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30.09.2024 | Selecting Effective Edtech in the Age of AI | The rise of AI promises new solutions to long-standing challenges. It also introduces some challenges of its own. In addition to concerns over privacy, bias and reliability, AI is driving a flood of new products in a broad range of sectors,... |
16.09.2024 | Scaling Evidence-Based Solutions for Learning Recovery | Since the pandemic, the urgency of designing and scaling evidence-based products to support learning recovery has become more pronounced. Educational institutions are grappling with unprecedented disruptions and widening achievement gaps, m... |
29.08.2024 | EduMed.org prepares college students for success on World Distance Learning Day | EduMed.org Logo
EduMed observes World Distance Learning Day with new content to help students find success in non-traditional learning formats.
RENO, Nev., Aug. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- EduMed.org -- a leader in nursing and allied hea... |
14.02.2024 | Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change. | Three young trees stood in a schoolyard, their branches reaching out for the sun, casting stripes of shade on the newly seeded grass below. With each passing day, two of them grew stronger, taller, thicker. Their deep roots built pathways t... |
08.09.2023 | It's Time To Make College Opportunities More Automatic | Female college graduategetty |
19.07.2023 | With school about to start, teachers still wanted | Hundreds of teaching positions are still open, just weeks before the start of the school year.
Why it matters: Thousands of students may soon walk into classrooms without a permanent teacher leading them.
Research shows that a high-quality ... |
22.06.2023 | BetterLesson Earns ESSA Level IV Certification with Well-Defined Logic Model Based on Rigorous Research | Westwood, Massachusetts (PRWEB) June 22, 2023
Professional learning provider, BetterLesson, has successfully earned ESSA Level 4 certification - Demonstrates a Rationale - for its alignment to the level of evidence-based interventions requi... |
09.04.2023 | Dramatic New Evidence That Building Knowledge Can Boost Comprehension And Close Gaps | Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and ... [+] higher-income students, according to a new study.getty |
01.03.2023 | After COVID, NC Report Shows Increase in Student Misconduct in 2021-22 - Reflecting Nationwide Trends | Reflecting similar trends across the nation, North Carolina public schools reported increases during the 2021-22 school year of incidents involving student misconduct, crime and violence.
Even as schools reopened after the historic disrupti... |
28.02.2023 | Some schools are switching to the 4-day workweek to bring in and keep teachers, but education officials say it's not a 'magic pill' to fix the educator shortage | Districts are weighing the four-day workweek to curb burnout and retain teachers. OLIVIER TOURON/Getty Images
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12.12.2022 | Alaska Is Focusing On Career, Technical Education To Help Recover Learning Losses | In the all-important goal to getting the nation’s students back up to grade level following the ... [+] pandemic, Alaska’s Career and Technical Education programs are showing great promise that can benefit other states.Bristol Bay Regional ... |
18.11.2022 | Schools struggle to staff up for youth mental health crisis | Mira Ugwuadu felt anxious and depressed when she returned to her high school in Cobb County, Georgia, last fall after months of remote learning, so she sought help. But her school counselor kept rescheduling their meetings because she had s... |
09.11.2022 | Edtech Evidence Exchange Merges With InnovateEDU | There’s growing interest among schools in looking for evidence of how effective edtech products are before making purchases, but leading advocates for efficacy research say more needs to be done.
To help make that push, two nonprofits in th... |
01.09.2022 | The Power of Dual Enrollment: The Equitable Expansion of College Access and Success | By: Luke Rhine, Deputy Assistant Secretary the Office of Career, Technical & Adult Education
Dual enrollment works. The Biden-Harris Administration is deeply committed to the use and expansion of high-quality dual enrollment programs to... |
21.07.2022 | States Partner On Micro-Credentials To Personalize Teacher Learning | digiLearn digiLearn |
19.07.2022 | Capti Wins a $1M Grant to Bring ETS Reading Assessments to Market | “Nearly two-thirds of K–12 students are not reading at grade level, which is a huge barrier, especially for the socially disadvantaged.” said Dr. Yevgen Borodin, CEO of Capti. “We are thrilled to be working with ETS and IES on an innovative... |
14.07.2022 | U.S. Department of Education Announces Engage Every Student Initiative to Ensure Every Student Has Access to High-Quality Learning | The announcement made during National Summer Learning Week will allow more students to access more programs year-round to support their academic and mental health needs.
To support President Biden’s call last week for schools to use America... |
11.04.2022 | New Journal Article Confirms Positive Action Program Improves Behavioral and Social Emotional Outcomes in Diverse Elementary Students | “As education emerges from the challenges of the pandemic, the need for effective and reliable mental health resources for students cannot be overstated”
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (PRWEB) April 11, 2022
The Positive Action Program improves behavior... |
25.03.2022 | New Journal Article Confirms Positive Action Program Improves Behavioral and Social Emotional Outcomes in Diverse Elementary Students | “We continue to be committed to supporting the social, emotional, behavioral, and academic growth of diverse student communities with evidence-based content. This study further cements our position as one of the only SEL program providers b... |
16.03.2022 | New Research Raises Caution Flag On Universal Pre-K | Universal prekindergarten may well be the Biden administration’s most cherished education policy proposal. It was a staple of Biden’s 2020 platform and continues to be a key component of his Build Back Better plan. The appeal is fairly obvi... |
03.01.2022 | 7 Ways Our Intuition Can Mislead Us About Learning | Many scientific findings conflict with our gut sense of what is working, making teaching and ... [+] learning harder.getty |
28.11.2021 | Federal taxpayers pay millions to fund critical race theory program that trains students to promote CRT | (The Center Square) – Federal grant records show the U.S. Department of Education has awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to fund critical race theory training for future educators at several colleges across the country.
In 2016 under the ... |
24.03.2021 | School survey shows 'critical gaps' for in-person learning | Nearly half of U.S. elementary schools were open for full-time classroom learning as of last month, but the share of students with in-person instruction has varied greatly by region and by race, with most nonwhite students taught entirely o... |
30.11.2020 | How Federal Education Aid Can Tackle The K-Shaped Learning Recovery: Let’s Start With $3000 Per Disengaged Student | For many students, pandemic schooling isn't working.Shutterstock |
19.11.2020 | Why the Pandemic Forces Administrators to Rethink Attendance — and Interoperability | When COVID-19 forced the mass closure of schools across the U.S. during the early months of 2020, we all wondered how—or if—students would continue to learn amid the turbulence. Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies c... |
01.10.2020 | Online learning challenges: Inaccessibility to tech and academic dishonesty | diego_cervo, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Without a national, or even regional mandate regarding remote, in-person, or hybrid e-learning for US high school and university students, the fall semester has left many students and parents confused. ... |
07.08.2020 | How to access ‘America’s Seed Fund,’ the $3 billion SBIR program | One of the best-kept secrets in the world of capital is that the federal government has billions of dollars it’s dying to give away to early-stage founders and inventors — and all you have to do is ask. Well, there’s a bit more to it than t... |
29.07.2020 | Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning | Erin Simon had big goals for this school year. The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term that refers to those who miss 1... |
22.02.2020 | Мнение: концепция STEM разлагает образование | Александра Кукуть Мнение 22 февраля 2020, 10:10 Мнение: концепция STEM разлагает образование
Альтернативная точка зрения про популярную концепцию от нью-йоркского писателя и сотрудника Банка Америки Джареда Вударда. Это сжатый перевод стать... |
06.02.2020 | The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For. | In almost any school in the country today, you can find an app or program that claims to change education as we know it. Yet schools are littered with products that have not changed anything beyond teachers’ desktop screens.
As researchers ... |
09.01.2020 | For Social Experiment, Japanese Billionaire Gives $9 Million to People On Twitter | January 9, 2020 7 min read This story originally appeared on Business Insider
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has found some lavish ways to spend his money — he spent $57 million on a Basquiat painting and has reserved every seat on Spa... |
09.12.2019 | Slack is changing the way we chat at work. Here's an etiquette guide to help you survive a messaging-obsessed office. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
As Slack becomes more integrated in modern offices, employees (like myself) sometimes slip up and use iMessage lingo in company chat rooms.
While you should avoid acronyms with swear words like "WTF,&... |
08.12.2019 | One of the world's largest basic-income trials, a 2-year program in Finland, was a major flop. But experts say the test was flawed. | Advertisement
In 2017, Finland became the first European country to test a government-backed unconditional basic income, which gave people a regular stipend with no strings attached.
The trial ended in December 2018 and was widely considere... |
22.11.2019 | Teachers Aren’t Getting as Much From Education Research as They’d Like, Says Survey | Today’s educators recognize the importance of research. That’s not much of a headline, but a new survey from the Jefferson Education Exchange suggests something that might be: Educators aren’t getting as much out of research as they’d like—... |
02.11.2019 | BVSD looks to better support special education teachers | Jessa Vanderpol, a recent college graduate, is taking on one of the more challenging teaching jobs in the Boulder Valley School District as an Intensive Learning Center special education teacher.
Vanderpol, in her first year of teaching, is... |
12.10.2019 | The New Research Competition That Could Spark an Edtech Revolution | Another school year has kicked off, and school officials will spend more than $13 billion on technology solutions that claim to work but often fail to generate the desired outcome.
The question of whether or not something “works” in the abs... |
04.09.2019 | Slack is changing the way we chat at work. Here's an etiquette guide to help you survive a messaging-obsessed office. | Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder and CEO, Slack, delivers remarks on The Future of Work: Enabling Human Connection during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena in Lisbon in 2017. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos - Corbis/Getty Images)
As S... |
28.05.2019 | Five Reasons School Takeovers Fail | He's still totally in charge of the district. Getty |
07.08.2018 | The 3 Most Important Questions To Ask When Evaluating Social Emotional Learning Screeners | Classroom teachers are increasingly aware of the wide-ranging and long lasting benefits of social-emotional learning programs—from improved academic performance to positive family and work relationships and better mental health.Screening to... |
21.05.2018 | Four Classroom-Ready Tips to Boost Reading Engagement and Drive Learning | What leads to reading success? In my view, success with reading doesn’t follow from drill and kill practices that stifle interest and motivation. Rather, it follows from nurturing a love of reading and closing the reading engagement gap—the... |
12.03.2018 | Three Ways to Support Educators Who Hate to Teach Writing | “Another English teacher just switched to gym because she couldn’t do it anymore,” a teacher from Georgia recently told me. “I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of... |
16.01.2018 | Betsy DeVos Touts Personalized Learning, Slams Common Core and Reform Efforts | U.S. Education Secretary spared no words in her critique of education reform efforts during the Bush and Obama administrations. “I don’t think there is much we can hold onto, from a federal level, that we can say was a real success,” she sa... |
11.05.2016 | SBIR Awards 14 Grants to Edtech Developers--including EdSurge | Oh, the sound of a "kaching," the jingle of funding moving into a startup.
Entrepreneurs love winning investment dollars--and with reason. Funding lets entrepreneurs build the business, invest in a product and nurture a stronger t... |
14.12.2015 | Why the Government Is All About Fun, Games and Funding Games | They’re from the government, and they’re here to play.
Last Tuesday, buttoned-down government officials, including the outgoing Director of the Office of Educational Technology, joined a potpourri of parents, kids, developers and gaming ent... |
24.08.2015 | The Government Wants You to Help Find Education Technology Tools That Actually Work | Can you prove that education technology tools actually work? And do so without spending years upon years and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars?
If so, the US Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology has is... |
24.06.2015 | Making educational games is tough, especially if you want to make money | It’s harder making educational games than you might think.
The market for what are collectively known as learning games was worth $1.8 billion globally in 2013, and it’s expected to grow to over $2.4 billion by 2018. But revenue from sellin... |
02.06.2015 | How Your Company Must Co-opt the Business Model Canvas | When edtech entrepreneurs hustle and undertake a fruitful customer discovery process, product pilots are easy to come by. Scaling, however, can be tough going. In five years of advising edtech startups at the Toronto-based incubator MaRS Di... |
08.04.2015 | These 6 Tips Will Help You Secure Edtech Funding | A firm believer in the idea that "technology has the power to drive equity," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released Tuesday the Department of Education's Ed Tech Developer's Guide, a 68-page report intended to serve as a prim... |
10.07.2014 | Sokikom Gets $1M from the Dept. of Ed. to Make Math Games Work | Sokikom continues to soak up the grants. The Mountain View, CA-based developer of game-based math exercises and lessons for grades K-6 has received another $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences i... |
17.12.2013 | Netflix’ Reed Hastings Leads $14.5M Series A1 for DreamBox | “In dreams begin responsibilities,” or so goes the epigram to a poetry volume, Responsibilities, by the Irish poet, W. B. Yeats. For DreamBox Learning, which announced a $14.5 million Series A1 round, its responsibility to show how technolo... |
03.12.2013 | Why It’s Never Mattered That America’s Schools ‘Lag’ Behind Other Countries [2013 Edition] | *Editorial Note: Every year, the media generally reports international student test comparisons with the same narrative about how the US is losing at education. The new annual report out today from the OECD will no doubt fuel another round ... |
22.02.2013 | With $2M From Zynga Co-founder & More, Sokikom Wants To Use Social, MMO Gaming To Help Kids Learn Math | Sokikom, a new startup that wants to help K-12 teachers motivate students to learn using games, is announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding, half of which comes in the form of a grant from the Institute of Education Sc... |
16.09.2012 | Why It’s Never Mattered That America’s Schools ‘Lag’ Behind Other Countries | The United States has never ranked at the top of international education tests, since we began comparing countries in 1964, yet has been the dominant economic and innovative force in the world the entire time. Despite this fact, a popular a... |
- | High school shop class is back—and it’s showing students alternatives to ‘traditional college’ | Thirty years ago, high school shop class seemed on track for extinction.
As school funding became a matter of standardized test scores in reading and math, the budget tightened for classes that taught woodworking and printmaking. From the 1... |
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- | Resource: Regional Education Labs | Ten Regional Educational Laboratories, supported by the federal Department of Education, include every U.S. state and territory; they work in partnership with school districts, state departments of education and others to provide support fo... |