How College Students Can Use IT Skills for U.S. Foreign Service By Erik Ofgang Undergraduate and graduate students with IT-related majors are eligible for the Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship.
New CDC School Masking Study: What You Need to Know By Erik Ofgang Between mid-July and the end of August, schools in Arizona without mask requirements were much more likely to be the site of a COVID outbreak.
Class Crowdfunding: What You Need to Know By Erik Ofgang Educators have raised millions of dollars for their classrooms through crowdfunding.
How Refocusing CTE Programs Can Help Boost Students and Communities By Dr. Kecia Ray CTE (career and technical education) provides opportunities for students to prepare for careers and support local economies
Year-Round Schools: 5 Things To Know By Erik Ofgang Schools that employ a year-round or balanced calendar hope to limit learning loss and provide more resources and one-on-one attention for students.
How Emily Oster’s COVID-19 School Data Hub Can Help K-12 By Erik Ofgang The COVID-19 School Data Hub has been launched by a team headed by Brown University economics professor Emily Oster to help answer questions about the pandemic’s impact on learning loss
NYC DOE Beyond Access Forum Coming November 2, 2021 By TL Editors On November 2, the NYC Beyond Access Forum will offer workshops, expert speakers, and panel discussions about equity, accessibility, literacy, and more
How Machine Learning Is Having an Impact on Education By Erik Ofgang Discovery Education has partnered with Amazon Web Services to enhance its platform with machine learning. It’s one of many ways machine learning is being used in K-12 today.
Saliva COVID Tests: What Educators Need to Know By Erik Ofgang Saliva COVID tests are inexpensive, fast, and less cumbersome than nasal swabs, say spit test enthusiasts.
Chatbots in K-12: What You Need to Know By Erik Ofgang Chatbots, or digital AI assistants, are increasingly being used in K-12 as an equitable intervention to promote student engagement and retention
5 Edtech Research Trends & Needs For The Future By Erik Ofgang Equitable edtech, individualized learning, and innovation will be among the focuses of a new collaborative at the University of California, Irvine formed to research technology's potential in childhood learning.
What The Build Back Better Act Will Mean for Education By Susan Gentz The Build Back Better Act should create new opportunities to boost education infrastructure and increase accessibility
Study: Productive Failure a Success in Education By Erik Ofgang Research suggests encouraging students to fail productively can help them learn new skills more efficiently.
Why Traditional Lectures Won’t End Anytime Soon in Higher Ed Despite Better Approaches Being Available By Erik Ofgang For years, research has shown that students learn more through active learning than from passive traditional lecture, but the old habit is hard to break.
How Geoscience Students Are Saving Lives Globally By Erik Ofgang Geoscientists Without Borders works with researchers and their students globally to help solve humanitarian crises.
What is “Test to Stay” and Can It Limit COVID Quarantines in Schools? By Erik Ofgang Results from a CDC study conducted in Utah suggested the Test to Stay strategy could keep more students in class, but concerns remain about rapid test accuracy.
How Dangerous is Delta for K-12 Students? By Erik Ofgang More than 180,000 children have caught COVID over the past month, but the risk of severe disease appears to still be rare.
Audiobooks for Students: Listening to What the Research Says By Erik Ofgang Audiobooks have grown increasingly popular but some educators are still hesitant to encourage their use. This may be a mistake.
Virtual Academies: South Carolina’s Strategy for Success By Erik Ofgang In South Carolina, 47 school districts are launching virtual academies. Here are some of the strategies that will help make them work.
COVID Quarantines: 4 Strategies to Keep Kids in Class as Delta Surges By Erik Ofgang Increased testing, vaccines, and loosened quarantine restrictions among strategies districts are employing to keep students in-person at school.
