Howard Dvorsky

We urgently need comprehensive research about cellphones in schools, write Angela Duckworth.

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. Other assessments — such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam — have also indicated declining ma...[Read More]

The number of districts that provided AI training to teachers has doubled year over year.

By: Colleen Keating-Crawford, Michelle Jia, and Goutham Marimuthu School leaders, organizations and governments are sounding the alarm about chronically absent young people, typically defined as those who miss 10% or more of the school year whether due to excused or unexcused absences. Research has long demonstrated that chronic absenteeism is correlated with “increased rates of high school dropou...[Read More]

What do you get when you put a lot of district-level technology professionals and edtech providers in a room? A guarantee that someone has the necessary dongle… and you get CoSN, a gathering of district leaders, providers and advocacy experts at the intersection of technology and schools.  The last few days were filled with bumping elbows on escalators (if you know the Regency Hyatt in Seattle, yo...[Read More]

It’s been a little over a year since Tram Gonzalez opened Color Wings Preschool in her home in Portland, Oregon. Of the 15 children enrolled in her program, 10 attend for free, covered in full by Multnomah County’s Preschool for All initiative, which was passed by Portland voters in November 2020 to create universal free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds who want it. This early into running her...[Read More]

Schools stand to lose vital cybersecurity support as the Education Department is forced to suspend a cybersecurity initiative.

K-12 teachers can help students use AI tools productively without limiting their intellectual growth. Here’s how.

As designers drew up plans to revitalize the visual arts complex at California State University, Fullerton, they hoped to create a space that would encourage students to stay on campus as much as possible. Many of Fullerton’s students commute to campus from home. That means they need comfortable places to do homework, meet with professors or talk to classmates. If not, they run the risk of returni...[Read More]

Growing up in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, Anushay Anjum loved school but was especially enamored with the sciences. Biology, physics, chemistry, information technology — she enjoyed them all and had her sights set on a career in engineering. But Anjum also felt the drag of discouragement in a society that, as she describes it, as one where the conventional wisdom deemed health care — a dis...[Read More]

It is the top of the second inning in the age of AI, and I think in the last few weeks we passed a new threshold of access to expertise. The information age, where my 40-year career was about access to data and information, has shifted. With the introduction of ChatGPT, we’ve moved into access to intelligence. The introduction of agents, operators, and reasoning engines in the last six weeks feels...[Read More]

Colleges and universities are at a crossroads when it comes to student data. They have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet harnessing it to drive meaningful change remains a challenge. A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. This digital disconnect isn’t just a result of outdated systems; it’s about the compl...[Read More]