Howard Dvorsky

Lately, Angela Reyes’ oldest daughter talks her ear off. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘I need you to quiet down!’” Reyes laughed. But when the now-12-year-old was a kindergartener, her speech was largely unintelligible. Reyes credited school-based speech therapy for her daughter’s progress and that of her three sons. Reyes and her four children are among the nearly 80 million Americans covered by either M...[Read More]

Back in February, I attended the Digital Credentials Summit from 1EdTech and wrote a recap of the experience, trying to document the many theories, players and learnings that I observed and met over the three days. A few weeks ago, I got the chance to see a bunch of familiar faces at The Badge Summit in Boulder (as well as many new ones!) Despite the overlap, it was hardly a repeat of February. We...[Read More]

Registration is free for this fully virtual Sept. 25 event, focused on “Overcoming Roadblocks to Innovation” in K-12 and higher education.

This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. Growing up as a sci-fi geek, the promise of humanity’s future among the stars was bolstered by artificial intelligence. In “Star Trek,” the ship’s omnipresent computer was a font of knowledge, advice, and could even make a cup of Earl Grey. However, in today’s society, the specter of AI is often port...[Read More]

As districts and states nationwide invest in tutoring, it remains one of the best tools in our educational toolkit, yielding positive impacts on student learning at scale. But to maximize return on investment, both financially and academically, we must focus on improving implementation.

Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, an advanced artificial intelligence model designed for complex reasoning tasks.

Schools long ago broke the world into categories and gamified its study with points, letter grades, and notions of progress and collaboration. Source

By: Jeran Culina America’s rural states face unique challenges when it comes to workforce development – low population density, geographic isolation, and limited resources. Accelerate Montana has emerged as a national leader in developing evidence-based workforce solutions that demonstrate measurable outcomes while respecting local values. By piloting innovative programs, Accelerate Montana builds...[Read More]

West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District in Central New Jersey has partnered with assessment and data platform Otus and ed tech company Discovery Education to better utilize data to support student achievement.

Two decades ago, Texas made history as the first state to grant in-state tuition to undocumented students. Now, it has taken that opportunity away — upending thousands of young lives and, advocates warn, potentially influencing other states to restrict higher education access for immigrants. The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint against Texas in June seeking to prevent the continued implem...[Read More]

By: Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard Innovation is a common goal in education. But too often, the very people at the center—teachers—are left out of the process. Professional learning often focuses on ensuring that teachers implement top-down initiatives or adapt rigid models and frameworks that rarely reflect the realities of their classrooms or communities. What if, instead, we invested in ...[Read More]

From reducing environmental damage to imagining new forms of government, here are 20 examples of project-based learning. Source