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This week, two guests look at the same problem from opposite ends. One has the data on how far struggling middle school readers have fallen. The other has watched it happen in real time, in a classroom, one comprehension question at a time. Reading r...[Read More]

In Huntsville, Alabama, home to one of the nation’s largest cybersecurity hubs, educators and industry professionals are rethinking what cybersecurity education can look like.  Rather than separating classroom instruction from workplace experie...[Read More]

Over the past two years, I’ve spent countless hours talking with teachers, parents, students and school leaders about artificial intelligence. The questions that arise are remarkably consistent: How should schools respond? When should students use AI...[Read More]

The tech company struck a deal with the AFT to adopt new AI guardrails and privacy standards.

Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that lays out how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.

Video game designers spend an enormous amount of time studying what keeps people engaged when something becomes difficult. They have become very good at helping people persist. Schools should pay attention.

It’s not uncommon for teachers to experience what Ellen Moir, founder of the New Teacher Center, calls a “disillusionment phase” shortly after the start of the school year. Other educators call this phenomenon by a different name — the “October Blues...[Read More]

Before focusing on the technology, we need to redesign the learning model, Michael Horn argues.

This blog is the second in series called Beyond the Course Catalog: What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work, a four-part blog series from Getting Smart in partnership with Britebound focused on what separates a strong dual enrollment model from the ...[Read More]

Smart glasses are particularly challenging to regulate because it’s harder to tell when kids are using them, experts say

Within the first three days of September, three announcements regarding young students’ access to generative artificial intelligence (AI) made national headlines.  On Sept. 2, New York City announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative...[Read More]

Leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned for years that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.