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How Does Higher Education Procurement Work?
If your business has been trying to make its mark in the higher education market, understanding how procurement works can … Read more The post How Does Higher Education Procurement Work? appeared first on eCampus News.
How a Best-Selling Food Writer Came to Run a Wish List-Clearing Project for Teachers
As someone who views cooking and baking as hobbies, not chores, I follow a lot of food bloggers and recipe developers on social media. I subscribe to many of their newsletters. I, well, make and eat a lot of their food. Yet I’ve only come across one ...[Read More]
Are Educators a Natural Fit for Public Office? These Candidates Think So
When Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate earlier this month, his ascendancy helped to elevate the idea of educators serving in public office. Walz, who served several terms in Congress before becoming the governor of Minnesota in 20...[Read More]
Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools
This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. Bu...[Read More]
How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading
“You go into your own world for a moment. Like, if someone’s talking to me and I’m reading a book, I wouldn’t hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. “You can understand someo...[Read More]
How Home Visiting Programs Benefit the Whole Family
This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. About nine months ago, Dara told me she was interested in bringing her mother and nephew from Syria to the United States, and she needed assistance. She had immigrated to Evanston, Illinois from S...[Read More]
How to Transform Lessons Into Adventures
Imagine a classroom with students deeply engaged in their lessons, eagerly solving math problems and exploring English skills through fun digital games. Their excitement is evident as they face challenges and earn rewards, turning traditional learnin...[Read More]
As Federal Dollars Vanish, Districts Weigh Which Edtech Tools to Drop
For Evangelina Mendoza, a chief information technology officer for San Antonio Independent School District in Texas, the impending end of federal pandemic relief money is forcing tough choices. Part of that is ruthlessly reevaluating the edtech purch...[Read More]
Despite the Challenges, This Is Why I Wear a Hijab as a Muslim Teacher
In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hi...[Read More]
When the Teaching Assistant Is an AI ‘Twin’ of the Professor
Two instructors at Vilnius University in Lithuania brought in some unusual teaching assistants earlier this year: AI chatbot versions of themselves. The instructors — Paul Jurcys and Goda Strikaitė-Latušinskaja — created AI chatbots trained only on a...[Read More]
Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?
The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students k...[Read More]
SchoolData Announces Strategic Merger With Munetrix to Empower Educators
SchoolData Solutions, a premier education technology company known for its innovative data tools and software solutions, has announced its merger with Munetrix, a leading provider of performance analytics solutions for K-12 schools. The post SchoolDa...[Read More]