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Parents and Teens Agree Social Media Can Be Harmful — But How Much?
Gen Z may be the first generation to have childhoods rife with screens and defined by having a second life online, but some of their cohort might also be first to say that connectivity has its downsides. Parsing education data into snack-sized servin...[Read More]
No Words Wasted: How AI and Voice Tech Are Elevating Learning Moments
By: Wes Kriesel In education, we often lose the magic of the moment. A great student idea spoken aloud, an inspiring thought shared during a partner turn-and-talk, or a powerful insight in a staff breakout can disappear, undocumented and uncelebrated...[Read More]
The Public Microschool Playbook: A New Actionable Guide for System Leaders
Across the country, school and system leaders are grappling with how to make learning more personalized, more flexible, and more relevant to students’ lives and futures. Public microschools are emerging as a powerful way forward by offering small, pu...[Read More]
Survey: AI Optimism Is Rising, but Cheating and Privacy Concerns Persist
Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly — both in how it’s used and how it’s perceived in K-12 education. As a result, schools and districts are under increasing pressure to adapt and respond to the changes AI is driving.
The Power of Instructional Audio: Boosting Engagement, Communication, and Access in the Classroom
In the face of achievement declines, instructional audio is helping classrooms feel more interactive, making it easier for students to follow along, and even saving teachers’ voices from exhaustion.
Edtech’s ‘Privacy Pledge’ Is Going Away. That Doesn’t Mean Student Data Is Safe.
The Student Privacy Pledge — a voluntary promise to protect student data — ceased. The pledge was started to convince edtech companies to adopt transparency standards for working with K-12 schools. It’s an artifact of the early days of the edtech ind...[Read More]
AWS Survey: Generative AI Surpasses Cybersecurity in 2025 Tech Budgets
Global IT leaders are planning to spend more on generative artificial intelligence than cybersecurity in 2025, according to new research by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
K12 Tutoring Earns ESSA Level II Validation
Online tutoring service K12 Tutoring recently announced that it has received Level II validation underneath the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The independently validated study provides evidence of K12 Tutoring’s role in creating positive s...[Read More]
AI Makes Stuff Up. So How Can Teachers Use It in Instruction?
AI should be used for creative thinking and brainstorming, not just answers to specific questions, experts argue.
Senate Votes to Rescind E-Rate Program Funding Loaner WiFi Hotspots for Schools and Libraries
The Senate has passed a joint resolution to overturn “Addressing the Homework Gap Through the E-Rate Program,” a July 2024 expansion to the FCC’s E-Rate program that allowed schools and libraries to utilize E-Rate resources to loan ...[Read More]
The Reboot of Readiness: It’s Time to Take Action in Renovating CTE from the Ground Up
By Adam Kulaas We’re in the middle of a readiness crisis. Not a standardized test score crisis, not a graduation rate crisis. We are in the midst of a relevance crisis, where too many youth walk across the stage with a diploma in hand but without a r...[Read More]
Three Districts Took the Long View With Federal Relief Funds. Their Bets Are Paying Off.
When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the district’s original decision to use most of its federal Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) money to pay for existing fourth- and fi...[Read More]