All families, especially immigrant families, need access to home visiting programs.
Investing in early childhood education has significant benefits for children and families. Yet these programs are perpetually underfunded and understaffed.
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For EdSurge's Voices of Change series, Noelani Gabriel Holt, principal at Girls Prep Bronx II, discusses how her anxiety shapes her identity and experiences, how she copes with it and leverages it as a strength in her work.
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"Students, staff and peers have misconceptions about what it means to wear a hijab. Instead of leaving the classroom, I’m humanizing my experience."
Read about Hind Haddad's journey as a Muslim teacher in a predominantly white school:
Experts in artificial intelligence have experimented with creating chatbots that can fill support roles in classrooms.
On the EdSurge Podcast, we hear from two instructors who brought in AI chatbot versions of themselves as teaching assistants this year:
2023 was the hottest year ever recorded on the planet — by far. More than halfway in, 2024 is on track to exceed it.
In early care and education, children and caregivers are finding that the heat is disrupting their everyday routines.
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New federal data shows slight improvements in youth mental health, but long-term trends remain concerning, with increased bullying and safety fears.
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Jeremy Price, an associate professor at Indiana University, was curious to if new AI chatbots including ChatGPT are biased around issues of race and class.
So he devised an unusual experiment to find out.
Hear about his findings on the EdSurge Podcast:
When Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate, his ascendancy helped to elevate the idea of educators serving in public office.
Politics is a natural progression for educators, teacher-candidates and political scientists say.
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As generative AI tools promise to draft properly-formatted text from simple prompts and the click of a button, new questions are rising about what role college writing centers should play.
Will they be needed in the future?
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Each summer, Deb Perelman, a best-selling food writer, welcomes teachers to share their school supply lists in a Google form and calls upon her 1.8 million followers to help purchase what they can.
Read our exclusive interview with Perelman, here:
"The families I worked with were being re-traumatized by systems that were designed to keep them under-resourced and in a state of chronic stress."
For our Voices series, we spoke with Lauren Snelling about her experiences as a Black woman counselor:
Education reform movements appear to be caught in a loop, attempting similar changes “again and again.” These changes pit education research against each other. Meanwhile, students still struggle to read.
Is education is prone to “fads"?
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Chaula Butterworth was a stay-at-home mom before the pandemic, raising her three school-aged kids.
But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, Butterworth felt something of a call to service.
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More and more teenagers across the country are completing advanced classes — offered through community colleges — while juggling typical high school activities.
Is this a way to spur college-going while also ameliorating high tuition prices?
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“Learning to appreciate my anxiety as an essential part of who I am has been a challenging process, but it’s been critical to my growth as a leader.” —Noelani Gabriel Holt, principal and EdSurge fellow