Howard Dvorsky

Second grade teacher Demetria Richardson spends so much on school supplies she has a designated credit card to cover classroom expenses. Just don’t tell her husband what the balance is, she said. Usually, the 26-year veteran educator in Richmond, Virginia, spends about $500 on back-to-school items. Over the past month, she has already topped that — and she’s not done shopping. Crowdfunding on Dono...[Read More]

Despite $30-40 billion in enterprise spending on generative AI, 95% of organizations are seeing no business return, according to a recent report out of the MIT Media Lab.

According to Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service, while secure remote access remains a key driver of DaaS adoption, a growing number of deployments now focus on broader efficiency goals.

This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. I didn’t know I had ADHD until adulthood, but looking back, the signs were always there. I was the student who stayed up until 2 a.m. rewriting papers because I couldn’t organize my thoughts until the pressure turned into panic. In school, I became a master of masking, mirroring my peers and hyper-focusing...[Read More]

Learning leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to theories just like theories lead to knowledge. It’s all circular in such an obvious way. Source

Costa’s levels of questioning feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher level thinking and inquiry. Source

Let’s stop the endless worksheets and cooperative groups that skim through text merely to find answers and grow a culture of reading. Source

We can’t control everything and apologizing for things out of our control can set unrealistic expectations of teachers. Source

Classroom educators are using artificial intelligence to help with their work, yet union agreements have not caught up.

Joanna Cook, chief technology officer at East Noble School Corporation in Indiana, had a problem. “We were transitioning from iPads to Chromebooks, but I was getting pushback from our elementary school special needs educators.” Cook emailed the situation to the 1,600 members on the HECC (Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators) listserv. Within hours, tech leaders from all over the state respond...[Read More]

All photos by Sam Chaltain In these final weeks of August, as summer’s meandering pace winds down, a new school year across the country is gradually getting underway. How should those 180 days best be spent? And of all the things our schools could place at the center of their curricula, what choices would allow kids not just to learn something new, but create something beautiful and lasting in the...[Read More]

Ed tech company Cambium Learning Group has announced plans to combine its ExploreLearning and Learning A-Z brands, with a new name and brand identity to be introduced in early 2026.