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What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work: Building Pathways Students Can Actually Trust
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]
Districts Expand Cellphone Bans to Target AI Smart Glasses. Why It Matters
Smart glasses are particularly challenging to regulate because it’s harder to tell when kids are using them, experts say
New York and Los Angeles Ban Student-Facing AI (For Now). Should Other Schools Follow?
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]
AI Giants: It May Be Time to Slow Down
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.
One Map, Every Framework: The Shared Architecture Behind School Transformation
The field of school transformation is rich with thoughtful, purpose-specific design frameworks. Organizations and school systems across the country have spent years building powerful approaches to redesigning schools, and partners are right to value ...[Read More]
New Project Identifies Strengths and Weaknesses of a Collection of AI Learning Tools
The effort finds some bright spots, but also warns that other products could hurt student achievement.
‘Essential Infrastructure’: Education Groups Raise Concerns About FCC’s E-Rate Review
The FCC might limit or end the program that subsidizes broadband connectivity for schools.
Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to clarify language about educator response. The individualized education program (IEP) process generates a big stack of papers, full of terminology that parents may not understand. In response, some paren...[Read More]
What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work: Intentional, Coherent Design & Equitable Access
This blog is the first 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 r...[Read More]
AI Models Generate Advances in Mathematical Research
OpenAI has announced what it says is an AI-generated solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, while Anthropic has reported separate advances in research mathematics and...[Read More]
OpenAI’s New Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold
OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the “Critical” cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
How to Rethink School Finance Models Before the Funding Cliff Hits
Many public schools face funding pressure right now. Contributing factors include a predicted 30-year trend of declining population of school-age children, completion of ESSER fund spending in spring of 2026, increasing competition from school option...[Read More]