Howard Dvorsky

By: Getting Smart Staff For the previous three years, Getting Smart has hosted regional New Pathways events sponsored by Britebound across the country, with the latest taking place in the great city of Chicago. District and school leaders, educators, intermediaries, funders, and workforce organizations gathered to better understand how Chicago was preparing students for life and the workforce, wit...[Read More]

AI agents are moving from experiments into everyday enterprise environments, but the security controls around them are not keeping pace, according to enterprise identity security company SailPoint.

Today’s middle school students’ future careers will be transformed by artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, cybersecurity, and technologies that may not yet exist. Our career education policies need to prepare them for that reality.

By: Jane Shore Imagine two students working on the same group project. The first student knows every fact about the subject. She remembers every date, understands every concept, finishes her section early, and scores a 96% on the test. During the project, she mostly works alone because everyone else is slowing her down. The second student knows slightly fewer facts. His understanding of the subjec...[Read More]

Cybersecurity company Flashpoint announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.

Recent research from Thales highlights how AI adoption and emerging quantum computing threats are putting pressure on existing security measures.

AI translation apps can help schools connect with non-English-speaking families, but they are far from perfect.

Cut through the AI-in-education hype. See where AI genuinely improves LMS analytics, adaptive experiences, and support — and where it’s still a marketing label. The post AI in LMS: Practical Use Cases Beyond the Hype first appeared on EdTechReview.

Anthropic’s new Claude release, Sonnet 5.5, brings cybersecurity safeguards that can change which model handles a request during a Claude conversation. Higher-risk tasks can fall back to Sonnet 5.

Every fall, teachers ride a wave of opening day energy into the new school year, and then that wave breaks. Educators have a name for the slump that follows: the October Blues. It can hit new teachers hard enough to make them question whether they belong in the profession at all. The harder question is whether anything can soften the landing, or whether every teacher simply has to wait it out. A R...[Read More]

Growing up in Joliet, Illinois, my understanding of history was largely shaped by recurrent classroom materials and historical figures I’ve only read about in textbooks. Back then, my education felt like a passive process of memorizing facts rather than connecting with living stories. Classroom technology also felt abstract and disconnected from what I learned about culture and history. Moving to ...[Read More]

Schools across the nation are trying to reduce chronic absentee levels. A recent study from The GRAD Partnership, Everyone Graduates Center and the Partnership for Student Success, finds that small and rural districts are recovering attendance rates faster than larger, more urban and suburban districts.  The study reported that rural districts with fewer than 1,000 students brought their chronic a...[Read More]