Most teens today (84%) have negative attitudes toward the news media, describing it as “fake,” “false” and “lies,” according to a survey by the News Literacy Project and reported in Education Week. This distrust affects
Educators at all grade levels are using food to teach science lessons employing hands-on approaches, according to an article in K-12 Dive. Three examples: 1) In St. James Public Schools in Minnesota, health teacher Steve Chapin
Cellphone bans improve discipline over time, but academic impacts are limited, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper cited in a K-12 Dive article. Restrictions had little impact on attendance, attention and perceived
Teachers will rely on their own communications with and observations of their students far more than quizzes or test scores to determine if they had a successful school year, according to a survey cited in
Teachers are constantly taking on new responsibilities, according to an Education Week article. A typical teacher works about 54 hours a week, with just under half of that time devoted to directly teaching students, according
AI assistants can support teachers to do their best work, writes Jeremy Caplan, director of teaching and learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, in an essay in The 74. AI assistants can help
My 10th and 11th grade students, in addition to reading novels and short stories, use AI to advance their critical thinking skills, writes David Nurenberg, who has taught high school English for 26 years and
A new RAND Corporation survey of nearly 1,600 middle and high school English teachers reveals that about 90% of these teachers assign at least one book and nearly 60% assign three or more books throughout
A communication gap between home and school may lead to young children logging more screen time than parents realize, according to an article in The 74. Most children age 5 and under are in an
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