Howard Dvorsky

The fastest way to transform learning isn’t just purchasing curriculum—it’s building alignment among educators at all levels  

By: Rachel Sherman and Katie Yezzi  Across America, school districts pour immense resources into purchasing new curriculum to help boost student outcomes. Yet a critical piece of the school improvement puzzle is often overlooked: ensuring all educators—from classroom teachers to district superintendents—align their efforts with the design and demands of that curriculum.   In too many school distri...[Read More]

Teacher Workload and Staff Vacancies Remain Top Challenges for Schools

Cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool recently released its 2026 K-12 EdTech Pulse report, a national survey of more than 1,300 educators and administrators conducted in collaboration with Project Tomorrow.

Report: AI Adoption Surging, while Infrastructure and Language Gaps Persist

Artificial intelligence may be spreading faster than previous waves of consumer tech, but a recent report from Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute suggests its benefits are concentrating in a relatively small set of countries, with infrastructure and language emerging as major dividing lines.

AI Is Different From Other Ed Tech. Here’s How (Opinion)

Debates over artificial intelligence are really about asking some big philosophical questions.

IBM, Discovery Education to Provide Free PD in AI, Cybersecurity, and Digital Literacy

Discovery Education and IBM have partnered to provide free, credentialed professional development for high school educators, focused on AI, cybersecurity, and digital literacy.

What Could BG Be? | A Conversation with Sam Ford and Sangita Shresthova

In an ever-evolving world, the ability to imagine and build a shared future is more important than ever. Over the past few years, I’ve been captivated by the power of consensus-building and tools that prioritize unity over division. This curiosity led me to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where a groundbreaking initiative—Bowling Green 2050—is inspiring communities to reimagine their future. By leveragin...[Read More]

Why District Leaders Are Rethinking Education Research and Policy

Today, district leaders are being asked to make irreversible budget decisions with fewer dollars and less margin for error than ever before. Yet many districts are making those decisions with limited evidence of what actually works in their classrooms — not because leaders lack interest in data, but because few systems are designed to support real-time learning at the district level. For school an...[Read More]

The Architecture of Ability: How Evidence-Centered Design and UDL Can Shape AI-Era Assessment

ECD, UDL, and The Cow Path Educational measurement is at a crossroads. Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) finally opens a pathway to move beyond the industrial-era, one-size-fits-all summative test in favor of unobtrusive, agentic, and adaptive assessment. But directing raw computing power at children without guardrails is ill-advised. Using AI to churn out traditional items at scale risks “p...[Read More]

Do Teachers Have the Skills to Use AI? New Test Aims to Find Out

ETS, known for licensing tests, wants to gauge teacher readiness for new technology.

Project to Boost Literacy through Data-Guided Practice

The University of Iowa’s Iowa Reading Research Center (IRRC) and the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) have partnered with Foundations in Learning on literacy support for rural students in grades 3-5.

Lawsuits Test New Legal Theories About What Causes Social Media Addiction

A high-stakes trial sparked by a California woman who first logged onto social media at age 10. Another lawsuit in Georgia filed by a school district despairing at distracted students. Dozens more legal actions brought by state attorneys general accusing digital platforms of playing mindgames with children. These are among thousands of lawsuits filed against social media companies with the claim t...[Read More]

New Anthropic AI Model Targets Coding, Enterprise Work

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, introducing a million-token context window and automated agent coordination features as the AI company seeks to expand beyond software development into broader enterprise applications.

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