Howard Dvorsky

Common Sense Media’s new AI toolkit answers key questions.

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S. public school students — more than 5.3 million nationwide — up from...[Read More]

Chronic absence, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school or about 18 school days in a year, is a national crisis. It peaked in the pandemic, when about 31 percent of students nationwide — 14.7 million kids — were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education. The rate dropped only slightly for the 2022-23 school year, the latest ...[Read More]

A new partnership between Michigan Virtual and the AI Education Project (aiEDU) aims to accelerate AI literacy and AI readiness across Michigan’s K-12 schools.

Teachers deserve tools that reflect the complexity of today’s classrooms, writes an instructional coach.

Social media platforms like Instagram, X and TikTok have become landscapes for learning and increasing awareness of topics like mental health. But for children who are learning how to navigate virtual spaces, the pitfalls are many and hidden. Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which k...[Read More]

By: Wesley Davis Rising from the Storm: A Regional Call to Redesign It’s a clear spring morning in 2025, and Tucker Waldron, science teacher, is watching a group of high schoolers from the School for Inquiry and Life Sciences Asheville scramble up a wooded hillside in the Great Smoky Mountains. There, students observe seasonal patterns and study indicator species to better understand the ecologica...[Read More]

The number of home-based child care programs is seeing a spike for the first time in five years — but experts remain concerned that with a rising child care crisis, there are still not enough programs to meet demand. According to a report from Child Care Aware of America, the number of licensed home-based child care options increased by nearly 5 percent from 2023 to 2024. There were 98,807 home-ba...[Read More]

On a Wednesday afternoon, a school district director emailed to say she might be late to the first community of practice session. She explained she was giving a board presentation that evening, right before the session. Her story isn’t unique; it’s emblematic of the complexity educational leaders face as they navigate responsibilities, unforeseen demands and the need for human connection. The AI i...[Read More]

Education company McGraw Hill has announced a host of new career and technical education courses, designed to help learners gain professional, technical, and academic skills for workforce success.

Like in many other sectors, K-12 ed tech leaders have named generative AI as their number one “tech enabler,” according to a recent CoSN survey.

By: Mason Pashia and Beth Ardner These days, Learner Employment Records (LERs) are everywhere, if you know where to look. From new state-level legislation in California to radical workforce partnerships like the Alabama Talent Triad and the work being done in Wyoming and Indiana and Idaho, there’s a great deal of promise, but it can be a bit difficult to describe and even harder to imagine. What d...[Read More]