter into a reputable private school in Washington at the beginning of the pandemic, Ashley Jochim
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies Have a Direct Impact on Youth Mental Health. So Does Support.
Findings from a recent survey by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth, show transgender,
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Education
Why I Spend My Lunch Hour with Students
My favorite part of my job is not actually part of my job. As a public high school teacher in
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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment
Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In
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How This Curriculum Specialist Brings Math to Life for Students
The idea of being “bad at math” or “not a math person” is deeply entrenched in American education — for
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Education
What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready? [Infographic]
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing society, workplace and education. To be prepared for the college and career opportunities of today
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Unlocking AI’s Potential in Higher Education
AI has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives — and it is already doing so. According to
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How Are New AI Tools Changing ‘Learning Analytics’?
For years educators have been trying to glean lessons about learners and the learning process from the data traces that
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Education
Does Facial Recognition Belong in Schools? It Depends Who You Ask
It was early in the school day when a 17-year-old gunman began firing into a classroom in the art complex
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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?
At its core, personalized learning is about recognizing that no two students learn exactly the same way. It moves beyond
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What Happens When ‘Play’ Is Left Out of the School Curriculum
Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. On a
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What We Learned About Teaching and Creativity by Commissioning a New Podcast Theme Song
The theme song of a podcast may only play for a few seconds at the beginning and ending of an
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What to Know About the Rise of Smartwatches Among Kids
All year long, schools have been grappling with how to respond to student cellphone use, which, according to many educators,
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Rethinking Digital Citizenship | EdSurge News
The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. For students, digital citizenship isn’t just
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Education
With Card Games, Coloring Sessions and ‘Hang Out Times,’ Professors Rethink Office Hours
Office hours for Patrick Cafferty’s biology classes are anything but traditional. Sometimes, students will go on runs with Cafferty, who
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Education
When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less
Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. More than a quarter of students were
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