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1 week ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. The court heard oral arguments for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond at the end of April, less than a month before issuing its decision.
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3 weeks ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
The Student Privacy Pledge — a voluntary promise to protect student data — ceased. The pledge was started to convince edtech companies to adopt transparency standards for working with K-12 schools. It’s an artifact of the early days of the edtech industry, when many states had yet to create laws around how these companies handle data.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
2 hours ago15 FREE iPhone Apps You'll Actually UseMaximize your iPhone’s potential with these 15 free apps that cater to productivity, creativity, and entertainment. While some offer optional premium …1 hour agoGeorgia college grads struggle to find work as recession worries loomYoung people compete not only with other graduates, but also experienced workers who were recently laid off.
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3 weeks ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
“When would I ever use this?” It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, “totally outdated,” math lessons just don’t seem to pull students in. Solving this motivation problem is tricky.
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1 month ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
Several years after the release of ChatGPT, which raised ethical concerns for education, schools are still wrestling with how to adopt artificial intelligence.
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1 month ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
When the Eaton and Palisades fires raged through Los Angeles, home of the second-largest school district in the country, they took lives and turned thousands of homes to ash, causing billions of dollars in damage. Much of the devastation was immediate and visible. But some scars will emerge slowly and last for years to come. A subtly pernicious one? Fear. The fires further frustrated student learning when schools are still struggling to recover from the pandemic.
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2 months ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
“Hey, I'm a principal at a school, and I forgot my password,” the voice said. “Can you help me?” The call came into a help desk at Beaverton School District. A city in Portland’s metropolitan area, Beaverton is home to a Nike factory and is the site of upcoming expansions for semiconductor manufacturing, funded by federal dollars under the CHIPS Act. In all, about 40,000 students attend the district.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
8 hours agoAfter a dinner with his wife and friends, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration agents at his New York apartment on March 8. The next night, the Columbia University graduate student went to bed in a remote Louisiana detention center almost three hours from the nearest city. Mask-wearing agents …
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2 months ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. Other assessments — such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam — have also indicated declining math abilities.
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2 months ago | 
edsurge.com | Daniel Mollenkamp
Under the first couple of months of the new administration, education has come in for significant and contested revamping. The federal education department has suffered deep cuts, which are the subject of a lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general. A bitterly disputed executive order has tasked Education Secretary Linda McMahon, wife of the wrestling impresario, with shuttering the department. She has called it a “final mission,” one that she claims will give parents greater control.
