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Girls Are Scoring Worse Than Boys in Science and Math — Again. What Now?
When it was released in September, the latest national assessment showed some upsetting, although not surprising, trends. Considered a good window into how K-12 students in the U.S. are faring, the latest results from the National Assessment of Educa...[Read More]
Learning to Let Go (and Stay Connected): A Parent’s View from 2040
By: Carri Schneider The sun is just rising over the reef, and I can hear my youngest arguing with Scout, his personalized AI assistant, about whether his flipper technique counts as adaptive movement or just flailing. From the other side of the boat,...[Read More]
Do Cellphone Bans Really Fix Student Engagement? (Opinion)
Can schools offer a more compelling alternative to social media or AI?
Beyond the Textbook: Integrating Social Media Analytics into the Modern Marketing Curriculum
Integrating social media analytics into the modern marketing curriculum for beyond the textbook learning experience for professional development. The post Beyond the Textbook: Integrating Social Media Analytics into the Modern Marketing Curriculum fi...[Read More]
Why Most Principals Say Cellphone Bans Improve School Climate
Nearly 3 in 4 principals believe banning cellphones has big upsides.
Microsoft Copilot Fall Update Introduces New Features
Microsoft has introduced a major update to its Copilot AI platform, adding new features to make the system more personalized, collaborative, and integrated across its suite of products.
OpenAI Launches AI-Powered Web Browser
OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a standalone browser that places ChatGPT at the heart of everyday web activity. This release represents a major expansion of the company’s efforts to reshape how users search, browse, and complete tasks online...[Read More]
Fingerprints and Blood Spatter: How a College Readies the Next Cohort of Investigators
Just past the guard gates at Gwynedd Mercy University, about an hour northeast of Philadelphia, is a pale yellow, two-story Colonial. It looks like any other suburban house — red shutters, front and back porches, garbage and recycling cans in the bac...[Read More]
Small by Design: What Big Systems Can Learn from Microschools
Microschools are rethinking what it means to scale by showing that sometimes the biggest impact begins small. It is a few weeks into the school year at Flourish Schools in Nashville. In a bright, flexible classroom tucked inside a renovated office bu...[Read More]
Do School Cellphone Bans Work? What Early Findings Tell Us
A pair of research projects look at the impact on discipline and academic achievement.
Teachers Worry AI Will Impede Students’ Critical Thinking Skills. Many Teens Aren’t So Sure
A majority of educators fear students may become dependent on generative AI tools for basic tasks.
Why ‘School Choice’ Doesn’t Feel Empowering to Many Families
Bailey Brown was 4 when her parents had her tested for New York’s gifted-and-talented program. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1990s, Brown had little understanding at the time why she was taking the test or what her answers meant to her examiner. Year...[Read More]