What Playgrounds Can Teach Us About AI in Schools
Deciding whether students should use AI requires balancing safety with the developmental need to learn about managing risk.
Does an AI Pause Protect Students, or Leave Some Behind?
Artificial intelligence in the classroom comes with risk, but students must learn AI literacy.
How Teachers Are Turning the Midterms Into a Nonpartisan Civics Lesson
A new survey finds young people doubt elected officials are listening, yet more plan to vote than in 2024.
My Preschool Students Taught Me What Educators Lose in English-Only Programs
As Head Start faces a proposal to end bilingual education, remember that children aren’t the only ones who benefit from multiple languages.
AI, Elections and the Making of an Informed Electorate
As AI chatbots answer voters’ questions in seconds, schools need to teach students to ask where those answers come from — and to reach their own ...
Pause AI in Schools. But Not Before You Do This First.
Ban or no ban, students are going to use AI. Let’s make sure they have the skills to navigate it, says Common Sense Media’s chief program officer.
How AI Is Breaking the Way We Reward High-Achieving Students
When AI can create polished products in seconds, we must redefine high achievement and reward students for genuine intellectual curiosity, not ...
What Happens to High-Impact Tutoring When the Pandemic Money Is Gone?
With pandemic funding gone, districts are scrambling to maintain their “high-dosage” tutoring programs.
Why the Jump to Kindergarten Is So Hard — and How to Fix It
Better coordination between school districts and early learning programs is essential to a smoother leap, says researcher David Jacobson.
Can High-Impact Tutoring Survive Post-Pandemic Funding Loss?
Some districts have reduced or paused “high-dosage” tutoring, while others are finding ways to save the most effective aspects of their programs.