Howard Dvorsky

Every learning innovation eventually runs into the same question: how do we show what learners truly know and can do?  Microcredentials, badges, digital wallets, and Learner Employment Records (LERs) all promise an answer, but the challenge runs deeper than design. From personalized pathways to AI-driven assessments, every innovation depends on whether learning is visible, valuable, and verifiable...[Read More]

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At least 32 states and the District of Columbia require districts to restrict students’ cellphone use.

This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. I turn the key to my classroom before sunrise and the technology lab awakens. Screens blink to life and the room settles into a steady hum. From the hallway, I hear footsteps and a rise of voices. It is the first morning of the Summer STEM and Career Accelerator Program at Guilford Preparatory Academy, and...[Read More]

Physical and mental health. Economic status. ZIP code. These are just a few of the factors that impact student learning every day. For district leaders, supporting students amid these realities often means finding ways to do more with limited resources. And while those challenges can feel overwhelming, districts don’t have to face them alone. Collaboration can be a powerful lever for change. When ...[Read More]

Microsoft has added new features within its Microsoft 365 Copilot offering, aimed at making further foothold in the enterprise, including voice-based interaction, group collaboration tools, and an expansion of in-country data processing.

The U.S. is at a crossroads. Our current assessment systems most often deliver final scores, often gleaned through multiple choice, lagging woefully behind the complex, future-ready skills that matter most. This measurement gap prevents us from realizing the vision of assessment as a continuous, real-time guide for improvement. The good news? AI-powered measurement innovation makes this vision inc...[Read More]

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We are living in someone’s imagined future. To build differently, we first have to imagine a better one. Find more stories from the future here. Hi! My name’s Leo, and I’m 11 years old. My mom says I should tell you about my school. “They won’t believe it,” she says. When I hear my mom talk about “school” back when she was a kid, it sounds… well, super boring. They had to go to the same building e...[Read More]

Michigan’s Tri-Share program recently reached a key milestone: serving more than 1,000 children in the state. By splitting the costs of child care equally among working families, their employers and the state, the program provides substantial relief for what can often be a family’s biggest monthly expense. But for those not benefiting from the program — be they just above Tri-Share’s income eligib...[Read More]

Everything around us is some kind of pattern and we look for them. That’s how minds work. Learning requires us to disrupt those patterns. Source

A first grade child, whose parents moved from El Salvador to New York City earlier this year, leans over to chat with his classmate about a word problem. Several states south, a father, fresh off a move from Mexico, walks into a school in Washington County, Virginia, to register his daughter for classes. These seem like ordinary occurrences in the K-12 world. The difference: The New York-based fir...[Read More]