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Why All Teachers Need Training in Mental Health and Social Work
These days teachers need some basic training in a number of fields, including mental health and social work, to be effective in the classroom, argues…
3 years, 1 month ago
What Does Gen Z Want From Education?
With every new generation of students there’s an effort to understand what’s different about them, and what motivates them as they enter society and …
3 years, 1 month ago
Did Liberal Arts Colleges Miss a Chance to Become More Inclusive After the Pandemic?
Two longtime professors hoped the pandemic would reset the small liberal arts colleges where they taught. So they wrote a book-length manifesto layin…
3 years, 1 month ago
Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights?
A new documentary called 'The Right to Read' follows an educator and activist pushing to require schools to offer reading instruction that has been p…
3 years, 1 month ago
An Inside Look at the ‘Student Disengagement Crisis’ (Encore Episode)
EdSurge visited large lecture classes to get a sense of what college feels like now that COVID is more under control after years of pandemic disrupti…
3 years, 2 months ago
Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT
Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, w…
3 years, 2 months ago
Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science
Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn.…
3 years, 2 months ago
What Traditional Colleges Can Learn From a Free Online University
A free-tuition online institution called University of the People has grown into a mega-college. Its founder and president says other colleges can le…
3 years, 2 months ago
Do Active-Shooter Drills in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?
Active-shooter drills are now common at schools and colleges. But the sometimes-intense simulations can be traumatic for some children, and some pare…
3 years, 3 months ago
Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson In ‘Thinking 101’
Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A Yale University psychology professor has gath…
3 years, 3 months ago