Howard Dvorsky

This is a typology not a taxonomy.

School’s (almost) out for summer. When it comes time to throw open campus doors for the new school year in the fall, research tells us one out of every seven teachers won’t be returning — either because they moved schools or left the profession entirely. But when the going gets tough, teachers don’t necessarily want to leave. Even when they’re burned out, they still love what they do. So, the conc...[Read More]

By: Courtney Ochi  In a recent piece by Rebecca Midles, George Philhower of Indiana’s Microschool Collaborative offered a provocation worth sitting with: “Nearly all the rules we play by in education today were made up once. None of these are laws of nature.” Most conversations about redesigning schools focus on schedules, grading, or seat time. These are real constraints-  and important ones. But...[Read More]

Parents and students are learning about the importance of device-free bedrooms.

An influential new book delves into the research on how ed tech affects learning.

A one-to-one classroom is most often a classroom where each student has ongoing access to an individual digital device.

Researchers recommend continued examination of cellphone policies, which are still relatively new.

Google Cloud has introduced a new platform for building and managing enterprise AI agents, as the company seeks to turn its Gemini models and Vertex AI tooling into a broader system for automating business workflows.

Microsoft and OpenAI have reworked the terms of their high-profile partnership, signaling a shift in how the two companies will collaborate as competition in the AI market intensifies.

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students’ individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

By Trey Lackey, Dr. Caleb Collier, and Dr. Tyler Thigpen from Institute for Self-Directed Learning The standard story about struggling math learners goes something like this: they don’t have enough support. Not enough teachers, not enough time, not enough resources. Fix the access problem, and you fix the learning problem. We spent the last two years testing that story at The Forest School: An Act...[Read More]

Supporters of the measure say it will create a more transparent bidding process.