Howard Dvorsky

For decades, educators have aspired to transform educational tests and assessments from merely means of evaluating students’ progress into catalysts for learning—a vision championed by Edmund W. Gordon. The third volume in the Handbook of Assessment in the Service of Learning series reflects a shift from aspiration to application. The chapters, collectively, move from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’, and i...[Read More]

When it was released in September, the latest national assessment showed some upsetting, although not surprising, trends. Considered a good window into how K-12 students in the U.S. are faring, the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP — known as the country’s “report card” — returned a poor grade, with more grim statistics about the postpandemic period. Chie...[Read More]

By: Carri Schneider The sun is just rising over the reef, and I can hear my youngest arguing with Scout, his personalized AI assistant, about whether his flipper technique counts as adaptive movement or just flailing. From the other side of the boat, my oldest daughter calls out, “Mom, check your dashboard.” We’re on a family dive vacation, all four of us. My daughter is here, working on her Capst...[Read More]

Can schools offer a more compelling alternative to social media or AI?

Integrating social media analytics into the modern marketing curriculum for beyond the textbook learning experience for professional development. The post Beyond the Textbook: Integrating Social Media Analytics into the Modern Marketing Curriculum first appeared on EdTechReview.

Nearly 3 in 4 principals believe banning cellphones has big upsides.

Microsoft has introduced a major update to its Copilot AI platform, adding new features to make the system more personalized, collaborative, and integrated across its suite of products.

OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a standalone browser that places ChatGPT at the heart of everyday web activity. This release represents a major expansion of the company’s efforts to reshape how users search, browse, and complete tasks online.

Just past the guard gates at Gwynedd Mercy University, about an hour northeast of Philadelphia, is a pale yellow, two-story Colonial. It looks like any other suburban house — red shutters, front and back porches, garbage and recycling cans in the back. Inside, the house appears similarly mundane. There’s a fully stocked kitchen, furnished bedrooms, working bathrooms and an office. A car is parked ...[Read More]

Microschools are rethinking what it means to scale by showing that sometimes the biggest impact begins small. It is a few weeks into the school year at Flourish Schools in Nashville. In a bright, flexible classroom tucked inside a renovated office building, seven middle schoolers are reflecting on curiosity. They call it a “superpower,” one of the skills and mindsets they practice daily. The schoo...[Read More]

A pair of research projects look at the impact on discipline and academic achievement.

A majority of educators fear students may become dependent on generative AI tools for basic tasks.