Some Advocates Concerned As States Push for Cameras in Special Education Classrooms - EdSurge News The debate around technology in the classroom typically centers on children’s devices. But what about surveillance technology?

Five states —Florida, Iowa, Maryland, South Carolina, and Tennessee—introduced bills this year to place cameras in self-contained special education classrooms. https://bit.ly/4cg3nNw

Teaching Showed Me Education Isn’t the Great Equalizer - EdSurge News What I once believed about schools shifted when I saw how deeply students’ lives outside the classroom shape their opportunities.

Avery Thrush, a former teacher now at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, writes that student success depends on "an aligned system of supports that begins at birth." https://bit.ly/4ce1qlT

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As a Tool of Productivity, AI Can Make the Effort to Learn More Meaningful - EdSurge News I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of Utah in the early 1970s. ...

Joseph South, chief innovation officer at ISTE+ASCD, writes that AI has the potential to offload "unproductive struggle" while preserving the effort that leads to meaningful learning. https://bit.ly/4e7hPK5

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From “Hello, World!” to AI: What Skills Actually Prepare Students for the Future? - EdSurge News This article is part of the collection: Teaching Tech: Navigating Learning and AI in the Industrial Revolution.A little over a decade ago, schools were ...

A two-year study found that most teachers, including those in engineering and computer science, still can't identify a clear or universal instructional use case for widespread AI integration. https://bit.ly/4slJnPs

Screens in Schools: What the New Screen-Time Debate Means for Educators - EdSurge News The screen-time debate is no longer confined to parenting advice. As states introduce legislation limiting devices in schools, and pediatric ...

In a 2025 RAND survey, roughly two-thirds of pre-K teachers reported using games on electronic devices in their classrooms. https://bit.ly/41rDc1f

Study: Delaying Kindergarten Has Few Longterm Benefits - EdSurge News Parents have yet another choice to make in raising their children: whether or not to redshirt their kids, or keep them from entering kindergarten at ...

About 5% of students are "redshirted," held back a year before kindergarten, a figure that has held steady since the 1990s, per a new NWEA report. https://bit.ly/4m1edeQ

As a Tool of Productivity, AI Can Make the Effort to Learn More Meaningful - EdSurge News I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of Utah in the early 1970s. ...

Joseph South, chief innovation officer at ISTE+ASCD, writes that AI has the potential to offload "unproductive struggle" while preserving the effort that leads to meaningful learning. https://bit.ly/4e7hPK5

More California 4-Year-Olds Are in Publicly Funded Preschool Than Ever - EdSurge News When it comes to universal pre-kindergarten, California has made significant progress — 62 percent of 4-year-olds were enrolled in publicly funded ...

62% of California 4-year-olds were enrolled in publicly funded early childhood programs in 2024–25, up from 42% in 2019–20, according to a new Learning Policy Institute report. https://bit.ly/4tfZgby

Which Education Jobs Are Growing the Fastest? Mostly Non-Classroom Roles. - EdSurge News Student support and tech professions are projected to make gains while teaching positions shrink.

Federal data projects short-term substitute teachers will see the largest net job gains in education by 2034, more than 10,000 new positions. https://bit.ly/4dkl3K9

The Fellowship That Taught Me Good Teaching Doesn’t Require Perfection - EdSurge News The courage to tell my own stories, even the uncomfortable ones, transformed how I show up for my students and for myself.

Fatema Elbakoury, a San Francisco high school teacher, writes that her Voices of Change fellowship required "a kind of vulnerability that went deeper than what I modeled for my students." https://bit.ly/48hNxAI

What Students Gain When Teachers — Not AI — Grade Students’ Work - EdSurge News How a lawyer-turned-teacher-turned-AI ethicist used assessment to personalize instruction before AI-powered edtech existed.

About two-thirds of teachers who use AI say it has improved grading quality and open-ended student feedback, according to new EdSurge research. https://bit.ly/4bHok53

The Math Skill Schools Should Teach — Gambling - EdSurge News As the number of underage students who gamble increases, some argue that schools should add gambling literacy to their curricula.

More than a third of boys will gamble before turning 18, a Common Sense report found. Some researchers say stronger math and probability skills could help students make more informed choices. https://bit.ly/41a0AjX

The AI Use Case Question Teachers Are Still Asking - EdSurge News This article is part of the collection: Teaching Tech: Navigating Learning and AI in the Industrial Revolution.A fourth-grade teacher asked a simple ...

In fall 2024, researchers facilitated discussions with 17 teachers from around the world about generative AI in the classroom. Indifference was the most prominent theme. www.edsurge.com/news/2026-03-27-the-ai-u...

Beyond the Classroom: How School Districts Are Building Real-World Career Pathways - EdSurge News Some school districts are moving well beyond career simulations, partnering instead with clients in the community to give students opportunities to ...

About 264 students at St. Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colorado work after school as paid district employees on project teams serving real clients — from drone shows to cybersecurity assignments. https://bit.ly/4cT0UdM

Too Many Tools, Not Enough Impact: Districts Rethink Their Edtech Stacks - EdSurge News QUALITY OVER QUANTITY: A re-examination of digital tools was already underway in districts, as part of curriculum reviews and budget trimming after ...

Community Consolidated School District 15 in Illinois held a three-session tech focus group to define which digital tools serve its 11,000 preK-8 students and which do not. https://bit.ly/4vh85TU

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Why Not Ask Why: 'Digital Delusion' Author Urges Educators to Rethink Technology’s Reach - EdSurge News Education needs an analog reboot, says neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath in his new book, “The Digital Delusion,” which lays out how technology has ...

In "The Digital Delusion," neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath argues that handwriting and note-taking — not edtech — are core to how children learn and develop cognitively. https://bit.ly/4dL33IQ

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National Survey of Parents Identifies Barriers to Family Well-Being - EdSurge News Money woes continue to confound middle- and lower-income families and keep them from even the simplest benefits, such as spending more time together, ...

A new Capita/YouGov survey of 1,000 parents found two-thirds said stress made it hard to be as patient with their children as they wanted to be in the last month. https://bit.ly/3NH4CwY

Why the Social Media Addiction Case Isn’t Over Yet - EdSurge News INDEFINITE SCROLL: In what legal observers have called social media’s “Big Tobacco Moment,” a jury has found that Meta and Google’s social media app ...

A California jury found Meta and Google negligent in designing Instagram and YouTube, contributing to a teen plaintiff's mental health problems. Tweens and teens spend roughly one-fifth of their day on social media. https://bit.ly/4shJcVf

Lawsuits Test New Legal Theories About What Causes Social Media Addiction - EdSurge News “At a high level, what the school districts are saying is, ‘You targeted kids. You knew that your product was potentially dangerous because it was ...

School districts suing social media companies argue they've had to redirect resources away from curriculum to manage student mental health issues tied to excessive platform use. https://bit.ly/3NMAjoB

I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway. - EdSurge News THE BEAUTIFUL BURDEN OF HARD WORK: Poet and educator katie wills evans, an EdSurge Voices of Change fellow during the 2022-2023 school year, ...

84% of high school students used generative AI to complete schoolwork, per a May 2025 study. University of New Orleans writing instructor Katie Wills Evans reflects on what she sees as the longer-term costs of that shift.
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Some Advocates Concerned As States Push for Cameras in Special Education Classrooms - EdSurge News The debate around technology in the classroom typically centers on children’s devices. But what about surveillance technology?

Five states —Florida, Iowa, Maryland, South Carolina, and Tennessee—introduced bills this year to place cameras in self-contained special education classrooms. https://bit.ly/4cg3nNw

Study: Delaying Kindergarten Has Few Longterm Benefits - EdSurge News Parents have yet another choice to make in raising their children: whether or not to redshirt their kids, or keep them from entering kindergarten at ...

About 5% of students are "redshirted," held back a year before kindergarten, a figure that has held steady since the 1990s, per a new NWEA report. https://bit.ly/4m1edeQ

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Screens in Schools: What the New Screen-Time Debate Means for Educators - EdSurge News The screen-time debate is no longer confined to parenting advice. As states introduce legislation limiting devices in schools, and pediatric ...

In a 2025 RAND survey, roughly two-thirds of pre-K teachers reported using games on electronic devices in their classrooms. https://bit.ly/41rDc1f