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Mockumentary Explores College Admissions — and Post-Pandemic Student Life
A mockumentary web series made by undergraduates makes some timely observations about college admissions, and about student life after the pandemic —…
2 years, 8 months ago
Today’s Kids Are Inundated With Tech. When Does it Help — and Hurt?
The pandemic has sparked more-nuanced conversations about kids and tech, getting away from simple questions of how much screen time to allow. Now, on…
2 years, 8 months ago
Group Project Horror Stories — And How to Avoid Them
EdSurge recently took a microphone to a university campus and asked several students to share their group project horror stories. Every student we ta…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Power of Storytelling for Youth
For more than a decade, the nonprofit behind the popular storytelling podcast The Moth has run workshops in schools to help students share impactful …
2 years, 9 months ago
Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights? (Encore Episode)
A new documentary follows an educator and activist pushing to require schools to offer reading instruction that has been proven effective, calling it…
2 years, 9 months ago
Who Does School Reform Serve?
A professor of urban education dug into the history of school reform in Philadelphia, and came away with questions of what motivates large-scale effo…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Legacy Admissions May Be on the Way Out
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the consideration of race in college admissions has sparked a strong push to also end the consid…
2 years, 10 months ago
How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research
Scholars have taken to podcasting, interviewing each other about ideas and sharing their favorite areas of knowledge. Even when audiences are small, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Why Class Diversity Can Be ‘Invisible’ at Colleges
As colleges think about diversity on their campuses, they need to consider issues of class as well as race. Because especially among Black students a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Using AI to Test Which Teaching Materials Work
A group of researchers developed a tool that uses AI to test and improve digital course materials. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, two of those resea…
2 years, 10 months ago