Howard Dvorsky

If Cain Sandoval hadn’t earned a full-tuition scholarship through the Kalamazoo Promise, he likely would’ve debated whether attending college was worth the financial burden. Sandoval, a senior studying digital media and journalism at Western Michigan University, has been in the Kalamazoo Public School District his entire life. From a young age, he knew that his college tuition would be paid for. “...[Read More]

Social-Emotional Teaching is every bit as important as Social-Emotional Learning. Teaching matters and teachers matter Source

76% of Gen Z aim to be their own boss, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And globally, nearly half of the workforce are freelance or independent contractors, according to Properity for America. If this represents a major direction in the future of work, how can schools respond? One of the more exciting developments may be Student-Run or Student-Led Enterprises.  Student-Led Enterprieses...[Read More]

In a year so far characterized by massive federal funding and staff cuts, education data groups breathed a sigh of relief this summer when the Department of Education announced it was moving forward with the process of collecting civil rights data from K-12 schools. Researchers, advocates and educators protested when the department delayed sending surveys for the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC...[Read More]

Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us. Source

BestKru, one of the largest EdTech companies in Thailand, which unlike other AI-powered writing assistants like Grammarly, Quillbot, and ChatGPT promise to fix your grammar instantly and make your English writing better. The post AI-Powered Writing Assistants: Do They Really Help Students Learn English? first appeared on EdTechReview.

By: Kristel Barr Every parent wants their children to grow up and learn how to live independently and that can be a challenge.  However, it can be an even bigger concern for parents of students with disabilities.  Schools have stepped up to the plate and partnered with families to aid in the post-secondary transition as best they can.  One school district is trying a unique approach to extend auth...[Read More]

Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding? Source

Teacher tools to create online assessments: Google Forms for quick quizzes, Socrative for live checks, and Edulastic for standards-aligned tests. Source

Each year at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, there’s a group of filmmakers who need their parents’ permission to attend their own movie premieres. They’re part of the Youth Cinema Project affiliated with the Latino Film Institute, where students in fifth through 12th grade spend a school year writing, shooting and editing a short film. The true goal of the program is not to pro...[Read More]

Rubrik has introduced Okta Recovery, extending its identity resilience platform to Okta with immutable backups and in-place recovery, while separately detailing its integration with Okta Identity Threat Protection for automated remediation.

Education nonprofit Code.org has partnered with CSforALL to launch the Hour of AI, a global initiative providing learning activities for AI education.