Districts Relying More on Data to Identify Gifted Students
Schools are finding new, data-driven ways to re-approach gifted and talented programs -- with a focus on inclusivity.
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Returning to What it Means to Make School Human Again
After years of disruption, what does it mean to make schools human again? One educator reflects on moving from demoraliz...
DOJ Extends Website Accessibility Deadline. Will It Help Schools Get Ready?
The federal government punted enforcement for website and mobile app accessibility. But will schools just end up in the...
The Digital Accessibility Deadline Is Here. Schools Aren’t Ready.
A major digital accessibility deadline that impacts schools and vendors is here. Schools aren’t ready.
What Makes Edtech Work for Students [Infographic]
Even the most well-intentioned edtech can fall short if it does not meet students where they are. After several years st...
Teaching Showed Me Education Isn’t the Great Equalizer
What I once believed about schools shifted when I saw how deeply students’ lives outside the classroom shape their oppor...
More California 4-Year-Olds Are in Publicly Funded Preschool Than Ever
When it comes to universal pre-kindergarten, California has made significant progress — 62 percent of 4-year-olds were e...
Why the Social Media Addiction Case Isn’t Over Yet
INDEFINITE SCROLL: In what legal observers have called social media’s “Big Tobacco Moment,” a jury has found that Meta a...
How Teachers Make Writing Achievable Without Lowering Standards
“I’m just not a good writer.”It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assign...
The Fellowship That Taught Me Good Teaching Doesn’t Require Perfection
The courage to tell my own stories, even the uncomfortable ones, transformed how I show up for my students and for mysel...
Some Advocates Concerned As States Push for Cameras in Special Education Classrooms
The debate around technology in the classroom typically centers on children’s devices. But what about surveillance techn...
As a Tool of Productivity, AI Can Make the Effort to Learn More Meaningful
I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the Universit...
Too Many Tools, Not Enough Impact: Districts Rethink Their Edtech Stacks
QUALITY OVER QUANTITY: A re-examination of digital tools was already underway in districts, as part of curriculum review...
I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway.
At a time when AI can do the work for us, choosing to write — messily, slowly and together — may be one of the last ways...
From “Hello, World!” to AI: What Skills Actually Prepare Students for the Future?
This article is part of the collection: Teaching Tech: Navigating Learning and AI in the Industrial Revolution.A little...
The AI Use Case Question Teachers Are Still Asking
This article is part of the collection: Teaching Tech: Navigating Learning and AI in the Industrial Revolution.A fourth-...
Which Education Jobs Are Growing the Fastest? Mostly Non-Classroom Roles.
Student support and tech professions are projected to make gains while teaching positions shrink.
Study: Delaying Kindergarten Has Few Longterm Benefits
Parents have yet another choice to make in raising their children: whether or not to redshirt their kids, or keep them f...