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EdSurge Podcast

A weekly podcast about the future of learning. Join host Jeff Young and other EdSurge reporters as t

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Our current grading system can be a way for kids to prove themselves and win college scholarships, o

Robots are having a moment—including the announcement last week of a new home robot by Amazon. What

Meet a U.S. educator who has been tutoring students in China for years from her basement closet, onl

It's hard to generalize about which is “better” for learning — online or in person. Because both cle

EdSurge has spent the last month auctioning off our first NFT, a digital token on the blockchain, to

Big changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive tha

To fit all the billions of neurons in the human brain into our heads, they're organized so that brai

Online high schools were growing even before the pandemic struck, and some online schools were begin

This week we're hearing stories from the “educational underground"—the experimental programs and “hi

There’s all this buzz about NFTs these days, with artists using the blockchain-based format to sell

Sometime early in elementary school, kids are put on one of two paths: regular or gifted. Where did

Freeman Hrabowski is a college president who has long fought for civil rights and racial justice. Wh

Learning science is always advancing, yielding new insights about how people gain and retain knowled

Little kids are curious about race and difference. So how are teachers preparing to help children de

Just after the pandemic began, we reached out to one of the masters of making educational videos, Jo

Teachers around the country have been giving an unusual assignment to their students that goes like

We’re living in a world of big data, but also one where misinformation spreads like never before. On

People don’t talk much today about early teaching machines, some of which were made out of wood and

Only two percent of teachers in the U.S. are black men. Markus Flynn, executive director of the nonp

Today, one in five college students is a parent. Yet few higher ed institutions track parenting stat