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Lauraine Langreo

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Staff writer for @edweek.org, covering K-12 #EdTech, student wellbeing, future of work, and learning environments. #EduSky https://www.edweek.org/by/lauraine-langreo

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Dec 2

hellooo #EduSky! i'm a reporter for Education Week, covering all things ed tech and student wellbeing. i'm new around here (and honestly a bit rusty with posting since that other app went downhill). if you're an educator, researcher, parent, student, etc., please say hi! :)

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 1d

Federal funding cuts for K-12 schools continue to loom even as the government shutdown drags on. But what do the students who will be most affected by those cuts think? @laurainegl.bsky.social followed a few on Capitol Hill: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding

National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you a K-12 educator participating in or helping students with the Presidential AI Challenge? I'd love to chat with you! DM or email me: [email protected].

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech

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Education Week @edweek.org · 4d

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding: National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding

National Student Council representatives shared perspectives on challenges schools are facing.

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Arianna Prothero @ariannaprothero.bsky.social · 5d

This is a really important issue, and my coworker @evieblad.bsky.social explains it perfectly:

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#EDUsky #EduSkyAI #edtech #AIineducation #SPED #SpecEd #SpecialEducation

Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns

Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.

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Arianna Prothero @ariannaprothero.bsky.social · 13d

Schools’ heavy reliance on the services of major technology companies comes with significant risks. Those risks became a reality this week when an outage at Amazon Web Services led to widespread internet disruptions. Story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/technology/a... #edtech

AWS Outage Hit Schools Hard. How to Prepare for the Next Tech Meltdown

Schools need continuity plans that feature teaching without the help of technology.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 21d

One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate: New report addresses concerns about kids' screen time in school.

One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate

New report addresses concerns about kids' screen time in school.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 18d

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests: While the differences in scores are subtle, researchers say it could add up in the long term.

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests

While the differences in scores are subtle, researchers say it could add up in the long term.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 15d

'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy: Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy

Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

Our unit has made concessions. It has worked cooperatively. It’s time for EdWeek to stop having its lowest paid employees shoulder the company’s financial future. It is EdWeek’s turn now to come back with a reasonable and meaningful offer.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

EdWeek spent nearly DOUBLE our requested salary increase in legal expenses, per the company’s 2024 tax forms. Their lawyer once chastised us for asking for this raise just so we could “buy horses.” Our lowest paid employee makes less than $45,000. We don’t want horses. We want to buy groceries.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

EdWeek management repeatedly has told us that we’re a nonprofit, and our salaries are reflective of that. Chalkbeat’s CEO made $298,306in 2024. 74 Million’s CEO made $266,904. Ours made $531,400. How can that logic only apply to our lowest paid employees?

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

The annual raise would cost the company approx. $140,000. We know this isn’t chump change. But the average salary of senior leadership at EdWeek is $300,776, while the average salary for an EdWeek employee is $73,854.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

In the DMV, the cost of living is roughly $107,882 (SmartAsset). We’re not asking for anywhere near that. The salary floor would be a meaningful raise for 11 employees. We think this is a worthy investment to retain hardworking and diligent employees, and recruit new talent.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

EdWeek came back initially with a 1% annual increase. Our membership—who struggle to afford rent and groceries, who rely on subsidies and second jobs to make ends meet—resoundingly said that this wasn’t good enough. EdWeek moved to 1.5%, before discretionary raises. It still isn’t enough.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

We want to keep the hardworking employees we have, some who have given this company 20+ years. We want to recruit new talent to keep Education Week successful and ever-evolving. But it has to make sense for them to be here. And right now, for many, those numbers don’t add up.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

We are asking for a 3.5% annual increase, before discretionary merit raises, and a salary floor of $65,000. Let’s be clear: This is a fair ask, one that is financially solvent and one that doesn’t risk the future of our company. In fact: The future is precisely what we’re worried about.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

For 17 months, salary has been on the bargaining table. Despite our bargaining team’s creative and cooperative solutions to bring the unit’s needs closer to the company’s desires, we have again and again received disappointing—and insulting—counteroffers from management. Our staff deserves more.

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edweekunion.bsky.social @edweekunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

Hi! We're the EdWeek Union - roughly 50 people who work tirelessly to make our nonprofit news organization a key destination for educators and the general public. We wanted to share an update on our efforts to bargain with management for a fair contract that protects all of us. 🧵
#union #solidarity

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 16

Elizabeth Bacon: Educators shouldn't fall for the “fallacy” that AI is the inevitable future because technology companies are the ones saying that and they have an incentive to say that.

‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom

Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 16

Jed Williams: “So much of learning is being put into a situation that is cognitively challenging. These tools, fundamentally, are built on relieving the burden of cognitive challenge."

‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom

Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 16

Dylan Kane: The fact that teachers have to use generative AI tools to create student materials “points to larger issues in the teaching profession” around the curricula and classroom resources teachers are given. AI is not “an ideal solution. That’s a Band-Aid for a larger problem.”

‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom

Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 16

I talked to three teachers who are concerned that districts are buying into the AI hype too quickly and without enough skepticism. Here's what they said:

‘It Will Stunt My Growth as a Teacher’: 3 Arguments Against AI in the Classroom

Three veteran teachers share their concerns about using AI for instruction.

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 11

i am once again asking: if you're a K-12 educator or student who has registered to participate in this challenge, i'd love to hear from you! DM or email me: [email protected]

Education Week @edweek.org · Sep 8

The White House has launched its new Presidential AI Challenge to spur students and teachers to solve problems in their schools and communities with the help of AI.
https://edw.link/k5z

Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you a K-12 educator participating in or helping students with the Presidential AI Challenge? I'd love to chat with you! DM or email me: [email protected].

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech

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Lauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · Sep 8

The White House launched its new Presidential AI Challenge to spur students and teachers to solve problems in their schools and communities with the help of AI.

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #AI #EdTech

Melania Trump Issues an AI Challenge for Students. Will It Help Build AI Literacy?

The challenge invites K-12 students and educators to solve real-world problems with the help of AI.

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