[ad_1] Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really unlucky, perhaps a teammate repackaged your work as their own. Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo ...

[ad_1] The childcare sector was already fragile when the pandemic hit, causing immense damage. In 2021, recognizing the urgency of the situation, Congress stepped in and provided $52 billion in grants, mostly through the US bailout, to stabilize the industry. These grants, which were given to states to improve the affordability, availability and quality of ...

[ad_1] Last fall, Gisela Sance’s landlord approached her family about raising the rent. He wanted $2,000 a month, an astonishing hike over the $1,300 she and her husband were paying for the house they lived in with their young son. The decision to leave was painful but not hard: There was no way they could ...

[ad_1] Kareem Edouard has been researching for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. And these days, he’s putting those ideas into practice – on a big platform. He is applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats!, aimed at teaching computational thinking ...

[ad_1] School is out for the summer. School’s out…forever? When we started designing a summer reading list of EdSurge articles from 2023 that have been the most popular so far this year, we couldn’t help but notice a trend: readers are craving stories about teachers leaving the profession. In fact, our top stories all address ...

[ad_1] As another school year draws to a close, so does another round of our Voices of Change Writing Fellowship – a program that brings together a diverse cohort of kindergarten educators and school leaders. to grade 12 to share their experiences. Our 2022-23 cohort included eight talented scholars who worked with our scholarship editors ...

[ad_1] Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short course in wilderness medicine. This was a hands-on lesson where a volunteer pretended to have, say, a broken leg – complete with stage make-up blood and bruises to heighten the effect – and the ...

[ad_1] In late April, Colorado Governor Jared Polis sat at his desk making phone calls. The governor, that day, called to announce good news. He wanted to personally congratulate some of the 22,087 families who matched with their provider of choice for Colorado’s free universal preschool program, which will launch this fall. A parent named ...