In education circles it’s known as the “Mississippi Miracle.” As recently as 2013, Mississippi ranked 49th in the country for education, which seemed predictable for a state with low education spending and one of the
For the last two years, conversations about AI in education have tended to fall into two camps: excitement about efficiency or fear of replacement, writes Timothy Montalvo, a middle school educator, in an eSchool News
Visiting a classroom in Shanghai prompted Julia Rafal-Baer, CEO and co-founder of ILO Group, a women-owned national education policy and strategy firm, to conclude that the U.S. needs a strategy for how AI will impact
Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve become more serious, according to a 2024 survey by the EdWeek Research Center and reported in Education Week. Nearly half of teachers, school leaders,
State proposals and new laws aim to allow or ban corporal punishment, remove violent students from classrooms, and restrict preschool suspensions, according to an article in K-12 Dive. Three examples: Arkansas has a $7 million
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make mental health first-aid training available to every 10th grader in the state, according to an article in Chalkbeat New York. The plan would expand a program that
In surveys with nearly 1,000 leaders we have worked with, it is clear there are 11 problems educators are working hard to solve, Peter DeWitt and Michael Nelson write in an Education Week article. DeWitt
A recent survey by the RAND Corporation found that educators feel bullying is the biggest safety concern facing their school, according to the Crisis Prevention Institute. To recognize bullying and respond appropriately, you need a
Educational psychologists are studying how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can be used safely and effectively, and how they can support social and emotional learning in children and adolescents, according to the American Psychological
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